Alta One
| Humanoid servants of The System. The two seen were female - others may have existed. They acted under the direct control of The System and may or may not have been androids. If not, they had presumably been subjected to considerable augmentation, allowing direct neural interfacing (by touch) with The System and needed an integral life-support unit: Blake disconnected a line between Alta Two's neck and an abdominally mounted control unit. | Alta One |
 Alta Two | Norm-1 described the Altas as "not really people at all". Of the two Altas seen in Redemption, Alta Two was killed/destroyed by Norm-1 and Alta One presumably killed/destroyed in the aftermath of Blake's departure. |
Scorpio attempted to enter the Altern system by lurking within the radar shadow of an asteroid. The system was visited with the intention of acquiring selsium ore to make fuel crystals, and appeared to be under Federation control.
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.
Blake mentioned America in reference to Lord Jeffrey Ashley's use of primitive biological warfare against the native peoples there.
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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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. |  |
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.
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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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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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When Wardin's body was removed from Wanderer K47 it was placed in an anti-contamination bag.
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.