Moya

Moya is a fictional spacecraft featured in the 1999-2003 science fiction television series Farscape. It appeared in all 88 episodes of the show as well as the 2004 miniseries Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars. Moya serves as not only a vehicle, but also as the provincial setting for the series and a character in her own right.

Moya is a bioship - a marriage of quasi-sentient organic tissue and mechanical/cybernetic components. She is a Leviathan-class transport ship bred and built by the authoritative governing body known as the Peacekeepers. Although Leviathan ships are basically genderless, Moya is often referred to as a female. Like all transport ships of her design, Moya is bonded with a pilot a sentient being developed specifically for the sole task of operating a Leviathan ship's flight and control systems. Bereft of any proper name and referred to only as Pilot, these beings are cybernetically fused with the internal workings of a Leviathan and reside within a special chamber within the bowels of the ship. Pilot not only monitors and maintains Moya's systems, but also communicates with her via his symbionic relationship with the vessel and translates her feelings, desires and/or commands to the rest of the ship's crew and passengers.

As a Pilot cannot leave his cockpit station, maintenance on Moya is performed by a series of small robotic support tools known as DRDs (diagnostic repair drones). When not needed, these drones remain inert in special housings behind the corridor walls of the ship. DRDs perform routine maintenance functions, effect minor repairs and bascially execute any and all tasks that either Pilot or a crew member may be incapable of performing on their own.