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".
Several drugs, medicinal or otherwise, were mentioned. Vargas supplied his subjects with a placebo, ostensibly to stave off the Curse of Cygnus. Cally prescribed adrenalin and soma to alleviate fatigue shock in Horizon. Vila asked for a relaxant in Hostage, this presumably being a generic term for a number of drugs. Dr Bellfriar began to list the formula of a vaccine against the plague on Fosforon, but lost the ability to read before he could finish. Blake referred, in Killer, to personnel of infraluminal space craft taking "hibernation pills" to help them cope with the stress of long voyages. Decontaminant drugs supplied by Ensor were taken by Avon, Jenna, Vila and Gan to cure them of the radiation sickness contracted on Cephlon - they could apparently effect a cure in 1-2 weeks. Ensor's son was given analgesics when brought aboard the Liberator. Gerren needed drugs of some sort to keep him on his feet after being shot on Orbiter. Gan was seen to take an unspecified medication in Project Avalon, possibly an indication of his limiter beginning to malfunction. Finn mentioned dream suppressants, and Zukan admitted to taking them.
An anaesthetic was forced on Blake when he protested at the way his trial was conducted in The Way Back. A truth drug was administered to Kasabi by Servalan in Pressure Point. The natives of Horizon captured Blake, Jenna, Vila, Gan and Cally with drug-tipped darts, and the Kommissar was killed with a poison dart fired by Ro. Avon was hit by an anaesthetic dart in Terminal and later injected with a stimulant to wake him.
Proscribed drugs were shadow, extracted from the xerophytic moondiscs of Zonda in Shadow, and exobriddian, also addictive, the withdrawal symptoms of which were simulated by Dayna in Gold.
The Federation used unspecified suppressants on the population of Earth in The Way Back. Suppressants were also used on the London to keep the prisoners docile and drugs were used on the passengers of the Space Princess in Gold to keep them contented (and gullible). Pylene-50, developed by Forbus as a muscle relaxant, could be used for the same purpose when dosage was increased a hundredfold. It was injected by chemical laser to subdue the populations of Tarsius, Luba, Helotrix, and Porphyr Major. Forbus had perfected an antidote that could provide immunity, but large-scale manufacture only became possible when Zukan revealed the presence of a plant on Betafarl that could supply the antidote (a claim that was never verified).
Soporific sono vapour was used by Sara on the crew of the Ortega, and by Veron against Blake, Avon, Vila and Gan in Pressure Point. The Amagons used an anaesthetising spray of some sort to overpower the crew. Bershar used a harmless narcotic to capture Tarrant and Dayna on Obsidian, and was later killed by a lethal dose of presumably the same drug.
See also EXOBRIDDIAN, PYLENE-50, SHADOW, SONO VAPOUR.
| One of Servalan's advisors, who informed her of the breakdown of Star One's functioning but failed, despite her insistence, to discover its location. He had had a previous relationship with Lurena, Servalan describing them as "more than acquaintances". | |