Zoë has voiced the character of The Pilot for the Blake's 7 Audio Adventure ZEN: Escape Velocity. The audio adventure is part of the BLAKE’S 7: THE EARLY YEARS series, published by the UK-based independent production company, B7 Productions and stars Zoë, Jason Merrells, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Alistair Lock as Zen.

THE EARLY YEARS is a prequel series of stories that explores the origins of key Blake's 7 characters prior to them meeting rebel leader, Roj Blake. This latest entry to the ever-expanding series takes a new twist, concentrating on a character that doesn’t breathe or have any parents, the synthetic intelligence ZEN.

When Roj Blake first stepped on board the mysterious, derelict alien spaceship Liberator, his every movement was monitored by the ship’s controlling intelligence, ZEN. Luckily, Blake and his rebel crew managed to gain the ‘confidence’ of this creation from an alien world and so was able to use the Liberator in his quest for justice against the Federation. But the origins of ZEN have remained a mystery, until now.

Before Blake; before the Seven; before the rebellion began... The Liberator - a mysterious alien starship controlled by a synthetic intelligence known only as Zen. A derelict rescued from the brink of destruction by Roj Blake and his band of dissidents, the ship is their weapon in the war against the corrupt Federation, its origin unknown until now. What terrible catastrophe left the Liberator drifting and shattered? What drove the ship's computer to murder its original crew? What dark secrets lie at the heart of this alien machine? For one woman, a pilot in the service of the all-powerful System, these questions will be answered in a desperate search for her own identity... a search that can only end in betrayal and death.

The story is told from the point of view of one of the original Liberator crew, the human Pilot, played by Zoë. How a human without a past came to be on board this alien vessel will be just the beginning of this spine-tingling tale. For Zoë, playing a character with no past was an exciting challenge:

With no past to draw from, the emphasis was on Pilot’s instincts. It was important for me to strike the right balance between portraying an innocent who is seemingly starting life afresh and in Pilot’s case, an old soul, whose innate wisdom and fighting spirit, tells her that all is not what it seems.

Story 2.1 ZEN: ESCAPE VELOCITY
Written by James Swallow | Directed by Andrew Mark Sewell
Release: 26 April 2010 | RRP: £10.99 | ISBN: 978-1-906577-09-4
Featuring Zoë Tapper, Jason Merrells, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Alistair Lock as Zen.

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