Upon abandoning Xenon Base, which has been destroyed. Avon decides that the Scorpio crew must find another figurehead for the rebel alliance and Avon reveals that figurehead is Blake and that Orac has located him on a planet called Gauda Prime, which happens to be Soolin's planet and it is also a lawless planet. But, Scorpio is attacked and is forced to crash on the planet. On Gauda Prime, the Scorpio crew learn Blake has become a bounty hunter and they wrongly conclude Blake has turned traitor and he is now working for the Federation. But, the Scorpio crew are not aware Blake is secretly recruiting outlaws to form an army against the Federation and Avon kills Blake and a deadly massacre breaks out, which all the Scorpio crew minus Avon are all shot and killed by Federation soldiers.