| Champion of the Vandor Confederacy, responsible for the deaths of Racov, Racov's son, and later Deeta Tarrant. Max said that Vinni did not seem to have a history, simply appearing apparently from nowhere, and he was in fact an android, probably built by a local arms manufacturing cartel of which a (Vandor?) high councillor was a director. Servalan intended to exploit Vinni's android status as a violation of the Teal-Vandor Convention. When Vinni was revealed for what 'he' was, Teal and Vandor would go to war and Servalan could annexe both systems afterwards. Dayna used the sensornet to "tune in" to Vinni, and sensed a lack of natural fighting instinct: from that Avon deduced what Vinni was. Dayna interrupted a medical examination called by Servalan whilst Tarrant lobbied to challenge Vinni by right of blood-feud. He destroyed Vinni with a weapon developed by Dayna, destroying all the evidence of Servalan's plans. Avon recommended to Max that both champions be medically examined prior to future combats to prevent similar violations taking place. | |
Planet to which the Federation had sent an expedition five years prior to Servalan's second expedition, led by Don Keller. The expedition disappeared without trace, but reported finding something unspecified but unique. Servalan, along with Investigator Reeve, led a second expedition, and Servalan was stranded on the planet with Tarrant. The unique property of the planet was the preservative ability of the sand, which was alive and parasitic on other life. The sand was destroyed on contact with water, a fact discovered independently by Tarrant (through observing the action of Servalan's tears) and Avon (noticing the effect of a glass dropped by Vila). Following a suggestion by Soolin, Avon then aggravated the atmosphere with Scorpio to the point where it began to rain, allowing Servalan and Tarrant to escape.
The sun never came to Virn, and there were no moons, although it did appear to have some day/night cycle. There was no wind, although the sound of it could be heard all the time, and it never rained.
The pathogen with which Travis intended to wipe out the crew of Liberator in Project Avalon was a virus identified by Zen as Delta 706 classification subset 205, incorrectly known as the Phobon Plague.
In Killer an alien virus was introduced to the Q-base on Fosforon. It killed in 12-15 minutes, multiplying, as Bellfriar said, a thousand times faster than any known viral agent (he had obviously not heard of the modified Phobon Plague). It attacked neural cells altered by the Terran Ague, causing them to burst, thus affecting only those humans who had undergone deep space travel. It could be cultured in human tissue or nucleic acid culture. Orac identified it as having affinities with paratype 926 in Bellfriar's virus catalogue.
The alien pathogen released by Servalan on Auron, wiping out all but two of the population, was described as non-bacterial and non-viral. It was reported by Ginka as having been used by the aliens in the Intergalactic War.
The Phobon Plague variation was designed for a top secret project., it would not be widely published. After the project failed the Federation kept it secret so that insurgent organizations would not expect its deployment during revolts.
In Warlord Xenon Base was contaminated by a radioactive airborne virus planted in a neutron bombarder by Zukan. The virus spread through the air supply, and swiftly killed the eleven Betafarlian technicians in the freight bay. Zeeona remarked that such a virus had been developed on Betafarl, and quickly deduced that her father was responsible. She later fell victim to the virus herself, and since she was stripped to the bone in what could not have been much more than a matter of minutes, the virus was a singularly potent one.
| Karla told Deeta Tarrant she had seen him on viscasts. Darvid was a viscast announcer and Orac was used (very begrudgingly) as a viscast relay. |  The announcer |
Blake told Richie and Ravella that he received vistapes from his brother and sister on Ziegler-5 "a couple of times a year". Bran Foster later told him that those tapes were forgeries. Since his brother and sister had left for the Outer Worlds four years earlier, being executed on arrival, Blake had probably received about seven or eight such tapes.
Fitted to Liberator and Federation pursuit ships, and probably most if not all other vessels as well. The visual detectors on Liberator had a long-range intensifier, and something similar would doubtless be a standard fitting on other ships. Scorpio's visual detectors were fitted with a recorder sensor that filmed at 10,000 frames per second. A similar facility was available on the Liberator, as shown in Moloch.
The apparatus used by Servalan on Terminal to convince Avon that he had met Blake. Recognised by Tarrant. It was used on that occasion in combination with a voice synthesizer and vocabulary bank.
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Part of a flight console on Liberator. In Terminal, Avon instructs Zen to give
him a direct visual readout of an incoming message instead of putting it on
audio. Amazingly, Avon appears to understand the message in spite of it looking
like a lot of little green boxes.
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Dayna and Lauren used vitashock weapons to drive the Sarrans away from the entry hatch to Hal Mellanby's underwater hideout. The weapons were probably built by Hal and/or Dayna on Sarran and quite possibly invented there. They could be set to fire at a number of shock intensity levels. Chel referred to "the light that brings pain", suggesting something of the visual nature of a vitashock blast.
Drink asked for by Travis in Chenie's bar. He had earlier made a reference to needing to keep sober (unlike Docholli), and so vitazade was probably non-alcoholic. It may have been a trade name, or a generic name for a number of drinks similar to Vitazade, just as "coke" or "cola" can be used today.