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BABYLON 5 Last Update:
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Dictionary 5/17/94
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Abbai - one of the non-aligned worlds
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Abbut - a "vicar" (VCR, q.v) who helped Kosh gain information about
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Talia Winters
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Babylon 1, Babylon 2, Babylon 3 - B4's predecessors; all three stations
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were destroyed
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Babylon 4 - B5's predecessor; disappeared soon after becoming
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operational
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Battle of the Line - final battle of the Earth-Minbari war
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Bester - Psi Cop (P12)
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Biggs, Malcolm - Ivanova's former lover; member of the Homeguard;
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arrested for militant, anti-alien crimes
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Centauri Republic - one of the five major governments in the B5
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universe (so far)
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Children of the Egg - people of a small planet who hatch from an egg; they
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are a deeply religious people who feel that their "souls" will escape if
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their body cavity is punctured
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Connally, Neeoma - a labor leader on B5
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Cotto, Vir - Londo's assistant
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Cutter - member of the president's security force; tried to destroy
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a fighter wing of B5 but was stopped by Garibaldi
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Deathwalker - an epithet for Jha'Dur (see Jha'Dur)
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Delenn (Satai) - the Minbari ambassador
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Dilgar - a race that went to war against the non-aligned worlds (and Earth)
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30 yeras ago; known for their brutality
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Dilgar War - the war that ensued after the Dilgar invaded the non-aligned
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worlds 30 years ago; Earth came to the defense of the non-aligned worlds
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and helped to repel the Dilgar
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Drazi - one of the non-aligned worlds
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Dukhat - the late leader of the Grey Council
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Du'Rog - an old enemy of G'Kar; sent Tu'Pari to kill G'Kar, but
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Tu'Pari failed
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Earth Alliance - one of the five major governments in the B5 unive-
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rse (so far)
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Earthdome - the seat of the Earth Alliance government, located in
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"what used to be Geneva"
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Earthforce - the Earth Alliance's military organization
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Earth-Minbari War - war between the Earth and the Minbari that occurred
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ten years ago; the Minbari, on the verge of victory, surrendered for no
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*apparent* reason
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Fire Wings - one of the Minbari warrior clans
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Franklin, Steven - B5 medical chief of staff
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Garibaldi, Michael - B5 security officer
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G'Kar (Third Circle) - the Narn ambassador
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Grey Council - the religious ruling body of the Minbari
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Hendricks, Vance (Dr.) - Dr. Franklin's old teacher; tried to get
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rich by selling dangerous artifacts--when he brought them aboard B5
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to have Franklin check them, they became "alive" and threatened the
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station
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Homeguard - a militant, pro-Earth (anti-alien) organization
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Ironheart, Jason - Talia's old lover; evolved into a different
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life-form after being given drugs that induced telekenesis;
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apparently gave Talia the "gift" of telekenesis
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Ivanova, Andrei - Susan Ivanova's father
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Ivanova, Susan - second-in-command of B5
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Jha'Dur - a brutal Dilgar war criminal who was killed by the Vorlons
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after she developed an immortality serum
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Jumpgate - the primary means of interstellar travel in B5
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Kalika, Ambassador - a leading ambassador of the non-aligned worlds on B5
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Kelsey - dead Psi Cop (P12)
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Kemmer, Frank - a friend of Garibaldi seventeen years ago; Frank was
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killed and his death was blamed on Garibaldi's negligence
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Kemmer, Lianna - Frank's daughter, who is now on the presidential
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security staff; when she came to B5, she finally forgave Garibaldi
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for her father's death (but not before driving Garibaldi to the bottle
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by prosecuting him for a crime he didn't commit)
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Knight One - member of a group which wanted to show a connection
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between Earth officials and Minbari during the Earth-Minbari war;
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killed by Sinclair in self-defense
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Knight Two - member of a group which wanted to show a connection
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between Earth officials and Minbari during the Earth-Minbari war;
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tried to find out what happened to Sinclair at the Battle of the
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Line, but had his [Knight One's] brain "fried" in the process
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Ko D'ath - G'Kar's former assistant
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League of Non-Aligned Worlds - a group of the "minor" alien governments
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("Non-Aligned" because they have not sided with any of the five major
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governments)
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Lennier (of the Third Fane of Chu'Domo) - Delenn's assistant
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Maray, Kiron - Vir's cousin; Aria Tensus's lover
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Mars Colony - an Earth colony on the planet Mars; birthplace of Sinclair
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Mayan, Shaal - famous Minbari poet; friend of Delenn
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Minbari Federation - one of the five major governments in the B5
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universe (so far)
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Mollari, Carn - Londo's nephew
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Mollari, Londo - Centauri ambassador
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Moon Shields - one of the Minbari warrior clans
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Naranek, Kosh - the Vorlon ambassador
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Narn Regime - one of the five major governments in the B5 universe
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(so far)
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Na'Toth - G'Kar's assistant
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Night Walkers - one of the Minbari warrior clans
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Nine, the - another term for the Grey Council (referring to its
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nine members)
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Non-Aligned Worlds - see "League of Non-Aligned Worlds"
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Pak'ma'ra - one of the non-aligned worlds
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Quantium 40 - a valuable material necessary for jumpgate construc-
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tion
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Raiders - space pirates who prey on merchant vessels
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Ragesh 3 Colony (spelled "Ragesh" in subtitle in "Midnight on the
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Firing Line," but spelled "Raghesh" in the Universe Today newspaper
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in "And the Sky Full of Stars") - A Centauri colony attacked by the
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Narns; the attack was eventually withdrawn
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Rush Act - an Senate act that calls for the arrest of workers who
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illegally strike
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Sakai, Catherine - a planetary surveyor; Sinclair's girlfriend
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Santiago, Luis - president of Earth
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Satai - honorific applied to members of the Grey Council
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Sigma 957 - a planet near which "strange things happen," according
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to G'Kar
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Sinclair, Jeffrey - B5 Commander
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Shon - a "Child of the Egg" whose parents killed him after he underwent
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a surgery procedure that punctured his body cavity
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Soul Hunter - immortal race of beings who steal people's "souls" at
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the moment of death
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Star Riders - the oldest of the Minbari warrior clans
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Tensus, Aria - Kiron Maray's lover
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Thenta Makur - Narn assassins' guild
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Trakis - Adira Tyree's former master
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Tu'Pari - member of the Thenta Makur; sent by Du'Rog to kill G'Kar,
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but failed in his mission
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Tyree, Adira - a Centauri ex-slave with whom Londo once fell in
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love
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Vicar - pun on "VCR"; a part-cybernetic, part-organic lifeform which
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lend their services as recording instruments; vicars can record many things,
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including telepathic activity (to some degree)
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Vorlon Empire - one of the five major governments in the B5
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universe (so far)
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Wind Swords - the most militant of the Minbari warrior clans (according to
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Lennier)
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Winters, Talia - B5 station telepath (P5)
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Xon - native race of Centauri Prime which was eventually killed off
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by the Centauri
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Zento, Orin - a somewhat rude negotiator who convinced the Senate to
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invoke the Rush Act against B5 laborers
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Zocalo - the social center of B5
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Additions and corrections are welcomed.
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Note that I use B5's time frame in describing these entries (e.g., the
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Dilgar war occured 30 years *ago*, etc.)
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Shawn Bayern
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bayern@cshl.org
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============================
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Copyright 1994, Shawn Bayern. All rights reserved. Babylon 5 is
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a copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that copyright is
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intended by writing this file. Permission granted to freely distribute
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noncommercially as long as the text and this copyright notice remain
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intact. No guarantee is made about the validity of the information
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included herein.
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Thanks to Dan Wood <danwood@pobox.com> and David Tanguay
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<dat@thinkage.on.ca> for comments and suggestions.
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