Elack
From Farscape Encyclopedia Project
| Elack | |
|---|---|
 Elack seeks to die with dignity. | |
| First appearance | (4.1 "Crichton Kicks") |
| Last appearance | (4.3 "What Was Lost - Resurrection") |
| Details | |
| Gender | Male |
| Species | Leviathan |
| Age | Elderly, 350+ cycles |
[edit] Bio:
Elack was a male biomechanoid - a living ship like Moya. He was partnered with his unnamed female pilot (Crichton refers to her as "Your Ladyship", "Sweetheart" and "The Mother Teresa of the Uncharted Territories") over 350 cycles before John came aboard. Elack was very old as Leviathan's go, he and his pilot were traveling to the Leviathan "sacred space" to live out their remaining days.
Stranded in his fuelless module and despairing that Aeryn deserted him and Moya was sucked down a wormhole, John finds refuge on Elack. Since Elack is dying, John must find Moya to survive. John adopts one of Elack's DRDs and teaches it to play the 1812 Overture to keep him company, this DRD would eventually be named, appropriately, 1812. Not knowing if or when he will get off Elack, John passes his time scribbling out wormhole formulas on Elack's walls and cargo boxes while getting drunk on the still he has created from the things he found on Elack (who knows what he used for raw materials to make his brew). While occupying himself with his formulas and seeing how drunk he can get and still function, a small ship crashed into the cargo bay carrying Sikozu, a Kalish, who was helping a race of Leviathans hunters, Grudeks, find Leviathans from which they harvest toubray tissue (biomechanoid neural cluster tissue consumed by sentient beings to enhance higher brain functions). Closely behind Sikozu, a large Grudek vessel recklessly crashes into the side of Elack and deposits a crew of hunters. John must now defeat the Grudeks to save Elack and the pilot from death; Sikozu reluctantly agrees to help. Eventually Rygel and Chiana find Elack and come aboard.
After defeating the Grudeks, John and crew concentrate on finding Moya. Elack's pilot finds Moya's last location above the planet Arnessk and travels there to hopefully join up with her. Although Moya is no longer above Arnessk her remaining crew (Jool, D'Argo and Noranti) are on the planet where Elack's crew join them. In the meantime Commandant Grayza and Captain Braca (recently promoted) discover that John is now on Arneesk and land multiple Peacekeeper ships on the planet along with a very diminished Scorpius. Confusion and conflicts ensue with the upshot being that Moya's crew needs Elack's help to escape the Peacekeepers. Still on board Elack, Rygel convinces the pilot to convince Elack to help the escape by crashing into the Peacekeeper ships on the planet. Despite Elack's desire to die in the sacred space, he agrees to help. With Rygel still on board Elack and the pilot delirious, Elack begins a premature plunge into Arnessk. Just as Elack is about to crash on Arnessk, Rygel escapes in one of Elack's debilitated pods and Elack's pilot passes out (did she and Elack die just before the crash?). Elack hits the ground and tumbles over and over smashing all but one of the Peacekeeper ships and disintegrating into thousands of pieces.
