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HMS Hippocrates
[Played by Jerry
Marty]
The HMS Hippocrates is a Hegemonic medical ship which crashed under
mysterious circumstances before the fall of the Hegemony. Its
experimental AI unit still claims to be on active duty in the Hegemonic
Skyguard. After its would-be salvagers and the refugees from Pierogi
were all forced to addict themselves to the Kaufman Process as an
alternative to total annihilation, Hippocrates formed them into a
provisional crew and set out to find the cure...
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Captain Eva Thorssen (Shoshana Alexandra von Torsten)
[Played by Kate
Mahoney]
The youngest child of a Duke of Highguard, Shoshana finagled her way
into an off-planet education on New Light, and then into Dr Kye's
archaeological expedition (under the assumed name of Eva Thorssen), in
an attempt to escape-- at least for a while-- the dynastic politics of her
homeworld.
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Ace
[Played by Peter
Gast]
Ace is a scoundrel, a peerless pilot, and a constant source of dizzying
metaphors. A refugee from The Well and Captain of the Exotic
Dancer, Ace has seen the darkest corners of the Inworlds but
nothing as exciting flying as the HMS Hippocrates. Ace is
fiercely loyal to members of his crew, and as long as Kayta and Maury
are around, he'll be a regular on the show. Ace dislikes all drugs
including the Chartreuse which mitigates the Kaufman degeneration.
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Cassandra Lyrae
[Played by Genevieve
Bujold]
Cassandra Lyrae is a famous painter of Hegemonic times. Undergoing the
Kaufman treatment for the degenerative nerve condition that blinded
her, Cassandra was trapped aboard the Hippocrates when it
crashed. She now finds herself an adventurer against her will, but
spends most of her time creating new works of art. While art
connesieurs past and present admire her paintings as works of art, her
crewmates seem to mostly value them for their prophetic symbolism. The
trials an artist must endure...
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Grimblemaury (Maury)
[Played by Charles
Hope]
Grimblemaury, Prince of Cerin, known as Maury for short, was the only
obvious non-Human in the crew at the beginning of the run. A breed of
Uplift known as a Jellical, he's been kicking around the starlanes as
an engineer for about 30 years, since leaving his home planet of
Tinara. Older (experientially) and less idealistic than most of the
crew, he acts as a brake on some of their wilder plans, while keeping
the ship in top working order.
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James "Jim" Powell
[Played by Tom
Giordano]
A Hegemonic Explorer scout who stowed away on the Hippocrates
in the days of the old hegemony, Jim, like Janzur awoke to find his
civilization fallen. He now works tirelessly to fulfill the ideals of
the scouts and to restore the Linked Worlds to the way they were in the
days of the Hegemony.
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Katya Lavolar (Lordschild Katarina Silence)
[Played by Andrea
Humez]
Katya was originally one of the Exotic Dancer's crew, though it has
since been revealed that she is one of the (many) children of Lord
Stannis of Stannis' Law. She is the descendent of the Normarche
Hegemons, one of the three bloodlines created to save humanity from the
Flames. Katya's impressive psi abilities (most notably telepathy and
telekenisis) compensate for her physical fraility and her inability to
communicate verbally. Loyal, passionate, and occasionally comic, Katya
pursues her personal quest for identity as she joins with the crew of
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Kith of Creek
[Played by Heidi
Burgiel]
One of the famed Wisewomen of the rural planet of Creek, Kith is a
trained healer and mediator. She's been a valuable assistant in
research on the Kaufman Process which keeps the crew alive at the cost
of their freedom. With the fall of the government on the Well Kith
left the Hippocrates in hopes of employing her diplomatic training to
the benefit of the Well's lower classes. Then she came back again.
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Leonara Sharravelis "Sharra" Wade
[Played by Adina
Adler]
The daughter of a powerful political family in New Light, Sharra was
trained in ettiquette, politics, and law. Unfortunately, she found
engineering much more interesting, and so left her home to go kicking
about the galaxy on starships, much to the chagrin of her mother.
Sharra is a open and friendly, with a tendency to get caught up in the
latest cool technology that passes her way.
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Martan
[Played by Robert
Sean Leonard]
Martan is one of the survivors from Pierogi, which, combined with
prophetic hints implying that he is destined to sacrifice himself for
the greater good, make him habitually melancholy. It turns out he has
both good sense and humor, when he's not busy being depressed. Martan's
telekinetic abilities are useful for making sheilds and enhancing his
combat skills. Unfortunately, using them is painful. Fortunately, that
never seems to stop him.
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Max Sinclair
[Played by Robert
Ringrose]
Max grew up on the well, a detective where people often lose things.
Supernaturally good at finding things, he and his investigations are
often overlooked by everyone. Wanderlust, and a the knowledge that he
would eventually find something on the Well that someone really didn't
want found, drove him to help Ace's original departure on board the
Exotic Dancer. He enjoys knocking around the universe, seeing new
sights; the post of sensor operator came naturally to him.
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Mirris R Auden
[Played by Rose
Martin]
After fleeing from the Well, Mirris hid in plain sight as a Hippocrates
crew member, using her psi abilities to insert herself into everyone's
memories as if she had always belonged. When she tried to come clean
and drop the influence, however, she nearly lost her mind; only the
quick and selfless intervention of the crew kept her alive. With only a
hazy sense of self and shattered memories, Mirris is now eager to redeem
her former actions. Deeply loyal to the ship and crew, she employs her
eclectic talents in service to their common mission.
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Lord Ruehan V'Dalari
[Played by Brian
Litofsky]
Ruehan V'Dalari, diplomat and courtier, has been part of various
governments in the outworlds for years. This has included Crux and
others, but mostly recently, was on the Farseer's Council of Pierogi at
the time of that planet's catastrophe. Skilled in the ways of governing
and having powerful mental abilities, it was later revealed that Lord
V'Dalari is really a 140-year-old member of a race of psychic vampires
called the Vertak. From a system outside of the linked worlds, he is
Heir to the House of Dalari, and now is a full member of the Hippocrates
crew.
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Dr. Sophia Symphony-Hayes
[Played by Sara
Verilli]
Dr Sophia Symphony-Hayes was a brilliant, perhaps bordering on mad,
nanotechnology scientist in Hegemonic times. One of the handful of crew
members who were essentially swept forward in time via the Kaufman
tubes, she now finds herself in a world that's grimmer and less advanced
to the one of her youth. She's also found a young man who may be her
descendent in the loveable rogue, Ace.
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Ujiie Akito (Aki)
[Played by Eon
Harry]
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Dr. Voriig Kye
[Played by Derrick
Kong]
Dr. Voriig Kye is an ambitious archaeologist, looking to dig up
(literally as well as figuratively) keys to the past. His original
expedition led to the reactivation of the HMS Hippocrates and since then
he has joined the crew in their adventures across known space. He still
maintains an independent streak, however, and maintains a role as the
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Departed Cast Members
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Jayla
[Played by Andrew H
Grant]
Born on the tiny outworld planet of Pierogi, Jayla was raised to be
hegemon of her tribe, until they were wiped out by a rival tribe which
she then wiped out in revenge. Intending to make a penance to the
Farseer, she was instead sent with a handful of other outworlders to
"Save All People" from imminent destruction. Since then Jayla has
learned that she is a descendant the Telemon Hegemons of one of the
three bloodlines engineered by a now passed on race of aliens to use
their psionic gifts to protect the peoples of the linked worlds from
destruction. Jayla & Janzur took a hiatus from the Hippocrates at the
end of season 3.
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Elite Janzur Therive
[Played by Eon C
Harry]
One of the Elite Guards who served the Hegemons of old as "hands and
eyes," Janzur Therive is a fearsome bodyguard and one of the few people
in this day and age who can wield a plasma brand. He went into a
Kaufmen tube to survive a starship crash in the Ganfrey system, and when
he emerged, he found 300 years had passed and his civilization had
fallen and all he held dear was gone. Now he works to carry out the
Hegemony's purpose, saving the linked worlds from the Flames, and
protect the descendants of the Nomarche and Telamon lines, Katya and
Jayla. Jayla & Janzur took a hiatus from the Hippocrates at the
end of season 3.
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Anataya Mikhaelova of Cemla (Anya)
[Played by Mikka
Goldberg]
Formerly an Armsman (bodyguard) to the Sixteenth and last Farseer of
Pierogi, Anya was one of the handful sent to the Ogral (Pierogi Obrital
Spacestation) with the mission of saving humanity from final
destruction. Anya is fiercely protective of her mission, those sent
with her by the Farseer, and what remains of Pierogi.
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(January) Sook
[Played by Marleigh
Norton]
January Sook, or simply Sook, as she prefers to be called, became the
first appointed officer of the provisional crew when Hippocrates made
her the head of the Computer department. A hacker of unparalleled
skill, she seems more comfortable with machines than with people. Known
for her sarcasm and vocal outrage at her kidnapping, those who do manage
to win her friendship find her to be fiercely loyal. The reason for
this became clearer in Season Two, when it was revealed that she was
actually an alien from a strongly hierarchical race known as the Hive.
Sook died saving the rest of the crew on the Well at the beginning of
Season Three, but what does that really mean for a member of the Hive?
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Wilson
[Played by Robert
Picardo]
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Wilson parted ways with the Hippocrates at Riden and moved
to Gateway in order to continue Sook's work at OmniNet.
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The Sublime Xanthippe
[Played by Pier Sun
Ho]
The Sublime Xanthippe and her tiger, Padira, were the stars of the
zero-g circus, The Traveling Cavalcade of Wonder. They were stranded at
the beginning of the series when the rest of the circus was destroyed in
the attack on Pierogi, and they joined the crew of the Hippocrates to
survive the Decider Yellow-line weapons. Xanthippe remained behind with
Padira when the crew ran afoul of the Great Omphalos Dustworm at the end
of the first season, allowing the rest of the crew to return safely.
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Producers
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Laura Baldwin
(Creater & Co-Producer) |
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Michael J Person
(Creator & Co-Producer)
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Meilin Wong
(Visual Effects Producer)
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Official
Hippocratic Oath Site
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