Frontier world, one of those cited by Durkim as evidence of Star One's malfunction. Climate control had broken down, with temperatures rising by 20° (presumably Celsius?) with no rainfall for 60 days.
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An alien life form, silicon-based, that lived permanently on the dark side of
an unnamed planet. The planet was presumably tidally locked in its orbit or
something equivalent to have a permanent dark side. Sopron was collected by
Avon and Vila, who wore breathing apparatus but no pressure suits, so the
planet presumably had tolerable atmospheric pressure. Vila described the
surface as cold, but presumably not cold enough to warrant wearing a thermal
suit.
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 The Planet Sopron came from | Sopron looked like little more than a piece of rock, but appearance was obviously none too important on the dark side of a planet. The unique ability of Sopron was its defensive ability to project an image of itself as slightly more threatening than a potential adversary. Zen described it as a capacity charged brain, Orac as a highly sophisticated computer, and Cally had visions of her parents (suggesting Sopron functioned telepathically). Avon devised a computer analogue of Sopron in the abandoned landing module on Kairos, which led to Zen identifying the craft as a high technology space cruiser, with herculanium skin, a speed of Standard by 12.203 and better armament than Liberator, persuading Servalan to abandon the ship and hand control back over to the crew. |
Whilst waiting for Travis, Servalan was told that the Space Administrators were waiting for her in the conference hall. She ordered the conference cancelled.
Less than a hundred troops of the Space Assault Force constituted the Federation garrison on Albian, under the command of Space Major Provine. Avon described them as "crack troops".
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Servalan told Joban that no spacecasts of Blake or Travis had been made, even though knowledge of their activities was becoming widespread. Spacecasts were probably interstellar broadcasts intended for the general public.
Small one-seater spacecraft. Tarrant referred to them being a teenagers" craze "two centuries back", whereupon the Federation outlawed them. The space rats on Caspar had at least two space choppers, fitted with Plaxton's photonic drive enabling them to reach high speeds. Orac stated that the speed of the chopper attacking a Federation patrol near the Altern system was Standard by 12.6, but Atlan on Caspar referred to TD (ie: Time Distort) 12. The improved Mark II version of the drive was too large to be fitted into a space chopper. Dayna and Vila found two space choppers in the space rats hideout on Caspar, though there may well have been more.
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Space station, not seen in orbit around any world, but according to Vila
"also known as the Satellite of Sin" so it may have been close to an unnamed
planet. That it was ran by the Terra Nostra was an open secret, according to
Blake. He went there to buy the aid of the Nostra, and was captured by
Largo. Visiting Space City was one of Vila's "all-time great ambitions", and
he also teleported over, with Orac's help. He reported back to Cally saying
"you should see the sights I'm seeing. Then again maybe you shouldn't".
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Space City sent a gunship against Liberator: it was destroyed when
Cally opened fire. The station was mentioned again in Gambit where Avon, talking of Freedom City, said "Space City pales in comparison". Space City also appeared on the "Galactic Monopoly" board: in Dawn of the Gods Dayna had a hotel on Space City, charging 5,000 credits a night. |
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The military wing of the Terran Federation. According to Par in
Trial, "Space Command runs the Federation". The Supreme Commander
was, however, answerable to the President and the High Council: Servalan
lacked the authority to turn off the defences around Central Control on
Earth. Other references include:
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Rank within the Federation, relative seniority unspecified. Travis was a
Space Commander, and was seen to take orders from no-one but Servalan. He
described himself as "a field officer", and Par said of him "He didn't waste
troopers... when you're up to your neck in slime and lasers, that's
everything". Travis was thus engaged in surface combat, in command of
troops, and low enough in rank to be directly involved in the fighting,
though this may have been before his promotion to Space Commander.
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