A feature of Freedom City and doubtless many other places as well. The docking cradles were very close to the loading bays: Chenie referred to a fifty yard walk for Docholli.
See also DOCKING.
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An unidentified domed city on Earth, within and near to which the events in
The Way Back happened. While not explicitly stated, the tone of the
episode presumed that it is one of a number of cities within which the
majority of Earth's population live and are controlled by the Terran
Federation's administration. No information is given to us about the dome's size. There are references to a 'Level 38' by the public address system; we see 'L/37' and 'SL/34', perhaps Level 37 and Sub-Level 34, and are told that Blake left the dome by 'Sub 43', perhaps short for Sub-Level 43; but no indication is given as to the size of a level or how many sub-levels it contains.
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Also, we see that leaving the dome is forbidden, except presumably on official business; Tel Varon, a loyal Federation citizen, only went outside once. Otherwise, going outside is a Category Four crime; and it is illegal for inhabitants of the city to have contact with those living outside, the 'Outsiders'.
The dome acts as a backdrop to The Way Back, and to the entire Blake's 7 series, setting the entire scene; so when we, the viewers, learn about how the Federation 'treated' Blake, and see its massacre of the rebel meeting called by Bran Foster, we are not surprised. It is the symbolic apologia for the future actions of Blake and his crew against the Federation.
The enclosed city, with movement outside forbidden or severely restricted by state repression or conditioning or both, has been frequently used in science fiction, beginning with E.M.Forster's "The Machine Stops" (1909). A few more recent examples of this are in Isaac Asimov's "The Caves of Steel" (1954), Arthur C. Clarke's "The City and the Stars" (1956), and in the film "Logan's Run" (1976). The reasons for such cities were various; but whatever the reasons, they are portrayed as being, in the end, repressive environments for their inhabitants.
See also ADMINISTRATION, FEDERATION.
A planet on the edge of the 6th Quadrant. Ten years prior to Scorpio's visit it was colonised by a band of pirates who auctioned their prisoners off as slaves. Servalan used the planet for her rendezvous with Cancer, timing her visit to coincide with one of the slave auctions held every three months. Avon, Vila and Dayna also landed on the surface.
One of at least six convicts on Kalkos taken to Sardos on a T-16 troop transporter. Doran had been imprisoned for fifteen years, in all of which time he had never seen the sun since he had been locked in his cell. He was told he would never see the sun again, so was presumably sentenced to life imprisonment. His problem, so he claimed, was women, and when Vila asked him if he liked women he replied with an emphatic "No!". He also said that he dreamed of committing "every crime in the book", though this lost some of its appeal when he was actually told to break them. He adopted Vila as his "pal", and went with Chesil to meet Vila and Tarrant as they penetrated the Sardoans" city. He casually killed two of Grose's men before he was himself killed, together with Chesil, by Moloch.
Describing himself as a salvage operator when he rescued the survivors of Liberator from Terminal, he was in fact something else entirely. Discovering the underground chamber on Xenon, he left his partner to die there whilst he himself lived an effectively eternal life. Over the course of nearly two hundred years he constructed the underground base on Xenon, built Slave, designed the clip guns, and made four attempts to develop a working teleport system. He supplied the Seska with nutrients from Onus 2. At some point he met Ensor, presumably before Ensor went into hiding. Avon described his taste in wine and women as "impeccable", although his relationship with Soolin was never fully clarified. He disintegrated after Avon shot dead the creature in the underground room.
Engineer on the Ortega, initially suspected of killing Rafford but in fact murdered by Sara. After killing him she tried to drag him to the life rockets, found this too difficult, and so launched an empty life rocket and hid his body in the stores. He was found by Cally and Sonheim.
Along with unicorns, mentioned by Cally as Earth-mythology equivalents of Auron's legend of the Thaarn.
Term applied to addicts of shadow, used by Largo. See also DRIFT
Mentioned by Finn, suggesting that Zukan take them to help him sleep with his guilty conscience. Zukan replied that they did little to help him.
Term used by Hanna to describe the effects of taking shadow, analogous to the present-day concept of a "trip".