Farscape: Characters: Key Characters: Scorpius

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**Name**: Scorpius
**Type**: Scientist
**Species**: Sebacean / Scarran Hybrid
**Height**: 1.82 m
**Age**: 41
**Gender**: Male

**Dexterity**: 1D+2

* Blaster: 4D
* Dodge: 3D+2

**Knowledge**: 4D

* Intimidation: 7D+2
* Scholar: Aeronautics: 7D+1
* Scholar: Astronomy: 8D
* Scholar: Biology: 7D+1
* Scholar: Dimensional Applications: 6D+2
* Scholar: Engineering: 7D+1
* Scholar: Energy Theory: 6D+2
* Scholar: Gravitaional Forces: 7D+2
* Scholar: Medical Sciences: 8D
* Scholar: Peacekeepers: 5D+2
* Scholar: Physical Sciences: 7D+1
* Scolar: Space / Time Theory: 8D
* Scolar: Wormhole Theory: 8D+2
* Value: 5D+1
* Willpower: 8D+1

**Mechanical**: 3D

* Communications: 6D+1
* Sensors: 6D+1

**Perception**: 3D+2

* Bargain: 4D+2
* Con: 5D+2
* Hide: 4D+1
* Investigation: 5D+2
* Persuasion: 6D
* Search: 5D
* Sneak: 4D+1

**Strength**: 1D

* Brawling: 3D+1
* Stamina: 2D

**Technical**: 4D

* Armor Repair: 5D+1
* Blaster Repair: 5D+1
* Capital Ship Repair: 8D
* Computer Programming / Repair: 13D+2
* Droid Programming: 7D+2
* First Aid: 5D
* Security: 7D+1
* Space Transports Repair: 8D
* Starfighter Repair: 8D

**Move**: 10
**Force Sensitive**: No
**Force Points**: 2
**Dark Side Points**: 0
**Character Points**: 76

**Special Abilities**: Because of his unique physiology, he must wear a specially designed cooling suit at all times. Special rods, inserted into his brain, ensure that his naturally-heated Scarran side does not destroy his heat-intolerant Sebacean side. These rods must be refreshed every 6 arns (hours), or else he will suffer the effects of over heating as described Here. External temperatures have no bearing on this; Scorpius will take damage no matter how cool it is, and warm temperatures do not increase his need for the rods. He suffers no ill effects from the cold, however, and his suit provide the equivalent to light Leather Armor.

**Equipment**: Leather Armor (See Special Abilities), toolkit, space cooling rods, Pulse Blaster Pistol, Commlink

**Description**: Scorpius was born to Rylani Jeema Dellos, a Sebacean woman who was abducted by Scarrans and raped by Wolesh, a soldier-caste Scarran male. She died in childbirth. Scorpius was the only survivor (in 91 attempts) of a breeding program looking into the possibility of hybrid Scarran/Sebaceans and their potential advantages. Under the brutal guidance of a ruling-caste Scarran woman named Tauza, Scorpius spent his childhood forced into rigorous testing to see if such hybrids could be useful. She tried to destroy his Sebacean "weaknesses," such as his susceptibility to heat.

When he was 12 cycles old, Scorpius escaped and spent several cycles in the Uncharted Territories unsuccessfully searching for information about his origins. Finally, he turned himself over to the Peacekeepers, offering them inside information about the Scarrans that Peacekeeper First Command never had. In exchange for that information, the Peacekeepers told Scorpius the truth about his birth and gave him the location where his mother had been captured. He went there, walking straight into Tauza's trap. Back in her "care," Scorpius soon killed her and helped the Peacekeepers find and destroy the Dreadnought on which he was imprisoned. For his apparent loyalty he received an exemption from all Peacekeeper racial purity regulations and began his career in the Peacekeepers.

He quickly advanced in the ranks of the Peacekeeper military and created a special task force to develop wormhole technology. Scorpius' personal goal was revenge against the Scarrans; he sought to harness the potentially limitless power of wormholes and use them as a weapon to help the Peacekeepers annihilate the species that raped and killed his mother.

There was one obvious disadvantage to Scorpius' lineage. Scarrans thrive on heat and create massive amounts of it within their bodies, but Sebaceans are especially reactive to high temperatures and suffer from heat delirium with it. Scorpius dealt with this dilemma by using a complicated protective suit and cooling rods inserted into his brain that regulate his body temperature. Gradually the rods heat up, taking the warmth from his body, and must be replaced with fresh, cool ones . The cooling rod apparatus was originally implanted by the Diagnosan Tocot.

He also had a very non-trusting but highly sexual relationship with the Scorpion-like alien Natira; this relationship continued on and off until roughly the end of Season 2. Prior to Sikozu, she is his only known romantic connection.

**Source**:

* Farscape Wiki: Scorpius
* Farscape Role Playing Game Sourcebook (page 314)
* thedemonapostle