Prayer of the religion founded on Cygnus Alpha. It runs:
Only from His hand comes life
And from His hand comes death
We obey Him and give thanks for His mercy.
He is the giver of salvation
His power drives out the ravening beast that is death
It is He who must be obeyed.
Recited by Vargas, and echoed by Kara who ended with the words "We thank You".
Possible expletive, used by a Space Rat: "We're only moving the flagging shield."
Servalan addressed her distress calls from Sarran to Fleet Command.
Mentioned by Servalan when news of the alien attack force reached her headquarters. She told Durkim to "patch this office into the fleet co-ordination suite".
The General on Helotrix told Colonel Quute about the ill-fated Fletch expedition of "29, who used gas against the Waazis without realising their capacity to lay dormant for days. The whole expedition was wiped out over dinner.
Fletch was presumably the commander of this force, and was probably a Federation officer.
Part of the Liberator's battle computers, it apparently predicted the flight of Liberator itself rather than potential targets, although it may have been able to do both.
Several references in The Web to "theoretical navigation" might be taken as further indication of the flight predictor's function.
During its journey to Terminal, the Liberator encountered a large number of minute fluid particles grouped in what was variously called a broad spread, a band, a cloud, and a matter belt. These particles had a high level of energy, and Zen later suggested that they contained an unidentified enzyme.
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Due to an uncountermandable order of Avon's, the Liberator went through
the fluid particles, which adhered to the hull, after knocking out the
latter's sensors. There followed unidentified enzyme activity resulting in
molecular metamorphosis. A substance was produced that, in Vila's words,
was '...eating into everything! Metal, plastics, fibres, just rotting away'.
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By the time that Vila ordered the closedown of the auto-repair systems and Zen to make an all out investigation, dangerous structural weaknesses had developed in many areas. The dysfunction of at least five of Zen's computer banks led to loss of power and computing ability. The Liberator was finally destroyed after Servalan captured it, when she ordered the activation of the main drive, the stress of propulsion proving too much for its dangerously weak structure.
In the context of the series, the fluid particles are of particular interest due to their destruction of the Liberator, allied to their mysterious nature.
See LIBERATOR.
Form of power cell (presumably flutonic). The Lost used them to power Saymon's life support system, and hence maintain Geela and Novara. They summoned Liberator to their planet, using Cally as their agent, when power began to run low, and requested new cells from Blake. He replied that Liberator might not have exactly the same type of cell (he recognised them for what they were) but might have something that could be adapted - despite the fact that the Lost had been in exile for an unspecified but long period of time (Cally referred to them as a "legend"). Of course, the Lost might have acquired their old cells relatively recently from an unspecified source.
| The light aircraft used by Blake (amongst others) on Gauda Prime. See VEHICLES for further details. |  |
Part of Scorpio's main drive, damaged on collision with an asteroid whilst trying to enter the Altern system.