aka Sputnik

Sikozu finds John Crichton aboard the aging leviathan, Elack, where she has brought the Grundeks to harvest leviathan toubray tissue. The tissue is used to enhance intelligence among some species and is better with age, so Sikozu is commissioned by "The Order" to find some. She does her job a little too well in finding the leviathan graveyard and the Grundeks decide to betray her. Sikozu is determined not to end up an outcast like John and the Moya crew John reunites with and uphold her better reputation, which would seem uneventful until Scorpius has boarded Moya.

Sikozu is a Kalish, servicing allies of the Scarran's who would rather work for them than be subject to genocide. The Sikozu we have known also, is apparently not the true Shanu, but a bioloid.

Interpretation microbes don't work on Sikozu so she has to learn each language she encounters to understand it. Her body parts, if severed, can be reattached and heal. She can also shift her gravity center to walk on walls and eminate a specialized radiation that can render any Scarran within her vecinity incapable of using their heat gland. She seems to have a rather unusual relationship with technology and learning but whatever that may, or may not be about remains undetermined.