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''Scorpio'' is a fictional spacecraft featured throughout the fourth season of the British science fiction television series ''Blake's 7''. It is a freighter, noted by Tarrant as an early Mk II "''Wanderer''-class" planet-hopper. ''Scorpio'' was owned by an alleged salvage operator named Dorian, who had a base on the planet Xenon. Dorian rescues the crew of the recently destroyed ''Liberator'', who are stranded on the planet Terminal. The ''Liberator'' crew later kill Dorian in self-defence, occupy the Xenon base and use ''Scorpio'' for their own purposes. When not in use, ''Scorpio'' was docked in an underground silo within the Xenon Base. When in flight, only the flight deck part of the ship would normally be pressurised and if the crew needed to go to another part of the ship during flight they had to pressurise that area first. Unlike ''Liberator'', which was superior in speed and weaponry to the Terran Federation's finest warships, ''Scorpio'' was initially disadvantaged in comparison. It was slow, ungainly and has little weaponry until the crew modify the ship to increase its capabilities. In the episode "Power", Avon and Orac complete construction of a teleport system for the ship, similar to that seen on ''Liberator'' (Dorian had started to create a teleport himself but failed). In the episode "Star Drive", ''Scorpio'' is fitted with a new, experimental engine called the 'photonic drive', developed by Doctor Plaxton. This vastly increases the ship's speed to the equivalent of Time Distort 15 but in ''real time'' (i.e. without the need for the ship to move into a "time-distorted" dimension) thereby making ''Scorpio'' faster than the ''Liberator'' had been. The photonic drive is powered by light rather than plasma. In the final episode of the series, ''Scorpio'' is shot down en route to the planet Gauda Prime where it crash-lands. The crew escapes by teleporting, apart from Tarrant who is injured but survives the crash. ''Scorpios interior was designed by Roger Cann. The set made use of some panels that had previously adorned the set of the ''Heart of Gold'' in the ''Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy'' TV series. The exterior model was designed by Jim Francis. ==Slave== Slave is ''Scorpios intelligent onboard computer. The character was created by Chris Boucher and voiced by Peter Tuddenham, who aloso voiced Orac and had previously voiced Zen (the ''Liberator''s computer). Tuddenham thought of Slave as "...a Uriah Heep type of character...". Slave was designed and built by Dorian and programmed with a cringing personality, which occasionally irritates the crew. It is constantly apologising for its failings, real or perceived. It addresses Dorian, and later Avon, as "Master", and the rest of the crew as "Sir" or "Madam". It is prone to panic in emergency situations. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scorpio (Blake's 7)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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