Ann wrote: <Yes, Blake has said that people are more important than things. But Avon says something like the following several times (this quote from Volcano), and nobody seems to contradict him: AVON: All right, but you haven't much time. If you are not back here in an hour I shall have to consider the safety of the Liberator as the first priority. Do you understand me?>

Yes (and he orders Tarrant to 'abandon Dayna' - *his* word - in Animals). Blake actually shows that he feels the same way by refusing to surrender the Liberator in Horizon.

<Is it "the safety of the Liberator is first because I want it and I don't care about the rest of you?" Or is it "the safety of the Liberator is first because only it can protect the rest of us?" And why doesn't anybody argue???>

The latter, mostly (against the former, see Horizon), with the addition - for Blake, at least - that giving up or losing the Liberator to the Federation would be a disaster for the entire human race ...

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