Claudia Black as Aeryn Sun

The Sebaceans are a fictional alien race from the Farscape universe. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (437x653, 36 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (437x653, 36 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Claudia Black Claudia Lee Black (born October 11, 1972, in Sydney) is an Australian actress. ... Spoiler warning: Aeryn Sun (played by Claudia Black) is a former Peacekeeper pilot and Officer of Icarion Company, Pleisar Regiment. ... Farscape was a science fiction television series produced in Australia by the Jim Henson Company with the backing of U.S. cable broadcaster the Sci Fi Channel. ...

Sebaceans are physically similar to humans, with the exception of various internal differences (see paraphoral nerve) and a slightly higher sensory prowess with a notable extreme sensitivity to heat. They are the core species of the Peacekeepers — a militaristic mercenary organization who will enforce the law of the lands they inhabit for a price. They breed their soldiers to be genetically pure, and are raised from birth onboard large battle ships called Command Carriers. They belong to a strict meritocratic hierarchy in which individuals are expected to conform completely to the ideals of Peacekeeper life (usually the belief that all other species are inferior, and that if they were to have prolonged contact with such a species, it could cause irreversible contamination -- which is grounds for immediate exile from the Peacekeepers. And that the chain of command, and orders, are to be obeyed without question) but are solely rewarded by their individual achievements. In the science fiction television series Farscape, the paraphoral nerve is an internal organ of the Sebaceans used to eliminate toxins from the body. ... Peacekeeping is a way to help countries torn by conflict create conditions for sustainable peace. ... Meritocracy is, as the suffix -cracy implies, a system of government based on rule by ability (merit) rather than by wealth, race or other determinants of social position. ...

They may suffer heat delerium, a severe, adverse physical reaction suffered by Sebaceans in response to prolonged high heat exposure. If gone untreated, Heat Delirium can rapidly lead to the Living Death — a catatonic vegetative state which most Sebaceans consider worse than death.

In the Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars miniseries, it is revealed that the Sebaceans were originally humans, taken from Earth tens of thousands of years ago. They were genetically altered, and had their evolution accelerated by the peaceful Eidolons. This new race became the Peacekeeper guard for the Eidolon effort toward peace. With the disappearance of the Eidolons from the galaxy 12,000 cycles before the Farscape setting, they became the familiar mercenary Peacekeepers. Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars is a television science fiction mini-series written by Rockne S. OBannon and David Kemper and directed by Brian Henson. ... Eidolons are a fictional race from the Farscape universe. ...