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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Suggested by Avon as the possible reason for Blake's unusual behaviour en route to Del-10. Presumably common parlance for a clinically recognised psychological condition affecting long-term space travellers.
Bellfriar suggested that Tynus might be "space happy", a diagnosis not unconnected with Tynus" passion for drawing locusts. Possibly another, even more colloquial, term for space fatigue.
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Servalan's command station as first seen in Seek-Locate-Destroy. The
station was seen in apparent close proximity to Centero in that episode, not
far from UP-Clonemaster and UP-Weapon in Weapon, a few hours
flight away from the Host at Standard by 10 in Trial, little more than
hours away from Exbar at Time Distort 10 in Hostage, and in The
Harvest of Kairos was stationed in Lipterion and very close to Kairos.
This assumes that the station seen on each occasion was the same one, which
is not necessarily the case. The station was also seen in Deliverance
and Star One. In Hostage the designation "FEDSTAT 2" can be
seen marked on the outer rim.
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Provine's escape rocket on Albian contained life-support for just 100 space hours, according to Blake, whereas the nearest planet was 500 space hours away. It is not impossible that a space hour is a measure of distance rather than time, with one space hour perhaps representing one hour of travel at TD-1, but this is pure conjecture.
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The craft in which Ensor Jr. and Maryatt journeyed towards Aristo was described by Zen as a Space Master series V, with four neutron power units with a maximum thrust of "four by six". It appeared to be very small and cramped, but fitted with at least two impact life capsules. Cally described Liberator to young Ensor as "ten times faster" than the Space Master, although this might have been mere platitudes on her part.