Scarran

The Scarrans are a large bipedal reptilian species that appear in Farscape.

History

A Scarran warrior.

Finally, hostilties openly broke out with the Peacekeepers when Scorpius launched a surprise attack against a Scarran fleet. This turned out disastrously for the Peacekeepers as even though the initial attack was successful; the Scarran reprisals were heavy with star system after star system lost to the Scarran Imperium. Emperor Staleek took his flagship and troops to attain the wormhole information from John Crichton.

The war ended when Crichton detonated a wormhole weapon from the information in his mind which threatened to destroy all of existence. In exchange for stopping the weapon, the Scarrans agreed to form a tense peace treaty with the Peacekeepers thus ending the war.

Overview

Biology

A ruling caste Scarran in Coreeshi armor.

The Scarrans were a powerful and intelligent species who were quite ambitious as well as had the steadfast belief in their own superiority.

One aspect of their biology was their strikingly high body temperature. This allowed them to employ this heat as a tol which gave them heat projection abilities that can be used to extract the truth from their victims. They were capable of even using this to kill their enemies and was projected from their hands.

In addition to this, they possess great strength which combined with their thick hides made them difficult to subdue. This greatly diminished if the heat producing gland was removed which severely weakened them.

A member of the species was capable of breeding with other races most notably Sebacean's with limited success creating hybrid offspring. (Episode: Incubator)

Society

Emperor Staleek, the leader of the Scarran Imperium.

War Minister Akhna, a female ruling caste Scarran.

The government of the race was the Scarran Imperium which bidded for control over the Breakaway Colonies which was a strategic buffer state between them and the Peacekeepers. They were keen in the development of wormhole technology and weapons. One of the branches of the Scarran government was the Ministry of Dissimulation that was a haven for the spy corps of the Imperium who were involved in intricate plans as well as awarded special identification codes. (Episode: We're So Screwed - Fetal Attraction)

Scarrans were shown to despise weakness and any signs of this; instead they preferred concepts of strength as well as endurance. (Episode: Incubator)

Within the Scarran nation there existed numerous servitor races which included the savage Charrids that served as footsoldiers which accompanied individual Scarrans in battle. The Kalish were another race that served the Imperium but they held the role of scientists and technicians. The Scarrans were known to possess a formidable advantage in numbers with it being stated that they held a ten to one advantage against the Peacekeepers. (Episode: Incubator)

Scarrans have displayed a keen interest in reproductive genetics with varying degrees of success. Male members of the species were not above raping females of others in order to produce hybrid children in order to test their strengths. The only known case of this was done so against the Sebaceans as part of a cruel experiment in order to determine if that species genetics could serve the Scarran cause. This had met with only limited success as there had been 90 such matings with both the offspring and the mother dying in the birthing process. Amongst the only survivors of a successful mating was Scorpius; a Sebacean/Scarran hybrid who was initially raised with the mistaken belief that his father was a Sebacean that forced himself on his Scarran mother. This was in order to instil a hatred of the Sebacean species on the child. Ultimately, it was deemed that Sebecean genetics were useless, even as breeding stock and a change in policy meant that the Scarrans decided to eradicate the entire species. (Episode: Incubator)

Technology

The Scarran race were a highly technologically advanced species which made use of massive Scarran Dreadnought's which were similar to the Scarrans themselves in that they were extremely difficult to destroy.

A noted piece of technology of the Scarrans was the capacity of employing complex methods of interrogation that created delusions in a subject's mind which slowly collapsed the person's mental resistance to information exctraction.

External Link

• Farscape Encyclopedia Entry

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