Sikozu

Sikozu is a female extraterrestrial character who features in Farscape.

Biography

Sikozu Svala Shanti Sugaysi Shanu was a female Kalish who grew up in Scarran-controlled space. She becomes an expert on Leviathans, and eventually goes to work for a pirate group who harvest toubray (nerve) fibers from Leviathans. She meets up with Crichton while he is aboard the Leviathan Elack in the Leviathan's sacred burial space; she led the pirates there and they subsequently try to kill her to prevent her telling anyone where the burial area is. Crichton nicknames her "Sputnik" due to the sputnik like shape of her hairstyle when she initially met Crichton. There is initial confusion at their meeting because she cannot tolerate translator microbes and so must learn all languages by hearing them.

Sikozu accompanies Crichton as he reunited with his crewmates from Moya, and she gradually allies herself with Scorpius, who she initially seems intrigued by both because he saves her life and because he is arguably the most powerful and intelligent person on Moya (or possibly he is the first mind Sikozu has known who she acknowledges as her equal or superior). They eventually become lovers and she takes a place at his side when he is kicked off Moya.

She later made a deal with the Scarrans, promising to aid and spy for them in exchange for her people's freedom from Scarran servitude. Scorpius soon learned this, but did not act on it for some time, using her for his own purposes. At the end of the war, Scorpius assaulted her after revealing his knowledge about her betrayal and left her for dead on the water-planet Qujaga shortly before it was destroyed. (Movie: The Peacekeeper Wars)

Just prior to the Scarran-Peacekeeper war, it is revealed that she is a bioloid (a type of android) and a double-agent. She is working with the Kalish resistance to free the Kalish from Scarran servitude, and as such was specially bioengineered to be able to hover in the air and release heat rays from her hands that destroy Scarran heat producing glands, rendering them weak and vulnerable. A further revelation comes late in the war when it is revealed that she is really a Scarran spy (in exchange for a promise from them to free her people from servitude). Scorpius has long known this but has not acted on it for some time. Finally, though Scorpius assaults her after revealing his knowledge about her betrayal and leaves her for dead on the water-planet Qujaga, though it is left open that she might live--she is seen allying with Grunschlk, who was also abandoned on the planet.

Overview

Personality and attributes

She is extremely arrogant, a self-styled polymath who constantly belittles those around her. Shortly after meeting John Crichton she used the epithet 'Weak species', which was used once again upon her 're-introduction' in Unrealized Reality. It should be noted, however, that while her knowledge about technology, species, history, and the galaxy in general is vast, it is mostly academic. She is, in fact, extremely naïve and unknowledgeable about how things function outside of a controlled environment.

Shifting allegiance is a specialty of Sikozu, often switching sides in a battle with no notice and seemingly no premeditation other than at-the-moment judgments on who currently holds the greatest advantage. This has the net effect of total uncertainty as to where Sikozu's loyalties truly lie. Ironically, she is often the most surprised when her repeated betrayals of everyone around her are either turned around on or simply turned on her.

Powers and abilities

Sikozu was a female member of the Kalish race and possessed all the standard traits of the species.

She is extremely intelligent and picks up information very quickly. She can "change her centre of gravity" so that she can walk on walls and ceilings, and she can easily reattach limbs that have been severed. She only has to eat several times a year.

Sikozu was resourceful, very intelligent, skeptical, and stubborn. Her latter features often made her and her opinions clash with those of Moya's crew. This was especially true in Chiana's case, a relationship that resembled the one Chiana had shared with Jool the cycle before. Sikozu considered Moya's Pilot to be young and incompetent, and most of the crew naive and unprepared for the galaxy's many dangers, with the glaring exception of Scorpius. This could, however, likely be said of Sikozu herself, who on numerous occasions would have her expected facts challenged by the truth of reality. This was evident during her time aboard Elack, when her knowledge on Leviathans was little help

Sikozu was engineered to be a Scarran killing weapon. She can generate radiation tuned to specifically kill Scarrans, as a burst from her body, or in smaller quantities from her hands. This radiation seems to still be harmful, although to a lesser degree, to Scarran hybrids, such as Scorpius. When using her power in his presence, she instructs him to take cover and not to look at her.

Notes

• Sikozu was created by Rockne S. O'Bannon and was portrayed by actress Raelee Hill where she featured in the setting of the Farscape universe.

In other media

Comics

• In Farscape, Sikozu appeared in the setting of the 2008 comic book series published by BOOM! Studios. Sikozu proved to be a survivor, though, allying with Grunchlk and escaping from Qujaga shortly before its destruction. She stayed with Grunchlk as he located more Diagnosans that he could represent, eventually ending up at a Diagnosan enclave. As part of the research they conducted at the enclave, Sikozu and Grunchlk experimented with the sizes of viruses and what made them work, altering their sizes in their breeding DNA, and by doing so inadvertently set off a pandemic across most of the galaxy, the Whaela'an virus. It was this crisis that brought Crichton to the enclave with his son in hopes of finding a cure. Fortunately, Sikozu and Grunchlk had it and as Crichton prepared to depart, Sikozu asked to return with him back to Moya. She revealed that she betrayed Scorpius because she no longer felt that their goals matched closely enough and felt the freedom of her people was not a big enough goal for him. She indicated to Crichton that she became a double agent after her departure from Moya, and that her efforts were ultimately successful in freeing her people. However her methods were considered abhorrent by the Kalish and she became an outcast as a result.

Appearances

• Farscape:

External Links

• Farscape Wiki Entry

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