SCIFI.COM - Farscape

The Tavleks are a species of battle-scarred mercenaries who kidnapped Rygel to gain a ransom. They wear fearsome energy weapons called Gauntlets that operate through direct neural control. Each Gauntlet also dispenses a drug into its user; the Tavleks call it a "stimulant," but it exerts some mental control as well, heightening anger, aggression, and recklessness to dangerous levels. Worse still, the drug is also highly addictive.

When the Tavleks captured Rygel, we captured Kyr, a young male. Zhaan attempted to befriend him and asked him why the Tavleks kidnapped people. Kyr told her it was for money, that money buys provisions from trading ships that happen by -- and the Tavleks would never survive on their harsh jungle planet otherwise.

According to Kyr, the Tavleks live on this inhospitable world because they were exiled there; Kyr has never even seen his homeworld. Long before Kyr was born, the Tavleks went to war; their leaders created an elite regiment to invade their enemy's capitol. The soldiers were given the best weapons available -- the Gauntlets -- and were halfway to the enemy system when their leaders caved in and negotiated a settlement. The soldiers refused to accept this; they still wanted to fight. When they refused to abandon their mission, they were stranded upon the jungle planet, and the regiment fragmented into armed camps.

Bekhesh, the leader of Kyr's camp, told Kyr that one day they'll reunite the regiment and go back to their homeworld to overthrow those who betrayed them. However, I doubt this will ever happen because the Tavlek exiles are much too barbaric. Even young Kyr betrayed Zhaan's trust and actually injured a DRD to get a tool to pick a lock with. Zhaan and I fear the drug in the Gauntlets will forever keep the Tavleks violent and savage.