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- <a href="setting-1.html">Season 1: "Signs and Portents"</a><br>
- <a href="setting-2.html">Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"</a><br>
- <strong>Season 3: "Point of No Return"</strong><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. It failed.
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- But, in the Year of the Shadow War, it became something greater: our last,
- best hope... for victory. The year is 2260. The place: Babylon 5.
- </cite> - Commander Ivanova
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- Babylon 5 has failed in its mission. War has erupted, and is quickly pulling
- all the major races in.
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- The <strong>Earth Alliance</strong>
- is in charge of the station and the surrounding space. The corrupt
- administration of the EA, led by President Clark, has connections to the
- sinister activities of the
- <strong>Psi Corps,</strong> a government agency that tracks and trains
- human telepaths and increasingly seems to be running the government rather
- than serving it. An Orwellian agency called <strong>Night Watch</strong> is
- stifling any signs of dissent, carting people off to be reeducated if they
- don't cooperate. Earth has taken a questionable stance
- by allying itself with the expansionist Centauri Empire, hoping to save its
- own skin by allowing the Centauri to roll unhindered over the lesser races
- Earth once saved. Babylon 5's commander, Captain Sheridan (pictured here,)
- along with a small group, is working to covertly wrestle control away from the
- current administration, bolstered by evidence that President Clark was
- directly involved in the assassination of his predecessor.
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- The <strong>Centauri Republic</strong>, only months ago a fading empire,
- is currently on an expansionist path.
- A deal with unknown forces enabled Ambassador Londo Mollari (pictured) to
- regain some of their past glory. It seems only a matter of time, though,
- before the deal runs its course and the Centauri find out its price.
- In terms of appearance, Centauri appear human at first glance, though that's
- deceptive. Women shave their heads; men wear their hair in fans, with length
- indicating social standing. The Centauri Emperor is a puppet, completely under
- the thumb of several royal houses who have risen to ascendancy with Londo's
- help.
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- Once a major power, the <strong>Narn Regime</strong> has been recently
- conquered in a brutal assault by the Centauri, especially humiliating since
- they were unwilling
- subjects of the Centauri Republic of old. Former ambassador G'Kar, one of
- the few who knows that the Centauri aren't working alone, leads a
- resistance movement from Babylon 5, but his chances of reclaiming his
- homeworld seem slim. Narns have a reptilian appearance and are easily
- provoked. The strict new rules imposed by the Centauri (including
- the death of the killer's family if any Narn kills any Centauri) have forced
- them to move carefully.
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- Once an adversary of Earth, the <strong>Minbari Federation</strong> has
- continued to show interest and friendship with humanity,
- though how long that will
- remain the case is uncertain. The balance of power in the Minbari ruling body,
- the Grey Council, has shifted in favor of the warrior caste, many of whom
- are none too happy about the surrender to Earth twelve years earlier. (Only
- the Council and a few outsiders know that the war was ended when the Council
- discovered that some humans carry Minbari souls.) The Minbari have been a
- major power for well over a millenium, and were instrumental in the defeat of
- the Shadows when they last rose up a thousand years ago.
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- Very little is known about the <strong>Vorlon Empire</strong>. The Vorlons
- are an ancient race, the last remaining member of a group of elder races known
- as the First Ones who ruled the galaxy millions of years ago. The Vorlons
- have visited the lesser races for eons, possibly manipulating many of them
- for their own purposes.
- The fact that Vorlons appear as holy figures of legend to the few onlookers
- who see them outside their encounter suits -- different figures to different
- observers, no less -- seems to support that. The Vorlons are
- ancient adversaries of the Shadows, and it's to help wage war against them
- one last time that the Vorlons remained behind when the other First Ones
- went away. They are able to project images into people's minds, no doubt
- part of the reason for their subjective appearance.
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- The <strong>Shadows</strong> are a dark power, ancient beyond even the Vorlons.
- They have fought fierce wars against the First Ones across millions of years.
- The last Great War against the Shadows was ten thousand years ago; after that,
- perhaps thinking the Shadows destroyed, most of the First Ones departed. A
- thousand years ago the Shadows rose again, and were defeated by an alliance
- of the few remaining First Ones and others, including the Minbari. Now, with
- no First Ones other than the Vorlons to oppose them, their victory seems
- certain; what their ultimate goals are, nobody knows, except perhaps their
- human representative, Morden (pictured.) The Shadows generally choose to
- make themselves invisible, though some can sense their presence anyway.
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- The <strong>Rangers</strong> are an underground "army of light" formed to
- gather information and perform covert operations in the war against the
- Shadows. Organized with the help of Delenn, Sinclair
- (former Babylon 5 commander and current Earth ambassador to Minbar) and
- Sheridan, the Rangers have pledged their lives to fight the coming
- darkness. Rangers are identified by a pin which depicts elements of human
- and Minbari appearance.
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- Babylon 5's original mission of peace may have failed, but it has become
- something greater: a chance for victory. The alliances formed against the
- Shadows are recent, though, and the players may not be ready to win the war.
- Meanwhile, the Earth goverment back home seems to have its own
- agenda, and will likely not be of any help in the fight against the darkness.
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