List of Blake's 7 planets

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This is a list of notable planets that have appeared in the BBC science fiction television series Blake's 7.

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61 Cygni 
A star system 11 light years from Earth. Blake discovers an ancient Earth colony ship, "K-47", that was reportedly lost at 61 Cygni over 700 years ago, which carried an alien virus to planet Fosforon. Blake theorized that 61 Cygni is home to a xenophobic race of aliens who set the virus loose in order to kill any would-be intruders into their territory.[1]

[edit] A

Agrava 
Planet along with Mercon II where the valuable Feldon crystal was mined. Agrava's mining facilities were destroyed in a series of explosions caused by lack of safety concerns and over-mining. Avon mentions the facility would have been destroyed eventually as the Feldon mines were running dry and the Federation would have wanted to "cover up" the illegal operation.[2]
Albion 
A frigid planet in the midst of an ice age, with a population of 6 million – all living near the equator which is the only habitable region. Federation officer, Space Major Provine, was tracked here by Blake and his crew. Provine was one of the individuals who supposedly knew details regarding the location of Star One. The inhabitants were resisting Federation occupation when Blake arrived. During a battle, Provine slips past Blake disguised as a resistance soldier and activates a radiation bomb that will kill everyone on the planet, yet leave the infrastructure intact. Avon and a former associate, Del Grant, track down the bomb which was hidden in a bunker at one of the planet's poles to deactivate it.[3]
Altern 
A star system heavily patrolled by the Federation, although the reason for this was never discussed. The crew of Scorpio go there to find fuel and tried to sneak into the system by shadowing an asteroid, but instead they collided with it.[4]
Aristo 
Retreat world for the hermit genius Ensor and visited by Blake and Cally. The Orac computer was hidden on Aristo with Ensor in his underground laboratory. From space, the planet appeared to be primarily covered by water with only a few island chains providing dry land. Lizard-like biped creatures lurked in the tunnel system that led to Ensor's lab.[5]
Atlay 
Location of a political meeting venue for Federation governors where the defectors Ven Glynd, and LeGrand were to present evidence of Federation atrocities. Upon arrival, they are captured by Servalan and executed as traitors. Blake discovers Travis had disguised himself as Shevon, one of resistance leaders.[6]
Auron 
Homeworld of Cally and her telepathic, cloned race, the Auronar. The Auronar were highly advanced, and ahead technologically in many areas than the Federation. It was mentioned many times that Auronar weren't fully human and possibly the result of genetic manipulation. The Liberator crew go to Auron to stop Servalan who unleashes a deadly virus upon the Auronar in order to capture their cloning facilities.[7]

[edit] B

Beta V 
A remote and uninhabited planet that Avon picks as a rendezvous point for Keiller's meeting with an unknown buyer for a stolen shipment of black gold. Black gold is in fact normal gold, molecularly altered to be made absolutely worthless during shipment to deter theft. It can only be converted back to real gold though a secret process controlled by an encoded computer system. Keiller makes contact with the black gold's owner, who knows the code and secret conversion process, and Avon decides to hold the shipment for ransom. Since the gold is atomically altered, it is unstable and cannot be teleported or it will turn to dust. Because of this, Scorpio lands on Beta V so the black gold can be manually taken off the ship.[8]
Betafarl 
A planet said to be bathed in eternal daylight. The planet was ruled by the warlord Zukan who Avon hoped would join the alliance and lead them against the Federation.[9]
Bucol II 
Home to the scientist Justin who was once a colleague of Dayna's father Hal and apparently a love interest of Dayna as well. Justin created a race of genetically engineered satyr-like creatures who's leader was Og as part of a Federation experiment in creating genetic super-soldiers. The experiment was so classified that not even Servalan knew about it.[10]

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Caspar 
Remote planet used by a gang of pirates called the "Space Rats" as a home base. Among them was a brilliant engineer and Federation defector named Plaxton who developed an advanced space propulsion system that Avon wanted to use for Scorpio.[4]
Centero 
Pronounced "Kentero", the planet is the location of a Federation communications base where Blake steals a cypher machine so that his team can monitor Federation transmissions. During the raid Cally is left behind, and Travis uses coded messages to set a trap for Blake.[11]
Cephlon 
A barren planet with slightly heavier gravity than Earth and constantly bathed in radiation which can be deadly after prolonged exposure. The natives of the planet are Neanderthal-like primitives, apparently immune to the effects of the radiation. Avon, Vila and Gan learn that Cephlon was once home to a more advanced civilization that destroyed themselves in an apocalyptic war. They encounter a woman named Meeget, the last of her species, who requests they help activate an ancient colony sleeper ship that was headed to a new world in hopes her ancient people could start again.[12]
Chenga 
A planet Vila lands on after the battle of Star One and the abandonment of the Liberator. It appears to be home to two groups of humans – one living in jungle caves who have abandoned technology, while the other "The Hi-Techs" remain more advanced. The Hi-Techs hunt the primitives in order to harvest their organs for spare part surgery. The Hi-Techs were also in space searching for survivors after the Intergalactic War in order to harvest their organs as well.[13]
Crandor 
A mysterious planet controlled by a being of Auronar legend named Thaarn who plans to rule the universe. Crandor resided at the centre of a black hole – or what appeared to be a black hole, as it was discovered the planet projected a strong gravity field that captured hundreds of ships that were later stripped down and the material used as fuel Crandor's power systems.[14]
Cygnus Alpha 
A barren, desolate world used as a penal colony by the Federation. It took the London prisoner transport eight months to get there from Earth. Blake and his associates are sent there at the beginning of the series as punishment for their crimes. The penal colony was controlled by a strange cult leader named Vargas who worshipped a pagan god that demanded human sacrifice and absolute devotion.[15]
Note: The name could be a switch of Alpha Cygni, also known as the star Deneb, which is approximately 3,200 light years from Earth.

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Del-10 
An planet where a pleasure resort is located. Described by Vila as having beautiful mountains, but gravity "so low you can almost float". It's atmosphere contained energy particles that were apparently therapeutic, however the existence of an atmosphere seems to contradict reasoning that a planet with such low gravity could support one. Del-10 was the destination of the Liberator until Blake makes an unexpected course change to asteroid PK-118.[6]
Destiny 
A distant agricultural planet apparently terraformed to sustain Earth crops. Overtime, the crops became plagued by a fungal contamination said to be caused because the central star was deficient in certain wavelengths of energy. Blake tries to help the crew of the sabotaged freighter Ortega whose mission was to bring the rare and expensive substance "neutrotope" there to help fight the contamination. A traitorous member of the crew planned to steal the valuable substance which set up an elaborate murder mystery Avon and Jenna had to solve.[16]
Domo 
A remote planet used by a gang of slavers. Avon goes to Domo to find the assassin named Cancer who has been hired by Servalan to kill him and his associates.[17]

[edit] E

Earth 
Homeworld of humanity and the capital planet of the Terran Federation. Almost all of the human population lives in vast domed cities which they are forbidden to leave without clearance. Outside of the cities, nature has reclaimed the landscape and vegetation is in abundance, often overrunning the ruins of pre-Federation habitation sites.[18] Certain facilities still exist outside the domes however, such as Servalan's Presidential Palace and the bunker complex for Federation Control.[19]
Exbar 
A former penal colony for low-grade offenders, one of whom was Blake's uncle, Ushton. Otherwise Exbar was an unremarkable planet with a thin but breathable atmosphere. Blake was lured to Exbar by Travis who had kidnapped Blake's cousin Inga and threatened to kill her if Blake didn't come there to surrender himself.[20]

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Fosforon 
A Federation planet home to a communications relay and scientific station known as Q-Base. Following the alien virus contamination, the planet was put under a medical quarantine.[1]
Freedom City 
A backwater colony located on an unidentified planet and mentioned as a haven outside the clutches of the Federation. Blake and his associates go there to find the cyber-surgeon Docholli who supposedly knows the location of Star One.[21]

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Gauda Prime 
A former agricultural and logging planet, now overrun with criminal lawlessness, but whose inhabitants wish to return it to normality — by way of the Federation if necessary. It was the home planet of Soolin whose parents were murdered there when she was a child and she struggled to survive on her own. She indicates the locals simply call their planet "GP". Orac had calculated the high probability that Blake was still alive and on Gauda Prime, and Avon decides to go there to find him. Blake, who was posing as a bounty hunter, had hoped of using Gauda Prime's reputation to help conceal a new base of operations for the resistance and round up others to his cause. It appears in the last episode of the series where everyone is ambushed by Federation troops and apparently killed off.[22]
Goth 
A planet inhabited by feudal and superstitious people seemingly similar to Vikings. The Sharl's (king's) Fool had the location of Star One hidden in his subconscious.[23]

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Helotrix 
A swampy industrialized planet that was quickly annexed by the Federation who used pacification drugs upon the populace to dominate them.[24]
Homeworld 
The name Kerril gives to the planet on the other side of a space gateway that leads from the planet Keezam. The planet was apparently a Garden of Eden.[25]
Horizon 
Federation code name for the planet Silmareno, a jungle planet at the edge of the galaxy that was under Federation control. The planet was protected by an intense magnetic field that could only be traversed by ships equipped with special magnetic baffling. Liberator barely survived entering orbit with the force wall activated. The natives of Horizon were a pre-industrial civilization who the Federation used as slaves to mine the planet's rich resources. Blake was able to convince their leader that the Federation was exploiting his people.[26]
"Host Planet" 
An unidentified world believed by Orac to be a single living entity in itself that feeds on its surface lifeforms. Blake goes to this planet to "think" after the death of Gan, and meets a curious native creature named Zil. Zil warns Blake that the Host will find him — that being the very ground itself which tries to swallow him up.[27]

[edit] K

Kairos 
Fourth planet in the Xymines system and the source of the precious crystal Kairopan. It can only be visited during brief periods because during most of the seasons on Kairos the air is poisonous to human life. Massive insects that feed on the Kairopan also pose another threat to visitors. Tarrant and the others become stranded on Kairos but find an ancient and still functional Earth space module to escape the planet.[28]
Keezam 
The planet where Vila is captured by a notorious criminal named "Bayban the Butcher" who uses Vila's lock-picking skills to open a complex vault door. The door however, is really a gateway to another planet that the native people of Keezam are destined to colonize.[29]

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Lindor 
An independent planet who's President, Sarkoff, lost an election that was rigged by the Federation. Sarkoff and his daughter went into seclusion on another unidentified planet, but were convinced by Blake to return to Lindor and keep its independence after Blake revealed the Federation's involvement in his defeat.[30]

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Malodar 
A remote and frigid planet with an unbreathable atmosphere. Slave, the computer aboard Scorpio, gave a surface temperature reading of -100 degrees (but didn't state if this was Celsius or Fahrenheit). It was home of the renegade scientist Egrorian and his bumbling assistant Pinder who suffered form rapid aging after exposure to Hofel's Radiation. Egrorian created a super-weapon called a "Tachyon Funnel" which he tries to trade for Orac.[31]
Mecron II 
A planet, along with Agrava, that was used by the Federation to mine Feldon crystal which has unlimited potential as a power source and has become more valuable than diamond. The planet is inhabited by a deadly people who are experienced assassins. A Federation mining coordinator, Belkov, tries to steal crystals from Servalan by pinning the crime on Avon.[32]

[edit] O

Obsidian 
A volcanic planet where Avon had hoped to set up a secret base of operations for the resistance. Servalan sets up a trap in an attempt to ambush the Liberator crew and take over the ship.[33]

[edit] P

Pharos 
Planet where Tarrant picks up the cybernetics expert Dr. Muller who Avon hopes to recruit to their cause.[34]
PK-118 
An asteroid which contained an abandoned mining station used by the resistance leader Ven Glynd as a meeting place.[6]
Porphyrus 
A moon of an unidentified planet that Egrorian destroyed with his Tachyon Funnel weapon as a demonstration of it's power. Egrorian indicated the moon was 17 light years from Malodar.[31]

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Saurian Major 
A Federation controlled planet containing an outpost and communications relay station. Blake and Avon encounter Cally there as she was part of a resistance group planning to attack the facilities.[35]
Sardos 
A planet hidden behind an invisibility screen whose inhabitants possess advanced matter replication technology. Servalan goes there with an offer to build a new fleet or warships using her one remaining ship as a model. However, the planet is controlled by a machine intelligence named Moloch which has it's own plans for Federation rule.[36]
Sarran 
Planet where Avon and Orac land after abandoning the Liberator which suffered severe damage during the attack on Star One. The planet was home of Dr. Hal Mellanby and his daughter Dayna. Servalan is also stranded on Sarran and she tries to steal Orac and call for help before Avon can capture her. Sarran is populated by tribes of savage, barbarian-like humans.[13]
"Sinofar's world" 
An unidentified planet where a powerful entity calling itself Sinofar resided. Blake and Travis have a ship-to-ship battle above the planet, Sinofar summons them against their will to the surface of the world to duel to the death.[37]
Space City 
An enormous space station and one of the last refuges of freedom at the outskirts of Federation territory. The station however is controlled by the criminal organization Terra Nostra who pushes their narcotic "shadow" on the city's people. Blake and company go there in hopes that Terra Nostra would become resistance allies. Instead, the organization was just another front for the Federation who really controlled shadow production.[38]
Star One 
A planetoid in orbit of a white dwarf that holds the Federation's main computer complex. The location of Star One was the ultimate secret, but it was discovered to be situated in the void of space between the Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy. From space, Star One appeared to be a metallic sphere that was artificially constructed and covered in geometric shapes. The surface however, appeared naturally rocky. There was also a breathable atmosphere. Various bunkers led underground.[39] Star One's planet, or at least the Federation base there, was destroyed in an intergalactic war.[13]

[edit] T

Teal 
A planet at war with a neighbouring world of Vandor. Both worlds fight their war through proxies, men chosen from each world who duel to the death in a computer-simulated combat arena. Tarrant learns his brother Deeta had volunteered to fight for Teal in a recent battle, but Servalan has rigged the combat so a conventional war will be unleashed that could kill millions of people. The Federation will then step in and annex both worlds with a so-called "peacekeeping" force.[40]
Terminal 
A bizarre, oval-shaped planet that was constructed over 400 years prior to the series storyline. It was placed in the Sol system near Mars and was supposedly destroyed after it served its classified purpose. Somehow the later didn't happen and the planet found it's way into a region of space referred to as Sector 6 where it was discovered orbiting the star Delta 714. Servalan described Terminal's function as an experiment in accelerated evolution of Earth life. The planet was inhabited by hominid creatures called "links" which Servalan says were not what humans evolved from, but what humans will evolve into. Another native was a dangerous snake-like creature that lurked at the bottom of pits. From space, Terminal was oval shaped with two hemispheres of land and water connected together at the equator by an obviously artificial trench at least 1000 miles wide. [41][42] Note: Terminal first appears in the episode "Terminal" and again in the next episode "Rescue", however it somehow reverts to a more spherical shape and lacking a trench when it is briefly seen again, possibly a special effects mistake.

[edit] U

Ultraworld 
An artificial planet overseen by a group of blue humanoids known as the Ultra. It is later revealed that the whole planet is one gigantic computer. The crew of the Liberator are forced to land on Ultraworld and serve it's computer.[43]

[edit] V

Vandor 
A world at war with a neighbouring planet called Teal. (see Teal above) [40]
Virn 
A strange planet covered in a desert of "living" green sand. Servalan goes there to search for a group of missing scientists, (one of which was a past lover), in hopes of learning their fate. The team had just uncovered an unlimited power source before contact was lost.[44]

[edit] W

"Web planet" 
An unidentified world surrounded by a cloud of sticky web-like strands that trapped the Liberator. Blake goes down to the planet where he encounters a group of people called The Lost who have created a genetically engineered species they call the Decimas that they sought to destroy. Blake refuses to help the Lost kill an entire species. Eventually the creatures overran the Lost's base and killed their creators.[45]

[edit] X

Xaranor 
Federation controlled planet known as a survey ship construction yard and the training of crews. It was the destination of the Liberator after escaping Crandor.[14]
Xenon 
A remote world which lies outside Federation space. It features deep canyons and ravines. The planet is the location of the underground base formerly used by the salvager Dorian, but later appropriated by Avon and the others. The base consisted of a deep chasm with a landing platform for Dorian's freighter Scorpio.[42] The planet was inhabited by two tribes of primitive humans, the male-dominated Hommicks and the all-female Seska, the later of which possessed strange telepathic powers enhanced by rare crystals native to the planet.[46] Near the base was an abandoned hydro-electric facility and a steel bridge that crossed a river. Tarrant and Avon use the power plant and bridge in a trap to destroy an android created by a man named Muller.[34] Avon holds a conference at the base for a group of warlords who he wishes to support the rebellion against the Federation. The Warlord Zukan betrays Avon and sets up explosives to destroy the base.[9] Avon and the others are later forced to abandon the facility and leave Xenon for good.[22]
XK-72 
Not a planet, but a space research station financed by a neutral consortium. The crew of the Liberator sought medical assistance for Gan whose limiter chip had malfunctioned. XK-72 was destroyed accidentally during a skirmish between the Liberator and Federation pursuit ships.[47]

[edit] Z

Zerok 
A formerly independent frontier planet rumoured to be the last source of gold in the known galaxy. It was described as being somewhat technologically backward by Vila. Avon and company hijack a shipment of black gold from the Space Princess where an anonymous buyer awaits possession of it on Beta V. The buyer happens to Servalan and Avon forces her to give him 10 billion credits in exchange for the loot. She pays them with notes from the Zerok banking system, but soon Orac reports Zerok had fallen under Federation rule making the bank notes completely worthless.[8]
Zonda 
Pronounced "Zondar", Zonda is a world outside of Federation control which appears as an arid desert planet and is the only place where a strange species of plant called Moondiscs grow. The criminal organization Terra Nostra harvested the Moondiscs to make the narcotic Shadow. In dialog, the planet was said to orbit between two stars and thus experienced only daylight.[38]
Zondawl 
Planet under Federation control. Avon shows video footage of Federation soldiers on Zondawl gunning down random drug-pacified citizens as just one example of Federation atrocities. Avon hoped the video would persuade a group of warlords to join the rebellion against Federation rule. Citizens of Zondawl appeared to be identified by a series of numbers tattooed on their foreheads.[48]

[edit] Shooting Locations

Blake's 7 included location filming in England, mostly in quarries and industrialized areas in and around London and the Home Counties.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Blake's 7: "Killer"
  2. ^ Blake's 7: "Games"
  3. ^ Blake's 7: "Countdown"
  4. ^ a b Blake's 7: "Star Drive"
  5. ^ Blake's 7: "Orac"
  6. ^ a b c Blake's 7: "Voice from the Past"
  7. ^ Blake's 7: "Children of Auron"
  8. ^ a b Blake's 7: "Gold"
  9. ^ a b Blake's 7: "Warlord"
  10. ^ Blake's 7: "Animals"
  11. ^ Blake's 7: "Seek-Locate-Destroy"
  12. ^ Blake's 7: "Deliverance"
  13. ^ a b c Blake's 7: "Aftermath"
  14. ^ a b Blake's 7: "Dawn of the Gods"
  15. ^ Blake's 7: "Cygnus Alpha"
  16. ^ Blake's 7: "Mission to Destiny"
  17. ^ Blake's 7: "Assassin"
  18. ^ Blake's 7: "The Way Back"
  19. ^ Blake's 7: "Pressure Point"
  20. ^ Blake's 7: "Hostage"
  21. ^ Blake's 7: "Gambit"
  22. ^ a b Blake's 7: "Blake"
  23. ^ Blake's 7: "The Keeper"
  24. ^ Blake's 7: "Traitor"
  25. ^ Blake's 7: "City on the Edge of the World"
  26. ^ Blake's 7: "Horizon"
  27. ^ Blake's 7: "Trial"
  28. ^ Blake's 7: "The Harvest of Kairos"
  29. ^ Blake's 7: "City at the Edge of the World"
  30. ^ Blake's 7: "Bounty"
  31. ^ a b Blake's 7: "Orbit"
  32. ^ Blake's 7: "Games"
  33. ^ Blake's 7: "Volcano"
  34. ^ a b Blake's 7: "Headhunter"
  35. ^ Blake's 7: "Time Squad"
  36. ^ Blake's 7: "Moloch"
  37. ^ Blake's 7: "Duel"
  38. ^ a b Blake's 7: "Shadow"
  39. ^ Blake's 7: "Star One"
  40. ^ a b Blake's 7: "Death-Watch"
  41. ^ Blake's 7: "Terminal"
  42. ^ a b Blake's 7: "Rescue"
  43. ^ Blake's 7: "Ultraworld"
  44. ^ Blake's 7: "Sand"
  45. ^ Blake's 7: "The Web"
  46. ^ Blake's 7: "Power"
  47. ^ Blake's 7: "Breakdown"
  48. ^ Blake's 7: "Warlord"
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