Peacekeepers (Farscape)

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The Peacekeepers were a space empire and military organization that featured in Farscape.

1 History
2 Background
3 Ranks
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History

The Peacekeepers were created by the Eidelon civilization 12,000 cycles before modern events. They were taken from a primitive backwater planet on the outer spiral arm of the galaxy where they were prehistoric humanoids that were re-engineered to become acolytes to the Eidelons. The task of these Sebaceans was to help maintain the peace and they were genetically altered to serve their task. However, once the Eidelons disappeared from the galactic arena, the Sebaceans and the Peacekeepers began to become a gradually more militaristic organization that sought to enforce the peace through force rather then maintain it due to the lack of the negotiation abilities of the Eidelons. (Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars)

The last known noble act of the Peacekeepers was roughly 500 cycles ago when a detachment of soldiers were deployed to protect unarmed nurses and children on the planet Jocacea. As time went on, the Peacekeepers became more ruthless and almost had a mercenary quality among its soldiers. (Farscape: ...Different Destinations)

Eventually, their government encountered the Scarrans whose own mighty empire rivalled and even exceeded that of the Peacekeepers. Numerous skirmishes were fought between the two powers and war seemed inevitable. Projections made by the Peacekeepers suggested that if open war was fought between the two then the Peacekeepers would lose due to the numerically more Scarrans.

This dark future ultimately came to head when Scorpius launched a pre-emptive strike against a fleet of Scarran Dreadnoughts. This brought about the war and just as the projections had forseen, the Peacekeepers began to lose star system after star system. They may have ultimately faced defeat had not John Crichton used the Ancients knowledge of wormhole technology to create a universe destroying reality rift that threatened to destroy everything in its path. However, he managed to stop it and forced the Scarrans and Peacekeepers to make peace. (Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars)

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Background

The Peacekeepers were formed by the Sebaceans to serve as the primary military force of the Eidolon.

Several organizations within the Peacekeepers included the Strategic Command, Special Operations, and Special Directorate. While most Peacekeepers were soldiers, there existed a civilian group that fulfilled roles such as Techs.

Commando units of Peacekeeper soldiers called Retreival Squads were deployed for covert assignments.

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