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Twenty things you never knew about the Liberator
The
fastest ship in the Galaxy, and the most awkward sod in the world to light
properly!
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She
flies...
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She
spies...
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She
death-defies...
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Herculanium
hull., Advanced space flight options, only one previous owner (a nun who
only used it for getting to church on Sundays) the Liberator was the bargain
of the century when Blake, ahem, found it abandoned in space. But what
do we really know about this three pronged high speed kitchen-utensil-of-the-future-style
spacecraft? For your edification and delight Callyfornia proudly presents
Those
twenty Liberator facts in full...
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1.
There are no duvets on board (Sarcophagus)
2. There
are no light switches anywhere, and Orac is the only one who knows
where the dimmer switch is (Shadow)
3. The ship
has a well stocked drinks cabinet, but it's full of 'Christmas' booze
- Midori, Jaegermeister, Bols etc, (Death-Watch)
4. And a wide selection
of Christmas board games (Dawn of the Gods)
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5.
You have to stand up to reach any of the switches at your flight position
(The Harvest of Kairos)
6. Orac
has his own hostess trolley (Sarcophagus)
7. All Liberator
controls - comms, weapons, navigation etc - can be accessed by pressing
the one working button on the contol panel by the couch (Various episodes)
8. Liberator can achieve
planetary orbit by sitting very, very still in space (Terminal)
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9.
Though the crew are only allowed one gun each (Space Fall) it doesn't
matter which one (Sarcophagus)
10. There
is an inexhaustible supply of teleport bracelets on board (various
episodes)
11. Liberator
isn't very good at flying in a curve and has to turn round when it's
stationary before going in a new direction (Breakdown)
12. Even at Standard
by 12 Liberator looks like it's moving very, very slowly (Star One)
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13.
There is only one window on board (Bounty)
14. There is an audio
log book, but only Blake can be bothered to use it (Deliverance)
15. Liberator has an
advanced psychic defence system (Space Fall, Dawn of the Gods) that
nobody can be bothered to turn on any more
16. Although Zen has
the ability to read minds (Space Fall) he delegates being taken over
by psychic aliens to Cally
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17.
Only one of the Neutron Blasters works (Shadow)
18. Although you can
teleport to and from anywhere you still have to walk to the teleport
bay (various episodes)
19. Although
on Liberator you can get the rear viewer on the forward viewer (Dawn
of the Gods) and the forward viewer on the auxiliary viewer (Breakdown)
in the future everyone's telly is in black and white (Children of
Auron, Warlord)
20. There's only one
walkman on the Liberator, and it's Cally's (Please e-mail me the episode,
I can't remember!) |
Death
of the Liberator: basically
Avon goes potty and flies it through a galactic lava lamp. Tiny particles
of bubbling poster paint adhere to the hull and cause bogeys to appear
throughout the inside. Finally, with Servalan not noticing she is now
in possession of a giant runny nose, the ship turns into plaster of paris
and crumbles like so much cigarette ash in the breeze. Not a fantastic
ending, but it was Season Three...
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