Emergency escape devices, generally short-ranged, fitted to a number of ships and referred to under various different names. References include:
| Aftermath: the life capsules on Liberator could be launched either from the inside or by remote from outside. This was presumably true of most emergency escape systems. Jenna's life capsule malfunctioned and she was reported by Zen as having sustained superficial injuries as a result. |  |
An abbreviation of 'life support system(s)', which in the B7 universe came in two main types. First was the equipment used to detect the presence of an environment capable of sustaining life, referred to in Space Fall, when Leylan asked Teague, after the latter had been put aboard the Liberator with Wallace, for a 'life support readout'. Teague, presumably using instruments on his survival unit, replied: 'Pressure normal...minimal radiation...breathable oxygen atmosphere'.
Second, and most common, was the equipment used to sustain life in a hostile environment, which came in two main sub-types. The first and most numerous were the life support systems aboard spaceships and bases, designed to sustain the lives of many; the second were personal life support systems, designed to sustain the life of one being.
Five spaceships had their life support systems mentioned: the projectile in Time Squad, Liberator (mentioned in three episodes), Travis' pursuit ship in Duel, Scorpio (also mentioned in three episodes), and Cancer's ship in Assassin:
There were references to life support systems in three bases: the mining company's old base on Asteroid PK 118, the Federation base on Virn, and Xenon base.
The personal life support systems referred to were varied, from those installed in life capsules to ensure survival in space, to those used to sustain the life of beings who would otherwise die due to age, illness or injury, to those used as a means of imprisonment.
Also in this episode, a life support system was used as a means of imprisonment. After Colonel Astrid tried to desroy Moloch, its punishment was to have him placed in a tank of liquid and kept alive by a 'totally efficient life support system'. As a result, he had 'No sensory perception. He just floats there, in a dark, lonely nothingness'.
Despite his use of and dependence on a life support system, Moloch forgot that it was not 'an integral part of himself, like an arm or a leg'; and he got Cally to teleport him to the Liberator without it, causing his death.
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Terminal: Avon saw an illusion of Blake linked to a life support system.
The supposed Blake told him that if taken off it he 'wouldn't survive for
more than three or four hours'.
|  The whole illusion from Terminal |
 The Life-Support System |
| Cally was placed in a life-support capsule on Travis" orders after she was found injured in the wreckage of the communications centre on Centero. |  |
When Blake surmised that Liberator could cross the antimatter interface, Jenna stated that that was impossible, to which Avon replied, "That's what they said about the light barrier".
Vila began a limerick in the holding bay on Cygnus Alpha with the line: There was a young lady from Cygnus, but Arco shut him up before he could continue. One of the illogical wave emissions Orac produced from Vila to destabilise the Core of Ultraworld was a limerick, as follows:
There was a young lady called Perkins,
Who was very fond of small gherkins,
One day at tea,
She ate forty three,
And pickled her internal workings.
Vila then began another limerick with: There was a young man from -, but couldn't remember any more of it.
One of the weapons in the Federations armoury (and probably many other peoples" too). They were about to be used against Obsidian (and apparently delivered from a pursuit ship) when Hower destroyed the planet.
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A brain-implanted control device fitted to Gan. It prevented him from
killing, although it did not apparently prevent him engaging in violent
activity (see GAN). Gan first revealed its presence
to Jenna while parked in orbit around Saurian Major. He initially thought
that his seeing Sinofar and Giroc on UP-Duel might have been caused by
his limiter malfunctioning. It did suffer a burn out in one circuit, turning
Gan into a violent maniac in Breakdown and repair was imperative to
save his life: Professor Kayn was coerced into performing the necessary
surgery.
|  In Breakdown his Limiter malfunctioned |
Neutral planet outside the Federation. It was formerly ruled for five years by President Sarkoff, but disputes broke out over whether or not to join the Federation and he was voted out of office in elections rigged by Federation agents. He then went into exile for seven years. The Federation planned to annexe the planet through the Lindor Strategy, details of which Blake acquired through use of a Federation cypher machine. Lindor was in chaos and on the brink of civil war; with the outbreak of hostilities, the Federation would move in a "peace-keeping force", take over the government and return Sarkoff as a puppet ruler.
Possible setting of Liberator's faster than light drive. In Moloch, Zen suggested that as the ship's present course - following Servalan's ship at standard by three for the past twenty-seven days - had 'no material end', leading into uncharted space, there should be a transfer from 'linear progression' to modular time shift. After this was rejected, Zen pointed out again that the present course had 'no material destination'.
Tool used by Avon when disarming the solium radiation device on Albian.