Blake's 7: Mediasphere by Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman

Author:Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman [Orman, Jonathan Blum and Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Big Finish Productions
Published: 2015-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

INTERLUDE, WITH IMAGE AMPLIFIER

When Dayna was small, and she realised the Sarrans didn’t have the technology that she and her father did inside their sunken spaceship, she had thought they were stupid. When her father brought home her new sister, who couldn’t even speak their language properly, it only confirmed her impression of the locals. At first there was no better way for Dayna to tease her sister than to call her a native, a primitive, and refuse to let her play with the toy guns and miniature computers which were for people who came from civilisation.

Years later young Dayna raged against the unfairness of it when her father said Lauren didn’t have to take her computer tutorials any more. Lauren gleefully spent her new free time climbing trees and arranging the life in rock pools.

‘She’s a Sarran, Dayna,’ her father had said patiently. ‘Why should she have to learn about Federation history?’

‘I want her to help me with my maths,’ sniffled Dayna, ‘but she says she doesn’t understand what I’m doing now.’

‘Don’t worry. I’ll help you. We’re a team, remember?’

When they weren’t studying, Dayna and Lauren would run through the base shooting each other with toy guns, or, banished by their annoyed father, went to the firing range in the hold, where drones of various sizes and speeds would taunt them.

They were allowed outdoors as long as they avoided the Sarrans and their encampments. With the determined ability of children to stretch definitions, this became a game of getting as close to the Sarrans as possible without being noticed. The sisters became expert in silent movement through tall grass and dappled foliage. From their hiding spots they watched the natives weaving (dull), working iron (interesting), making swords and spears (much more interesting).

They’d been spotted once, when a group of Sarran women hunting small prey in the rainforest had stumbled over the pair of them. The girls had bolted from their hiding place inside a rotting log, narrowly dodging a weighted throwing net which whipped out above them. They hadn’t told their father about it, although over the following days, as she thought of one awful scenario after another if they’d been caught, Dayna had been tempted to.

By now – her teenage years – Dayna understood that the Sarrans were actually quite clever. Some of them, especially the children, were dangerous with a slingshot, but they hadn’t yet developed the bow and arrow. They’d figure it out eventually. Dayna was rather looking forward to that.

By now she also realised that she was the lucky one when it came to lessons, not Lauren.

There had been plans, dozens of plans, about what the Mellanby family would do when they were ready to rejoin the outside world. With a three-million-credit price on his head, her father had said, they had no choice but to wait for the right time. Dayna had long ago realised that Hal Mellanby might never leave Sarran, even if that time came; that he might expect Dayna to go out and continue his work, and Lauren to stay behind and care for him.

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