Ancients: These wise little buggy-looking creatures were homeless and nearly extinct. They had been looking for a home for generations and when they ran across Crichton they performed their standard compatibility test. They manufactured an entire world from his memories. It was so well done that for a long time John thought he was back on earth. When the Ancients realized that earth wasn’t the home of their dreams, they apologized by giving John the wormhole information he needed. But they didn’t just give it to him, they buried it deep in his subconscious, saying that if he wasn’t intelligent enough to discover it, he wasn’t intelligent to use it sensibly. A couple of cycles later they came calling on John again. Together, John and the Ancient known as Jack were able to stop the Scarrans from obtaining the wormhole technology and protect the Ancients' new home. A Human Reaction; The Hidden Memory; Infinite Possibilities, Part One: Daedalus Demands; Infinite Possibilities, Part Two, Icarus Abides; The Peacekeeper Wars

Banik Slave Race: Stark’s people. A race of slaves with the ability to give certain comforting thoughts. These people are able to cloud their thoughts and even the Aurora chair can’t force them to reveal what they want to hide. They’re only partially corporeal and can sometimes survive dispersal. Some members of this race, Stark included, are Stakira. Nerve; The Hidden Memory; The Ugly Truth; Liars, Guns & Money, part 2

Barkan (Mention Only): Rygel said, "Like a barkan out of Hezmana", which probably means that a barkan is similar to an earth bat.

Boolite (Voice by Ben Browder): A blobby creature with a very high metal content. It’s body parts can survive separately from the main body for up to half a cycle. One took refuge on Moya after escaping from the Peacekeepers and Crais and Jool tried to put its parts back together like a slimy jigsaw puzzle. Fractures

Brindz Hound: Blood tracker with six legs. Fierce, mean and not too bright. It was brought aboard Elack, the elderly Leviathan, to assist the Grudeks while they were harvesting tubray. Crichton outsmarted it by playing "tethered goat" and luring the hound into defenestrating itself. Crichton Kicks

Budong: An enormous species, so large that Moya could fit in its claw. Before Chiana came to Moya she lived in a mining colony built on the carcass of one of these huge animals. When the crew was starving, she led them back to the budong in the hope that her friends there would help out. Budong miners search for nogelti crystals deep inside the animal, but have to be careful to stay away from the Budong’s toxic nodules. Budong’s eat energy like candy, and since ships give off energy, they’re a shipping hazard. Talyn was swallowed by a Budong and was only able to escape when Stark came up with the idea of making the Budong vomit him out. Home on the Remains; Green-Eyed Monster

Builders (Jonathan Hardy): Moya’s gods. These are the guys that gave Leviathans souls. They are very careful about their “children”, watching over them to make sure they remain gentle beasts. Moya, Pilot and Zhaan were tested by one of the Builders, Kahaynu, to see if they lived up to the standards set by the Builders. Look at the Princess, Parts One, Two, and Three

Calcivore (Francesca Buller): A being who eats calcium usually, if not always, in the form of bones. M’Lee is the only member of this species we’ve met so far. She appears to have a hard shell covering almost all parts of her body and spikey protrusions on her joints. When she gets hungry, she turns from a mild little being into a fearsome predator. Her head glows red and  protrusions grow from her scalp before she attacks, kills and drags her prey to her eating ground to feed on it. Bone to be Wild

Catons (Danny Adcock): Owners of the slave mines where Jothee was imprisoned. They refused to search through the lot of 10,000 slaves to find Jothee and so delivered all the slaves to Scorpius. When Scorpy found Jothee, he ordered the execution of the other 9,999 slaves. Liars, Guns, and Money, Part 2

Charrids: These guys are a nasty piece of work. In the distant past they attacked Hyneria and killed huge numbers of people, even eating the Hynerian young. Now, they’re allied with the Scarrans, working with them to develop (or steal) wormhole information. Furlow hired them for security. They were her test pilots during her wormhole development until they betrayed her to the Scarrans. Infinite Possibilities, Part One: Daedalus Demands; Infinite Possibilities, Part Two, Icarus Abides; We're So Screwed, Part 2; We're So Screwed, part 3; Peacekeeper Wars

Colartas: A species with expert tracking abilities, including an outstanding sense of smell and the capability of reading energy signatures. They can also shape-shift to take on the appearance of another being. Xhalax Sun originally had three Colartas in her retrieval squad but when one of them was wounded, she killed him. The other two were killed by John and Crais. Colartas don’t function well in heavy gravity. Thanks for Sharing; Relativity

Coreeshi: The gang of bounty hunters wearing bio-engineered armor who boarded Moya on a Crichton-hunt. They have a great little shrinking device that reduces their opponents to a size small enough to fit into a tin can. Then they store them within their armor. I Shrink Therefore I Am

Diagnosans: They specialize in diagnosing and treating disease, but they are very susceptible to it themselves. They keep a large store of almost-dead bodies of a huge number of species which they use for research and parts replacement for their patients. Die Me Dichotomy; Season of Death; The Choice; Peacekeeper Wars

Dellos Concubines (mention only): They have a gland implanted that secretes heppel oil. Its perfume targets the erogenous zones. What Was Lost, Part 2: Redemption

Delvians: They are a flora-evolved species who have very long lifespans. They’re blue in color and have floral markings on their heads and bodies. Because they are evolved from plants, Delvians have an extremely pleasurable reaction to solar energy, experiencing what they call photogasms. They strive for peace and serenity, but are prone to insanity. They have the abilities to move very quickly and to blend in with the background. If they go into a period of starvation, a budding cycle begins and Delvians produce spores which cause allergic reactions in many animals. This makes the animal easier for the Delvian to capture and eat.

Deneans: The Deneans are much like earthlings in that they haven’t done much (if anything at all) in the way of space travel. In fact, until John Crichton came along none of their species had ever met an alien. I, ET

Dentics: They look like little white caterpillars and are used instead of a toothbrush and toothpaste, feeding off of the food particles in the mouth. John claims they leave a minty aftertaste. You're never supposed to swallow a dentic but when the crew was starving, John fried some up for a meal claiming that you can eat anything if it's fried. Fried or not, it tasted so terrible that only Rygel was able to eat one. Exodus from Genesis, Home on the Remains

Draks: A race of giant bug-like beings who live in space but need warmth to give birth. Zhaan channeled their Monarch (or queen-bug) when they infested Moya. They have the ability to duplicate the exteriors of other beings by using a bit of their DNA. Exodus from Genesis

Drannet (Mention Only): I have no idea what a drannet is. When John was jealous/angry/hurt over what he though was Aeryn’s “recreating” activities with Crais, Aeryn (who had no idea what John was thinking) told him to stop acting like a drannet. Green-Eyed Monster

Eidelons: Moya's crew discovered the Eidelons on the water planet where Aeryn & John were crystalized. Noranti recognized a symbol and connected them to the people of Arnessk who had been in stasis for 12,000 years. The Eidelons have the ability to facilitate peace among species. What Was Lost, Parts 1 & 2, Peacekeeper Wars

Energy Riders: This life form gets its kicks by sipping or tasting other life forms. Usually it isn’t detectable, but one of the Energy Riders who boarded Moya was diseased. It got into Chiana and refused to leave until it was killed by the other Energy Rider. Losing Time

Fellip (Mention Only): A creature on Tarsus whose nectar tastes like beer and whose urine is used as an anasthetic. A Human Reaction; ..Different Destinations

Filima Bug (Mention Only):When the Cooreeshi shrunk everyone, Sikozu told Rygel he was barely bigger than a filima bug. I Shrink Therefore I Am

Fire Snakes (Mention Only): We haven’t met these guys yet but Aeryn mentioned them as one of the reasons John should lead their march through the woods in Throne for a Loss

Fungus, Giant Space: It snuck up on Pilot while he was preoccupied with observing a wormhole. Before very long, it was everywhere on Moya, making her and everyone else miserable with the eye-watering fumes it gave off. It was finally killed when the crew sprayed and ignited Solanterum Fobex. Natural Election 

Grozolians (mention only): During a battle with the Luxans, they murdered thousands of Luxan women and children. The Luxans later returned the favor. I, ET

Grudeks: The toubray harvesters who boarded the leviathan Elack while Crichton was drinking his way through wormhole calculations.  Crichton Kicks

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