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(A-11: BOUNTY)
A space-faring people, quite possibly of arab descent or having a
superficially comparable culture. Generally known for smuggling, but
apparently open to any form of money-making scheme including piracy, bounty
hunting and slave-trading: Tarvin claimed to have sold his own grandmother
before she had the chance to sell him. Tarvin boarded the
Liberator with at least four fellow Amagons.
(B-7: KILLER)
Blake mentioned America in reference to Lord Jeffrey Ashley's use of
primitive biological warfare against the native peoples there.
(various episodes)
The crews of Liberator and Scorpio encountered a number of androids:
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In Project Avalon a perfect copy of Avalon was put aboard
Liberator to release a capsule of modified "Phobon Plague" and kill
the crew. Cally talked to the android and suspected nothing, but Chevner was
killed when he presumably showed signs of suspicion. Cally was injured by
the android and it took Blake, Vila, Gan and Jenna to restrain it. It was
partially reprogrammed by Avon, when Blake used it to secure the release of
the real Avalon. It was based on what the scientist on UP-Project
Avalon referred to as the "triple omega" model, and Avon called it the
best robotic engineering he had ever seen.
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- The Altas in Redemption may have been androids.
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In Volcano menial tasks were carried out by an android, and it
appeared to act as Hower's attendant. It also administered a lethal dose of
narcotic to Bershar, suggesting if nothing else that Asimov's laws of
robotics counted for nothing in Blake's time.
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In Death-Watch Servalan used an android to violate the Teal-Vandor
convention in an attempt to provoke war between the two systems. The android
killed Deeta Tarrant, but was destroyed by Del Tarrant using a weapon
developed by Dayna. Avon conjectured that "Vinni" was the work of Servalan
working with a local arms manufacturing cartel, with a Vandor high
councillor's involvement also implied.
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In Headhunter Muller developed an android that could influence
circuitry over a distance and matched Orac in power. It had megalomaniac
designs, planning to enslave all humanity, and Orac at least believed it
could do so. Avon planned to harness the android's potential by fitting the
head with its attendant restraining mechanisms, but Dayna, on Orac's
recommendations, destroyed it.
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(C-13: STAR ONE ff)
Inhabitants of a galaxy outside our own. Not seen clearly on-screen, but
approximately two metres long (or tall?) and perhaps rather less than a metre
wide with no distinct appendages. A green glow accompanying the deaths of
two of them suggests a luminous / phosphorescent integument or internal
tissues (both specimens had been shot). By means unspecified (innate or
technological?), they could adopt the form of a studied human individual (but
not, apparently, easily: "Parton" reminded "Stot" that "maintenance takes
effort"). By extrapolation, they might have been able to do the same for an
unspecified individual, a non-human organism of appropriate size, or possibly
an inorganic object, but none of these possibilities were explored. At least
11 of these beings had made their way to Star One.
Although popularly known in fan lore as Andromedans, the invaders are
invariably referred to simply as "the aliens" in the series.
In astronomical terms, Andromeda is a constellation, which includes the star
Beta Andromedae just 75 light years from Earth and the spiral galaxy M31 some
2.2 million light years distant. Since Liberator leaves the Milky Way
to reach Star One, references to Andromeda in this episode must be taken to
mean M31. In Greek myth, Andromeda was the daughter of Cepheus and
Cassiopeia, placed among the stars after her death.
(various episodes)
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Very few animals of Earth origin were seen. Ensor kept tropical fish. Rats
were seen in Weapon, and also on Goth: Rashel told Coser that rats
were to be found on every colonised planet. Krantor was seen with a cat in
Gambit, and the Sarran warriors rode horses. In Rumours of
Death a dead squirrel was used by Balon to explain the fault in the
surveillance perimeter. A mouse was put through the mass/energy converter on
Sardos.
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The Mouse in Moloch |
A Rat from Weapon |
Less explicit references are also to be found: in Gambit Vila
mentioned poisonous snakes and Krantor said Servalan was as perfidious and
devious as a snake. In The Keeper Rod referred to his captors as
"dogs". In Ultraworld Tarrant asked Dayna if she had ever seen a
lizard suck a bird's egg dry, implying that he might have done so. In the
same episode Vila recited a tongue-twister about a woodchuck. In Sand
Tarrant compared Servalan with a panther.
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See also INSECTS, BIRDS.
- see Anna GRANT
(B-7: KILLER)
When Wardin's body was removed from Wanderer K47 it was placed in an
anti-contamination bag.
(D-5: ANIMALS)
A feature of Scorpio, and probably other ships designed for surface
landings. The antigrav gyros were damaged when Tarrant fled from a patrol of
pursuit ships above Bucol-2, and the fault was traced to the inertial
guidance, glycolene ballast tanks.
(various episodes)
Antimatter was mentioned a number of times, but rarely in any detail:
- Cygnus Alpha: When Jenna, experimenting with Liberator's
controls, sent the ship hurtling forward at high speed, Avon mentioned
"negative hyperspace", to which Blake responded: "Do you mean we crossed the
antimatter interface?".
- Pressure Point: Avon envisaged "antimatter screening" being built
into the structure of the blockhouse entrance to Central Control.
- Star One: Blake described the thousands of objects discovered by
Avon out beyond Star One as "the biggest antimatter minefield ever put
together". Since matter and anti-matter annihilate each other on contact, it
may be that the mines were anti-matter generators rather than made
of/containing anti-matter as such. The mine-field also acted as an early
warning system, (probably relayed through Star One).
- Dawn of the Gods: the theoretical negative universe on the other
side of a black hole was reputed to be made of antimatter.
See also NEGATIVE HYPERSPACE
(A-3: CYGNUS ALPHA)
Status of Liberator given by Zen after the crew's trial run of
handling the ship's flight systems.
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