Coser
The living heart of Ultraworld, a vast brain-like organism that, in the words of Relf, "lives to expand and must expand to live". It expanded through the process of nucleoplasmic absorption, described the Ultra as a very complicated process but essentially boiling down to consuming anyone unfortunate enough to be fed to the Core. Cally and Avon narrowly escaped this fate. The power of the Core was considerable: as exerted by the Ultra it twice affected Tarrant, and was used to bring the Liberator into dock. The Core, however, could only comprehend logical thought, and it was distracted by Vila's illogical riddles and word puzzles while Orac reflected the Core's own wave emissions back at it, destabilising the Core and eventually destroying Ultraworld.
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Beta grade technician who single-handedly developed IMIPAK at the
Federation's weapons development base. Realising that his superiors were
going to take all the credit for his invention, he destroyed all records of
his work and fled with IMIPAK and the slave woman Rashel to an unnamed
planet. He was killed by Servalan, using IMIPAK, shortly before Blake
arrived.
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 The demise of his spaceship | Coser was described by Carnell as a good pilot, and had a known admiration for Blake. He recognised Blake as soon as he saw him, not knowing that "Blake" was in fact a clone working for Servalan. |
Very few senior political figures appeared through the course of the series. Senator Bercol in Trial described himself as an ex officio member of the High Council (he had earlier been addressed as Councillor - see BERCOL). In Hostage Servalan had an interview with Councillor Joban, who had supported her appointment to the post of Supreme Commander. In Rumours of Death Councillor Chesku, a close advisor of Servalan, was shot dead by his wife, Sula.
See also HIGH COUNCIL.
Referred to by Cato. After the war that had destroyed 10,000 years of progress on Xenon, the Council of Survivors had decreed that civilisation should start again from the beginning with "wooden tools, flint arrowheads, the wheel", and didn't appear to have progressed very far by the time Avon arrived. The Hommik council referred to by Cato may have had its origins in this council.
A number of course commands were given in the series, in a variety of formats. As examples:
In Mission to Destiny the Ortega's last course before Rafford's death was "delta red two". In Children of Auron the Liberator is following course 82804 to Earth. Course was later changed to 0310 for Auron and later still to 03K20 for Kahn. In Moloch Servalan was shadowed by Liberator along "course 6453 nil curvature". In Headhunter, Scorpio was following course 850 by 281 to Pharos, and returned to Xenon on course 152 by 005.
Mentioned by Avon as a project conducted (unsuccessfully) by Space Command. The device was intended to attune itself to the circuitry of ships" computers, presumably to control them. Ven Glynd referred to the artificial telepathy transmitter as a "course interceptor", but any control it exerted appeared to be restricted to Blake.
A tribunal of commissioned military officers, appointed to investigate and report on matters connected with the military, including the conduct of military personnel. If the latter is the case, all the tribunal's members should be senior to the person whose conduct is being investigated. If the appointing authority directs, the tribunal will offer opinions and recommendations on the matters investigated.
Despite its title, it is not A "court" in the conventional, judicial sense. Those appointed to carry out the inquiry are temporary appointees, not judges, and exercise no judicial functions. While such a tribunal has established formal procedures, including the power to subpoena witnesses and to administer oaths or affirmations, its report to the appointing authority is not binding, and may be disregarded by the latter.
This may explain a couple of remarks made by Servalan to Travis in /Deliverance/. She first said that she was afraid that his suspension and "the court of inquiry into your [Travis's] mishandling of the Blake affair might have broken his spirit. She then said that he was "expected to resign the service". This presumably refers to the fact that the court of inquiry mentioned severely censured Travis's conduct in its report, and may have made recommendations; but it itself had no authority to discipline him. This severe censure on top of his suspension had, however, made many presume that the resulting humiliation would have led Travis to resign from the military.
Two Federation courts were shown in the series: the civil court that tried and convicted Blake for at least 8 offences against 3 children (The Way Back); and the court martial that tried and convicted Travis for the murder of 1,417 unarmed civilians (Trial). Both trials suggest a Federation courts system, particularly a criminal courts system, that while similar in places to Earth courts systems of the late twentieth century AD, is different in others. Differences also exist between the two trials, presumably as Travis's was for a more serious offence and before a military court.
See Very Expanded Notes about Courts.
| An artificial planet created by the Thaarn. Vila described the gravity as "about normal". The Caliph described Crandor as "the Palace of the Lord Thaarn, Master of the Universe". According to Groff, the Thaarn's subjects had been promised planets of their own, where they would "rule like kings", but the Caliph referred to slave-masters and using the strange vehicles the crew encountered as being used for rounding up runaway slaves. No computers or calculators were permitted to be used on Crandor, and energy isolaters prevented the use of weapons and other technological devices. When the Thaarn switched off the energy isolaters at Cally's request the gravity generator could be placed into reverse, allowing Liberator to escape before the planet destroyed itself. |  |
Unit of currency throughout much of the galaxy. References include the following: