Translator Microbes; Injected into beings at birth, they colonize at the base of the brain and allow all the different species to understand each other. but they don’t translate everything. For example, swear words are almost never translated.  When John first came aboard Moya, a DRD injected him in the foot and a couple of years later we saw a DRD inject the Vorc with these microbes, then Neeyala got the treatment. Premier; Beware of Dog; Self-Inflicted Wounds Part 1; Terra Firma

Tragans: A warlike mercenary species. Some of them work for the Peacekeepers and the ones we saw used a harpoon to capture Moya in order to board her

Trelkez: A small multi-headed bird. Their brains, the best part, are eaten raw. Zhann tortured one of them for practice before she and Liko took on Maldis. That Old Black Magic

Vangern (Mention Only): Kaarvok, the criminally insane dude on Rovhu, once had a tame vangern named Xarai. In a private joke, he called the over-twinned Peacekeepers Xarai after his pet. Eat Me

Veneks: The people attacking the Jocation monastery. They were considered barbarians but they were fighting for water rights. If John, Jool, Stark and D'Argo hadn’t interfered, the Venek commander would have sought peace. Instead the Veneks slaughtered everyone in the monastery. Different Destinations...

Vorc (Martin O'Leary; Voice: Virginia Weule): A cute/ugly little creature that Chiana and D'Argo brought aboard to hunt a parasite they suspected was in their food supply. It has two forms, a rather gentle creature to do the tracking that turns inside out when it senses the parasite and becomes a fierce toothy predator. (See Ravork.) He developed quite a crush on Aeryn who shot him thinking he was the parasite. Beware of Dog

Vorkarian Blood Trackers: A mathematically impaired species of bounty hunters. They look a bit like dogs or wolves and live in a pack animal society in which the alpha male rules. They care for their mates and appear to mate for life. Only the female has a good sense of smell. Til the Blood Runs Clear; Liars Guns & Money Part 2 & Part 3

Wolexian Arachnid: Talikaa had the ability to change from a beautiful young woman into a huge ugly spider and steal neural energy from the crew. She would store this energy away in her nest to be taken out and used when needed. Twice Shy

Xarai: The Xarai used to be Peacekeepers guarding Kaarvok aboard the Leviathan, Rovhu. Somehow (it’s never explained how) Kaarvok escaped custody and took over the ship. He made twins, equal and original, from each of the Peacekeepers for food (or family, he didn’t seem to know the difference). But he did it too many times and the later batches of twins didn’t have much in the way of intelligence. Kaarvok called them Xarai after a tame vangern he once had. Eat Me

Yenins: A race whose gender identification characteristics are a bit different from the usual. Staanz was a Yenin female. The Flax

Zenetans: The pirates who run the flax. They have distinctive black markings on their faces and terrible teeth. Their main purpose seems to be the trapping of ships in their flax net in order to strip them of everything useful and then melt them down for scrap

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