Pilot (Farscape race)

Pilots are the only name given to a fictional race from Farscape.

Pilots are large creatures, with a multi-limbed upper half, and a lower half adapted to bond with a Leviathan spacecraft. They have a very rich and complex language that is too advanced for translation devices to interpret.

The primary distinction of Pilots is their ability to bond with Leviathan spacecraft. Generally, Pilots bond for life, and die with their Leviathan, but it is possibly to separate the two, however the Pilot will not survive long. Pilots for bonding are chosing amoung the population by Elders, and are carefully screened for maturity and ability. The bonding process itself takes several arns to complete naturally, although there are methods to artificially accelerate it.