The Dashing Men and Sultry Ladies of FarScape
| The Good Guys |
Who the frell? |
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Pilot is an independent entity,
but he operates symbiotically
with his Leviathan (Moya), and
the upper half of his torso, the
part that we see, is the only
part of him that is entirely his
own. His much larger lower half
is made up of neural tentacles
which thread through and fuse
with Moya's systems. Pilot is,
to Moya, some combination of
operator, bodyguard and
partner. Because of this
symbiotic fusing, he knows
when she's scared, eager,
excited, or sad, and he
communicates Moya's thoughts
to Crichton and the others. He
and Moya are made complete
by their ability to serve the
members of the crew, but they
are in no way obligated to follow
the desires or needs of the crew
if their own agendas disagree.
Pilot is most often polite and
respectful to the crew of Moya,
but it's clear that his loyalty is
to Moya first and the others
second. |
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The distinction of being a
second-generation astronaut
came, for Crichton,
double-edged. After earning his
doctorate in Theoretical
Sciences, Crichton spent his
time as a scientist/astronaut in
his famous father's shadow,
always trying to impress and
please Jack Crichton, but never
forced to scrabble to make a
name for himself, since he was
born into the legacy without even
lifting a finger. When his
experimental mission aboard the
Farscape One module shot him
through a wormhole, Crichton
found himself definitely not in
Kansas anymore. Here, he was
at last forced to call upon the
heroic qualities he'd inherited
from Dad but had never needed
to use. Crichton's natural
leadership and decision-making
skills make him an important
member of Moya's crew; his
complete lack of cultural
understanding of alien races and
technology makes his "heroics"
just that much more difficult. |
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Part of the frontline Pleisar
Regiment of the
Peacekeeper Military, Aeryn
was a top-notch soldier and
combat pilot until her
encounter with Crichton and
Moya rendered her, by
Peacekeeper standards,
"irreversibly contaminated,"
and ostracized her from the
only family she'd ever known.
Her experience on Moya has
taught her that there are
other means and methods of
communicating, but, like
D'Argo, she still turns to
combat as her primary
solution to any problem
Moya might face. She sees
the Peacekeepers, now,
through the eyes of Moya's
crew, and knows them to be
relentless and in many ways
wrong, but there is much of
Aeryn that still considers
herself a traitor. |
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Huge and powerful, D'Argo was
wrongly imprisoned by the
Peacekeepers as a scapegoat
for the murder of his own
Sebacean wife, Lo'Lann. His
hatred for the Peacekeepers
runs deeper than most, and he
lives to reunite with his son,
and to avenge the wrongs that
have been done him and his
family. His experience aboard
Moya, and the love and
friendship he's seen develop
among Moya's crew has taught
him patience and
understanding... to some
degree. His relationship with
Zhaan, in particular, has taught
him that there is much that's
mightier than the sword (or
Qualta Blade, his Luxan
weapon of choice, half sword,
half energy rifle). D'Argo
admires Zhaan for this more
than he'd ever admit out loud...
fortunately, Zhaan can often
sense what goes unsaid. |
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An 812 year old 10th-level
Pa'u (a priest), Zhaan was
imprisoned for the murder of
another Delvian priest - her
lover - who she suspected was
using his power to lead Delvia
astray. Delvians are flora, not
fauna, and therefore Zhaan, a
plant-evolved being, has
extreme reactions to solar
energy, and has experienced
photogasms -- intensely
pleasurable experiences --
when exposed to solar flares.
Additionally, Zhaan knows
herbs and herbal medicine
intimately, which often gives
her the responsibility of doctor
and healer aboard Moya. |
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The Sixteenth Rygel in a line of
Dominars, Rygel was once the
ruler of over 600 billion subjects
in the Hynerian Empire. A
prisoner of the Peacekeepers for
over 300 cycles (roughly 300
years), and now aboard Moya,
Rygel still acts like a ruler.
Rygel (barely over two feet tall)
rarely deigns to stand; instead,
he floats about Moya on his
ThroneSled, looking down his
nose at the other members of
the crew, muttering to himself,
stealing what looks valuable,
and eating whatever will fit in his
froglike mouth. With an ornery
temper, a tendency to fart
helium, an unnecessarily
egomaniacal attitude and the
notion that everyone - in
particular, attractive females,
and especially Chiana - should
bow to his bidding, Rygel is not
the easiest creature to spend
time with. Despite all this,
Moya's crew has found him to
be oddly endearing, and, though
it hurts them to say it, he's part
of the family, too. |
The Scum Worse Than That On Your Shoe
| The Frelling Enemies That Haunt Us |
Who the frell are they? |
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Scorpius works for the
Peacekeeper military, but only
so far as working for them
serves his purposes. His
single-minded mission: to
develop a means to control the
creation, and travel possibilities,
of the natural space
phenomenon known as
wormholes. His development of
the Aurora Chair was a major
coup and he uses it no matter
how cruel it might be to his
advantage. His primary mission
now is to find Crichton, because
the secret to wormhole
technology may be locked in
the human astronaut's mind,
placed there by the race known
as The Ancients. |
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Bialar Crais was born in a
Sebacean farming community,
but while still a boy, he and his
younger brother Tauvo were
wrestled from their family and
conscripted against their will
into the Peacekeeper military. If
you asked Crais what his
crusade was, he'd tell you he
was bent on avenging the brutal
murder of his brother. He'd say
that loudly, with gusto and
insistence. But Crais knows, in
his heart, that Crichton didn't
murder his brother on purpose,
but having no one to blame is
terrifying to Crais. He needs a
scapegoat, and Crichton,
coupled with the "contaminated
Aeryn, fill that role perfectly.
Crais' respect for the
Peacekeeper mandates is
unclear; at times, he's the
flagbearer for military tradition;
at other times, he's a renegade.
Anything that could be
construed as a challenge to his
authority terrifies him; he
despises Scorpius for almost
the same reason he despises
Crichton. Like Inspector Javert,
Crais simply wants the universe
to operate by his rules. And
only Crais knows what his rules
are. Because of this, the
motives behind his decision to
defect from the Peacekeeper
military, and his decision to
steal Talyn, remain to be fully
revealed. |