Maryatt was a Space Surgeon with the Federation's Medical Corps. He saved Travis' life at some point, probably after Travis was severely injured by Roj Blake. He travelled with a young Ensor to Aristo, where he was to replace the micro-power cells that powered his father's heart implant. On the way he was forced to abandon ship over Cephlon when Servalan's bomb exploded, and was found dead on the surface in his impact life capsule by Gan and Jenna. According to Blake, Maryatt was probably dead before the capsule was launched.
Maryatt had a AA Security Clearance for access to any area in Space Command. Blake, searching through his effects, also found photographs of a woman, presumably his wife, and two children: Travis made reference to them going into slavery on one of the frontier worlds, apparently normal procedure in a case of desertion. (A: Deliverance)
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In the non-canonical fan production The Mark of Kane, Travis recognises one of the mutoids provided to him by Servalan following his escape in Trial as Maryatt's wife, and supposes she was selected specifically by Servalan to accompany him as a perverse "little joke" at his expense. He stated that Maryatt's desertion charge was false, and in a rare display of empathy, he expressed his regret at having been unable to do anything to save the man who had saved his life, or to spare his family their fates. The sentiment, however, was lost on the mutoid.[1]
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- ↑ From the novelisation: "But I think you are mistaken in the belief that you knew me," Valisha pointed out. "I have no recollection that we ever met during my former life." Travis smiled to himself. Mutoids may not have been entirely human in a conventional sense, but they still had familiar human failings, specifically the capacity to leap to conclusions. "We didn't," he answered bluntly. "But I've met your husband." The bitterest memory of his life, the one that had tortured him every day since, flashed across his mind's eye. "He was the man who saved my life, when I was shot by Blake." Another bitter thought forced its way into the conversation. "I think that's why you were put on board. As Servalan's little joke." It would have been just like the Supreme Commander after all, he thought resentfully. That was the whole point of course - Servalan was just using the mutoid to taunt Travis, to remind him of how he had complied with the betrayal of Maryatt, and to remind him of the consequences it had had for Maryatt's family. Travis knew what Servalan was trying to do of course, but it didn't make it any less true. He had once accused the Federation of being run by hypocrites. Valisha was the living, or rather half-living, proof that he was right - but also that Travis himself was the greatest of all such hypocrites. For he, who felt betrayed by the Federation, had himself betrayed the man who had saved his life. It was a betrayal that Travis felt compelled to speak of now, although from what he had heard, he was beginning to doubt that it would make a blind bit of difference. "I suppose there's no point in telling you that your husband wasn't a deserter." It was worded as a statement, voiced as a question. "No, Commander," Valisha replied. She did just about understand the concept of emotional attachment, she did have vague memories of such things, but she no longer had any memory of what it was actually like. "I have no emotional links with the past at all," she explained. "Memory is only retained because selective removal without dysfunction and side-effects proved impossible. What is removed, however, is our capacity for emotion. This has been achieved through physical surgery to the frontal lobes of the brain, and so is a process that cannot be reversed." Travis shook his head and let out a world-weary sigh. "I see," he muttered quietly. "Sometimes I really don't know why I bother." Full text: http://www.kaldorcity.com/audios/b7/kane/knov1.html