| A planet in the Ark Rough Bennett Complex, and the site of Keiller's rendezvous with Servalan. Although the planet was uninhabited, the atmosphere was breathable and some surface vegetation was visible. Scorpio landed on Beta 5, and Avon, Tarrant, Dayna and Soolin remained on the surface, where they met Servalan and four guards. Servalan left Keiller's body behind when she departed with the gold from the Space Princess. | |
The remains of a beta class asteroid were found on Crandor. According to Orac, all the naturally occurring minerals were present, with the exception of herculanium.
| Frontier planet, ruled by Zukan. Betafarl was said by Zukan to have perpetual day (perhaps one hemisphere always faced the sun). Zukan claimed that a plant growing wild there could provide an antitoxin to pylene-50, though this claim was never seen to be substantiated. The planet was visited by Avon and Tarrant, and it was then that Tarrant first met Zeeona. Scorpio made a later visit, carrying Avon and Soolin. Flight time from Xenon was noted as thirty hours, suggesting that the two worlds were not very far apart. Scorpio made a surface landing on Betafarl. |  |
Coser was described as a Beta class technician, though he referred to himself as Beta grade. This may reflect either the overall social grading system implied by comments from Vila in Shadow, or an internal grade within the technical services. See GRADE.
Area of space where Asteroid P-K118 was abandoned once urite ore mining ceased.
| The largest casino in Freedom City, making Krantor a profit of four million credits a week. It was fixed by a computer at 5% in favour of the House, something which Avon and Vila exploited through Orac's abilities to read computers. After seven wins in a row Vila was half a million credits up, and Krantor was forced to close the Wheel when Vila's winnings reached five million credits. Vila was seen to place bets on 15 black and 14 red. |  |
An optical instrument used with both eyes, comprising two small telescopes joined together. While the optical instruments used in the series were not referred to by name, that used by a Space Rat in Stardrive appeared to resemble, both in use and appearance, a flat pair of binoculars.
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A different type of optical instrument was used by Reval and Toron in
Terminal and by Avon in Rescue, (the one used by the latter being called a
'magni-viewer' by Trevor Hoyle in his novelisation). While this type bore no
outward resemblance to late twentieth century Earth binoculars, it was also used
with both eyes. As well as having a zoom function, some form of image
stabilisation seemed probable as the view at a long distance was remarkably
stable. There was a cross-hair in the centre of the image.
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Egrorian's residence on Malodar, also called a survival station by Vila. It was fitted with two landing pads, as were most installations of this type. The biodome on Malodar may well have been built long before Egrorian arrived, or its construction may have been funded with the money he stole on leaving the Space Research Institute.