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- <a href="setting-1.html">Season 1: "Signs and Portents"</a><br>
- <strong>Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"</strong><br>
- <a href="setting-3.html">Season 3: "Point of No Return"</a><br>
- <a href="setting-4.html">Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"</a>
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- The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace. A self-contained
- world five miles long, located in neutral territory. A place of commerce
- and diplomacy for a quarter of a million humans and aliens. A shining
- beacon in space, all alone in the night.
- It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind...the year the Great War
- came upon us all. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations.
- The year is 2259. The name of the place is Babylon 5.
- </cite> - Captain Sheridan
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- Babylon 5's mission appears increasingly hopeless. After nearly two years of
- operation, everything is changing for the worse. Though Babylon 5's mission
- of peace continues, war appears to be imminent, and
- there is a dangerous new power in the galaxy that few even suspect exists.
- Amid the heightening tensions, the complex relationships among the
- major powers are shifting in unpredictable ways.
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- The <strong>Earth Alliance</strong> is in charge of the station and the
- surrounding space. Its president was recently killed in an "accidental"
- explosion. His successor seems to be taking the goverment in a sinister
- direction. President Clark is connected with the <strong>Psi-Corps,</strong>
- an organization responsible
- for the tracking and training of human telepaths; increasingly, though, the
- Corps appears to be meddling in Earth politics, pursuing its own agenda.
- Evidence that the last president's death was not an
- accident isn't being taken seriously. Babylon 5's first commander, Sinclair,
- was abruptly removed from his post and sent to the Minbari homeworld.
- The new commander, Captain Sheridan, has his work cut out for him; keeping the
- peace has never been more difficult.
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- Once an adversary of Earth, the <strong>Minbari Federation</strong> has
- continued to show interest in and friendship with humanity. Over the past year,
- a few have discovered why: the Minbari religious caste believes that
- some humans are carrying reincarnated Minbari souls, a discovery they made on
- the brink of victory over Earth eleven years earlier. The abrupt cessation of
- the Earth-Minbari War was a direct result; Minbari have a strict moral code
- against killing others of their kind. Minbari are humanoid, bald, with pale
- skin and bone crests on their heads.
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- The <strong>Centauri Republic</strong>, long considered a fading empire,
- seems to be on the upswing, thanks to a deal that Ambassador Londo Mollari
- struck with a mysterious race he knows next to nothing about.
- Centauri women are
- bald; men wear their hair in peacock-style fans whose length indicates the
- wearer's social standing. The Republic is rife with political intrigue and
- backstabbing.
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- Among those formerly under Centauri domination are the <strong>Narn,</strong>
- a reptilian-looking race who fought off their oppressors in a century-long
- war of attrition. The Narn Regime has been building up its military, and it
- looks like that preparation may pay off, as the Centauri have gotten
- aggressive again and there may be more conflict ahead. Only Narn Ambassador
- G'Kar believes that somebody else is responsible for the Centauri's military
- flexing and that more races than the Narn are in danger.
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- Even though the <strong>Vorlon Empire</strong> has had a representative on
- Babylon 5 for a year and a half, almost nothing is known about his race.
- Ambassador Kosh seems to be taking an interest in Captain Sheridan, but
- Kosh's interest in humans is still shrouded in mystery. The Vorlons are
- an extremely powerful race; no expedition into their space has been
- heard from again. There seems to be some history between the Vorlons and
- the Minbari, but neither one is willing to say what it is.
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- The <strong>Shadows</strong> are a strong and dark power who are clearly not
- interested in being discovered. Only those who pay attention to prophecies
- suspect they may have returned after a centuries-long absence.
- Through their human agent Morden (pictured here) they have offered to help
- Londo restore the Centauri Empire's glory... but clearly that's only one step
- in their larger plans.
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- Much has been resolved since Babylon 5 went online, but many more mysteries
- and problems remain. Who are the Shadows, and what do they want?
- What is going on back on Earth, where a new administration seems to be playing
- some dangerous games? How will Londo deal with his newfound power as he
- moves aggressively to recapture the Centauri Republic's former glory?
- Babylon 4 reappeared briefly, in the process of being pulled forward in time by
- a future version of Commander Sinclair to act as a base of operations in a
- great war; when will that happen, and how will it end?
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