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Del Tarrant

Tarrant appeared, almost literally, at the begining of the third season. Avon was almost fatally surprised to find him aboard the Liberator when Zen picked him and Dayna up from the surface of Sarran. Tarrant explained that he was a Federation Space Captain, and that he was now the owner of the Liberator, the Federation troopers who had boarded the Liberator after him did not wholly agree and started to disappear. Eventually it turned out that Tarrant too is an outlaw, and although he had graduated from the space academy he had gone AWOL to engage in more profitable pursuits of his own. Accepted into the fold Tarrant engaged in a kind of battle for leadership with Avon. The latter, recognising Tarrant's charisma played along at first, generally sending him into dangerous situations that he himself would have avoided.

Tarrant was impetuous, and was given to making rash decisions without any forethought. He often regards the feelings of the others as unimportant and was given to bullying when they did not agree, this is most obvious in "City At The Edge Of The world" where he forced Vila onto a dangerous away mission against his will. Fortunately Tarrant's bravado and ability as a space pilot were useful in the fourth season where he was needed to fly the more primitive Scorpio.

His inability to think rationally proves the downfall of the whole crew when, in the final episode he meets Blake and -believing that he is a traitor- tells the already massively paranoid Avon that has been betrayed. Avon has already been betrayed once too often.
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