Soolin

Soolin is a main character of the fourth and final season of Blake's 7.
She was portrayed by Glynis Barber. For BBC Radio, she was voiced by Paula Wilcox.
==Biography==
Soolin grew up on the agricultural world of Gauda Prime. Eager to exploit the planet's minerals, the Federation suspended the penal code there, meaning criminals flocked there knowing they couldn't be arrested. A group of them killed Soolin's family. Soolin trained under one of them as a gunslinger, then killed him and all the others.
Soolin went on to be the companion and apparently lover of Dorian on Xenon. She was unaware of Dorian's true nature, two hundred years old and cleansing himself of age and appetite by transferring it all into the inhabitant of a cave beneath their base. After Dorian had lured the surviving members of the Liberator crew to Xenon, Soolin covertly disarmed their guns only for Dorian to do the same to her. He planned to transform all of them into a gestalt to act as the new recipient of his excesses. Kerr Avon managed to kill the existing creature, causing Dorian to age to death.
Despite disappearing from the base in the immediate aftermath, Soolin returned after Avon and the others took control of Dorian's old ship, Scorpio, and asked to go with them, offering them her skills. Despite claiming to have no loyalty to them, Soolin quickly seemed to bond with her new crewmates: She disagreed with Avon and Tarrant using Vila and Dayna as unwitting bait during their raid on the Space Rats' hideout.
When Muller's android attempted to gain control of Orac, Soolin was the one who hid the computer and then used it to decoy the android while Avon prepared a trap. After the crew's old enemy, Servalan, hired an assassin named Cancer to kill them, Soolin joined Avon and Tarrant in lying in wait on board Cancer's ship for Servalan. She was the one to deduce that the man they had taken for Cancer was a decoy and an entertainer named Piri was the real Cancer, saving Avon from her robot crab. She also took on the role of out-shooting a simulation of herself during Belkov's games. She took part in the crew's attempt to steal gold from the planet Zerok, killing several security guards in the process, although she disagreed with their apparent ally Keiller killing an unarmed doctor.
During Avon's attempt to form an anti-Federation alliance among the neutral planets, Soolin was both suspicious of the warlord Zukan and friendly towards his daughter Zeeona. She arranged for Zeeona to stay behind on Xenon against Zukan's wishes while she and Avon travelled to Zukan's home planet Betafarl and walked straight into a Federation trap. Soolin managed to evade capture by posing as Zeeona and free Avon. After they returned to Xenon, Soolin supported Zeeona's offer to decontaminate the base of the virus Zukan had introduced. Zeeona succeeded but died after removing her protective suit's glove.
Soolin was shaken when Avon set course for Gauda Prime in search of a new figurehead to form his alliance around: His former leader Roj Blake. She was furious that the planet was applying for Federation membership and thus trying to get rid of the criminals they had once invited in. On arriving, Scorpio was attacked by the authorities. Soolin evacuated the doomed ship with Vila and Dayna, eventually joining up with Avon and reaching Blake's base. There, Avon killed Blake wrongly believing he had betrayed them, just before the base was stormed by Federation troopers. Soolin was apparently killed in the gun battle that followed.
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