Scarran
The Scarrans are a large bipedal reptilian species that appear in Farscape.
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History
The Imperium later received a diplomatic initiative from Commandant Grayza of the Peacekeepers asking for a secret conference to be held at a commerce planet that held the remains of a fused Leviathan. Agreeing, the Scarrans dispatched War Minister Ahkna along with her adjutant and four Charrids as escorts to the meeting where they met with a similarly armed delegation of Peacekeepers. During the secret conference, Grayza asked for peace with the Scarrans and offered them the entirety of the Luxan Territories as part of the deal. In exchange, the Imperium was to relinquish all claims to the disputed sectors of the Uncharted Territories. War Minister Ahkna was, however, suspicious and stated that this was not an equitable exchange to which the Peacekeeper Commandant highlighted the fact that the Luxan worlds were wealthy whilst there was little value within the Uncharted Territories. She further stated that the Luxans were an expendable asset despite holding a mutual defense pact with the Peacekeepers with Grayza highlighting them as being warriors but not diplomats. Despite this offer, the Scarran delegation spoke about Peacekeeper disarmament though Commandant Grayza stated that the meeting was more about territory rather than a reduction in weapons. The topic quickly shifted to the wormhole weapons supposedly in Peacekeeper hands and the War Minister highlighting that many in the Scarran Hierarchy believing that the Peacekeepers were vulnerable as they possessed no such weapons. Just as the treaty was signed, the Scarrans killed the Peacekeeper protectors leaving only Captain Braca and Grayza alive in order to interrogate them. However, the intervention of Aeryn Sun and her allies allowed them to be freed whereupon they escaped Scarran custody as well as repudiated the treaty. (Episode: Bringing Home the Beacon)
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
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
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.
Amongst the highest authorities within the Scarran Hierarchy was that of the War Minister who was third in rakns within their fleet and was typically attended by an adjutant. Typically, diplomatic negotiations often involved the use of proconsuls. (Episode: Bringing Home the Beacon) 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)
They possessed their own language which was described by the species or those familiar with them as the mother tongue. (Episode: Bringing Home the Beacon) Their kind also had their own blood vows which was a promise made between two individuals on the completion of a certain task. The act involved gutting the finger of one individual after which the person cut their own until they were both dripping with blood. To complete the vow, the individuals were required the suck the blood on the finger. (Episode: Prayer)
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. Amongst their starships included large ore freignters. (Episode: Bringing Home the Beacon)
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.
Among the technological abilities of the species was the capacity to create perfect replicas of organic beings who were actually robotic constructs known as bioloids. This allowed them to insert sabotuers disguised as enemy friendlies and thus subvert them for the Scarran cause. The devices used in their construction replicated living flesh and were previously known to the Peacekeepers but never encountered. (Episode: Bringing Home the Beacon)
Members
- Ahkna : female Ruling Caste who held the position of War Minister. (Episode: Bringing Home the Beacon)
- Pennoch : male Scarran who served as adjutant to War Minister Ahkna as well as her enforcer. (Episode: Bringing Home the Beacon)
- Tauza : female Scarran who was responsible for oversight of the hybrid Scarran/Sebecean known as Scorpius, she taught him strength and endurance whilst she watched over him onboard a Scarran Dreadnaught. He ultimately escaped from her captivity though she managed to recapture him until Tauza was killed by his hands.
- Jenek : male of the Ruling Caste, he was a freighter captain who captured Aeryn Sun and attempted to learn more about Crichton's wormhole knowledge through her. Discovered that she was pregnant with Crichton's child and attempted to use that as leverage until she was rescued. (Episode: We're So Screwed - Fetal Attraction)
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