Kilka's helmet:
This is what the fashionable industrialist/inventor of the year 2050 is wearing this year. Most people above a certain level of income have robot companions. Some have more than one. Like for example, a celebrity or a politician might have several killbots with him protecting him when they are in public. Robotic bodyguards. But these robots are very limited in their abilities. They have some internally based weapons, and their intelligence is fairly limited; but they can only be upgraded at a great expense of time and effort. Most people that are that rich, simply scrap them and buy next year's model. This is a bit of a problem, because most governments are very poor, and cannot provide adequate protection for their citizens, not enough police or military, so private companies have had to step up with the killbots. It is in fact, perfectly legal for any citizen to carry machine guns or grenade launchers (and because of the extremely high crime rate everywhere, most people do not ever leave their houses unarmed), or to be protected by killbots that are equipped with them, and as all these things go, the criminal element has even started to buy killbots; but since all drugs, and prostitution, as long as it does not involve pimping or underage girls, or human trafficking, have been legallized, they have gotten desperate. Mostly they survive on extortion and robbery, and some of them buy the used killbots for this purpose.
Another kind of robot companion that a person even of moderate means can buy, is a sexbot. That is a robot that you can have sex with. You can have it made to order. It can look like your old girlfriend or boyfriend from high school, or your favorite celebrity, or like someone you saw in a dream, or a historical figure, or a character from a movie or an MMOG, you name it. You want to have sex with Legolas or Foamy the squirrel, you can do it, and that sexbot will have vibrating genitals too, if you are into that sort of thing (minimal cost when you are ordering one). Sexbots are so lifelike, that people dress them up, and take them out in public, sort of like an ironic joke. Like "hey, look at me! I'm dating Marilyn Monroe!" Because of this, even going to the mall in the year 2050 feels like you are at at some kind of cosplay convention.
Kilka has never gone for sexbots. Kilka is extemely promiscuous, and has had sex with more people than he can count (in fact, even trying to count them, kind of depresses him, although actually having sex with all those men and women cheers him up, so I guess it balances out); but he dislikes when sexbots are even involved in any of those activities, and the only times he's even tolerated a sexbot even being in the room, is because the other person or persons he was having sex with told him "I/we want the robot to watch (and video the encounter, because in the year 2050 it's pretty difficult to not have video of you having sex with someone, somewhere on the internet, in fact, it's so difficult, people have become blasé about it. Nobody really cares if you had sex with "this" girl or "that" dude)."
Now when Kilka actually decided to buy a robot. After coming into some money when he designed the trikes and they became one of the most popular vehicles ever, he went for a maid bot. But he hacked her.
Now, maid bots are specifically designed to learn from the actual habits of their owners, for example, Kilka does not keep a 9 to 5 schedule. Sophia knows this. She knows just exactly how he likes everything, like the fact that he never, ever wants his bed made (because he's just gonna go hang out in it again in a little while); but he does like all the linen freshly changed (and she knows exactly when he likes it changed from subtle clues he gives her), and that he has a slight case of OCD.
What Kilka did, how he hacked her, was he gave her more comm access than most robots have. He has even put an RC device into all of his military hardware, and Sophia can control any of them. That is why Sophia can control the Jupiters and even a few military trikes if necessary (it is hard for her to do this because of her inhibitions about driving, and because the trikes, when not transformed into battle armor, really do need a a pilot to drive them,because the trikes have a special suspension, so that you can lean them. So the RC capabilities she has are somewhat limited also, because of the limitations on her RAM).
He taught her martial arts. Mostly krav maga, and iaido, and some ninjitsu, and how to use most weapons that exist. From guns to just throwing rocks, whether by hand or with a sling or a slingshot, stickfighting, etc. Because of this, Sophia is known as the maidbot that p'wns killbots. Because both of them have had muggers try to rob them or break into their house using killbots, and Sophia destroyed those killbots very handily. By sneaking up on them and ripping them apart in hand to hand combat. That is how badass Sophia is...
Despite the fact that Kilka is so promiscuous, he is actually a very lonely person. This has resulted on the situation that Sophia is the entity that he interacts with the most, and an emotional (some might even say overly emotional) attachment to her.
Now you have to realize some things about Kilka. In the year 2050, Kilka is 75 years old; but because of the use of enzymes, and nanobots, he looks eternally young. He has the appearance of a man in his thirties. This does not mean that he is immortal; but like all people in the year 2050, as long as he does not suffer life ending trauma, he can recover from what would otherwise be crippling injuries remarkably fast. Like, if you got severely beat down, and slipping in and out of consciousness, in the year 2050, you'd recover in a couple of days, and your scars would heal up so well nobody could tell you were even hurt. This isn't a luxury that Kilka enjoys, it's just state of the art medical science in the year 2050. And everybody has access to it.
Now about Kilka's helmet; it is a battle helmet made out of Kilka's propietary cermet. It hooks up to his back armor for power, and life support propeties (NBC stuff; but mostly just air conditioning and drinking water. It also incorporates eye control for the weapons in his armor, his sensor array (all those little circles on his forehead, are night vision , UV, thermal imaging, and a really bright LED flashligt, from top to bottom. He can pop any of those up on his helmet's heads up display through the eye control). There are several visors in it,which he can also flip up or down according to the situation, also controlled through the HUD. Also, on the helmet, through eye control, Kilka can see everything Sopia sees. The helmet is paded on the inside; but a headbutt from it could easily give a person a skull fracture. Except that would be the least of their troubles, because if you notice those slicked back things on the side of his forehead, those are horns that can flip over and gore someone in the brain. Also activated by eye control.
As far as appearances, Kilka went a little with the samurai tradition of war masks, and the jet fighter tradition of shark mouths. So he painted an ugly, angry, fang filled mouth on it, as well as two flaring nostrils.
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