D7 ASSASSIN
While on watch, Vila picks up a
strange message sent from Servalan. She has hired the professional assassin,
Cancer to eliminate the crew on the planet Domo. No one knows what Cancer
looks like and Avon decides to strike first by going to Domo.
Domo is the base for space pirates.
They capture ship passengers and then sell them into slavery. Avon plans
to let himself be captured and taken to the slave auction in order to meet
Cancer. His plan fails when he loses his teleport bracelet. While awaiting
the auction, Avon meets an old slave, Nebrox, who agrees to steal back
Avon's bracelet if Avon will let him aboard Scorpio in payment. Nebrox
also tells Avon that Servalan has purchased a slave from an entertainment
troupe and has sent him away in a black ship. This must be Cancer! Avon
narrowly escapes being sold to Servalan, and with Nebrox teleports back
to the ship. The crew then follows the trail of the black ship.
They soon catch up with it as it is floating dead in space. They teleport
aboard and capture Cancer. They also find that Cancer has purchased a slave,
Piri who brings out all of Tarrant's protective instincts, Despite binding
Cancer, Nebrox is murdered. Soolin barely escapes a poisonous crab and
Avon is captured. Piri is Cancer and the man they mistook for the assassin
is just an actor. Piri kills him.
Piri places a crab on the bound
Avon and gloats over her partnership with Servalan. But Tarrant and Soolin
save Avon just in time, and the crab kills Cancer instead. Servalan sends
her ships to destroy the black ship. Avon, Tarrant and Soolin teleport
back to Scorpio and escape.
D8 GAMES
Orac has discovered that an unlimited
supply of energy can be provided by the use of a gemstone known as feldon
crystals. One of the planets where feldon is mined is MecronII. The mining
operations are controlled by Belkov, a master player of games. He has program
his computer, Gambit to play with him continuously. Gambit also controls
the defense systems so that all the programs are run as games. Belkov may
have been skimming off the Federation and saved some feldon crystals in
an orbital freighter to be sold for his own profit. Servalan goes to MerconII
to see why mining production has not lived up to it's projections.
Avon contacts a Federation geologist, who is willing to act against the
Federation. But before they can get organized, The geologist goes to the
freighter and tries to steal some of the feldon. The orbiter is program
to play a series of games with the intruder. The geologist loses and is
sent back to the planet gravely injured.
The crystals hold a religious significance for the natives and Belkov uses
this to pit the Federation against the Merconians. This allows Belkov time
to plan his escape. He also traps Tarrant and Dayna. Meanwhile, Avon orders
Vila to remove part of the computer so that he and Orac can study how the
defense mechanism works. As he is doing this, Vila overhears Belkov instructing
Gambit to self destruct. Vila uses this information to gain Gambit's acceptance
and is able to free Tarrant and Dayna. He is allowed to dismantle part
of the computer without injury.
Teleporting to the orbiter, the crew must play a series of games in order
to assess the crystals. They manage to gain entry into the center of the
ship only to find out the the final game involves focusing the crystal
on a black hole. This will destroy everything in the vicinity. The crew
teleport back to Scorpio and Avon uses the feldon to blast them away from
the black hole. Belkov appears to have escape and the crew leaves empty
handed. Even the necklace of crystals that Vila has stolen appear to be
fakes.
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