Ask the Liberator Crew

They spend a lot of time bored in space. (Ask one, or ask them all!)

[asktheseven]

Are the rumours true about Blake pairing up with Jenna and Avon with Cally? How did you and Gan feel about that, Villa?

Cally: Rumours? What rumours?Exit VilaJenna: I haven't heard anything about this. Zen? Have the crew of the Liberator featured in any public broadcast news reports recently? Zen: THERE ARE OVER TEN THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ONE...Jenna: Narrow your search parameters to include reports about... romantic entanglements.Zen: NEGATIVE RESULTS RETURNED. THERE IS HOWEVER SIGNIFICANT SPECULATIVE CONTENT DISTRIBUTED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA IN RELATION TO THE PRACTISES OF SEXUAL INTERCOURSE BETWEEN...Blake: storming in Right, we've got ten minutes to make our preparations for the mission. Cally, I want you paired up with Jenna. Vila, I want you scouting...Jenna: ...oh, is that what was meant?Cally: There is a double meaning of 'paired up'?Jenna: ...how embarrassing.Gan: miserably For who, exactly?!

[asktheseven]

If you had the chance to eat your dream meal, what would it be? You can pick a few courses if you like!

Servalan: Oh, I don't eat. Not often, there's not much time when one is in my position. Though I will say that the elegance of one's dining location is proportional to the quality of the meal. A fine champagne tasted to the view of the rings of Saturn can be an exquisite experience.

Vila: I heard that there was this tradition, in a strange place on Earth. They would eat tiny food that was all laid out on a naked lady. She was the table! You'd eat your food off the lady because her body heat kept it warm, or something, and only the finest gentlemen could afford it. It's true! Although I can't help but wonder... wouldn't she get cold?!

Travis: (snarling) Blake's heaarrrttt!!!!

Cally: moondisc smoothie

[asktheseven]

Did you ever know that you're my heeeeeeeeero?

Avon: (with distaste) And it begins. Jenna: Not even bothering to feign surprise at Blake accruing a following? For all your declarations of his incompetence...Avon: That would be to feign surprise that there are indeed fools in the universe.Jenna: Something which you have known a long while, no doubt.

...this is bothering you.Avon: I have no stomach for idols. They are, by their very nature, false. Jenna: Blake as an idol, it bothers you.Avon: But not you.Jenna: I never considered it so emotively. It's tactical and inevitable, and people have better intuition than you credit them for, Avon.Avon: Do they?

[asktheseven]

If you were placing a dating ad, how would it read?

Jenna says: Oh gosh, no. Laughs That sort of thing would never work around here.

What Jenna writes: Athletic F old enough to know better seeks athletic M, no strings, no questions, pleasant evening out, NO TIME WASTERS

Vila says: Well, you’ve got to be truthful, don’t you, otherwise it’s a recipe for disaster. Something like ‘nice man seeks nice lady for romantic times’, though fat chance that’ll ever happen on this ship.

What Vila writes: Handsome generous gentleman 20M good with fingers wants to wine and dine busty blonde lady 18-30 promise light evening’s entertainment and more! All offers taken

Avon says: I have never needed nor anticipate the need to place an advertisement for intimacy.

What Avon writes: Nothing. He has never needed nor anticipated the need to place an advertisement for intimacy.

Cally says: What an interesting custom. I must try it.

What Cally writes: Greetings. I am of Auron and I would like to seek an Auronar partner for a meeting of the minds. What is there to know about me? I am interested in freedom, fighting for the independence of all planetary systems, preserving their local customs and cultures. I also enjoy gardening and wildlife, the cultivation of wh— [Cally was cut off by the character limit]

Gan says: Oh, I don’t think that kind of thing is for me.

What Gan writes: Widowed mid-age man seeks similar for f’ship, r’ship. Not much to look at but I will protect and provide. Enjoys a cuddle.

Blake says: laughs I don’t know… probably ‘man seeks partner for friendship, maybe more, has big spaceship?

What Blake writes: Join the Cause! Fight for Freedom! The Resistance is seeking everybody with anything to give to take down the tyrannical regime and fight for peace in our Galaxy!

[asktheseven]

If someone was feeling sad on board how would you cheer them up?

Jenna: We don’t always have time to feel sad in our line of work. You just have to keep moving forward. And sometimes moving forward is the best thing you can do.

That said… a good game of space chess can go some way to clearing the mind.

[asktheseven]

If you could be someone else for the day who would it be?

Blake: snarly The Supreme Commander. Although it would take a great deal longer than a day to repair what she’s done.

Avon: Thinks idly that he would like to be witness to Servalan’s thoughts the day Blake becomes Servalan

Vila: Oh, oh, I’d love to be a fat cat tourist CEO on a neutral world with a fat wad of cash and a fatter girlfriend and an even fatter tab at the local bar. That’d be the life, wouldn’t it, eh, Gan?

Gan: You’d get bored.

It’s true.

[asktheseven]

How would you entertain me if I was to come on board? I know everyone would probably be busy working but you must have some downtime!

Blake: incredulously Entertain you?!

Cally: Now, now, the anonymous has a point… there must be moments of rest and relaxation in order for a team to function as an efficient unit. Sometimes we play board games, enjoy a light meal together. It is quite enjoyable.

Blake: I’ve never played!

Cally: You’ve never wanted to! And, Blake, to be honest… you are something of a sore loser.

Blake: Only when it matters!

[asktheseven]

Servalan, what do you think of Avon? (And vice versa of course. Don't worry; I won't tell her what you said!)

Somehow you have managed to get a hold of Servalan in between a meeting and a hat-fitting

Servalan says: What do I think of Avon? Not terribly much, I'm afraid. You see, the criminal mind can be a stimulating one; crafty, elegant, conniving and manipulative. It is possible but it is rare, and it certainly is the case that Avon's is one of those that interests me in particular. He can be... most fascinating.

He certainly is not of the standard criminal calibre that the Federation encounters, however this I must stress... it remains, forever, a criminal mind. A plague which the Federation is committed to wiping out.

Avon raises one eyebrowAvon says: I think you, and Servalan, know exactly what I think of her.

[asktheseven]

Are you still there Liberator Crew? Or are you lost in space somewhere?

Vila says: Yes, yes, we're still here! Hello? We're here! We've been lost in a time-warp...

Avon says: ...wormhole, Vila.

Vila says: I've said it once, Avon, 'wormhole' sounds awful. It sounds like we've been sucked up into an unwilling worm's---

Gan says: Don't encourage him, Avon, not again.

Blake interrupts: ...we have been lost in space, is all you need to know. The Liberator crew is alive* and well and still very much a force to be reckoned with.

Jenna says: ...danger, Will Servalan?

* /sob

[asktheseven]

What is the most beautiful thing you have ever seen? It can be from your travels or from back home, you must have seen some sights!

Jenna: I thought that space was beautiful before I met Zen. There is a true beauty in being utterly understood. I can't describe it any other way than as a... mental embrace.

Cally: There is a beauty in being connected, it's true. In opening up your mind to share without hesitation.

The men are listening, looking baffled

Gan: ...I was just going to say 'the sunset'.

Vila: ...there was this girl I met on Saturn 5 but now I'm thinking she might not be that beautiful after all.

[asktheseven]

rainbow-tentacles said: marry me avon! i'm far better looking than anna grant!

Avon says: I would have thought it up to me to make that assessment. I'm pleased to inform you that you have failed.

Vila: space equivalent of z-snap formation

[asktheseven]

Blake, you seem to wear a lot of greens and browns. Are they colors that you like or do you dress that way to blend into vegitation on missions?

Blake: awkward laugh To be honest, I just grabbed the first things in the Liberator wardrobe that fit me. Though now you mention it, the element of camouflage really does help, I've always been inclined to more muted colours...

Avon: Don't lie Blake, you've never even thought of blending in to the background.

Blake: I suppose I'm in like-minded company.

Avon: ...touché.

[asktheseven]

Everyone's been quiet lately, is everyone on board alright?

Blake says: Yes, thankyou, we're all quite all right. We've been evaluating a new threat from the Federation, one which poses terrible danger to our very integrity, our very core...

Avon says it's a new form of Federation communication, a new encryption channel they're calling... Syfy. To reveal its name earlier would have been to play our hand too soon, and we're hoping our secret counterattack will culminate in a big finish very soon.

Not to mention that it's been rather quiet on the question front! I may have to ask my crew to start posing questions of one another, now wouldn't that be something.

[asktheseven]

@Wonderful person who created this: I LOVE YOU. Yrs. sincerely, Is-Too-Lazy-To-Make-A-Tumblr. P.S. My emotions are deeper than the sea of space. One times one is only possible in the ultradimensional. I love you. We will be lovers for a little while, or for a long while, who knows--

Avon: I thought we'd sorted your spam problem, Orac.

//but who do I know that likes B7 that doesn't have a tumblr?! I am so confused but yet in my heart I know I love you like Servalan loves gentle eye make-up remover xoxo

[asktheseven]

Kiss, marry, avoid?

Blake somehow knows this game

Blake: But who? You didn't give us a choice of three.

Avon: A choice?

Blake: Let's see... Servalan, Travis and that piece of work Raiker. Who would you kiss, who'd you marry, and who would you kill?

Avon: I'd kill all three.

Blake: No, you have to choose. It's the game.

Avon: Odd that two out of your three are men.

Blake: ...they weren't meant to be appealing choices. For god's sake, Avon.

Avon: I don't see the point of this game.

Blake: To expose your tastes? To pass the time? Does there have to be one?

Avon: I'd kiss Servalan, marry Travis and kill Raiker.

Blake: ...what?

Avon: You did ask.

Blake: But I mean...

Avon: A mute and servile Travis would make for a good domestic. Raiker was always better off dead, and of the three I would experience the least repulsion kissing the one without stubble. It's quite an easy answer when you think about it. What about you, Blake?

Blake: ...wouldn't you know, my head is playing up again.

[asktheseven]

Cally, I know you listen to music sometimes. Do the rest of you enjoy music?

Vila: Now, this question is more palatable!

Cally: Music is a means of communication unto itself.

Vila: ...precisely. So in answer to the question, yes, some of us enjoy music. I like a little tune, a little drink...

Cally: A little drink?

Vila: Gan likes songs. He sings them while he's working sometimes. I've never, ever heard Blake put on a tune but I have seen him listening to Gan's songs.

Cally: I think everybody enjoys music, but not everybody seeks it out. I have known everybody to respond to it, but everybody's tastes are quite disparate.

Vila: Jenna's shaken her hips to a bit of dance music, though she'd deny it. Avon hates it, of course.

Cally: in imitation "What a vulgar waste of time."

Vila: laughs

Cally: Yet I've seen him tap a foot to lobby music! I can't understand it.

[asktheseven]

Have you ever been in love?

Moody silence; nobody wants to answer this one

Vila: Oh come on, all of you must have.

Avon: But not you?

Gan: I have. That's why I'm here.

Even more awkward silence

Blake: If I was, then I've forgotten.

Cally: The concept does not translate well where I come from. I would need some time to explain.

Avon and Jenna leave the room