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Aurora Chair: A Peacekeeper device that extracts information from the subject’s (victim’s) memories in the form of memory-movies projected on a circular screen in front of the victim’s face. First it maps the neural patterns, then it digs through the memories, peeling back as many layers as necessary to find whatever the subject knows. It’s not supposed to be possible to give false memories to the chair, but by messing with the mechanism underneath it, the chair can be tricked. Scorpius used an Aurora Chair on his Gammak base to find out why Crichton was spying on the Peacekeepers.  He wasn’t, but Scorpius didn’t believe him. He extracted memories from John’s mind that John didn’t even know he had, memories of wormhole technology implanted by the Ancients. Gilina, a PK tech who was in love with John, was able to insert some false thoughts into the chair to give Crichton a bit of relief from the pain of the process. Scorpius also dug through Stark’s mind but Stark was able to cloud his thoughts and the chair couldn’t get past that. When Scorpius put Crais in the chair, he tried to hide Lieutenant Teeg’s murder but couldn’t. After they blew up Scorpy's Command Carrier, Co-Kura Strappa went in the chair to get rid of his knowledge about wormholes. Nerve; The Hidden Memory; Into the Lion's Den 2

Biomechanoid: A type of technology that contains both biological and mechanical elements. Moya and Talyn are biomechanoid beings. See heading Biomechanoid for more information.

Bioneutralizer: The sterile field that protected Diagnosan Tocot and his patients from infections. When Scorpius breathed his nasty, germy breath in Tocot’s face, he nearly killed him but Rygel turned on the bioneutralizer in time to save his life. Die Me Dichotomy; Season of Death

Black Hole Weapon: Verell, an Ilanic scientist, took a piece of a black hole and developed it into a weapon to use against the Scorvians. It was so powerful and dangerous that he had to store it in a containment field. Verell was eventually killed by Matala, a Scorvian spy disguised as an Ilanic. She had worked on the weapon with Verell and stole it after she killed him. She herself was killed by the weapon while she was escaping. Back and Back and Back to the Future.

Blobs of Explosive Ability: One of the Colartas let a blue and a red blob loose in the nightclub on Canvia. They flip-flopped toward one another and when they met and joined, they blew up the club injuring Sarova and Crichton. Thanks for Sharing

Cartographic Crystal: It looks like a giant glass golf tee. Namtar gave it to Rygel, Zhaan and D'Argo claiming that it contained the maps to their home worlds. He said he was able to locate their homes from samples of their DNA. All they had to do was insert the data into Moya’s navigational systems and they would be on their way home. Kornata later told them that it was a scheme to wipe everything from Moya’s memory in order to keep her crew readily available as subjects for Namtar’s experiments. DNA Mad Scientist

Cesium Fuel: Cesium is one of the alkali metals. It reacts explosively with water, is liquid at or near room temperature, and has more isotopes than any other element. Humans use it for photoelectric cells and the Peacekeepers use it for Marauder fuel. When Larraq was infected with an intellent virus he tried to escape Moya in a Marauder that was leaking cesium fuel. Pilot initiated StarBurst to ignite the trail of cesium and BOOM, no more virus, no more Larraq. A Bug’s Life  When Talyn was trapped inside the budong, Stark came up with the idea of igniting some of Talyn's dumped cesium fuel to cause the monster to barf him out into space. A Bug's Life; Green Eyed Monster

Chakan Oil: Made from tannot root, it fuels all Peacekeeper weapons. Aeryn promised to teach the people on Sykar how to make chakan oil so they could get free from Peacekeeper rule. Thank God It’s Friday, Again

Chakan Oil Cartridge: The removable/replaceable fuel cartridge for Peacekeeper pulse weapons. Bone to Be Wild; Crackers Don’t Matter

Communication Badge: Everyone on Moya wears these so they can keep in touch with each other. It has a long range so that if someone is down on a planet they can talk to Pilot.

Contraceptive Shield: Velorek placed this device in Moya to prevent pregnancy. Crais was working on an experiment to create a Peacekeeper Leviathan warship but Velorek felt this was wrong and he placed the shield to keep it from happening. Aeryn knew Velorek was up to something and blabbed to Crais who arrested Velorek and gave Aeryn her wish, a return to prowler duty. Several cycles later, D'Argo unintentionally removed the shield, allowing Moya to conceive Talyn. The Way We Weren’t; They’ve Got a Secret

Control Collar, Nebari: The Nebari have at least two different models and both work using a push button system on the forehead of the controlling Nebari. Salis used the first style to control Chiana when she first came on board Moya and it seemed to be a pain producer. The second style seems more dangerous. It injects a very painful dose of bisaric acid at the push of the button. Pilot is especially susceptible and when Varla set sail for the nearest Nebari outpost, she adjusted Pilot’s collar to automatically inject a lethal dose if he strayed off-course. Durka Returns; A Clockwork Nebari

Control Collar, Peacekeeper/Leviathan: When a Leviathan is captured by the Peacekeepers, she’s sedated with clorium and a collar is put around the forward part of the ship to prevent the Leviathan from going into StarBurst. When Moya first escaped from the Peacekeepers, D'Argo ripped out the cables and wires controlling the control collar, freeing her to StarBurst to…somewhere else. Rovhu, the prisoner-transporting Leviathan that had been attacked by the Scarrans, still had his control collar on. Premier; Eat Me

Coolant Rods: Scorpius is part Scarran and part Sebacean. Since Scarrans thrive on heat and Sebaceans can’t live with it, Scorpy has a problem with internal temperature regulation. Diagnosan Tocot installed a cooling apparatus in Scorpy’s head that solves this problem. It has removable rods and when the rods overheat they can be changed for new ones. Scorpy also carries a one-shot pulse weapon inside the mechanism that came in handy during I-Yensch, You-Yensch

Core Cannon (Mention Only) :Probably a Luxan weapon. When the Sheyangs were getting ready to take a shot at Moya, this is one of the weapons D'Argo wished he had available.  PK Tech Girl

Cryogenic pods: Constructed of hydrohonium steel, they are self-regulating coffin-shaped containers used to preserve frozen bodies for long periods of time. Diagnosan Tocot used them to keep not-quite-dead people on hand in order to use their bodies as spare parts. Die Me Dichotomy, Season of Death, Suns and Lovers

Cryonic Suspension: The Nebari mind cleansing technique (the real one, not the drug induced one used on the crewmembers in A Clockwork Nebari) requires that the subject be placed under cryonic suspension for nearly 100 cycles. Durka was the only example we’ve seen who was cleansed with this technique and it didn’t really “take” with him. Rygel’s attempt to murder Durka only succeeded in breaking the mind cleanse. Durka Returns

Cryostasis: Suspended animation in a deep cold environment, from cryo- meaning cold and –stasis meaning fixed; the state of having a body or bodily tissues frozen to maintain a fixed state. Aeryn put Rygel in cryostasis when his body fluids turned explosive so she could filter the toxins out of his blood. The bodies in Tocot’s clinic were preserved in cryostasis and saved for spare parts. When Zhaan entered unity with Aeryn, who was effectively dead in cryostasis, she was able resurrect her. Thank God Its Friday; Again; Die Me Dichotomy; Season of Death

Dampening Net (Mention Only): The only Plokavian weapon that isn’t lethal. Crais wanted to trade Talyn’s main cannon for one but he needed the assistance of Moya and her crew . Ironically, when the trade went bad, the Plokavians were by pulverized by Talyn’s main cannon and a second Plokavian ship used their dampening net to incapacitate the Moya crew who were trying to escape in a transport pod. The Ugly Truth

Darnaz Probes: If all three probes are reactivated three hundred motras apart, the disabling magnetics on Arnessk would be reversed. What Was Lost, Part 1: Sacrifice; What Was Lost, Part 2: Redemption

Darnaz Triangle: Three Darnaz Probes working together make the Darnaz Triangle. When it created the magnetic summers on Arnessk, it trapped part of the past. What Was Lost, Part 1: Sacrifice; What Was Lost, Part 2: Redemption

Deception Shroud: A feature of D'Argo’s new ship. Revenging Angel

Defense Screen/Shield: Gilina helped Crichton and Aeryn steal half of a defense shield from the Zelbinion and install it on Moya. When activated, it surrounds the ship and prevents it from being hit by weapons’ fire. Usually there are two layers, one over the other, so the holes in one are protected by the other. Unfortunately, there wasn’t time to install both layers on Moya so there are a lot of holes in her defense shield. So far it’s come in handy in protecting Moya and her crew from the Sheyangs and the Halosians, and was somewhat effective when used against the energy sphere that invaded Moya and began tossing out Crichtons right and left. PK Tech Girl; My Three Crichtons; Out of Their Minds

Displacement Engine: The wormhole weapon that Ancient Jack and John built on DamBaDa. A leathal dose of radiation from it caused John’s death but not before he used it to destroy a Scarran Dreadnought. Infinite Possibilities, Part One: Daedalus Demands; Infinite Possibilities, Part Two, Icarus Abides

DNA: (deoxyribonucleic acid) It’s the double helix that carries the genetic material of all cellular life forms. It controls the inheritable characteristics of organisms. Namtar claimed he was working with DNA at a more complicated level than the double helix and that was why he needed samples from the eye rather than just skin scrapings. DNA Mad Scientist

Docking Web: Used by Pilot to grab a ship and haul it onto Moya. It brought both John in Farscape One and Aeryn in her prowler aboard in Premier. The first time we actually saw it was when Pilot used it to snare Stark when he undispersed himself to tell D'Argo some information about Jothee. Premier; The Locket

Electrinet: The device used by Finzzi to snare Chiana so she could be brought to Ja Rhumann’s office and threatened. Dream a Little Dream

Electrostatic Membrane: Elack’s pilot (with a bit of help from 1812) used the ship’s mass to generate an electrostatic membrane so John could lure the Brindz hound into running into it. One puncture and Vavoosh!  Crichton Kicks

Elucitin Capacitor: Part of the wormhole weapon that John and Ancient Jack built. Infinite Possibilities, Part Two, Icarus Abides

Flax, The: A huge (75 million zachrons long), invisible, ship-immobilizing web in space. An electrostatic scan that instantly disables ships. The Zenetan pirates use this mesh to snare passing ships and then loot them of all valuables before melting them down for scrap. Crichton and Co. hoped to use it to rescue Jothee after Scorpius bought him in the slave auction. Instead, the Zenetans followed Scorpius’s command and used it to immobilize Moya. The Flax, Liars, Guns and Money Part 2

Frag Cannon: Part of a command carrier’s weaponry with a range of 45 metras. Its three barrels fire in rotation. Premier

Froonium: A word invented by Ricky Manning (a.k.a. Froonium Ricky), one of the Farscape writers. Chiana used it to try to keep Commander Javio away from the prowler, telling him that there was a faulty component in the froonium drive causing instabilities in the stabilizer. In Revenging Angel, Wile E. Ka D'Argo tried to use it to blow up Crichton with some unexpected results. For D'Argo.  Nerve; Revenging Angel

Future Viewer: At the Jocation Memorial, this device was used to watch the truce being formed between the nurses at the monastery and the Veniks. When Stark put it on, he saw things a bit differently than everyone else and somehow, his view became reality. ..Different Destinations

Gauntlet: A Tavlek weapon that is worn on the forearm. It not only fires an energy bolt, it also injects the wearer with an addictive stimulant. Aeryn calls it “a very versatile and powerful weapon” and John claims that it’s awesome in close combat. It can’t be removed from the wearer unless he’s rendered unconscious. Throne for a Loss, Liars Guns and Money, Part 2

Genetic Sieving Process (mention only): D'Argo stated that John was a higher brain function deficient being and that he had escaped the genetic sieving process, implying that in D'Argo’s world they only allow the best to live. Premier

Genetic Hand Scanner: It reads the genetic code on a Peacekeeper ident chip and compares it with a person's code. Gilina was able to reconfigure the one on the Gammak base so that Crichton's code would be read as Larraq's. Nerve 

Hech Drive: Part of the propulsion system; the Farscape 1 module now has a propulsion fin on it that’s part of the Hech drive. Hech is also a measurement of speed. A Human Reaction

Holo Image: A three dimensional projected image. Unlike a regular picture, if you look at a holo image from the back, you see the back of the subject in the image. D'Argo carries a holo image of his wife Lo’laan and their baby son Jothee imbedded under his skin. There have been other holo images in Farscape: Meelak showed Chiana an image of her brother Nerri ; a Peacekeeper marauder that was scanning Moya was projected over the strategy table; even Pilot in the clamshell is a holo image.

Hydrohonium Steel: A strong material used for deep cold insulation. Diagnosan Tocot’s cryogenic pods were made of this material. It’s also used in Moya’s neural cluster cooling rods and in the coolant exhaust pipes at the commerce station near the Twin Suns of Quell. Suns and Lovers

Ident Chip: Peacekeeper dog tags, worn on a chain around a Peacekeeper’s neck. Chiana stole Larraq’s ident chip before he left Moya and John was able to use it to gain access to the Gammak base. When he and Chiana tried to get into a security three-velka area, he passed the genetic scan match-up with the ident chip only because Gilina overrode the security program. Aeryn took Crais’s ident chip from him when he was in the Aurora chair so she, Crichton, and Gilina could get access to the level risers and off of the Gammak base. A Bug’s Life; Nerve; The Hidden Memory

Image Viewer: It projects images in the air from a small chip inserted into the front. Chiana found it among the leftover Peacekeeper gear. It turned out that the Peacekeepers were recording everything that happened on Moya while she was under their control. The recording that Chiana showed to John was of Aeryn when she was a soldier. The Way We Weren’t

I-Yensch Bracelets: When placed on two people, the bracelets synchronize their nerve impulses so that when one is injured, the other feels equal pain. A code is used to lock them in place. D'Argo and Braca wore them during negotiations between Rygel and Scorpius for Crichton’s assistance with wormhole technology in exchange for amnesty. I-Yensch, You-Yensch

Immobilizer Pulse: Used by the Peacekeeper Retrieval Squad to overload all of Talyn’s systems and dissipate his energy to make him easier to capture. He barely had enough power left to StarBurst to safety. Thanks for Sharing

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