Notes
After the Atomic Wars there emerged from the ensuing chaos a dictatorship so powerful that it enmeshed the majority of Earth populated worlds. As the Federation grew in power so the hard-won freedom of the people it ruled disappeared.
The President is the absolute ruler of the Federation. Surrounded by his personal guard and his political appointees to the High Council he is probably the most powerful man in the galaxy. The centre of his empire is Earth.
Each planet in the Federation is under the jurisdiction of a governor appointed by the Presidential High Council and therefore directly responsible to the President. Although some planets retain a semblance of liberty, trying to exercise this liberty is considered to be a crime against the Federation and therefore punishable. Not all the governors are dictatorial – some do try to maintain a certain amount of autonomy – but usually without success.
The vast majority of the population of the Federation lives in a drug induced world of docility. The suppressants are administered forcibly. Society is strictly structured from the elite Alpha grades to the menial Delta service grades. The higher the grade the more privileges.
Pleasure planets and satellite cities exist for those wealthy enough to be able to enjoy them.
There are rebels in the most heavily suppressed society. Those who are not content with their drug soaked lives turn either to crime or to resistance. The big criminal organizations are allowed to continue their operations with the Federation officials taking their cut.
Dissident movements are of necessity quite small but are of sufficient nuisance value that it was considered advisable to liquidate them.
Blake’s followers, now led by Avon, have become the symbol of resistance and with their new ship Scorpio carry on the heroic and dangerous fight for liberty.
* Extract from Season 1, 2 & 4 BBC Production Notes, as appropriate.
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A1-A13, B1-B13, C1-C13, D1-D13
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