Clansmen
From Farscape Encyclopedia Project
| |||||||||||||||||||
| [Source] | |||||||||||||||||||
- First sighting - Episode 2.03 "Taking The Stone"
It would seem that Clansmen are more of an organization than a species, as Chiana, a Nebari, joined them temporarily when she believed her brother Nerri to be dead. The majority of the Clansmen do, however, appear to be the same species; an unnamed species that greatly resembles Sebaceans, except for their very pale eyes.
The Clansmen are a group of tribes who live in caves below the gravesites on a Royal Cemetery Planet. The cancer-causing radiation from the caves generally kills them before the age of 22 cycles. Parts of their group, the “Lost People,” are members past the age of 22 who begin to show the effects of radiation; these “lost people” never “took the stone.” When babies are born, the older members (around 22 cycles) “take the stone” (jump from a cliff into a sonic net, which can cushion their fall or can let them die from the impact).
Whether because of the radiation in the caves, the toxic hallucinogenic mushrooms they ingest, or one of their many other mind-altering pastimes, all of the Clansmen seem to be a little nutty. Because they rarely survive past 22 cycles, anyone older than that--i.e. Aeryn--is considered "ancient" and "historical," an amusing but somewhat disturbing concept. All of the Clansmen dye their hair reddish-orange, leaving spare drips to stain their foreheads, and move in a similar shambling shuffle that resembles the movement of something dead rather than alive. An interesting physical trait is the female’s transparent abdomen during pregnancy, caused either by their species' genetics or the influence of their environment, which allows a view of the developing fetus.
written by DM
edited by Michael Bell, Tim Wilkerson, and Pictomancer
