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LOCATOR

A small, brown surveilance device, seen on Liberator in City at the Edge of the World. Connected by a lead to Orac, it was to be used by him to keep track of Vila's location on the planet Kezarn, via a tracer to be swallowed by him. This plan was rendered useless by a terrified Vila leaving the tracer aboard the Liberator.

See TRACER.

LOCKPICK

A device, to electronically pick locks and open doors, which is used with two circuit integrators (one shown above), placed one each side of a door, in order stop the action, of the door opening, registering on any monitoring computer. Cranking the handle to the right of the device, as shown, opens the door.

Varon when asked by Maja as to where he is going, after they discover the evidence against Blake has been falsified. They need to go outside, so he replies - "To talk to a thief and borrow a lockpick. I'll meet you in two hours at sub forty-three." The line spoken by Dal Richie when asked by Blake, at the beginning of the episode, "What are you doing?" supports this. Richie responds "Picking the lock." He then goes on to explain the circuit integrators and then uses the device as shown in your screen capture.

LOCKS

• Space Fall: the door to the prison compartment on the London was operated by a palm-print scanner. Vila said he did not know how they functioned, which was an odd statement for Vila to make.
• Seek-Locate-Destroy: the entrance gate to the top security area of the Federation communications centre on Centero was set with a physio-psycho scan to check that only authorised personnel entered. Vila opened the gate by intercepting feedback from the scan computer.
• Mission to Destiny: the safe aboard the Ortega, in which the neutrotope was kept, could only be unlocked with a molecular key and combination.
• Project Avalon Vila has trouble overriding the security systems for the underground base.
• Bounty: Vila states that the slave collar locks are nearly impossible to break.
• Redemption: the cell in which Avon and Jenna were confined on Space World was fitted with a magnolock, which Avon said was "probably linked to a central register". It was opened by Vila, who admitted finding magnolocks difficult.
• Pressure Point: Vila says the Central Control doors have difficult locks, all three appeared to use electronic card keys.
• Countdown: the safe in the control room was locked with fingerprint-sensitive locks. Vila bypassed the identification sensors to open the safe.
• Terminal: the entrance to the underground complex was fitted with an electrostatic lock, requiring a sonal key to open. Tarrant found the key on Reeval's body.
• Power: the door to Scorpio's silo was protected by, amongst other things, a voice recognition input, which according to Vila was "foolproof".
• Traitor: the door to the pylene-50 production plant on Helotrix was fitted with a photocell lock. Dayna found two keys on the sentry's body: the second was a tangram code, which opened the door without activating the nerve gas diffusers built into the doorframe.
• Games: another fingerprint lock gave access to the final game in the sequence aboard Orbiter. Vila used a glass slide and fine dust to lift one of Belkov's fingerprints as a means of opening the door.

• the door to the paraneutronic generator on Saurian Major,
• the top security area of the Federation base on Centero,
• the Federation complex on UP-Project Avalon,
• the neck collars used by the Amagons,
• the magnolock on the cells on Space World,
• at least three doors in the underground bunker housing Control on Earth,
• the rocket silo and Provine's safe on Albian,
• the computer room on Sardos,
• Dorian's gun locker and wine locker,
• the box containing the head of Muller's android,
• Belkov's complex on Mecron II and
• the fingerprint lock on Orbiter.

LOD

Planetary leader brought into Avon's Alliance, along with Zukan, Chalsa, Boorva and Mida. Lod represented Herriol, one of the systems noted by Avon as threatened by the Federation's Pacification Programme.

Lod is on the left

LODESTAR

A commercial freighter from Betafarl, which accompanied Zukan to Xenon, carrying the equipment to manufacture the antidote to pylene-50. Unknown to Zukan, Zeeona was also on board. Lodestar presumably remained on Xenon after the crew were wiped out by a radioactive airborne virus, planted in the silo by Finn on Zukan's orders.

LOM

A Primitive of Chenga, who found Vila stranded on the planet with a broken arm. Lom set the arm, and then with Mall led Vila away from Hitech hunters. He was hit in the head by a tranquillising dart, and carried away by Mall, leaving Vila behind in the process. He was later seen to regain consciousness.

LONDON

Full title Civil Administration Ship London, used for ferrying prisoners from Earth to Cygnus Alpha. On the voyage in which Blake escaped (flight authority number K701), it journeyed under the command of Leylan, with Raiker and Artix as additional officers and a crew including Dainer, Krell, Wallace, Teague and a number of other personnel. Cargo was at least 24 prisoners, eleven of which were killed during the flight (one, Nova, suffocated by sealing gel, seven during the take-over bid, including two by Dainer, and three more by Raiker to persuade Blake to surrender control of the computer). Ten or more disembarked on arrival at Cygnus Alpha (including Gan and Vila), with Blake, Jenna and Avon then aboard the Liberator. Named prisoners were Arco, Avon, Blake, Gan, Jenna, Nova, Porah, Selman and Vila.

The London could manage a speed of at least Time Distort 5, and made the journey from Earth to Cygnus Alpha in eight months ship time. Damage was sustained on the flight from debris caused by a battle in deep space between unknown protagonists, but no serious impairment of the ship's ability appears to have resulted from this. Buckling of the port deflector shield was mentioned. Artix described the ship as an "old tub", and Jenna recognised it as a converted deep-space freighter with an early mark hyperdrive that "needs restressing, by the feel of things".

A number of vessels externally similar to the London appeared in a number of episodes. The freighter Blake followed to Horizon was one such, as was the salvager sent up to K47 from Fosforon and the T-16 troop transport carrying convicts from Kalkos to Sardos in Moloch.

LONG COLD

The equivalent of winter on the northern hemisphere of UP-Project Avalon, which lasted eight and a half Earth years, temperatures sinking to at least -180° (Celsius?) on the surface. Travis said he found the planet "unnerving", probably referring to the weather.

LONG RANGE INTENSIFIER

A feature of the visual detectors on the Liberator.

LORITOL

System in which the planet Epheron was located, and reported by Zen as Blake's destination after abandoning the Liberator.

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