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Blake: Right. Let's check with the expert. Zen, report status.
Zen: Liberator is stationary and is stabilized in an anti-orbital posture.
Vila: Whatever that means.
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Blake: Except that we're not going to hide. Very soon now the Federation ships will know exactly where we are. Or at least where we've been.
Vila: I don't follow you.
Avon: Oh, but you do. And that's the problem.
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Blake: All Federation signals and navigation controls are beamed into Saurian Major, boosted and redirected. It's a vital nerve centre in the Federation space control system. Destroy that, and you blind, deafen and silence them. That's what we're going to do.
Avon: A blow for freedom.
Gan: Yes, our freedom. For a clever man you're not very bright. Deaf, dumb and blind, how are they going to catch us?
Avon: I'm sure Blake will manage it somehow.
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Vila (to Avon): Very delicate. You know, with hands like that and a decent upbringing, you might have made a respectable pick-pocket.
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Villa Restal: (After touching a Saurinan Major plant)Eww..
Kerr Avon: Did it sting you ?
Villa: It's warm, clammy, a bit like flesh.
Roj Blake: Have to be careful of the plant life around here, some of it is carniverous. (Avon, who is about to touch the plant himself immediately decides not to).Some species even have an intelligence rating.
Villa: Well, thats a comfort. I should hate to be eaten by something stupid.
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Cally: Can you prove what you say?
Blake: If I can get inside that centre I'll prove it with the biggest explosion you've ever seen.
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Avon: (about Vila) And he's useless as he said. I've had a gun on you the whole time; you were dead as soon as you broke cover.Vila: Harmless was the word I used. Avon: You couldn't even get that right.
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Blake: Well, our aim's the same. But I wasn't planning a suicide mission.
Vila: I should hope not.
Cally: He fears death?
Vila: I plan to live forever. Or die trying.
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Blake: Can you do it?
Avon: (about to sabotage the reactor) Five minutes. (Shots ring out)
Avon: I know ... make it two.
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Blake: Seven of us can run this ship properly.Vila: Six, surely?Blake: Your forgot Zen.