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* I believe it's less Talyn needed a Pilot/naturally bonded pilot, and more, Talyn needed someone that wasn't as mentally unstable as Crais. IIRC, in one alternate universe, he bonded with D'Argo and turned out fine. Crais, this is a guy who threw away everything to chase down some random asshole across the Uncharted Territories for killing his brother, and outright murdered his second-in-command to keep this a secret.
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* I believe it's less Talyn needed a Pilot/naturally bonded pilot, and more, Talyn needed someone that wasn't as mentally unstable as Crais. IIRC, in one alternate universe, he bonded with D'Argo and turned out fine. Crais, this is a guy who threw away everything to chase down some random asshole across the Uncharted Territories for accidentally killing his brother, brother while his brother was conducting a combat mission (you know, those things that carry inherent risk), and outright murdered his second-in-command to keep this a secret.
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[[WMG: The Scarrans were created by enemies of the Eidolon]]
It was never fully explained who the enemies of the Eidolon were or how they ended up so close to extinction
but it makes sense that their old enemies were as technologically advanced as they were. The Scarrans were
created by them, specifically with heat resistance and heat blast abilities to eliminate Sebaceans.
It was never fully explained who the enemies of the Eidolon were or how they ended up so close to extinction
but it makes sense that their old enemies were as technologically advanced as they were. The Scarrans were
created by them, specifically with heat resistance and heat blast abilities to eliminate Sebaceans.
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Names The Same is no longer a trope
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Hmm... a pop-culturally aware tech-savvy hero who knows that "everything breaks", or a doctor who writes stories about pop-culturally aware tech-savvy heroes who know that "everything breaks". NamesTheSame, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton even!]]
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Hmm... a pop-culturally aware tech-savvy hero who knows that "everything breaks", or a doctor who writes stories about pop-culturally aware tech-savvy heroes who know that "everything breaks". NamesTheSame, Same names, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton even!]]
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John's recounting of the events of ''Scratch 'N Sniff'' was the truth. And even with the more bizarre and out there moments of the story, everything John told Pilot actually did happen the way he explained it. Considering the moments where the crew ran into Maldis, T'raltixx and even more weird stuff, the events of ''Sctach 'N Sniff'' is actually the most tame out of the more unbelievable situations the crew has encountered.
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John's recounting of the events of ''Scratch 'N Sniff'' was the truth. And even with the more bizarre and out there moments of the story, everything John told Pilot actually did happen the way he explained it. Considering the moments where the crew ran into Maldis, T'raltixx and even more weird stuff, the events of ''Sctach ''Scratch 'N Sniff'' is actually the most tame out of the more unbelievable situations the crew has encountered.
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[[WMG: John was telling the truth about the events of ''Scratch 'N Sniff''.]]
John's recounting of the events of ''Scratch 'N Sniff'' was the truth. And even with the more bizarre and out there moments of the story, everything John told Pilot actually did happen the way he explained it. Considering the moments where the crew ran into Maldis, T'raltixx and even more weird stuff, the events of ''Sctach 'N Sniff'' is actually the most tame out of the more unbelievable situations the crew has encountered.
John's recounting of the events of ''Scratch 'N Sniff'' was the truth. And even with the more bizarre and out there moments of the story, everything John told Pilot actually did happen the way he explained it. Considering the moments where the crew ran into Maldis, T'raltixx and even more weird stuff, the events of ''Sctach 'N Sniff'' is actually the most tame out of the more unbelievable situations the crew has encountered.
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[[WMG: Sebacean heat delirium is caused by diminished blood flow]]
Sebaceans can walk off a severed limb or a stab to the kidney-equivalent, injuries that would cause a human to bleed to death in minutes without immediate treatment. That suggests the eidolons constricted their blood vessels as much as possible while maintaining function, but vasodilation is a major part of human thermoregulation. Without the ability to radiate heat by expanding arteries under the skin, sebaceans become more susceptible to heatstroke.
Sebaceans can walk off a severed limb or a stab to the kidney-equivalent, injuries that would cause a human to bleed to death in minutes without immediate treatment. That suggests the eidolons constricted their blood vessels as much as possible while maintaining function, but vasodilation is a major part of human thermoregulation. Without the ability to radiate heat by expanding arteries under the skin, sebaceans become more susceptible to heatstroke.
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Given what we learn about the origins of the Peacekeepers in ''The Peacekeeper Wars'', this does imply that either:
a) the ancestors of the Eidolons had wormhole tech, or
b) Sebaceans aren't actually any closer to humans than anyone else; when the Eidolons uplifted the "savages from the edge of the galaxy", those weren't Stone-Age humans but descendants of a LostColony.
a) the ancestors of the Eidolons had wormhole tech, or
b) Sebaceans aren't actually any closer to humans than anyone else; when the Eidolons uplifted the "savages from the edge of the galaxy", those weren't Stone-Age humans but descendants of a LostColony.
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Given what we learn about the origins of the Peacekeepers in ''The Peacekeeper Wars'', this does imply that either:
either: a) the ancestors of the Eidolons had wormhole tech, or
or b) Sebaceans aren't actually any closer to humans than anyone else; when the Eidolons uplifted the "savages from the edge of the galaxy", those weren't Stone-Age humans but descendants of a LostColony.
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* Given that the Eidolons didn't know anything about the Scarrans, the crystherium might have had other pharmaceutical properties that justified its spread in the region of the galaxy the Eidolons inhabited. After the Eidolons disappeared, the Scarrans were exposed to the crystherium and developed into the galactic power they are in the show's present day.
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...and that's how he knows that, if you want to be the baddest motherfucker in the [[strike:world]]galaxy, you have to carry around your own private nuclear bomb on a DeadManSwitch.
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...and that's how he knows that, if you want to be the baddest motherfucker in the [[strike:world]]galaxy, you have to carry around your own private nuclear bomb on a DeadManSwitch.
DeadMansSwitch.
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** Zhaan's species was originally a carnivorous plant, much like a Venus Fly Trap. Only instead of just smell, it used the trick of creating plant based replicas of any species it captured in order to lure other members of that species to their doom with the promise of a mating opportunity. At some point in the past, a number of sapient humanoids were captured by a number of Delvian Fly Traps. The replicas created gained sapience for the first time in their species' history. They were able to defy their instincts and began behaving autonomously. They developed the ability to reproduce on their own, thus creating the modern Delvian species. Their carnivorous plant roots explain their need for meat under certain circumstances, regardless of available light or other sources of food.
* It doesn't explain Pilot, either. Or Rygel, for that matter. It also allows them to be related to humans or Sebaceans in a round about way.
* It doesn't explain Pilot, either. Or Rygel, for that matter. It also allows them to be related to humans or Sebaceans in a round about way.
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** Zhaan's species was originally a carnivorous plant, much like a Venus Fly Trap. Only instead of just smell, it used the trick of creating plant based replicas of any species it captured in order to lure other members of that species to their doom with the promise of a mating opportunity. At some point in the past, a number of sapient humanoids were captured by a number of Delvian Fly Traps. The replicas created gained sapience for the first time in their species' history. They were able to defy their instincts and began behaving autonomously. They developed the ability to reproduce on their own, thus creating the modern Delvian species. Their carnivorous plant roots explain their need for meat under certain circumstances, regardless of available light or other sources of food.
food. It also allows them to be related to humans or Sebaceans in a round about way.
* It doesn't explain Pilot, either. Or Rygel, for that matter. It also allows them to be related to humans or Sebaceans in a round about way.
* It doesn't explain Pilot, either. Or Rygel, for that matter.
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* It doesn't explain Pilot, either. Or Rygel, for that matter.
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** Zhaan's species was originally a carnivorous plant, much like a Venus Fly Trap. Only instead of just smell, it used the trick of creating plant based replicas of any species it captured in order to lure other members of that species to their doom with the promise of a mating opportunity. At some point in the past, a number of sapient humanoids were captured by a number of Delvian Fly Traps. The replicas created gained sapience for the first time in their species' history. They were able to defy their instincts and began behaving autonomously. They developed the ability to reproduce on their own, thus creating the modern Delvian species. Their carnivorous plant roots explain their need for meat under certain circumstances, regardless of available light or other sources of food.
* It doesn't explain Pilot, either. Or Rygel, for that matter. It also allows them to be related to humans or Sebaceans in a round about way.
* It doesn't explain Pilot, either. Or Rygel, for that matter. It also allows them to be related to humans or Sebaceans in a round about way.
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[[WMG: Terms like "Solar Day", "Cycle" and even "Arn" originated with the Peacekeepers]]
Any standardised units must have originated somewhere. It makes sense that a powerful species spread across multiple worlds, known to have dealings with all of the species we see in the show, could be the ones to first start using these terms (and a military society functioning in space would have the most need for standardised units of time which aren't tied to individual planets). Given the revelation that Sebaceans were originally taken from Earth, they may have based these units originally around units of time from Earth (possibly not arn because while I don't believe hours existed 12,000 years ago, though there are apparent reasons why Ancient People chose to divide the day into 24 hours and so it's reasonable to think these same reasons still would have applied). This would explain why Solar Day and Cycle seem to fit neatly with Earth units of time (perhaps not fitting exactly given people all that time ago wouldn't have exactly had watches to time how long a day was and couldn't rely on the sun in space).
Any standardised units must have originated somewhere. It makes sense that a powerful species spread across multiple worlds, known to have dealings with all of the species we see in the show, could be the ones to first start using these terms (and a military society functioning in space would have the most need for standardised units of time which aren't tied to individual planets). Given the revelation that Sebaceans were originally taken from Earth, they may have based these units originally around units of time from Earth (possibly not arn because while I don't believe hours existed 12,000 years ago, though there are apparent reasons why Ancient People chose to divide the day into 24 hours and so it's reasonable to think these same reasons still would have applied). This would explain why Solar Day and Cycle seem to fit neatly with Earth units of time (perhaps not fitting exactly given people all that time ago wouldn't have exactly had watches to time how long a day was and couldn't rely on the sun in space).
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** Just a thought on this theory, the humans made Sebacean were described as "barely clothed". So if these weren't stone-age humans but were in fact from an advanced (though primitive by Farscape standards) LostColony, it's possible they just knew how to have a good time.
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The events at the end of season four with destroying the bird of paradise was supposed to set them back for hundreds of years and Scorpius even saw it as worth more than wormholes. Yet come ''The Peacekeeper Wars'' they immediately decided to go ahead and have a war anyway. The loss of the flowers may have prevented them from being able to expand their territories and meant they couldn't conquer the galaxy. At first, this calls into question what advantage they'd have for going to war with the Peacekeepers if they couldn't hold the worlds they'd take from them. However, given their current numerical advantage, the fact that Crichton had basically told them the Peacekeepers didn't have the wormhole weapons they'd been claiming and that they were already getting ready for an attack (whereas the Peacekeepers weren't prepared), the Scarrans were still in the best position they were ever going to be to wipe out the Peacekeepers. Then, even if it's a long time before they can expand their territories again, by the time they do they'll be no force around capable of standing against them. In effect, destroying the flowers actually may have sped up the war rather than slowing it down.
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*** Both could be right. In a "Prefect Murder" Aeryn said she was getting a really bad "bribe" (instead of vibe) and John realised she was speaking English. In "Coup by Clam" she said "Jirl Power" (instead of "Girl Power"). Mistakes like that are probably the quickest way to pick up someone speaking in a language they don't know. However, in "A Constellation of Doubt" Crichton asked Sikozu, when she was looking for the location of a Scarran base, if she was asking "in Scarran" and she insisted she was. This makes sense if Scarrans would be able to tell the difference. I'd speculate that the microbes don't apply a particular set of accents, rather they choose from accents the listener knows and finds easy to understand (so for John that's going to mean, American, English or strangely enough quite often Australian and New Zealander). Therefore everyone speaking to a Scarran through translator microbes might sound like someone from their homeworld, which can stand out if they're supposedly from somewhere else in the empire (and of course if two Scarrans from two different worlds compared the accent they'd quickly pick up the discrepancy).
