Zelbinion

undefined The Zelbinion is a fictional space vessel featured in the 1999-2003 science fiction television series Farscape. It was first seen in the season one episode, "PK Tech Girl" and was also seen in episode 1x15, "Durka Returns".

Description
The Zelbinion is a capital ship of the Peacekeepers and is part of a battleship line known as a Command Carrier. More than 130 cycles ago, the captain of the Zelbinion, Selto Durka captured the deposed Hynerian Dominar Rygel XVI after he had been ousted from his position by his scheming cousin Bishan. Captain Durka tortured the imprisoned Rygel for over a hundred cycles.

Years later, Rygel and a small crew of other prisoners escaped from the Peacekeepers aboard a stolen Leviathan transport ship called Moya. While traveling through the Uncharted Territories, the crew of Moya discovered the Zelbinion, which had now been little more than a floating derelict. They learned that the ship had been ravaged by raiders known as the Sheyangs and that the only surviving crew member aboard the carrier was a technician named Gilina Renaez.

Armament
The Zelbinion possessed the standard armament of a Peacekeeper Command Carrier including 4 frag cannons, 5 medium pulse cannons (1 dorsal, 1 port, 1 starboard, 1 keel, 1 forward), 20 small pulse cannons, 200 defensive pulse turrets and 2 torpedo launchers.

Shielding
The Zelbinion possessed highly durable defense screens which was a standard of any Peacekeeper battleship. These defense screens generated a shimmering bubble of red energy, which surrounded the ship protecting it from enemy attack. When the crew of Moya discovered the Zelbinion dead in space, they managed to salvage the ship's defense screens and installed them on Moya.

Despite the ship's heavy fortifications however, it was not impregnable. In a conflict against the Nebari, the opposing race managed to whittle the Zelbinion 's defenses using standard host vessels.