[1] Mutoids, as they were called by opponents of mutoid modification with reference to a mutoid's use of blood serum. Mentioned by Keera.
[2] Of the various people seen in fancy dress in Freedom City, one was dressed as a vampire.
[3] The Sand on Virn was described as 'vampiric'.
One of the two systems tied to the Teal-Vandor Convention, and like the United Planets of Teal it bordered on Federation territory. Total population was, also like Teal, about 20 million.
See also UNITED PLANETS OF TEAL, VINNI.
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Ruler of Cygnus Alpha, though he admitted that he had never had more than
five hundred subjects. His great-great-grandfather was among the first
prisoners sent to the planet, and had founded the religion of which Vargas
was the high priest. This position may thus have been an inherited one. He
wanted the Liberator to spread the word to the galaxy at large and so,
although aware that his power was built on lies about the Curse of Cygnus, he
appeared to have absolute faith in the god he worshipped. He had Blake
tortured, ordered the sacrifice of Gan, and was eventually brought aboard the
Liberator, where Blake teleported him into deep space.
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 | Vargas was the first person seen to fire a Liberator handgun. He wore a blue robe when officiating at rituals. |
 Vargus exploding in space |
| Worked for the Justice Department on Earth, and was assigned to defend Blake for his second trial. It was not until Blake was awaiting deportation that Varon finally acknowledged that a deliberate miscarriage of justice had taken place, through a remark by Ven Glynd about the tunnels in which the massacre took place despite Varon not having mentioned these. |  |
Varon told Maja that he had once been outside the city, but hadn't much cared for the experience.
Ground vehicles rarely appeared, but some notable cases are: The Way Back: Federation troopers arrived at the site of Foster's illegal meeting on the back of a small, apparently electrically powered, buggy. As well as the driver it carried six troopers.
 | Sarkoff had an "automobile" amongst his collection of 20th Century artefacts, registration number RT 277. |
 | Stardrive: reference was made to the Federation banning all leisure transport. The space rats rode on a fast, compact tricycle, several of which were destroyed by bombs planted by Avon and detonated by remote control. A small 8-wheeled buggy was used by the crew of Scorpio and Dr Plaxton (who did the driving) to escape from the space rats" hide-out to where Scorpio was waiting. Dayna "reminded" Dr Plaxton of the time her ground car had been reported stolen, suggesting that ground cars were in regular use on the more civilised worlds, and possibly also that they were worth distinguishing from "air cars". |
| Gold: Servalan arrived to collect the stolen gold on Beta-5 in an 8-wheeled buggy (a different model to that seen in Stardrive). |  |
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Blake: the only aircraft (as opposed to space craft) seen in the
series were the fliers used by bounty hunters on Gauda Prime. They were
short, stubby and wingless, and could carry at least four people. Blake
carried Tarrant back to his base in one after shooting down another, unseen,
flying vehicle, and two bounty hunters detected Vila's fire from one. The
bounty hunter's vehicle was then appropriated by Avon, Vila, Dayna and Soolin
to take them to Blake's base.
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Unit of currency, cited by the proxy bidders at the slave market on Domo. Servalan purchased Avon for 2,000 vems.
| Described by Tarrant as "Muller's lady", and probably his wife though this was not explicitly stated. She came to Xenon Base ahead of Muller and looked forward to his coming, but was crushed to death by the android soon after it teleported onto the base. |  |
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Arbiter General of the Federation's Justice Department on Earth, and a key
figure in organising the false evidence which led to Blake's deportation to
Cygnus Alpha.
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It should be noted that Ven is a first name (cf Ven JARVIK), and so his name might have been simply Glynd.
Woman in charge of the slave auctions on Domo, who regarded herself as a "public servant" for her actions. She allowed Servalan to privately buy an entertainer for Cancer, in contravention of normal procedure, and later bent the rules again to let Servalan bid for Avon.
Her first name is generally held to be Ohnj, but this was not mentioned in the episode.
A painter (1632-1675 AD), one of whose later works, Young Woman Seated at a Virginal (c. 1670), was seen reproduced on one side of a small, flat, circular object in Avon's hands in this episode. Vermeer was born and lived all his life in Delft, the Netherlands, Earth. A combination of being a meticulous worker, having to work part time as a picture dealer to support a large family of 11 children, and a short life, led him to produce only a small body of work.
After his death, his work was forgotten until the late nineteenth century; then his reputation rose in the following century, resulting in him being considered one of the greatest artists of the Dutch 'Golden Age'. Most of his paintings are of indoor scenes of domestic life, with extraordinary fidelity paid to the use of light and colour, which add a special weight to what appear to be everyday, trivial moments.