Roj Blake

Roj Blake is the protagonist of the first two seasons of Blake's 7 and the guest protagonist of the series finale.
He was portrayed by the late Gareth Thomas, who also voiced the character for Big Finish. In the reboot audios from B7 Productions, he was voiced by Derek Riddell.
==History==
Some years before the series started, Blake was the leader of a resistance group against the tyrannical Terran Federation. However, he was betrayed by Federation agent Dev Tarrant and ambushed by Federation officer Travis. His followers were massacred and his brother and sister were executed. Blake shot Travis, leaving him disfigured, but was captured and brainwashed into denouncing his movement, then had his memory wiped, and was kept around as a model of a reformed citizen. He was eventually contacted by his old colleague Bran Foster, who told him of his past. His memory was further jogged when Dev Tarrant further betrayed Foster's group and Blake witnessed their massacre. In order to keep his reversion to rebellion quiet, the Federation framed him for child abuse and sentenced him to be deported to Cygnus Alpha. The incident reinforced Blake's desire to bring down the Federation, as he defiantly told a guard "I'm coming back."
En route to Cygnus Alpha on board the prison ship London, Blake organised a breakout. Most of the prisoners were quickly recaptured and Blake and fellow ringleaders Jenna and Avon were forced to surrender when the ship's sub-commander, Raiker, began shooting the other prisoners. When the London came across a drifting alien spaceship and early attempts to board it left two crew dead and one insane, Blake, Jenna and Avon were sent over as a suicide squad. They managed to gain control of the ship, after Blake's experiences caused him to see through the illusions generated by the ship's security system, and used it to escape.
Using the newly christened Liberator, Blake headed to Cygnus Alpha and rescued old allies Vila Restal and Olag Gan from the cult led by Vargas, who Blake teleported into space. He then began a campaign of sabotage against the Federation, starting with the destruction of their communications complex on Saurian Major where he met the final member of his crew, Cally. His later raid on Centero to obtain a cypher machine resulted in his old enemy Travis being assigned the job of hunting him down. Blake evaded Travis' first trap, using the captive Cally as bait. He defeated Travis in single combat after they were both hijacked by aliens but showed a reluctance to kill him, declaring "Killing you'll change nothing. You don't matter enough to kill, Travis."
After stumbling upon a crashed capsule and learning the Federation was after something called Orac, Blake contacted Ensor, the scientist who had created Orac, a computer capable of accessing any other computers. Blake was able to keep it out of the hands of Travis and his superior Servalan. He had some success, such as returning the exiled President Sarkoff to his home planet and freeing the planet Horizon from Federation occupation, but also failures, such as his attempt to enlist the criminal group Terra Nostra.
Blake decided to strike a decisive blow against the Federation by attacking their central computer complex, Control. He planned a raid with the assistance of rebels on Earth but Servalan and Travis found out and wiped out his allies. Nevertheless, Blake and his crew managed to infiltrate the building only to find it was empty: The Federation had moved the complex years earlier, leaving an empty room as a symbol of their invincibility. Most of Blake's group managed to escape but Gan was killed by Travis. Wracked with guilt, Blake spent some time contemplating whether to go on, teleporting down to a deserted planet alone. The discovery that the planet was a living entity which absorbed those that inhabited it caused his resolve to return: "Not me. I am not ready to surrender anything." He responded to the failure by launching a lighting strike on Servalan's command station.
With Travis now also a Federation fugitive, he attempted to capture Blake and the Liberator by holding Blake's cousin Inga hostage and blackmailing his uncle Ushton into helping him. However, Ushton changed sides and helped Blake and Avon defeat Travis and his henchmen.
Blake became determined to track down the new Control and identified someone who might know, a Federation officer called Provine. He joined up with a group of rebels on the planet Albian, who had just managed to overthrow the Federation garrison. Provine, who had escaped disguised as a rebel, tried to kill Blake but was fatally wounded himself, revealing Control was now known as Star One. Blake followed a trail to its location, tracking down first Dochelli, erroneously believed to be the only person who knew where it was, and then the brain print of Lurgen, who worked on its construction. Blake refused to consider taking control of the Federation, knowing such power would corrupt anyone: He was determined to destroy Star One and the Federation's power with it.
When the Liberator reached Star One however, Blake discovered it was already being sabotaged by aliens from Andromeda, who had an invasion fleet poised to attack the Federation. Blake abandoned his plan to destroy the complex, knowing humanity needed the Federation to survive. With Blake injured in a final confrontation with Travis, who had allied with the Andromedans, he turned over control of the Liberator to Avon in order to fight off the Andromedans until the Federation arrived. Walking off the flight deck for the first time, he declared to the man who had been his biggest opponent on the ship "For what it's worth, I have always trusted you." With the Liberator badly damaged in the battle, Blake and his crew were forced to evacuate.
Blake eventually found his way to Gauda Prime, a lawless planet hoping for Federation membership. Posing as a bounty hunter, he began hunting down criminals in the hope of convincing them to join a new resistance group against the Federation, which was growing in power again after all but collapsing following the battle with the Andromedans. Ultimately, this would be his downfall when members of his old crew crashed on Gauda Prime in their new ship, Scorpio. Blake rescued Del Tarrant from the wreckage and let him know his identity, before pretending he was going to hand him over to the Federation. Tarrant escaped and told Avon that Blake had betrayed them. Blake ignored Avon's instructions to stand back, calmly approaching him as he tried to explain, only for Avon to shoot him repeatedly, killing him.
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