Servalan

**Servalan** was a cunning and ruthless, high-ranking member of the Terran Federation. She was a megalomaniac, only seeking to advance her own cause -- an ambitious quest for power -- rather than truly aid the Terran Federation. Despite this, she was a firm believer in order and truly felt that the Federation was the best way to keep the galaxy from slipping into chaos. Her loyalty to them was second only to her loyalty to herself.

Servalan was a master of manipulation and seduction, and primarily viewed those around her as tools to achieve her ends. Morally, she perceived nothing wrong with industries such as the slave trade, but found gambling and drug use to be abhorrent.

## History

At one time, Servalan was in a romantic relationship with Don Keller. After his disappearance and presumed death on the planet Virn, she changed drastically. In her words, "power became [her] lover" and she quickly climbed the ranks of the Terran Federation by any means necessary. As her power and influence grew, she was able to help Egrorian disappear -- along with millions of credits. Eventually, the President of the Terran Federation, supported by Councilor Joban, appointed her to the rank of Supreme Commander.

As Roj Blake and the crew of the *Liberator* quickly became a thorn in the side of the Federation, Servalan began overseeing the efforts to stop them personally. Aware of Blake's history with Travis, Servalan put him at the head of the task force created to stop this rebellion -- also saving Travis from a potential court marshal. After his failure on Centero, she provided him with a deadly biological agent to use against the rebels led by Avalon in a scheme to destroy her rebel cell, and capture the *Liberator*. Upon that scheme's failure, she relieved Travis of command and initiated an inquiry against him.

Servalan came up against Blake and his crew once more, in her quest to obtain the supercomputer Orac. As Orac joined the *Liberator*, two of Servalan's most compelling goals aligned and her personal vendetta against Roj Blake intensified. She created several clones of Blake -- only to have her schemes interrupted by the attempted defection of Coser, along with his IMIPAK weapon. Servalan failed to acquire the weapon for herself, and lost control of her active Blake clone.

As Travis' long awaited court martial began, Servalan secretly worked with Major Thania to ensure the verdict would be guilty. Unbeknownst to Travis, should he be found in innocent he would be called upon to testify against Servalan for her failure to stop Blake's uprising. The trial is interrupted when the *Liberator* launches a direct assault upon the starbase. With few other options and renewed desperation, Servalan equipped Travis with missing parts of his lazeron destroyer, gave him authorization over a ship, and ordered a crew of Mutoids to follow his commands. The two begin working off the record, with Travis acting as a fugitive from the Federation, to capture or kill Blake. When their first plan nearly succeeds, Servalan promises with greater success she will have him listed as dead so he will no longer be pursued by or beholden to the Terran Federation.

Blake was manipulated into participating in a coup of the Terran Federation -- however, Servalan anticipated the scheme and foiled it. Realizing from this encounter that Blake was getting closer to learning the location of Star One, Servalan sought to capture Docholli -- to this end she traveled to Freedom City and set Krantor on the task. She manipulated him, hoping to also gain the grounds to take full control of the city and bring it to heel under the moral authority of the Federation. Despite her best efforts, Blake once again out-maneuvered her.

With the destruction of Star One now imminent, Servalan made a move on the presidency -- and was successful. She almost immediately declared martial law, which was already in effect when Orac warned her of the Andromedan fleet amassing outside the borders of the Milky Way. She embarked with a fleet of Federation vessels to engage the intergalactic enemy.

Servalan's own vessel was destroyed, though she survived -- crashing on the planet Sarran. This was, coincidentally, the same planet that Kerr Avon and Orac crashed on. Initially she sought to capture and imprison Avon, but with no resources she was quickly forced to ally herself with him for survival. Always insidious, however, she took the first opportunity to take and hide Orac -- killing Hal Mellanby as she did. Ultimately, this betrayal would cost her -- as she would be left behind on Sarran when Avon, Orac, and Dayna Mellanby were teleported aboard the *Liberator*.

Servalan was rescued by a hospital ship bound for the planet Chenga -- a ship that happens to be carrying Cally. Upon reaching that destination, Servalan managed to negotiate a return to the Terran Federation. She happily informed Cally and Vila Restal that the real motive of the Hi-Techs on Chenga was to harvest organs -- and both members of the *Liberator* crew were on the chopping block.

With the *Liberator* still proving to be a problem for the Federation, which Servalan was fighting to maintain her control over, she ordered the fleet to follow the ship. On her orders, they invaded the planet Obsidian -- until Hower detonated a nuclear weapon to destroy the planet. Shortly afterwards, she managed to strand her opponents on the planet Kairos, as its short habitable season came to close -- taking over the *Liberator* herself. Her victory was short-lived, and the crew retook the ship after escaping the planet.

Enraged by this, Servalan committed herself to a new scheme -- one to ensure her legacy and victory over the crew of the *Liberator*. She purposefully infected the Auronar with a deadly pathogen, arriving on the planet Auron with the supposed goal of helping the population handle the pandemic. Under this guise, she forced Franton and Zelda into implanting her DNA in the next batch of clone children. Although Servalan is ultimately defeated once more, she successfully rendered Auron uninhabitable and forced the Auronar to relocate.

Afterwards, Servalan returned to Earth where construction had completed on her presidential palace. Amidst the excitement of the inauguration, a rebel uprising led by Hob and Anna Grant invaded the palace. Taken by surprise, Servalan's forces were defeated and she was chained up and taken prisoner in her own basement -- spared only because Anna wanted her to publicly hand power over to a people's council. In those moments, Avon arrived seeking information about Bartholomew's true identity -- only to learn from Servalan that it was Anna Grant. Anna's sudden arrival confirmed the information, so Avon killed her for her betrayal and set Servalan free. Not about to be defeated again, Servalan turned on Avon immediately but with so many enemies around her, she ultimately killed Hob and gave Avon an opportunity to escape.

Later, in efforts to persuade to residents of Sardos to join her, Servalan became a captive again. This time, she was able to temporarily persuade Vila to help her escape. During this adventure, she learned exactly how formidable Del Tarrant could be and so she devised a scheme against him, by manipulating the warring United Planets of Teal and the Vandor Confederacy. Servalan places Vinni, an android, to be the champion of Vandor while Del Tarrant's brother Deeta Tarrant was named champion of Teal. Servalan had herself named the neutral arbiter. When Avon uncovered the scheme, Servalan's position as arbiter was vetoed.

Finally, Servalan concocted a new scheme to destroy the crew of the *Liberator* and commandeer the ship for herself. She lured them to the artificial planet Terminal, under a ruse that Blake was alive and on the planet. Though she succeeded in the mission to strand the crew on the planet and take the ship for herself, she was unaware that fluidic particles had eaten away at the Liberator's hull and systems. She managed, narrowly, to escape using the teleportation system just before the ship disintegrated. A power surge in the teleportation system sent Servalan to a planet within Federation space -- very much by luck.

Rebel activities across many worlds caused the Federation to begin losing its footing, and Servalan was soon presumed dead in actions on the planet Geddon. Deposed as president, she was forced to assume a new role in order to regain her power -- taking on the identity of Commissioner **Sleer**. While helping with the Federation's new pacification project using pylene-50, she also went to any length to protect her identity from those who assumed power after her supposed death. To that end, Servalan left a string of Federation bodies behind her -- including Practor, Forbus, Leitz, and Ardus.

Having learned of a program to genetically engineer soldiers for the Federation during the Intergalactic War, Servalan -- as Sleer -- headed to Bucol-2 to acquire the results for herself. Unable to truly secure the cooperation of Justin, Servalan killed him too. Frustrated to still be confronted by her enemies, now aboard the *Scorpio*, she hired the assassin Cancer to get rid of them. However, Cancer's plot was foiled by Soolin -- and the assassin was killed by her own tools.

Servalan found her plans to acquire feldon crystals thwarted. This series of defeats led her to become somewhat nostalgic, and so she led a mission to Virn to investigate the disappearance of her former lover Don Keller. On the planet, she and the crew of the *Scorpio* became trapped by the strange, vampiric sands. Tarrant helps Servalan survive the experience, and leaves her on the planet. She was soon rescued by Federation forces.

Afterwards, she manipulated the crew of the *Scorpio* to work with Keiller on a black gold heist. After the heist was completed, she revealed herself -- but simply paid them their reward, collected the gold for herself, and departed. This left the crew stunned -- until they discovered that almost immediately afterwards the planet Zerok joined the Federation. The money they had been paid was worthless, whereas Servalan now had full access to the technology required to turn the black gold into real gold.

With an impressive source of new funding, Servalan was prepared to make her move to retake the Federation. She only needed a few more tools -- working with Egrorian, she planned to take Orac from the *Scorpio* and use a tachyon funnel to wrest control of the Federation from the current administration. The plan, however, failed utterly. Defeated once more by the *Scorpio* team -- with the help of Pinder -- Servalan abandoned Egrorian.

Nevertheless, Servalan was able to procure additional power within the Federation quite rapidly. As Avon began to build an alliance against the Federation, Servalan infiltrated the alliance and manipulated the warlords to turn against each other -- irradiating the *Scorpio*'s base on Xenon.

Although not her doing, the subsequent defeat of the *Scorpio*'s crew meant that Servalan's path to power was virtually unobstructed. She quickly and brutally reclaimed the presidency.