Leviathan Gunship

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The Leviathan Moya was subjected to a hybridization experiment by the Peacekeepers while in captivity. A synthetic stimulant/conceptive was placed in her by a Peacekeeper Leviathan expert called Tam Velorek, the leader of the experiment. It was accidentally released by Ka D'Argo six months after Moya's escape from Peacekeeper captivity, leading to the conception of a fetus. Roughly a cycle later, Moya gave birth to a baby Leviathan. Because of the baby's weaponry, he became stuck during the birthing and had to let off a low yield shot to get free.

In his infancy, the baby had a few disagreements with his mother and refused to talk to her. Moya felt that a Peacekeeper should talk to him and asked Aeryn Sun to assist. Aeryn boarded the infant Leviathan and succeeded in convincing him to listen to his mother. To show her gratitude, Moya asked Officer Sun to name her offspring, and Aeryn later named it after her own father, Talyn.

However, the result of the Peacekeeper experiment was obvious: Talyn was far from a normal Leviathan. The conceptive had been contaminated with the DNA that produced weapons, and Talyn was born with integral weaponry, the most notable of which is his main gun, the sonic ascendancy cannon. These weapons caused difficulty at his birthing from Moya but also proved to be the solution when he used a low level blast to blow out two tiers of Moya otherwise leaving her unharmed.

At times, Talyn could be emotionally unstable, even going so far as to deliberately attack Moya. He also panicked easily. It is unclear whether this resulted from his violent childhood, or from errors in his genome.

Mounted on a gun turret at the top of the ship, the cannon was Talyn's largest weapon, and was often used with lethal effect. At one point, worried about Talyn's destructive potential, Bialar Crais wanted to replace it with a dampening net. Ironically, Talyn shot the net salesmen with the cannon and starburst away to protect his mother; it was later learned the salesmen were carrying forbidden cargo. In later episodes, Talyn used the cannon to destroy the Shadow Depository and Scorpius’ Marauder.

Talyn has multiple weapons emplacements, not only his impressive complement of external weapons but powerful network of internal defensive weapons to repel boarding parties. He used them to kill a Scarran, a noteworthy feat as they are known to be difficult to kill.

Talyn is classified as a Leviathan/Peacekeeper gunship hybrid. Unlike other Leviathans, Talyn doesn't have a Pilot bonded to him, but still has a vestigial Pilot's den: although he physically could be bonded to a Pilot (he managed to bond temporarily, yet successfully, to Stark in one instance through the Pilot's den), he does not require one in order to navigate himself and fire his weapons. He can operate purely on voice command; still, a humanoid can be implanted with a device that allows direct interface with Talyn, although not to the same extent as a Pilot. Talyn can even resist orders from time to time to the point where commands are more suggestions than orders. This device, unless properly modified, can also be a two-way street through which Talyn can force feedback through to injure the implanted humanoid. It also leaves the humanoid open to feeling Talyn's pain as Pilot feels Moya's pain. The device's sympathetic effect can even go as far as to physically blind the humanoid if Talyn's sensors are damaged. Because of the connection strength, Talyn can force those connected to him to do his will to a certain degree. This causes great deal of pain to the humanoid pilot to the extent that was seen on Crais.

Talyn is regarded as one of the most advanced ships ever created; not only is he more powerful than a standard Peacekeeper gunship (also more maneuverable, better sensors, as well as other factors), but as a living ship he can automatically heal himself over time without having to put into drydock. He also comes with his own red DRDs, which have a unique look compared to the DRDs of other Leviathans and very powerful weapons.

Talyn was widely anticipated to be one of the most powerful ships around by the time he reached maturity. He was young (and quite childlike) for much of Farscape, and was dwarfed by his mother Moya, although he did grow gradually over the series. It was theorized by Pilot that he might even have grown larger than a normal Leviathan.

Talyn sacrifices himself to destroy the command carrier.

At the end of season 3, Talyn sacrificed his life to save the crew of Moya. Captured and disabled while docked inside the Peacekeeper command carrier that had been following the crew for three cycles, Talyn starburst within the carrier, causing a massive energy wave that progressively consumed the carrier while leaving enough time for most of the crew to evacuate the ship. Talyn's remains were carried by Moya to the sacred Leviathan burial space, something of an elephant graveyard of Leviathans, space they regard as holy and where they go to die. He was mourned by Moya and her crew, with Chiana and Jool overseeing the release of his remains and Rygel delivering a eulogy where he proclaimed that Talyn had been a credit to both his species.

In the second to last issue of Season 5, Talyn briefly appeared: alive and well, much bigger, in an alternate dimension, and with three main cannons. He was named Lo La by that dimension's version of Ka D'Argo in the last issue of Gone and Back. Talyn helped John meet that dimension's version of Aeryn, setting straight her confusion by shooting through Grazya's command carrier. Having D'Argo as his captain allowed Talyn much greater stability than he had with Bialar Crais, as that dimension's version of Crais was killed when Moya was only two months pregnant with Talyn.

**SPECIAL FEATURES**

• • **Starburst:** Unfortunately, the more time that is spent in Starburst, the more energy that is used. A Leviathan cannot generate energy fast enough to maintain Starburst, so energy is stored as low-energy (visible light) photons in the amnexus system for use during Starburst. Also, the direction in which a Leviathan travels depends on its entry vector into one dimensional space-time, continuing to travel in that direction. Starburst acts and works in much the same way a hyperdrive does. In Starburst a Leviathan travels for a maximum of 3d4+2 hours, at twice the speed of a Class 0.5 hyperdrive. A Leviathan can exit hyperspace at anytime.

• • **Leviathan Communications System:** This acts in the same way a Radio, ans Subspace communications array do though at twice the range.

• • **Hand of Friendship:** The hand of friendship is a bio neural biomechanoid interface that allows any species to act as the leviathans pilot. This means that the chosen individual gains all the benefits and drawbacks a bonded Pilot would experience.

• • **Light Sonic Ascendancy Cannon:** The sonic ascendancy cannon was a Peacekeeper ship-based weapon that was the primary weapon on board the gunship *Talyn*. This weapon uses several series of sonic chambers to hyper atomize Chaccin Oil and reconsecrate it, before the weapons firing sequence where it is ignited and hyper accelerated don the barrel. When the weapon first develops it is a very larg cannon but, its not nearly as large as it is going to get when it matures as the leviathan gunship becoming a Heavy Sonic Ascendancy Cannon.

• • **Voice Command Capability:** A leviathan peacekeeper gunship is designed to take orders by voice command from the captain and crew, though in practice leviathans are relatively stubborn so its typically ends up being a means for it to understand the crew and at times communicate with them.

• • **Internal Security Weapons:** the leviathan gunship is armed with automated pulse rifless in every corridor, and on the Command Deck. The leviathan gunship is able to make attacks using its own attack modifiers.

• • **Heavy Sonic Ascendancy Cannon:** The sonic ascendancy cannon was a Peacekeeper ship-based weapon that was the primary weapon on board the gunship *Talyn*. This weapon uses several series of sonic chambers to hyper atomize Chaccin Oil and reconsecrate it, before the weapons firing sequence where it is ignited and hyper accelerated don the barrel. This is the mature form of the weapon. By the time the leviathan gunship reaches maturity it will have 3 heavy sonic ascendancy cannons.

• • **Heavy Launcher:** The leviathan gunship gains 2 heavy launchers under the nose and 1 at the aft towards the top of the tail.

• • **Breeding Age:** at this age the leviathan becomes of age to be capable of impregnating or becoming pregnant.

• • **Duel Layer Shields:** the leviathan becomes capable of using its now fully developed defense shields this is made up of 2 separate shield systems of equal power layered one on top of the other at the same time. The shield function otherwise as they normally would. (**Shield 1** – **SP** 100 – **DR** 20 – **Shield** **Damage Threshold** 40), (**Shield 2** – **SP** 100 – **DR** 20 – **Shield** **Damage Threshold** 40)