Name: Zo'or
Position: Synod Leader
Species: Taelon.
Planet of Origin: Taelon.
Protector: Ronald Sandoval.
Age: Unknown
Marital Status: Single
Children: None
Parents: Da'an

The youngest of the Taelons, and the most pioneering. Little is known of Zo'or's early life, except that he was the last Taelon born with enough core energy to progress beyond the fetal stage. His only known parent is Da'an, who has four children in embryonic tubes. It has been implied that Da'an gave Zo'or insufficient support, thus making Zo'or believe that his parent did not truly love him.

Zo'or is young and relatively aggressive, having reached a high position in the Synod at a very young age. He has been rivals with War Minister T'than for a long while; he is also sterile, a condition that has added to his bitterness.

Zo'or took a position on Earth three years after the Taelon arrival, when Da'an was temporarily suspended. His mocking, arrogant manner alienated him from Da'an's implant, William Boone, who conspired with the Resistance and Da'an to have Zo'or deposed. He was later appointed the UN Companion.

During a meeting with a world-reknowned psychic, Katya Petrenko, Zo'or was disturbed when she touched him and rebuked him for his intentions concerning humanity. Believing her to be a threat to the Commonality, he ordered Sandoval to have her terminated.

He took similar actions toward a hybrid Taelon, Rho-ha, by serving on a jury to discern whether the formerly insane Rho-ha had committed murder. Zo'or displayed how a normal pistol could not harm a Taelon. His hopes, to show humans that Taelons honor their customs, were dashed when William Boone managed to have the sentence altered for revisitation at a later date. Later, Zo'or watched as Rho-ha ended his own life.

Zo'or's conflicts with Boone reached a peak when Boone's sister became pregnant with a hybrid child, implanted while she was in the portal system. Zo'or tested Boone's reaction upon finding Sarah unconscious in a Taelon waystation.

Zo'or was one of the infected when a horrific virus was released from a mysterious probe, which he narrowly escaped from only days later right before its destruction. When Boone was severely injured by the alien Ha'gel, Zo'or killed him. When Da'an learned of and confronted Zo'or about this, Zo'or merely said that Da'an had been responsible for Kate Boone's death.

After Quo'on's death by a Jaridian replicant, Zo'or became one of the two candidates for Synod leadership. He attempted to indirectly cause Da'an's death, and was unable to understand how an unimplanted human such as Major Kincaid could stop a replicant. After being elected to the leadership of the Synod, Zo'or was confused twice more: when Da'an was reconnected to the Commonality, and when Major Liam Kincaid was able to withstand an induced insanity attack.

Zo'or masterminded several projects to prepare humanity for war with the Jaridians. When the mothership was hijacked by a Jaridian replicant, he displayed willingness to destroy the ship rather than allow it to fall into enemy hands. Later, he appeared to be attempting to gain Da'an's approval in the matter.

He displayed a great deal of disdain when Da'an entered a traditional retreat known as the ka'arpaaj. He merely said, "I prefer the truth, Da'an. I draw my strength by always remembering how the Jaridians destroyed our homeworld." When a wormhole was opened into Jaridian space, Zo'or gave the order to flee Earth.

As approval for Jonathan Doors rose in the US election, Zo'or set into motion a complex plan that discredited the Resistance, Doors, and allowed Volunteer forces to capture anti-Taelon humans worldwide, primarily in the United States. In the midst of this, Captain Lili Marquette attempted to destroy the mothership, an action that Zo'or managed to stop.

Zo'or became increasingly angry at Sandoval's failures to always carry out his orders, such as finding the Skrill Queen and to immediately bring him an ancient relic of Ma'el's. He also was angered by Da'an keeping the knowledge of twin Taelon/human hybrids from him.

Zo'or entered the Taelon reproductive cycle in the midst of a visit to the "Cloister," though unable to reproduce. In an emotional turmoil, he inadvertantly prompted Sister Margarette to kill a woman.

Zo'or went on national television in an effort to draw up human opinions of the Taelons, but a reporter dying from exposure to Taelon radiation held the studio audience hostage. She inadvertantly allowed Zo'or to make himself the "hero" of the situation.

Death brushed directly by Zo'or not long after. A mid-air collision with an old rocket caused his shuttle to crash in a secluded area, where an injury began leaking vital energy from his body. Liam Kincaid managed to save his life and bring him to a nearby village, filled with back-to-nature believers. Though their leader was inclined to allow Zo'or to die, his daughter helped Liam bring Zo'or back to the shuttle, to be used as a power source to allow them to escape. Zo'or almost died of the intense drain, but remained semi-fond of Kincaid subsequently (to the point that a romantic attachment has been theorized on).

No sooner had Zo'or recovered than he was forced to deal with his arch-nemesis, T'than. When T'than attempted to call in Da'an's assistance in opposing Zo'or, Zo'or had him trapped in a portal wormhole and exposed to ID space.

While handling one of Ma'el's relics, Zo'or was infected with pesh'tal, the Taelon equivalent of bubonic plague. Disoriented and afraid, he escaped from the Embassy and wandered aimlessly, until he was taken in by a pair of teenage mental patients. Released of the pressures on him in his usual life, Zo'or was intensely grateful and affectionate toward the two, even when the disease had prompted him to intense paranoia. Liam Kincaid managed to administer the antidote before Zo'or died, spreading madness over New York City.

Zo'or began to experiment in human violence, transferring his consciousness into the comatose body of a human policeman. Despite Sandoval's attempts to keep him restrained, Zo'or became involved in brawls and assassinations until he nearly died.

His feud with T'than peaked when he challenged his opponent to a Taelon duel, in which he enlisted Sandoval's help. Zo'or was illegally winning the foovlashaa match, when the sudden appearance of Ma'el's ship interrupted them.

Zo'or's misdeeds returned to haunt him when a Taelon named Ku'don, whom he had coerced into engaging in money-related ventures, began to haunt him. Zo'or and Da'an performed an exorcism to banish Ku'don from the Commonality. Zo'or amassed a great deal of wealth, filling a very large chamber on the mothership with gold ingots — which he became almost obsessively protective of.

Zo'or was angered when a small conspiracy, involving Da'an, Sandoval, a brainwashed Resistance member and a relic of Ma'el's showed up. He managed to activate the relic, Ma'el's manuscript, with Liam Kincaid's help. He berated Da'an savagely, but intended to execute Sandoval. He was dissuaded. Zo'or became even more suspicious of Sandoval's motives when the supposedly-dead Lili Marquette returned to Earth, with Jaridians in tow.

Zo'or's core energy ("life force") began to dwindle around the same time T'than's was. Driven to near-wildness by his impending death or stasis-like state, Zo'or drained T'than's remaining core energy to keep himself alive, while combating the holographic form of the late Jonathan Doors. When Da'an confronted his child about it, Zo'or pleaded with him not to tell the Synod, and thus condemn Zo'or to death. Believing that Da'an would betray him, Zo'or turned away, only to have Da'an state that he could not "deny their mercy." Da'an allowed Zo'or to drain a portion of his core energy, shortening his own life to extend Zo'or's.

Zo'or's passionate attachment to material wealth came to a screeching halt when his gold was stolen. Shortly afterward, he left Earth when the Synod decided that they could not fight the Jaridians descending on the planet. He was extremely upset when it was discovered to be an illusion.

Zo'or convinced Da'an to experiment in human emotions, though with far less stable results. He also tangled with a rogue Companion protector, who served the mothership and had found him unfit to command.

He believed that, when Sandoval was incriminated in a vicious attack on Da'an, he had finally rid himself of his traitorous protector. When Da'an mysteriously vanished, Zo'or discovered his parent's intent to meet and merge with a Jaridian, and branded Da'an a traitor.

Sandoval nearly killed Zo'or when a mass of dark matter struck the mothership, freezing all Taelons in time. Though Zo'or was not killed, he was nevertheless suspicious of Sandoval's actions.

Signs of possible emotional and mental instability were shown when Liam Kincaid repeatedly failed to concentrate on Ma'el's relic, unable to open it and access the formula for synthetic core energy. Zo'or was enraged when the relic was stolen, threatening to destroy an American city if it were not returned.

Once it was returned, he concluded that Liam was not holding back his concentration, but was simply too unintelligent to handle it. The Taelon's heavy-handed manner kept him from gaining the solution quickly, when he attempted to bully J. Street into helping him, and she subsequently faked a suicide run.