Sofiah (Character)

Sofiah was a shellback from Mega-mex. She was captured by enemy forces and forced into slavery, eventually settling in Terra 2014. She took care of John DiFool when he was a child secluded from the rest of the world, and died years later from an attack by a Techno Combat Robot, hindering John's investigation into the mystery of the Red Ring babies.

She made her first appearance in the second issue of Before the Incal, Class "R" Detective.

Early life
Sofiah lived in Meg-mex. As a shellback, she could live for more than a thousand years. At one point, due to an ongoing war between Terra 2014 and Mega-mex, she was forced into slavery.

As caretaker of John DiFool
Sofiah eventually settled in City Shaft, in Unit 1740, and began to altruistically take care of John DiFool. DiFool was the child of a prostitute from the Red Ring, and was forced to spend most of his childhood secretly secluded from the rest of the world in order to keep him hidden from the Techno-technos. Sofiah often cooked for John, whose favorite meal was synthetic chicken and corn from Aldebaran IV.

Death
Years later John was interested in interviewing Sofiah to get more information regarding the disappearance of babies from the Red Ring and about his own seclusion as a child. However, the moment John began to approach her conapt a Techno Combat Robot destroyed the building and killed Sofiah, thus eliminating a key witness in John's investigation.