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BABYLON 5                                                 Last Update:
Dictionary                                                5/17/94
 
Abbai - one of the non-aligned worlds

Abbut - a "vicar" (VCR, q.v) who helped Kosh gain information about
Talia Winters

Babylon 1, Babylon 2, Babylon 3 - B4's predecessors; all three stations
were destroyed

Babylon 4 - B5's predecessor; disappeared soon after becoming
operational
 
Battle of the Line - final battle of the Earth-Minbari war
 
Bester - Psi Cop (P12)
 
Biggs, Malcolm - Ivanova's former lover; member of the Homeguard;
arrested for militant, anti-alien crimes
 
Centauri Republic - one of the five major governments in the B5
universe (so far)

Children of the Egg - people of a small planet who hatch from an egg; they
are a deeply religious people who feel that their "souls" will escape if
their body cavity is punctured

Connally, Neeoma - a labor leader on B5
 
Cotto, Vir - Londo's assistant

Cutter - member of the president's security force; tried to destroy
a fighter wing of B5 but was stopped by Garibaldi

Deathwalker - an epithet for Jha'Dur (see Jha'Dur)
 
Delenn (Satai) - the Minbari ambassador

Dilgar - a race that went to war against the non-aligned worlds (and Earth)
30 yeras ago; known for their brutality

Dilgar War - the war that ensued after the Dilgar invaded the non-aligned
worlds 30 years ago; Earth came to the defense of the non-aligned worlds
and helped to repel the Dilgar

Drazi - one of the non-aligned worlds
 
Dukhat - the late leader of the Grey Council
 
Du'Rog - an old enemy of G'Kar; sent Tu'Pari to kill G'Kar, but
Tu'Pari failed
 
Earth Alliance - one of the five major governments in the B5 unive-
rse (so far)

Earthdome - the seat of the Earth Alliance government, located in
"what used to be Geneva"

Earthforce - the Earth Alliance's military organization

Earth-Minbari War - war between the Earth and the Minbari that occurred
ten years ago; the Minbari, on the verge of victory, surrendered for no
*apparent* reason

Fire Wings - one of the Minbari warrior clans
 
Franklin, Steven - B5 medical chief of staff 
 
Garibaldi, Michael - B5 security officer
 
G'Kar (Third Circle) - the Narn ambassador
 
Grey Council - the religious ruling body of the Minbari
 
Hendricks, Vance (Dr.) - Dr. Franklin's old teacher; tried to get
rich by selling dangerous artifacts--when he brought them aboard B5
to have Franklin check them, they became "alive" and threatened the
station
 
Homeguard - a militant, pro-Earth (anti-alien) organization

Ironheart, Jason - Talia's old lover; evolved into a different
life-form after being given drugs that induced telekenesis;
apparently gave Talia the "gift" of telekenesis
 
Ivanova, Andrei - Susan Ivanova's father
 
Ivanova, Susan - second-in-command of B5

Jha'Dur - a brutal Dilgar war criminal who was killed by the Vorlons
after she developed an immortality serum
 
Jumpgate - the primary means of interstellar travel in B5

Kalika, Ambassador - a leading ambassador of the non-aligned worlds on B5
 
Kelsey - dead Psi Cop (P12)

Kemmer, Frank - a friend of Garibaldi seventeen years ago; Frank was
killed and his death was blamed on Garibaldi's negligence

Kemmer, Lianna - Frank's daughter, who is now on the presidential
security staff; when she came to B5, she finally forgave Garibaldi
for her father's death (but not before driving Garibaldi to the bottle
by prosecuting him for a crime he didn't commit)

Knight One - member of a group which wanted to show a connection
between Earth officials and Minbari during the Earth-Minbari war;
killed by Sinclair in self-defense
 
Knight Two - member of a group which wanted to show a connection
between Earth officials and Minbari during the Earth-Minbari war;
tried to find out what happened to Sinclair at the Battle of the
Line, but had his [Knight One's] brain "fried" in the process
 
Ko D'ath - G'Kar's former assistant

League of Non-Aligned Worlds - a group of the "minor" alien governments
("Non-Aligned" because they have not sided with any of the five major
governments)
 
Lennier (of the Third Fane of Chu'Domo) - Delenn's assistant
 
Maray, Kiron - Vir's cousin; Aria Tensus's lover

Mars Colony - an Earth colony on the planet Mars; birthplace of Sinclair
 
Mayan, Shaal - famous Minbari poet; friend of Delenn
 
Minbari Federation - one of the five major governments in the B5
universe (so far)
 
Mollari, Carn - Londo's nephew
 
Mollari, Londo - Centauri ambassador

Moon Shields - one of the Minbari warrior clans
 
Naranek, Kosh - the Vorlon ambassador
 
Narn Regime - one of the five major governments in the B5 universe
(so far)
 
Na'Toth - G'Kar's assistant

Night Walkers - one of the Minbari warrior clans
 
Nine, the - another term for the Grey Council (referring to its
nine members)

Non-Aligned Worlds - see "League of Non-Aligned Worlds"

Pak'ma'ra - one of the non-aligned worlds
 
Quantium 40 - a valuable material necessary for jumpgate construc-
tion

Raiders - space pirates who prey on merchant vessels
 
Ragesh 3 Colony (spelled "Ragesh" in subtitle in "Midnight on the
Firing Line," but spelled "Raghesh" in the Universe Today newspaper
in "And the Sky Full of Stars") - A Centauri colony attacked by the
Narns; the attack was eventually withdrawn

Rush Act - an Senate act that calls for the arrest of workers who
illegally strike
 
Sakai, Catherine - a planetary surveyor; Sinclair's girlfriend

Santiago, Luis - president of Earth
 
Satai - honorific applied to members of the Grey Council
 
Sigma 957 - a planet near which "strange things happen," according
to G'Kar
 
Sinclair, Jeffrey - B5 Commander

Shon - a "Child of the Egg" whose parents killed him after he underwent
a surgery procedure that punctured his body cavity
 
Soul Hunter - immortal race of beings who steal people's "souls" at
the moment of death

Star Riders - the oldest of the Minbari warrior clans
 
Tensus, Aria - Kiron Maray's lover
 
Thenta Makur - Narn assassins' guild
 
Trakis - Adira Tyree's former master
 
Tu'Pari - member of the Thenta Makur; sent by Du'Rog to kill G'Kar,
but failed in his mission
 
Tyree, Adira - a Centauri ex-slave with whom Londo once fell in
love

Vicar - pun on "VCR"; a part-cybernetic, part-organic lifeform which
lend their services as recording instruments; vicars can record many things,
including telepathic activity (to some degree)
 
Vorlon Empire - one of the five major governments in the B5
universe (so far)

Wind Swords - the most militant of the Minbari warrior clans (according to
Lennier)
 
Winters, Talia - B5 station telepath (P5)
 
Xon - native race of Centauri Prime which was eventually killed off
by the Centauri
 
Zento, Orin - a somewhat rude negotiator who convinced the Senate to
invoke the Rush Act against B5 laborers

Zocalo - the social center of B5
 
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Additions and corrections are welcomed.

Note that I use B5's time frame in describing these entries (e.g., the
Dilgar war occured 30 years *ago*, etc.)
 
Shawn Bayern
bayern@cshl.org
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Thanks to Dan Wood <danwood@pobox.com> and David Tanguay
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