Harmon, Klegg, Troopers and Tarrant
| Tarrant described Klegg and his troopers as "the Federation's Death Squad", with "a record of brutality hard to match". Klegg et al were presumably part of this notorious unit, rather than being the whole Death Squad in themselves. | Harmon, Klegg, Troopers and Tarrant |
One of three children allegedly assaulted by Blake (the others being Renor Leesal and Payter Fen). Deca was apparently born on the date 43.6.2, was a patient of Dr Hamer Painter, and attended school ZL-14 Level 552.
| Artificially created by the Lost, the Decimas were 10-function (hence their name) menial creatures. An earlier, four-function, version had been passive, but the Decimas were intelligent and aggressive towards their creators, and made frequent attacks on the compound on UP-The Web. They had constructed crude weapons, and one injured Blake's hand with a spear. Breaking into the compound, they destroyed the power system that maintained Geela and Novara, and then moved on to destroy Saymon. One Decima was killed by Novara with a spear-like energy weapon after pleading for help from Blake in Terran, and Geela might have killed a few more before her "death". Geela and Novara informed Blake that over 50 Decimas were present in the area. |  |
Zen was fitted with decoders, but they took a long time to make much headway with the autonavigational units taken from the programmed guardians" craft. The decoders may or may not have been the translator units under a different name.
| At least two DSVs were built by the System, since Alta 1 referred to the Liberator as DSV-2. A sister ship to Liberator, unnamed, was destroyed by Orac as Blake made his escape from Space World. This ship was capable of a speed of Standard by 14 and was armed with missiles (perhaps equivalent to the seekers in Liberator, mentioned earlier in the same episode). Orac scrambled the launch systems, predetonating the missiles and destroying the DSV. |  |
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Defence mechanism generated by Liberator's computers. Found by Blake, Avon and
Jenna during Space Fall. It took images out of a victim's mind and projected
the images back at them, in order to draw them in. One the victim was in range,
he was attacked. Wallace and Teague, the only two victims killed, were found,
one by Blake in the hatch to the Liberator the other on the flight deck by Avon.
There was no apparent evidence as to the method of execution. The third victim,
Krell, escaped but arrived back at the London foaming at the mouth and tried to
strangle Raiker. The Sphere was able to handle at least 3 people at once and,
whilst it was doing so, emitted a screeching sound to further confuse the
victims. The sphere may have been a solid object, as opposed to a projection,
since Blake was able to destroy it by shooting it with his handgun.
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Part of the damage sustained by the London from the shock waves encountered en route to Cygnus Alpha was a buckled port deflector shield. The fact that it was buckled suggests it was a form of physical protection rather than a form of force field.
Planet to which Liberator was destined before Blake changed course to Asteroid P-K118. Vila described it as an "ultra-planet", with mountain scenery, gravity so low one could almost float, and added that it was the galaxy's richest known source of "atmospheric vita particles". This last appears to contradict the comment about gravity, since a planet with gravity that low would have little in the way of an atmosphere.
Oracle of the god Apollo in Delphi, Greece, on the planet Earth. An oracle was a form of Greek divination given by a god or hero when consulted at a fixed oracular site. The Delphic oracle's origins are dated to the very end of the 9th century BC, it eventually becoming the most important Greek oracle. The god's responses were made via religious personnel and were ambiguous in nature. This ambiguity often led to the responses being misinterpreted by those who had consulted the oracle.
Orac used this oracle to explain his difficulty in obtaining data from Belkov's computer, Gambit, on the programming of the booby traps on Orbiter. While he could extract the information, he had problems in interpreting it, due to the logic of the computer's creator.
| Delta 706 classification subset 205 was Zen's identification of the pathogen brought on board Liberator by the android Avalon. It was also known, incorrectly, as the Phobon Plague. The artificially mutated variant used in Project Avalon killed in little more than twenty seconds and was self-neutralising almost as quickly. As well as being lethal it was, according to Servalan, very expensive to develop. |  |