The first Clone of Blake
| Cloning technology was not available to the Federation (surprising, given the genetic engineering experiments on Bucol-2 and modification of the Phobon Plague for Project Avalon) but entrusted to the Clonemasters. Cloning was usually carried out from a cell taken from the intended subject, but two clones of Blake were made from his DNA identity profile. | The first Clone of Blake |
 The second Clone of Blake |
One of these clones
was killed by Travis, the other remained with Rashel on UP-Weapon,
guarding IMIPAK. This second clone told Servalan and Travis that he was 34
years old, but born 5 hours ago, indicating the accelerated rate of
development possible through the Clonemasters" technology.
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In Animals Servalan asked Justin how soon Og could be ready for cloning.
Shortly after Servalan arrived on Sardos, Grose offered her "coffee, from beans". This might imply the existence of synthetic or ersatz coffee.
The Kommissar and Assistant Kommissar were representatives of the Federation's Colonial Service on Horizon. Few details were given, but the Central Educational Complex was probably within the Service's sphere of responsibility.
It is highly likely that Ensor was colour blind; for he was unable to distinguish between the red and green buttons on the device used to administer electronic anaesthesia to him.
See also ELECTRONIC ANAESTHESIA.
| The computer-selected environments in which disputes between Teal and Vandor were settled by a fight to the death between the champions of each system. Darvid referred to environments from "other planets, other cultures, other times", with each champion given the same weapons and any necessary survival equipment. The principle of using such chambers was summed up in the phrase: "Let no man say; "This man chose the ground on which we die"". Exactly how these combat grounds were generated is unclear: some at least appeared to be outdoor locations, yet energy/mass conversion on this scale was implicitly unique to Sardos. The sensormesh technology indicates a possible application of a "virtual environment", but Tarrant was not fitted with such equipment. |  The door to the chamber |
Tynus described his position on the Q-base on Fosforon as Commander Technician, subordinate to Federation Security.
The commercial infrastructure of the galaxy was rarely alluded to in any detail, but a few references include the following.
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Communicators of various forms were seen in most if not all episodes, and to
list them all would be impractical. Some of the more pertinent facts are
given here. At least some communications were faster than light, and thus not in the electromagnetic spectrum. Hyperspace sub-beam communication was first mentioned in Seek-Locate-Destroy, presumably the same as the sub-beam transceiver on Cephlon and Coser's sub-space communicator in Weapon. Orac's carrier beam passed through the same dimension as Cally's telepathy. Instantaneous long-range communication was seen between Servalan and LeGrand in Voice From the Past, to name but one example.
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 On the Liberator |
Few indications of range were given, but clearly varied according to the
device used. The teleport bracelets used by the crew could transmit over at
least a thousand spacials, since this was a standard orbital distance.
Central Control was beyond the range of both the Federation contingent on
Horizon and the pursuit ship flotilla called to Horizon by the Assistant
Kommissar. Orac, on the other hand, could contact Servalan's HQ from Star
One, beyond the edge of the galaxy, and given the purpose of Star One the
computers there could presumably do the same.
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It was noted in Weapon that a Federation "priority-1 communication" was automatically relayed to the senior officer present at the receiving end.
Short-range hand-held communicators of various designs were seen in many episodes. More unusual was Krantor's dressing table mirror, which also doubled when required as an audio-visual link.
Orac had what it called in Hostage a unique ability to intercept transmissions.
See also CYPHER MACHINES, HYPERSPACE SUB-BEAM, ORAC
Several computers were given names, these being Zen, Orac, Slave and Gambit. All were fitted with speech circuits and could communicate vocally, as could the judgement computer at Travis' court martial, the inboard computer on the ship to which Vila and Kerril were transported in City at the Edge of the World and Practor's "house computer" in Traitor and the LFS operated by Tarrant in Games. The Public Records Computer on Earth in The Way Back responded to verbal commands. Computers with an organic content included Ultraworld and Moloch. Many other computers appeared almost everywhere, even in the Hommik stronghold on Xenon (although apparently only Cato knew what they were and how to use them). The most powerful computer complex in the galaxy was Federation Central Control, originally on Earth but later moved to Star One.
Registered space flight within the Federation was handled by CFC through Star One. Durkim mentioned CFC breaking down on twenty different worlds, and gave Servalan a graphic example in the collision of the passenger liner Nova Queen with an unmanned ore carrier above the planet on which Keldon City was situated.