Avon wants the Liberator, right?...
<snip> But *why* do you think he wants it? What does he think he wants it
*for*?...
<snip> Was it just that it's the bestest toy a computer genius could want?
Well I'd quite like one...<grin>
I think part of it is his highly developed sense of self preservation...in the Liberator he can outrun and outgun most of what the Federation can send after him.
Partly it would provide a fine tool to rip them off - a great get-away vehicle as it were.
A bit of it is that he thinks he can do a better job with it than Blake...he's often contradicting and second guessing Blake...terrible back-seat driver<grin>
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