Kerr Avon

Kerr Avon is the deuteragonist of the first two seasons of Blake's 7 and the protagonist of the last two seasons.
He was portrayed by the late Paul Darrow, who also voiced him for Big Finish and BBC Radio. In the reboot audios from B7 Productions, he was voiced by Colin Salmon.
==History==
Avon was referred to as the number two man on computers in the Federation, behind the person who caught him. With a number of associates, including his lover Anna Grant and his friend Tynus, Avon attempted to defraud the Federation banking system of five million credits. He was unaware that the Federation were fully aware of his activities. He was eventually arrested, believing Anna dead, and sentenced to deportation to Cygnus Alpha. Aboard the prison ship London, he first met Roj Blake. Having initially considered doing a deal with the crew to fix the running log so they could dump the other prisoners in space, he eventually agreed to join Blake's escape attempt and successfully gained control of the ship's computers but most of the prisoners were quickly recaptured and Blake chose to surrender rather than allow them to be executed. 
When the Liberator was detected drifting in space, Avon, together with Blake and Jenna, was used as a suicide boarding party. They survived and used the ship to escape. Avon wanted to flee with the wealth on board but Jenna refused to abandon Blake, and Avon found himself drawn into Blake's resistance activities against the Federation. With the crew augmented by other prisoners and rebels, Avon developed an effective if abrasive partnership with the sneak thief Vila and a subtle fondness with the alien rebel Cally.
On one early mission, Avon was instrumental in overloading the reactor of the Federation base on Saurian Major, and only made mild objection to Blake risking the Liberator to save the genetically engineered Decima from being wiped out, saving Blake from an explosion during the incident. He and Cally were left to repair the stricken ship Ortega, where Avon found the idea of exposing the murderer on board, Sara, an intellectual exercise. He considered leaving the crew at the neutral station XK72 but chose to return to warn them the Federation were on the way. He was chosen by Blake to lead a rescue mission to Cephalon, where he recovered a dying pilot and not only rescued Jenna from the native Scavengers, but helped the surviving natives launch a chemical record containing their race banks. He and the rest of his party suffered radiation sickness as a result but he rallied to rescue Blake and Cally from Federation heads Servalan and Travis, getting hold of both the anti-radiation drugs and the super-computer Orac.
He was the first to realise they could avoid Orac's prediction of the Liberator's destruction by avoiding the area where it happened, although that proved a moot point when they were dragged there by the System. He continued to follow Blake reluctantly: When the rest of the crew were captured on Horizon, he very nearly abandoned them until discovering Federation reinforcements were on the way, at which point he affected a one-man rescue. He took part in Blake's failed raid on the Federation's dummy Control building, which led to the death of Gan. He again found himself outvoted on the subject of abandoning Blake when he teleported down to the living planet the Host alone and instead programmed the teleport to retrieve him.
In order to get hold of a needed translator crystal, Avon made contact with Tynus and tried to blackmail him into handing one over. Instead, Tynus betrayed them to the Federation and Avon ended up killing him by pushing him into an exposed electrical console. When Blake received a call from Travis, now a Federation fugitive, Avon told the Federation of Travis' position but felt guilty when it looked like it would lead to them finding Blake too, volunteering to teleport down and help defeat Travis before they arrived. He was highly sceptical of Governor LeGrande and Ven Glynd's attempt to expose the Federation administration at a governors' conference and was proven right when it turned out to be a trap set by Servalan and Travis.
He and Vila took time off from Blake's quest for Star One, the replacement for Control, in order to use Orac to cheat the gaming tables at Freedom City. By now, he was anticipating the end of resistance activities: "When Star One is destroyed, Blake, it is finished. And I want it finished." He took part in Blake's assault and the discovery that Star One had already been taken over by the alien Andromedans, who were planning to attack the Federation. During the subsequent struggle, Avon personally killed Travis, who had been helping the Andromedans. With Blake injured, Avon took personal command of the Liberator to battle the Andromedan fleet until the Federation arrived.
They succeeded but the Liberator was badly damaged and the crew forced to evacuate. Avon ended up on the planet Sarran, where he met first weapons designer Dayna Mellanby and then Servalan, starting a personal rivalry between them as he refused her offer to rule what was left of the Federation alongside her, knowing she would betray him. He and Dayna made it back to the Liberator and recovered it from Federation hands with the help of Federation deserter Del Tarrant. Having also recovered Vila and Cally, Avon finally had the ship under his control, with Tarrant as the only dissenting voice.
Avon chose to seek revenge on Shrinker, the Federation torturer that he believed had killed Anna Grant, although he agreed to take time off to try and save Cally's people from a virus. He allowed himself to be captured by the Federation in order to get close to Shrinker, then teleported him away and sealed him in an underground cavern. Shrinker revealed Federation agent Bartholomew had killed Anna, but as Avon investigated further he found out Anna actually was Bartholomew and was forced to kill her in self-defence.
Avon defeated a takeover of the ship by an undead alien who had used Cally to recreate itself, and also stopped Servalan annexing the planets of Teal and Vandor by starting a war. Receiving a signal, apparently from Blake, he took the Liberator to the artificial planet Terminal, only to find it was a trap set by Servalan. With the Liberator badly damaged by Avon's decision to fly through a particle storm, Tarrant accepted Servalan's offer to strand the crew on Terminal with her and her followers taking control of the Liberator, which exploded trying to leave orbit.
After Cally was killed by a booby trap, Avon and the others were rescued by Dorian, who took them to his base on Xenon. There, it was revealed Dorian was centuries old and had survived by channeling his impurities into a living receptacle. He intended to use the Liberator survivors, plus his companion Soolin, as a gestalt to replace his current victim, but Avon killed the receptacle, causing Dorian to age to death. Avon was instrumental in foiling the attempt of Seska leader Pella to steal Dorian's ship Scorpio, taking control of the ship and base and fitting a working teleport to them.
With the Federation growing in power, Avon saw the need to strike back. He took the ship to Helotrix to investigate their pylene-50 adaptation programme, although he disapproved of Tarrant and Dayna helping the local resistance. He managed to retrieve a duonic drive for Scorpio, but sacrificed its creator, Doctor Plaxton, to escape a Federation attack. Other attempts to recruit scientists and technology proved largely unsuccessful. He renewed his rivalry with Servalan, although their encounters tended to end in stalemates.
He attempted to force an alliance against the Federation but was betrayed by one of the planetary leaders, Zukan, and chose to abandon the base on Xenon. He instead headed to Gauda Prime in search of Blake, only for Scorpio to be attacked by local ships and crashland. Avon teleported to safety with Orac, joining Vila, Dayna and Soolin on the surface and following a bounty hunter flyer to their base, only to find the bounty hunter was Blake and his prisoner was Tarrant. Not realising that Blake was actually trying to form a new resistance cell, Avon killed him. Moments later, Federation troopers summoned by the traitor Arlen stormed the base, gunning down all of Avon's crew. Surrounded by the troopers, Avon raised his gun and smiled, with gunfire then being heard.
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