Sikozu
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| Farscape character | |
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| Sikozu | |
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| Title | None |
| Homeworld | None |
| Race | Kalish |
| Gender | Female |
| Affiliation | Grudeks, Moya's crew, Peacekeepers, Scarran Empire |
| Portrayer | Raelee Hill |
Sikozu Svala Shanti Sugaysi Shanu (called Sikozu) is a fictional character on the television science fiction series Farscape played by Raelee Hill.
Sikozu is a Kalish who grew up in Scarran-controlled space. She becomes an expert (albeit a book expert) on Leviathans, and eventually goes to work for a pirate group who harvest toubray (nerve) fibers from Leviathans. She meets up with Crichton while he is aboard the Leviathan Elack in the Leviathan's sacred burial space; she led the pirates there and they subsequently try to kill her to prevent her telling anyone where the burial area is. Crichton nicknames her "Sputnik" due to her spikey hairstyle. There is initial confusion at their meeting because she cannot tolerate translator microbes, and must learn all languages by hearing them. She is extremely intelligent and picks up information very quickly. She can "change her centre of gravity" so that she can walk on walls and ceilings, and she can easily reattach limbs that have been severed. She only has to eat several times a year.
Sikozu accompanies Crichton as he reunites with his crewmates from Moya. , and she gradually allies herself with Scorpius, who she initially seems intrigued by both because he saves her life and because he is arguably the most powerful and intelligent person on Moya. They eventually become lovers and she takes a place at his side when he is kicked off Moya. During the Scarran - Peacekeeper war, it is revealed that she is a bioloid (a type of android) and a double-agent. She is working with the Kalish resistance to free the Kalish from Scarran servitude, and as such was specially bioengineered to be able to hover in the air and release heat rays from her hands that destroy Scarran heat producing glands, rendering them weak and vulnerable. But she is really a Scarran spy (in exchange for a promise from them to free her people from servitude) and Scorpius has long known this but has not acted on it for some time. Finally, though Scorpius assaults her after revealing his knowledge about her betrayal and leaves her for dead on the water-planet Qujaga, though it is left open that she might live--she is seen allying with Grunschlk, who was also abandoned on the planet.
Sikozu's true alliance with the Scarrans was actually foreshadowed in the middle of Season 4 when - under the guidance of the Ancient 'Einstein' - Crichton attempts to better understand wormhole travel. In a visit to an Unrealized Reality, Crichton - in that reality, a ranking Peacekeeper officer - is forced to execute Sikozu after she is revealed to be a Scarran spy. Whether or not Crichton dismisses this as an event in one reality that may not have had any bearing in his own, is not mentioned. At their first meeting, as well, Chiana thinks she is a spy because she has Scarran currency and speaks Scarran. Sikozu explains this away by saying that she's been living in Scarran-controlled space. Nevertheless, Chiana takes a dislike to her and knicknames her "Psycho Zoo."
Sikozu was engineered to be a Scarran killing weapon. She can generate radiation tuned to specifically kill Scarrans, as a burst from her body, or in smaller quantities from her hands.
