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Described by Tarrant as "proto-space age", the landing module on Kairos was
apparently left behind by early pioneers from Earth. Avon developed a
computer analogue of Sopron which, when switched into the module's control
systems, deceived Zen into seeing the craft as an advanced battle cruiser,
capable of Standard by 12.203, with herculanium skin and armament slightly
better than that of the Liberator. Jarvik was not fooled when Tarrant
demanded that the Liberator be handed back to the crew, but Servalan
accepted Zen's hypothesis that what she was looking at was a holographic
projection. She then fled with Captain Shad and his two guards.
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 Inside the module | The "landing module" looked astonishingly like a lunar module of the US Apollo missions, although the landing legs which would normally have been left behind on the surface went into space along with the rest of the module. |
 | Follower of Vargas on Cygnus Alpha, and the first inhabitant of the planet Blake met when testing the teleport. Laran ordered Blake killed and almost succeeded. He voiced aspirations to the priesthood. He handed Vargas the knife with which Gan was to be sacrificed, and was soon afterwards knocked down and possibly killed by Gan. |
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Important member of the Terra Nostra, position unspecified, but possibly in
charge of Terra Nostra affairs on Space City. He had formerly tried to
persuade Jenna to run a cargo of shadow to Earth from Callisto, not telling
her what she would be carrying or who he was working with.
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 Largo with his enforcer | He employed Bek and Hanna for unspecified purposes, and held them for execution after they tried to escape from him. In dealing with Blake he denied all knowledge of the Terra Nostra, citing a friend in Federation security who "knew" the organisation was just a myth. He held Blake and Jenna prisoner whilst Gan and Avon were scheduled for execution, and described Blake's negotiations as the work of "amateurs", adding: "A pro keeps it simple". When Blake escaped, Largo persuaded the Chairman to loan him a battle cruiser to pursue Liberator, knowing that the shadow he supplied contained a substance enabling him to track the ship. He was killed by his own enforcer, who then acquired Largo's assets with the consent of the Chairman. |
Bayban possessed a tripod-mounted laser cannon, and used it in a last desperate attempt to open the vault door after Norl's people had passed through to their new world. The resulting energy feedback and heat reflection blew up the entire city, and presumably Bayban with it. Both Avon and Cally tried to dissuade Bayban from using it in a confined space, Cally describing it as "an open ground weapon".
Cutting tool, mentioned by Avon as one of two possible instruments Sara would have had to use to cut through a power line in the Ortega's filtration plant. The other alternative was an insulated saw.
A cutting tool, suggested by Del Grant as a fast means of accessing the detonator of the solium radiation device on Albian. Avon rejected the idea as "too risky on this kind of material." Earlier a "high temperature lance" had been used to get to the device itself, and this may well have been a laser device.
A similar but larger tool, described by Vila simply as a "lance", was used on the door to Scorpio's silo on Xenon base in Power. Avon and Grant wore visors on Albian when using a lance, but Vila either did not need to or (less likely) cared little for safety precautions.
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"Stot" was seen to use a laser probe on Star One, rectifying a supposed fault
in a control circuit Lurena had recently checked. Shrinker also used a laser probe, but as a torture instrument, threatening to burn out Avon's eyes with one, although this just might not have been its intended function. It was a small device, about the size of a fountain pen. |  |
Part of the manual flight guidance system on Liberator, manned by Gan as the vessel containing the programmed guardians was brought aboard. Manual pick-up was necessary since Zen refused to handle the manoeuvre and the teleport console had malfunctioned. Laser projection controls appeared to be placed in what was Vila's normal console position.
A sidearm, a remote-controlled version of which was successfully used by Belkov to persuade the Mecronian high priests that their gods had sent him to mine the Feldon crystals on Mecron Two. This he did by using the rifle to kill six of them who challenged his claim to be the only person able to wear a necklace of the crystals. This exploited the death of a chief during an electrical storm while wearing such a necklace, interpreted as a sign of divine wrath.
Avon requested a laser scan from Zen of Sardos after Liberator narrowly avoided crashing into the meteoroid. The results, such as they were, were displayed on the main screen.