Overview
Sonja Shamlin is one of the first field agents recruited into Komodo in Komodo. She is a former orbital-commerce officer working as an armored bouncer at Club Avalon on Soltero when Basra Kusniqa Camden convinces her and Tyler Rummel to leave Peder Melk’s nightclub for the new company.
Role
Sonja quickly becomes one of Komodo’s practical field leaders. She performs the EVA recovery during the Soltero tritium-shuttle capture, evaluates new hires, leads asteroid patrols, and prevents Rose Concannon from shooting a child attacker on Asteroid G60. Her command style is more disciplined than Komodo’s improvisational early structure, and she later leads cadet insertion training over Azare.
As Komodo grows, Sonja commands Komodo One while Basra moves to Komodo Unyielding. Her later service is damaged by the Sonja Shamlin poisoning incident, when a masked intruder drugs her aboard Komodo One and she experiences terrifying hallucinations before the intruder dies by suicide. She is relieved after a psychiatric breakdown linked to the contaminant, and Rose Concannon begins assuming command.