Maven Herd

Maven Herd Horses by artist Puffbird

BOUTIQUE SOLIDIGRAPHIC HORSES

Plaque: a silver horseshoe bisected by a thinned spiral flame

Silver uniforms

Summoned by wrist bands

Very expensive to rent

The maven of the Maven Herd is apparently a human equestrian with a passion for horseflesh and programming. Every horse they design is an individual they design, much the same way Alliance D-pers are. Apparently there aren’t many Maven horses, either, and paying for their licensure is quite expensive. Alpha has a license, but it is apparently one of only three starbases in the Alliance that does.

"Maven Herd, Arrive!" (or name of the horse, if summoning only one)

Specific Horses and Where They're Licensed

Starbase Alpha

• Nebula: almost seventeen hands of cobalt blue and deepest purple, and the gaseous patterns on its flanks were actually moving, revealing pinprick stars of dim red and silver. What he’d taken for soft feathering at its fetlocks were actually streams of cloudy vapor.
• Jackson Pollock: two hands shorter than Jahir’s and far more compact in build… but just as beautifully proportioned, and an equally unnatural coloration. A black with a noticeably green sheen, particularly near the extremities, and across its buttocks a white blanket spattered with unlikely splotches of emerald, red, blue, yellow, black… colors that ran in streaks down its hindquarters as if the paint hadn’t dried in time.