Rebellious Streak: thoughts on Rebooting Blakes 7

System Pursuit Ship adrift in Space

Somewhere on the edge of astro point 781 in the 12th Sector a Pursuit Ship is drifting. A last remnant of the AI dominated civilization toppled by a Brain in a box named ORAC.
It has taken Vila decades to pull together the resources necessary to venture this far out beyond the Terran Federation.
The MK6 Terran Federation Pursuit ship he has abandoned has seen better days and is still in better condition compared to the Space-world built Pursuit ship looming closer every minute as he drifts across the void of space toward its hull.

The Access Airlock was easily identified and the ship breached. The original crew were long deceased, their survival dependant on the System that ORAC had long ago destroyed. Remaining in his space-suit Vila walked onto the very familiar flight deck stepping over the ancient remains of a long deceased crew and stared at the Ship's dead AI interface.
"Zen?" Vila paused, contemplating his alternatives if it failed to respond. "Respond Please."

Vila, last of the Seven, is not overly keen on dying like his compatriots. Rather his need to survive has driven him to salvage the most powerful ship technology possible.

Thus we have:

1. A ship technologically similar to the Liberator, with an FTL velocity of Standard by Twenty, Auto-repair, Herculanium Hull, Zen AI, Force-wall, Battle computers, Teleport, and a Neutron Blaster as primary ship weapon.
2. An aging Thief named Vila who knows its value to be beyond all the credits in the Terran Federation banking system.

But should it begin here, or should we write this tale backwards beginning where it ended - on Gauda Prime, and ending where it began - on Earth?