| Delta 706 classification subset 205 was Zen's identification of the pathogen brought on board Liberator by the android Avalon. It was also known, incorrectly, as the Phobon Plague. The artificially mutated variant used in Project Avalon killed in little more than twenty seconds and was self-neutralising almost as quickly. As well as being lethal it was, according to Servalan, very expensive to develop. | |
A blind sun on the edge of Sector Six, and the location of the planet Terminal.
Vila claimed in
Grade-4 is another term for Delta
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Possible rank within the Federation. The only Deputy Commander to be named
was Galt, in charge of security at the Governors conference on Atlay.
Title temporarily (and none too seriously) bestowed on Vila when Blake
appointed him to escort Governor LeGrand from her transporter to
Liberator.
Officer under Servalan with the rank of Captain. Deral was accepted for
command whereas Ginka was not, fostering resentment in the latter. Deral was
chosen by Servalan to take the Liberator from Vila, but was captured
and held as hostage by Vila, Dayna and Patar. Avon returned him to Servalan,
who killed him.
Planet on the edge of the galaxy, with two continents. It was colonised 100
years before Blake encountered the circling Ortega. The economy was
primarily agricultural with some trade with nearby planets. A fungal disease
appeared during the growing season prior to Blake's encounter, and buried
half the planet in slime within three months. Dr Kendall discovered that
Destiny's sun was deficient in certain wavelengths, a shortcoming the
neutrotope was intended to rectify. The Ortega was on its way to
Destiny before Sara sabotaged the ship. The remainder of the crew were taken
there with the neutrotope by Blake on the Liberator.
Mentioned by Escon to Travis, presumably heavy weapons of some sort with a
"wide firing spread".
Sometimes referred to as sensors or scanners. Various detection instruments
were carried by Liberator, operating at different ranges. The
extra-range detector was said by Cally to put a heavy drain on the energy
banks in The Keeper. Other references to detectors are:
Few details were given as to how the various detector systems worked, but
Blake mentioned etheric detector beams in Cygnus Alpha. When the aft
scanners were used to scrutinise Wanderer K47, Jenna noted that the
"spectro says it's ferrous", indicating one capacity of the
Liberator's detector systems. Spectro-analysis was mentioned again in
Terminal.
In The Harvest of Kairos Tarrant ordered a parallax scan whilst in
orbit over UP-Sopron. This revealed a fourth pursuit ship lying in wait for
the Liberator.
The command for a "360 orbital scan" was given on a number of occasions,
presumably to scan all around the ship in every direction.
Few references were made to Scorpio's detector systems. Main
detectors were reduced to 50% operational capacity after an attack by pursuit
ships in Animals.
Other ships had detectors as well, of course, and Liberator was first
scanned by detector beams at the end of Cygnus Alpha. The pursuit
ships changed course "towards this system". A mutoid on Servalan's star
cruiser in Volcano reported detecting surface tremors on Obsidian with
long-range sensors.
In Mission to Destiny it took Liberator 16.1 minutes to reach
the Ortega at Standard by 4: if there was any indication as to how
fast SB-4 might be, it would be possible to calculate a lower limit to
maximum detector range. In Dawn of the Gods Tarrant commanded
detector sweeps at ranges of up to 20 million spacials. The interceptors in
The Harvest of Kairos were detected at a range of 8 million spacials.
The Federation freighter headed for Horizon was operating minimum scan and
could not detect the Liberator at 150 spacials.
The Federation had installed detector screens around the unnamed city on
Helotrix. Avandir talked of Igin being picked up on the detector screen as
soon as he entered the city, suggesting that what was referred to was a
perimeter surveillance system rather than a screen against
detectors.
DEPUTY COMMANDER
(B-10: VOICE FROM THE PAST)DEPUTY LEADER
(B-10: VOICE FROM THE PAST)DERAL
(C-7: CHILDREN OF AURON)DESTINY
(A-7: MISSION TO DESTINY)DESTRUCTORS
(A-6: SEEK-LOCATE-DESTROY)DETECTORS
(various episodes)
Detector systems on the Liberator included aft scanners
(Killer); detector scanners (The Web); forward detectors;
forward scan detectors (Dawn of the Gods); forward sensors; full range
detector; extra-range detector; hull sensors; inboard sensors; intermediate
range sensors; medium range detectors; main detectors; manual (!?) detectors
(Horizon); long-range detectors; visual detectors. Some of these may
be the same detector system under a different name.
As for detector range, the course change of the pursuit ships in Cygnus
Alpha suggests that detectors could operate over very long, possibly
interstellar distances. In The Web it was mentioned that passing
pursuit ships could detect the Liberator when they came within two
million spacials, and this same range was cited again in Project
Avalon. In Hostage, on the other hand, pursuit ship detector
range was stated to be just 900 spacials (with the detector shield
non-operational). The Federation ships in this episode had detector shields
of their own and were first picked up when just 500 spacials away. Later in
the episode, Servalan's approach (presumably at Time Distort 10) in C-26 was
detected whilst 15 minutes away from landing on Exbar, and Zen stated that it
would be 12 minutes before Liberator was in detector range of C-26 - a
significant difference in range!
In Trial Blake intended to relocate the homing beacon he took with him
down to the Host using a "hand detector". Other hand-held directional
devices were seen in various episodes. 
A Hand DetectorDETECTOR SCREEN
(D-3: TRAITOR)
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