Character Profile: Ella

Ellandra Skye. Ex-Peacekeeper Technician. She is clever and inventive. When she abandons her commission she builds herself a ship, the Demimel, which is one of the fastest vessels in PK territory.

Though she hates Peacekeepers with a passion, when she comes across the stricken Talyn, she does not hesitate to rescue Crais. This is because their share a brief moment in their pasts, one she remembers clearly.

Outwardly hard, Ella's prickly nature hides a dark past. Meeting Bialar again after sixteen years seems her mentally unravel and face ghosts she's so far just run from.

Character Profile: Bialar

Bialar Crais. Ex-Peacekeeper Captain. He is both captain and mentor to Talyn, the hybrid of senitent Leviathan vessel and Peacekeeper technology, bonded by means of a neural link.


Before Talyn was lobotomised by Xhalax Sun, he was a formidable ship capable of Starburst - a faster-than-light jump - and with an arsenal of powerful weaponry. With Crais and his years of military training at the helm, they were force to be reckoned with.

The beginning of On the Other Side is actually the last scenes of Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. Having gone to Scorpius in an attempt to get help from the increasingly unstable Talyn, Crais finds himself in a corner with only death as a possible escape. With Scorpius about to get his hands on the very dangerous wormhole technology, Crais opts to take his own way out and boards Talyn in what, canonally, is one last time.

Starbursting in the confines of the hanger sets off a chain reaction that eventually destroys Scorpius' spaceship. Approximately half those aboard manage to escape, including Crais' some-time allies, and Scorpius. The wormhole research is successfully obliterated.

And that is where his story is supposed to end. Only it doesn't...

On the Other Side

Starburst in a contained area... it should have killed them but deep in the Uncharted Territories Bialar Crais and the hybrid Leviathan Talyn survive. Just.

On the Other Side is a fanfic that has existed in one form or another for over five years, ever since I saw Farscape's Wolf in Sheep's Clothing and Crais' fiery exit from the show.

The basic premise is that Crais survived his insane plan after all. Which is possible; the writers were particularly vague about what really happened. All we know is that a single fin of Talyn was found (a fact I actually ignore in the story) and no one ever really dies in sci fi...

Anyway, Crais is found by a renegade Peacekeeper Tech called Ellandra Skye (my ofc). He is badly injured. She saves his life and, after he recovers somewhat, they form a prickly partnership in an attempt to restore Talyn.

When Ella's spaceship is fatally damaged in a pirate raid, she is forced to flee and join Crais on Talyn. The Leviathan then manages to Starburst, though it is wild and uncontrolled. When they emerge on the other side, Crais is unable to figure out where they are... and so the adventure begins.

So I got this far...

Now what do I do?

Hm. Regale people with the fascinating details of my life? Um, don't think so! This is mainly because my life is not fascinating.

So why a blog? Because I have several things planned which might be fascinating. Like a train wreck is.

Firstly, I'm a writer. I'm not bad at it. What I am bad at is finishing things. I have two publishable projects for 2008 - Out of Time and an as-yet-untitled fiction.

Secondly, I have a 1982 Series III Land Rover which is 90% complete. Given I haven't passed my test yet and I like to go greenlaning - yeah, there'll be something to post on that.

Finally, is the vaguely long-term project which is our move to Canada. We'll see how that goes. So far it's just a twinkle of a distant star.