Leia said:
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.
and Julia replied:
Of course, this backfires on him in the long run. Servalan keeps on after him partly because *she* wants to have a play with his pretty toy.
But no one (in the show or in fandom) seems to expect that one day the rest of the crew will wake up to be greeted with +INFORMATION At 0347 hours ship time we passed #2 on the Top Ten Bolthole list, at which point Avon picked up the suitcases with the leather gear and the contents of the Treasure Room and had me teleport him down. He says, "So long, suckers."+
-(Y)