Written By Murray Smith
A room aboard the Liberator where illnesses were diagnosed and sugrery carried out. It was seen only once, in Breakdown, after Gan was taken there to find out why he attacked Jenna and Blake; and it was later where surgery to repair his limiter was successfully carried out. Three items of equipment in the unit were both referred to and used: a diagnostic analyser, a voray scan, and a radio sensor.
The unit was mentioned twice in Orac, first by Vila, who called for himself and the others who had absorbed heavy doses of radiation on Cephlon to go there; and second by Blake, when he told Ensor that he and his crew had the facilities to perform the implant of the new energy cells in the latter's mechanical heart, because the _Liberator_ had 'one of the finest surgical units you've ever seen'. Due to the lack of information, nothing is known of any possible relationship the unit might have had with the 'medical unit' mentioned in Star One.
See also DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSER, MEDICAL UNIT, RADIO SENSOR, VOR-RAY SCAN.
Device by which Servalan monitored the destruction of young Ensor's Space Master in the vicinity of Cephlon.
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It is likely that a Civil Administration 'Survival Unit' consists of a white
one-piece suit, boots, helmet and two devices on a chest harness. In Space Fall,
Leylan gives the order to Wallace and Teague: - "Kit out with your survival
units. I'll be with you in a minute...", Teague appears dressed as shown in the
picture.
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When Raiker gets concerned as to the activities of Blake, aboard the
Liberator, he issues an order to be brought a survival unit, and subsequently is
seen in similar equipment to Teague. Blake, Jenna and Avon only have 2 devices
on their harness and no suits or helmets, but this is after Leylan has given the
order "Right. Get them equipped and bring 'em down here...". In this instance,
he does not refer to 'Survival Units'. As to the devices themselves, there are a few clues as to their function. The smaller of the two devices on the chest belt is a communication device. When Teague enters the transfer tunnel, he clicks the device, the red light comes on and he says, "Starting along the transfer tube now sir." He then clicks the device again and the red light goes out. Blake also uses his communication device when Leylan contacts him on board Liberator. The cylindrical object on the chest harness may possibly be an emergency air supply.
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| Name by which Chesku and later Hob referred to Anna Grant. No explanation was given as to why she was known to them as Sula. It may have been a new identity, or a name taken through marrying Chesku, although there is no evidence for that. Servalan, when they met, did not address her by any name at all. |  |
When Practor discovered Servalan's portrait in his private suite on Helotrix, he referred to her as "the Supreme Empress". Nobody, including Servalan herself, had previously been heard to address her as such, and Tarrant did not include it in his list of Federation titles in Rumours of Death. Servalan last called herself "President and Supreme Commander" as late as Moloch, but she may have subsequently declared herself Supreme Empress before being deposed.
| Described by the Altas as "the supreme power of Space World". Norm-1 told Blake how the System evolved from the computer of one of three warring planets which took over the weaponry computers of the other two. The System controlled the Altas, with whom it could link via fingertip-contact consoles. The System interrogated Blake through Alta Two. Orac was able to access the System and interfere with its operation, allowing the crew to escape. Grenades thrown into Alta Two's control room appeared to do some damage, but probably not enough to prompt the "Destruct" response she began to chant thereafter. It is quite possible the System was destroyed, and perhaps also Space World with it. |  |