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LINDOR

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.

LINEAR PROGRESSION

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'.

LINK CLAMP

Tool used by Avon when disarming the solium radiation device on Albian.

LINKS

Predatory, presumably carnivorous creatures on the artificial planet Terminal, humanoid in shape but covered in thick black hair. They attacked Toron and Reeval outside the entrance to the underground bunker, killing both, and later attacked Cally and Tarrant who each shot one. Avon later watched a link enter the derelict ship left on Terminal by Servalan, an act which triggered the booby traps she had planted beforehand.

Servalan claimed that the links were what the human race was destined to evolve into.

LOADING BAYS

Adjacent to the docking cradles in Freedom City. Docholli hid in loading bay 10 whilst waiting for passage off-planet.

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.

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