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". | |
Space hazard, and encountered by the Liberator when approaching the Thaarn's black hole. Zen described the cloud as of "density 6", suggesting they were common enough to have a density rating system applied to them.
Tarrant's best subject at the Federation Space Academy, at least by his own account, and integral to the vast amount of calculatory work necessary to keep Crandor running. Tarrant and Avon performed dynamic flux equations for Groff until the energy isolaters were switched off, at which point they found more interesting things to do.
Dynamon crystals were sought by Avon on Xenon as a necessary part of the teleport system, but he was told by Gunn-Sar that they had "all been dug up". Gunn-Sar regarded them as nothing more than "expensive baubles" anyway. The crystals were worn in neck collars by the Seska, and when the collar was removed then the wearer became, according to Pella, "no longer Seska", and lost her psionic powers. Avon retrieved the dynamon crystal from Luxia's collar after she had been operated on by Nina, and fitted it into the teleport control to regain control of Scorpio from Pella.
See also JEWELS