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_________________________________________________________________
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ISN Network
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"36 Hours"
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September 16, 2259
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_________________________________________________________________
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Announcer
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We interrupt your evening schedule to bring you the following
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special program. September 16, 2259. The Interstellar Network
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News presents "36 Hours on Babylon 5" with your host, Cynthia
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Torqueman, reporting live from the ISN News Center, in Geneva.
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Torqueman (at anchor desk)
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[INLINE] Good evening, I'm Cynthia Torqueman. In the hundred or
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so years since humanity went to the stars, we've established
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outposts and colonies on over two dozen worlds in fourteen
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solar systems. Out of all those far-flung outposts, only the
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Mars Colony, plagued by scattered groups of separatists, who
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have used acts of terror to intimidate the Earth-loyal
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majority, has proven more controversial than the Earth Alliance
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station, Babylon 5. Located in a sector of space near Epsilon
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Iridani, designated neutral territory, Babylon 5 has defied the
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odds and continued to operate as a free port, a center for
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diplomacy, and a showpiece for the Earth Alliance Resources and
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Technologies division. From its highly publicized debut three
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years ago, recent polls indicate a growing dissatisfaction with
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the time, money, and effort consumed by this space-borne
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community. So, tonight, we take you to the center of the
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controversy. An ISN crew and I recently spent 36 hours aboard
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Babylon 5, asking hard questions and, on occasion, get in a
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little over our heads. In the process of putting this report
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together, it didn't take us long to learn the most important
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rule of survival aboard Babylon 5: expect the unexpected.
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_Video Footage_
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_(The bridge of a ship. Babylon 5 is visible outside, with two
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much smaller ships in front of it)_
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Torqueman (voiceover)
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This footage was shot from our position on the bridge of
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the Earth transport Heyerdahl, on the final approach to
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Babylon 5. The voices you are hearing are those of the
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ship's captain and B5 Command and Control.
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Ivanova
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Confirmed Heyerdahl. We...Narn transport N'ton, return to
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your holding position at once. I repeat, return to
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your...
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[INLINE] Narn ship
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Shadraka.
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Ivanova
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Centauri vessel Malios, break off.
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Narn
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N'tok! N'tok!
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_(The Narn ship fires on the Centauri ship several times,
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destroying it.)_
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Torqueman (at anchor desk)
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A terrible explosion, conspiracy involving several of these
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individuals _[pictures of Sheridan, Londo, and G'kar appear
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over her shoulder],_ lies, deception, and the deaths of
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hundreds of people. All this and more on "36 Hours Aboard
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Babylon 5," here on the Interstellar Network News. We'll be
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back with our story right after this break.
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Announcer
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"36 hours...," sponsored by Interplanetary Expeditions.
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Exploring the past to create a better future.
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_Commercial break_
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_________________________________________________________________
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Torqueman (from a chaotic docking bay)
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Thirty minutes ago, a Narn vessel opened fire on a Centauri
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transport without warning or explanation. The bodies of the
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dead and wounded are being brought to this central docking area
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for transfer to various MedLab facilities on Babylon 5, which
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are already working beyond maximum capacity. Behind me is Dr.
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Stephen Franklin, Chief of Staff. Doctor? Doctor Franklin?
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Franklin (to medical assistants)
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...for immediate surgery and full CAT scan. I need more regent
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packs over here, people.
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Torqueman
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Dr. Franklin, Cynthia Torqueman, ISN news. What happened here?
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Franklin
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I don't know. Somebody said something about an ambush. (to
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assistants) All right, keep his head elevated thirty degrees
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minimum or he'll choke on his own blood.
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Torqueman
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Can you say what the reason was...
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Franklin
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I'm sorry...
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Torqueman
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Captain Sheridan! Cynthia Torqueman, ISN news. Do you have any
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comment on what just happened here?
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Sheridan
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No, no comment at this time. (to Franklin) Doctor...
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Torqueman
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What about the Narn vessel that attacked the transport.
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Sheridan
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We dispatched a fighter wing to apprehend them. We won't know
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anything more until they're in protective custody. If you will
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excuse me please.
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_Ambassador Londo Mollari, Centauri Republic_
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This is exactly the kind of behavior that endangers the very
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purpose of Babylon 5. This place is dedicated to finding
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peaceful solutions to our problems. For the Narn to carry their
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vendetta against our people into neutral territory like this is
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reckless and irresponsible. And though we mourn our own losses,
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we have felt strongly about our friends from Earth, ever since
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we first encountered your world a hundred years ago. To
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endanger your people for no reason...
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Torqueman
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Then the attack on your transport was completely unprovoked?
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Ambassador Mollari
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Of course.
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_Ambassador G'kar, Narn Regime_
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He's lying.
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Torqueman
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Then can you tell us why your ship opened fire on the Centauri
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transport?
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G'kar
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I'll issue a statement after I have consulted with my
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government.
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Torqueman
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Are you saying your government sanctioned this attack?
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G'kar
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No.
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Torqueman
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Do you think attacks of this nature put everybody aboard
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Babylon 5 in unnecessary jeopardy?
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G'kar
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We are already in far greater jeopardy than you can possibly
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imagine.
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Torqueman
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For all the apparent danger in this part of space, it seems to
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have had little effect on travel. Nearly a quarter of a million
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humans and aliens are here at any given moment. While most are
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in transit to distant worlds, many others actually live and
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work here. What does it take to call a place like this home?
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* * *
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_Eduardo Delvientos. Dock Supervisor. Guild dockworkers on B5: 1500._
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Well, it's a...it's a job. I've been in a lot worse places, let
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me tell you. It gets crazy around here sometimes, you got
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fifty, sixty ships a day coming through here, loading and
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unloading, and every last one of them is a priority job, at
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least that's what they tell us. (to a worker) Hey, watch those
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crates over there. Get 'em over to the side. No, no, the other
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side. (to Torqueman) We had a couple of problems here last
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year, try to hit us with some budget cuts. You know, same old
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song. But that's the past. You gotta go along to get along, you
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know what I mean?
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_Second Lieutenant David Corwin. Earthforce personnel on B5: 6500._
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Overall, I've found this to be a good working environment, and
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a valuable experience. I've learned a lot while I've been here.
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Torqueman
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And you've never felt that your safety has been compromised?
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Corwin
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No ma'am.
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Torqueman
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So this has been a positive experience for you?
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(Corwin smiles and nods)
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Torqueman
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[INLINE] You enjoy working with everyone?
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Corwin
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(Glancing at Ivanova over left shoulder) Yes. It's a calm,
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pleasant environment. I don't think I've ever seen anyone get
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upset here.
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_Captain John J. Sheridan. Recipient, Earthforce Silver Star for Valor
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in Minbari War._
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I guess it's the old joke, "You don't have to be crazy to work
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here, but it helps." I suppose there is a...certain attraction
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to being out here on the edge like this. A new frontier...
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Torqueman
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New frontier is right. When Babylon 5 went online in 2257,
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oddsmakers from New Vegas to Lloyds of London were predicting
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it wouldn't last six months.
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Sheridan
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Hmm. Well, I've never been very much on gambling. Never quite
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found the time for it.
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Torqueman
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You were originally a starship captain, correct?
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Sheridan
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Yeah. The Agamemnon. She was a real beauty. One of the first
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Omega class destroyers to come off the assembly line after the
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war. Our job was part military patrol, part diplomatic mission.
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We went around to most of the Non- Aligned Worlds, put in an
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appearance, kept the peace, that sort of thing.
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Torqueman
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Babylon 5 has been through some dramatic changes in
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administration since it became operational. Would you attribute
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these changes to...bad management, or, to quote former Senator
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Hidoshi, "Is this horse just to big for anybody to ride?"
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Sheridan
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Changes are part of the military life. Everybody goes into this
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knowing that tomorrow you could be someplace you hadn't even
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heard of 24 hours ago. I've been stationed so many places over
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the years I can't even remember most of them. But you're right.
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Some days this is one hell of a big horse.
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__________________________________________________________
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_Dr. Stephen Franklin. Chief of Staff. Medlab facility. Speciality:
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Xenobiology_
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[INLINE] You know what the folks back home don't understand,
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the ones who've never left Earth, is just how dangerous space
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can be. Aside from incidents like this, just the everyday
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reality of living your days and nights in a big tin can
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surrounded by a vacuum. I remember my first time on a
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transport, on the Moon-Mars run. I was just a kid, maybe
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seventeen. A buddy of mine was messing around, and zipping
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through the halls, and he hid in one of the airlocks. I don't
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know, I guess he was gonna try to scare us or something, I
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don't know...But just as I got close, he must have hit the
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wrong button because the air doors slammed shut, the space
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doors opened, and he just flew out into space. You know, the
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one thing they never tell you is that you don't die instantly
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in vacuum. Just hung there, against the black, like a puppet
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with his strings all tangled up. Or one of those old cartoons
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where you run off the edge of a cliff and your legs keep going.
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You could see that he was trying to breathe, but there was
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nothing. The one thing I remember, when they pulled in his
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body, his eyes were frozen. A lot of people make jokes about
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spacing somebody, about shoving somebody out an airlock. I
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don't think it's funny. Never will.
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Torqueman
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Although the airlocks on Babylon 5 are considerably safer, the
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last three years have shown that the station itself is anything
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but secure. In its first year of operation, there were half a
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dozen murders, three acts of sabotage including a bomb that
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blew out two levels, and a barely averted attack by the Vorlon
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Empire. Since then, there have been fifty deaths by violence.
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So the question remains, given its cost in lives and money, is
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Babylon 5 serving any useful purpose, or, as we're about to
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see, is the whole thing falling apart at the seams?
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G'kar
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I've just been briefed by my government, and I'm prepared to
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issue the following statement. The Centauri ship that was
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attacked by one of our vessels was not simply a commercial
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transport. It was secretly transferring weapons of mass
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destruction to ships bound for the front lines where they were
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to be used in the war against our people. They have turned
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Babylon 5 into a weapons supply post, and we cannot allow this
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to continue, even if it means shutting down Babylon 5
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completely.
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_commercial break_
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_________________________________________________________________
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Announcer
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"36 Hours on Babylon 5" continues with Cynthia Torqueman.
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Torqueman (at anchor desk)
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According to figures released by the newly-formed office of
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public morale, President William Clark has risen to dramatic
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new levels of popularity, because of his administration's
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emphasis on addressing the needs of Earth. As a result, recent
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hearings in Earthdome have openly questioned how much time and
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money should be invested in a project that seems perpetually
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bogged down in non-human conflict. So, we took that question to
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Senator Ronald Quantrell.
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_Senator Ronald Quantrell. Chairman: Babylon 5 Senate Oversight
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Committee._ (in his office)
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Well, obviously, Babylon 5 is something President Santiago
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believed in very strongly and I think we owe it to his memory
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to try to make it work.
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Torqueman
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That doesn't exactly sound like a ringing endorsement.
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[INLINE] Quantrell
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Well, clearly we've taken a lot of heat, and the cost overruns
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have been appropriately astronomical. But let's remember that
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the Babylon Project was conceived right after the Earth-Minbari
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war. At that time, the idea of a diplomatic station designed to
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keep anything like that from happening again was very
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appealing.
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Torqueman
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And now?
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Quantrell
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Now? Well...still too early to tell. Certainly we've rebuilt
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our military forces to a point far in advance of where they
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were fourteen years ago. If the Earth-Minbari war started
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today, I think things might have gone a little differently. So,
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while I'm not sure how much...concrete benefit we really derive
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from Babylon 5 any longer, I suppose it still does keep us in a
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highly visible position with other races, and of course it's
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very important to interstellar commerce and trade.
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Sheridan
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Well, with all due respect to Senator Quantrell, speaking as
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someone who did his part in the front lines, I'd have to say we
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still haven't fully recovered from the Minbari war. And we
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haven't anywhere near the level of technology we would need in
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the event of another major conflict. And anybody who thinks
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that we could hold our own with the Minbari, the Centauri, and,
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God forbid, the Vorlons, is just plain kidding himself.
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Torqueman
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You sound angry about it.
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Sheridan
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No, I'm not. It just...it just sounds to me like...like
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jingoism and self-deception and armchair quarterbacking. Any
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time you lose a war, you just...you just wait a few years, and
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you'll hear from everyone who thought that we could have won if
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they'd have done the fighting.
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Torqueman
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Except, of course, Captain, we didn't lose the war. The Minbari
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did surrender.
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Sheridan
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(Pause, then smile) Of course.
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Torqueman
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Who are the people who run Babylon 5, and what do they do here?
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What are their hopes and dreams? I'm standing in what's called
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the Observation Dome, or C&C, short for Command and Control.
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When the Captain is otherwise engaged with diplomatic or
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business affairs, this place is under the watchful eye of its
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perky and energetic commander, Susan Ivanova.
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Commander Susan Ivanova (to a ship)
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All right, make one more sweep pulling in whatever you got,
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then head for the barn.
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Torqueman
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Commander Ivanova, would you mind telling us what it is you're
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doing here?
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Ivanova (showing her a control panel displaying the HAZMAT team)
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We're investigating Ambassador G'kar's allegations that the
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Centauri transport was carrying weapons, justifying his
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government's attack. The HAZMAT team outside is checking the
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debris for any unusual levels of radiation or trace elements
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that could indicate the presence of unauthorized weapons.
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Torqueman
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While we wait for the analysis, would you mind telling us a
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little about yourself, how you got here?
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Ivanova
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Well, there's really not much to tell. I was born in the
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Russian Consortium, but spent most of my life at school abroad.
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Graduated from OTC ten years ago.
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Torqueman
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How did you come to join Earthforce?
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Ivanova
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After my brother Ganya was killed in the war, I felt that I had
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to try and finish what he started. Of course, as my luck runs,
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the war was over before I saw any action.
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Torqueman
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Now, Commander, I'm sure there's more to your story than that.
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Ivanova
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Yes.
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__________________________________________________________
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_Security Chief Michael Garibaldi_
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What do I hope for? I hope to get through this interview
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without getting myself fired. How's that for a start? Hmm. I
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don't know, it's one of those questions I don't think about in
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words. Maybe because so many times it seems like, if I say what
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I want, it never comes.
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Torqueman
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There must be something.
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Garibaldi
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Yeah. There are...little hopes I guess. Every day I get up and
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I hope nothing will happen. I'd love to be just bored out of my
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skull for twenty-four hours. And, uh, I guess I keep hoping
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that someday, somewhere I'll make a difference. That at the end
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of the day, everything we've gone through for the past few
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years will, uh, mean something.
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Ivanova (over communicator)
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Garibaldi, we just got back the HASMAT report. We've got a
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problem.
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Garibaldi (getting up)
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See what I mean? Always something.
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__________________________________________________________
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Torqueman
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So far, we've spent most of our time here talking to the
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humans, but aliens make up nearly forty-two percent of Babylon
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5's population. Many of them live here in the so-called "Alien
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Sector," which provides alternate atmospheres for fourteen
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different species. Ironically, the "Alien Sector" is how the
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aliens here refer to the human part of the station proving once
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again that beauty... and the beast...are in the eye of the
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beholder. Probably the most elusive of all the aliens is
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Ambassador Kosh Naranek, a representative of the Vorlon Empire,
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sent here roughly two years ago. Nothing is known of the
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Vorlons, in fact three expeditions sent into Vorlon space over
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the years have never returned. The Vorlon government said they
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had met with accidents...and suggested no further expeditions.
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Even their appearance is a mystery, compounded by the fact that
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Ambassador Kosh can only leave his quarters in an encounter
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suit, which contains his atmosphere and other life support
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equipment. A few moments ago, while we were setting up this
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shot, we got our first glimpse of the Vorlon as he was leaving
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his quarters just behind me. This is an ISN exclusive,
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presented here for the first time.
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_Video Footage_
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_(Cynthia Torqueman, wearing an oxygen mask, is speaking with
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someone else also wearing a mask.)_
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Man's Voice
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It's Ambassador Kosh, over here!
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Torqueman
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Maxie, quick, the camera!
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_(The camera pans to reveal Ambassador Kosh.)_
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Torqueman
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Ambassador Kosh! Ambassador! Cynthia Torqueman, ISN news.
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Can we ask you a few questions?
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_(The doors in front of Kosh close.)_
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Torqueman
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Ambassador Kosh! (to camera) Did we get that? Tell me we
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got that. Did we get it?
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* * *
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Torqueman
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Second in elusiveness to the Vorlon is Ambassador Delenn of the
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Minbari Federation. After initially refusing several requests
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for an interview, she finally agreed to talk to us.
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Torqueman
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Since very few humans have ever been allowed on Minbar, perhaps
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you could start by telling us a little about your world.
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_Ambassador Delenn. Minbari Federation._
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We are the seventh planet from our sun _[a graphic of Minbar
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appears over her shoulder]._ Almost one quarter of Minbar is
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covered by our north polar icecap. Because our world is rich
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with crystalline deposits, many of our cities are cut directly
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out of crystal formations. During the spring, the patterns of
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color caused by the light are breathtaking. Let's see, what
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else? We have three basic languages, Len'au, Feek, and
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Audronado, which is the language of the Religious Caste.
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Torqueman
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Can you give us an example of Audronado?
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Delenn
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Neech sach schnek, slem-ba. I am your friend, in peace.
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Torqueman
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Your appearance, though, isn't typical of your people, is it?
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Delenn
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No.
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Torqueman
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According to station records, you looked quite different a year
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ago. _[An image of Delenn's old appearance appears over
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Delenn's shoulder.]_
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Delenn
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I volunteered for this change, in the hope that it would lead
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to a better understanding between our peoples.
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Torqueman
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Over a quarter million humans were killed in the war with your
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people. How do you think the families of those victims will
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feel about your...change?
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Delenn
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I, uh...I don't know. I uh...I would hope...
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Torqueman
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I think they would feel hurt, betrayed. That by assuming a
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human face, you're taking a part of us you're not entitled to.
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What would you say to them? To all the husbands and wives and
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children and brothers and sisters of the people who were killed
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in the war with your people, and now see a Minbari...with a
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human face?
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[INLINE] Delenn
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I'm uh...I'm sorry, I can't...can we...can we stop this?
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Please?
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Ivanova (over communicator)
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Ambassador Delenn, you're needed in the council chambers.
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Ambassador? Ambassador Delenn?
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Torqueman
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We've just been informed that there's been a new development in
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the Narn attack. The Babylon 5 Advisory Council and the League
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of Non-Aligned Worlds have been convened to hear this update.
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We've been given permission to record these proceedings in the
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council chambers.
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G'kar
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And now, thanks to Commander Ivanova's investigation, we have
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proof of what we've been saying all along. An inspection of the
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destroyed Centauri has found conclusive proof that she was
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carrying fusion bombs and support equipment for ion cannons,
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mass drivers, and heavy-energy weapons!
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Sheridan (banging gavel)
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Now we have already filed a complaint with the Centauri
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government on the grounds that Babylon 5 is neutral territory,
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and is not to be used as a staging ground or a munitions depot.
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Londo
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If I may make an observation...
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Sheridan
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It is this kind of irresponsible activity, Ambassador, that
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endangers this station and everyone here. It will not be
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tolerated!
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Londo
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Classified shipments and weapons are transferred outside the
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station, from ship to ship. The risk to Babylon 5 is minimal.
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Sheridan
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Oh, we've already seen your minimal risk, Ambassador.
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Londo
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Caused by their attack on one of our vessels! Our ships have
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the right to carry any cargo they choose. We will not surrender
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our sovereign rights.
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Delenn
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The sovereign rights of any race end with the threat of
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innocents.
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G'kar
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Enough! They're doing what they always do--using details to
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distract us from doing what must be done! There are seven more
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Centauri vessels berthed outside, and I have reason to believe
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that they also carry weapons of mass destruction to be used
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against our people. My government demands that these ships be
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impounded and their weapons seized!
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Londo
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No, no, no! We will not allow this!
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Sheridan (banging gavel)
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This is Babylon 5's space. And here, we have sovereign rights.
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Londo
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Our ships will defend themselves against any who try to seize
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them.
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Delenn
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Perhaps, if the transports return to Centauri space...
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G'kar
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We cannot allow those ships to leave here with their weapons.
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They'll just turn right around and use them against us.
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Sheridan
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Then how do you intend to...[there is a loud sound, and the
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lights in the room dim suddenly] What the hell?
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Ivanova (over monitor)
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Captain, we need you in C&C. We've got a shooting war going on
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out here.
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_Video Footage_
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_(Securecam 15 shows several shots being exchanged before one
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ship is destroyed. The blast causes debris from the ship to
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strike the camera, and the image fades to static.)_
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_________________________________________________________________
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_commercial break_
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_________________________________________________________________
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Torqueman
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The sounds you hear are heavy weapons on the Narn and Centauri
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vessels doing battle just outside Babylon 5. The station is on
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a priority one alert, and people are being evacuated to
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shelters. We're en route to C&C to try and cover the battle. As
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we speak, our vidsystems are being plugged into the station's
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external cameras and communications systems, and we should be
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seeing...
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_Video Footage_
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_(Securecam 02 shows an image of several ships firing at each
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other.) _
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Voice of starfury pilot
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Coming in. Reading five, repeat five incoming hostiles.
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No reply. Got the beacon targeting systems online.
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[INLINE] _(The image shifts to a camera inside a starfury
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cockpit.)_
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Voice of pilot
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Delta leader to hostile vessels. You are ordered to cease
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fire at once. Do you copy? You are ordered to surrender
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or we will open fire.
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_(Securecam 08 shows a Centauri vessel destroyed by a Narn ship.
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The image shifts to Securecam 23, which captures more
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shooting before it is disabled by fire from a Narn ship.)_
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Sheridan (in C&C)
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Damage report?
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Ivanova
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Levels brown ninety through ninety-two report damage. Hull
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breach in blue seventy. Dropping pressure doors.
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Sheridan
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Get a repair crew down there, stat.
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An Officer
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Aye, sir.
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Sheridan
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Any reply yet?
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Ivanova
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Negative. Hostile forces continue to fire at each other.
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They've started targeting our ships.
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An Officer
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Delta squadron requesting permission to fire.
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Ivanova
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Ambassadors Londo and G'kar on the link. They're saying that if
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we open fire on their vessels, they'll consider it an act of
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war.
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Sheridan
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Screw 'em. We have a quarter million people here to defend. If
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they won't stop this, we will. (to ships) All fighters, open
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fire. Fire at will.
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Video Footage
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_(In the cockpit of the delta leader.)_
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Pilot
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Roger, Babylon Control. Delta squad, open fire. Target
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engines and navigation if possible, but if you have to
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take them out, do it. (to himself) Come on. Come on.
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Heaters lit. Come to papa. Got it. Bombs away.
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[INLINE] _(He fires on a small Narn ship as he passes by the
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observation dome.)_
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Pilot
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This is seven. Target splashed.
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Ivanova
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Two Narn vessels destroyed, two damaged and out of the fight.
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Remaining Centauri vessels are offering to surrender.
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Sheridan
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All right. Pick 'em up, bring 'em in, and throw them in the
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brig. And I want every one of those ships scanned for weapons.
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And tell Ambassadors G'kar and Londo that I want to see them in
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chambers now.
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Ivanova
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And what if they refuse?
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Sheridan
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Then you can throw them in the...
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Ivanova (motioning toward camera)
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Ahem.
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Sheridan
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Then invite them again, as firmly and politely as you can. This
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nonsense has gone far enough.
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__________________________________________________________
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Torqueman
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The "nonsense" Captain Sheridan referred to is the
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Narn-Centauri war, which, over the past several months, has
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grown into a conflict which threatens to spill into other
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systems and lead to an escalation of hostilities. Prior to the
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battle we just witnessed, ISN spoke with representatives from
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both sides, in order to better understand the history of this
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conflict.
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G'kar
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Roughly one hundred and fifty of your years ago, the Centauri
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came to our world. Narn was a green and fertile place then. We
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greeted them in peace, and spent the next hundred years in
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chains. But we never gave up hope. We formed a resistance,
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learned their secrets, turned their own machines against them,
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and finally drove them from our world.
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Torqueman
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How did you become involved with the resistance?
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G'kar
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My family lived in G'kamizad, one of the larger cities on Narn.
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My father... served in a Centauri household during the last
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years of the rebellion. I was barely a pouchling at the time.
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My mother was ill, unable to escape through the underground, so
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we all stayed. It was a difficult time--we were striking deep
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into Centauri resources. Things were tense. One day, my father
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spilled a cup of hot jala on the mistress of the house,
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and...and she had him killed. They took him out, tied his hands
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together, and hung him from a Jalwa tree for three days. I came
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to him the last night against my mother's orders, and he looked
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down at me. He said he was proud and to go and fight and...be
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all the things he never was. Then he died. The next morning I
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ran away and killed my first Centauri.
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Torqueman
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Why do you think they invaded back then?
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G'kar
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Why does any advanced civilization seek to destroy a
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less-advanced one? Because the land is strategically valuable,
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because there are resources that can be cultivated and
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exploited, but most of all, simply because they can. You have
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experienced much the same on your own world. There are humans
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for whom the words "never again" carry special meaning, as they
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do for us.
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Torqueman
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How do you respond to reports that your military has lost six
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out of the last seven engagements with the Centauri forces, and
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now the war consists mainly of holding actions and forced
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retreats?
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G'kar
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Centauri propaganda. We will never fall back. We will never
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surrender.
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* * *
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Londo
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When we first met the Narn they were, what, a primitive people.
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We gave them technology centuries ahead of their own, took them
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with us to the stars, taught them laws, civilized them. They
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repaid us with terror and death.
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Torqueman
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So you're saying that the Centauri originally came to help the
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Narns?
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Londo
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Of course. And at considerable expense, I might add. Which is
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why we finally left. We wished them well, but the cost, you've
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seen.
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Torqueman
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Then you weren't driven off the Narn homeworld?
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Londo
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Please. The Narn have rewritten history enough, don't you
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think? If they wanted us gone, we were hardly going to force
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the issue. But ever since, they have grown more and more
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irrational, have gone out of their way to harm us, to seize
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Centauri territory. Finally, we had to take a stand. They were
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the ones who declared war. Not us. We want only peace.
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__________________________________________________________
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Torqueman
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"We want only peace." Both sides say the same thing. But as
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we've just seen, the reality is anything but peaceful. With the
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skirmish outside concluded, and the captured Centauri vessels
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about to undergo a complete search, things seem to have calmed
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down a bit.
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Ivanova
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What is it?
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Officer
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Jump point forming in sector seven.
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Ivanova
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Are they crazy? That's practically on top of us.
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Officer
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Reading one Centauri battle cruiser.
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Torqueman
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Maxie, do we still have a feed from the external monitors? Are
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they on-li...
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_Video Footage_
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_(Securecam 27 shows an enormous Centauri cruiser appear
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through a jump point.)_
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Officer
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We've got Ambassador Mollari on the link.
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Ivanova
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Put him through. Ambassador Mollari, what the hell is going on
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here?
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Londo
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I'm sorry this has come as such of a surprise, Commander, but I
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warned you not to interfere. You have no right to search or
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detain our ships. If we don't act in our own defense, we invite
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the same from others.
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Officer
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Centauri cruiser is arming weapons, opening her gun ports.
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[INLINE] Londo
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The cruiser will blockade Babylon 5 until our ships are
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returned to Centauri custody intact and unopened. Any ship
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attempting to enter or leave Babylon 5 will be fired upon,
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boarded, and sent back. We will use the minimum possible level
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of force, but if provoked, we are prepared to use deadly force.
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Even against Babylon 5 itself.
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__________________________________________________________
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Announcer
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ISN. The galaxy's most important network.
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__________________________________________________________
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_Commercial_
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_(A young boy sits alone in a living room, dejected. His mother
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comes in.) _
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Mother
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John, why aren't you outside playing with the other kids?
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John
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They hate me.
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Mother
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Now, John...
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John
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It's true. I'm just...I'm different, Mom. I can feel what
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they think about me, and they know I can. I called one of
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them a liar because I knew he wasn't telling the truth
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somehow. And he just kept hitting me until I said I was
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the liar. I just don't know what to do anymore.
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_(A Psi Cop appears in the far corner of the room.)_
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Psi Cop
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Don't worry, Johnny. We'll take care of it from here.
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John
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Mom! Look! A Psi Cop!
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[INLINE] Psi Cop
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That's right, Johnny. You know, there a lot of other kids
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who feel just the same way you do. They're confused and
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afraid, but they don't have to be. The problem isn't that
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other kids don't like you, it's that they don't
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understand you. But we do. You're special. You're a
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latent telepath about to come into full bloom.
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Mother
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My Johnny? A telepath?
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Psi Cop
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Probably. But to be sure, take him down to the Psi Corps
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Testing Center first thing tomorrow.
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Mother
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How do I find one?
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Psi Cop
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We're everywhere...for your convenience. We have offices
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in schools and children's hospitals. We even have mobile
|
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testing centers that travel the country. And if he
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qualifies, we'll give him an education, a job, a purpose.
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And, we'll pay all his bills for life.
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[INLINE] Mother
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Oh my!
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_(A large Psi Corps symbol appears on the screen, with the words
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TWO WEEKS LATER below it.)_
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Mother
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Oh, John. I can't believe it. You've come so far. Just
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look at you. We're all so proud.
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John
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[INLINE] And I'm proud to be part of the Psi Corps.
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Psi Cop (to camera)
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So remember. If you know someone who might be a telepath,
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or think you might be one yourself, help them get the
|
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help they need. Call the Corps!
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[INLINE] Announcer
|
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Call government information for more on a Psi Corps
|
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center near you. This message has been brought to you by
|
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the Ministry for Public Information and your local Psi
|
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Corps recruitment office.
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_(While the announcer is speaking, the words "THE PSI CORPS IS
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YOUR FRIEND. TRUST THE CORPS." flash across the screen
|
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for an instant.)_
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_________________________________________________________________
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_Other commercials_
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_________________________________________________________________
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Torqueman
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As we enter our thirtieth hour aboard Babylon 5, the
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Centauri-Narn crisis has not diminished. The various parties to
|
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the dispute have gathered in council chambers behind me, in
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closed session, to discuss the crisis. Meanwhile, all traffic,
|
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in or out of Babylon 5 has come to a halt, due to the Centauri
|
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blockade. _[Sheridan appears from the council chambers.]_
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Captain, any progress in the negotiations?
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Sheridan
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All sides are still talking. That's all I can say for now.
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Torqueman
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Well, is it true that some of the senate have suggested that
|
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you accomodate the Centauri by releasing their vessels without
|
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further searches?
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Sheridan
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As the commander of record on Babylon 5, I doubt that the
|
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senate would attempt to undermine my position in these
|
|
negotiations by armchair quarterbacking. _[He enters an
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elevator, and G'kar appears from the council chambers.]_
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Torqueman
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Ambassador G'kar, do you have anything to say?
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G'kar
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Only that this should prove once and for all that the Centauri
|
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are a menace to more than just our world. This kind of thing
|
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cannot be allowed, and we will take whatever steps are
|
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necessary to make that perfectly clear to them.
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Torqueman
|
|
Well, what does that mean? Ambassador G'kar!
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__________________________________________________________
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Senator Quantrell (in his office)
|
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Certainly the events on Babylon 5 which took place during your
|
|
recent visit are emblematic of what many of us at Earthdome
|
|
have been worried about for some time. By placing an Earth
|
|
installation between warring factions, we risk being drawn into
|
|
a conflict which has nothing to do with us, or Earth interests.
|
|
If we had not been in that place at that time, the terrible
|
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loss of life might have been avoided.
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Torqueman
|
|
On the other hand, senator, they are at war with one another.
|
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People die in war.
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Quantrell
|
|
Yes, but it wouldn't have happened in our backyard. What
|
|
happened next came with the reluctant support of Earthdome, but
|
|
hundreds of deaths...I don't see how we can support that sort
|
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of thing. I'm only glad you made it out alive, Cynthia. We need
|
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all the good reporters we can get.
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__________________________________________________________
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Torqueman
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Ten minutes ago, Captain Sheridan received a coded transmission
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from Earthdome on the current crisis. After considerable
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negotiations, we've been allowed back into C&C...
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Sheridan
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Captain John Sheridan, Babylon 5, to Centauri cruiser. My
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government has rejected your demand that we release your ships.
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We will not consider any demand made under terrorist threat. We
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have activated our defense grid, and are prepared to defend all
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ships coming through here. Any hostile action taken by you
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against ships entering or leaving this station will be
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considered an attack on Babylon 5 itself, and we will respond
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accordingly. If they send back a reply, don't acknowledge it.
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An Officer
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Aye, captain.
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Sheridan
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We'll let 'em sweat for a while.
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Ivanova
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I hope this works. I know that our defense grid can probably
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hold them off, but the repurcussions...
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Sheridan
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Oh, they're bluffing. I can't believe they'd take on the whole
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station. That'd bring Earth in on the side of the Narns, and
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the last thing the Centauri want is a war on two fronts.
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An Officer
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Docking bay nine just linked in. The transport's ready to go.
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Sheridan
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Bring her up. Activate autopilot. We'll run the transport from
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here, make sure no one gets hurt. Just in case they're not
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bluffing.
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Ivanova
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Bring the maintenance bots around for a closer look.
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_Video Footage_
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_(Securecam 23 shows the transport leaving Babylon 5.) _
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Voice
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Move Securecam 23 to high overhead and Maintbot 9 through
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14 at twelve-click intervals...
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Ivanova
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You realize that if they do attack the transport, they'll turn
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right around and fire on us next, figuring we'll have to
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retaliate.
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Sheridan
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I know.
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_Video Footage_
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_(Maintbot 12 shows the transport making its way toward the
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Centauri cruiser.)_
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Sheridan
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All tracking stations. If you see their weapons targeting us,
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open fire.
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_Video Footage_
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_(Maintbot 17 shows the transport nearing the Centauri
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cruiser.)_
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Sheridan
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Any reply from the cruiser?
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An Officer
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Negative, sir. No response.
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Ivanova
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Their weapon system is still armed. I don't like this.
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_Video Footage_
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_(Maintbot 9 shows the transport begin to pass under the
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cruiser. The image shifts to inside the transport, where it
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continues under the cruiser with no problems. The image shifts
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back to Maintbot 9, where the transport makes its way past the
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cruiser.)_
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Ivanova (as the officers at C&C clap)
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Well, the transport's through. We called their bluff.
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An Officer
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Getting a signal from the Centauri cruiser. They want to talk.
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Sheridan
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Open a channel. Let's be gracious about this.
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Torqueman
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Captain, any thoughts on the...
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An Officer
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Second jump point forming in sector ten.
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_Video Footage_
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_(Maintbot 06 shows a Narn cruiser arrive through a jump
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point.)_
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Sheridan
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Oh, hell. Babylon Control to Narn cruiser. We do not, repeat we
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do not require assistance. Do not interfere. We have the
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situation under control...
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An Officer
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Narn cruiser powering up weapon systems.
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Sheridan
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No! Listen to me, we do not need...
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_Video Footage_
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_(Maintbot 12 shows the Narn cruiser firing on the Centauri
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cruiser several times, but hitting once. The image shifts to
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Securecam 23 where the Narn ship continues to fire, but is hit
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several times in return by the Centauri creature. There are
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explosions on both ships.)_
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Sheridan
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All civilians to the shelters. Get me that cruiser, and I don't
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care how you do it.
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An Officer
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Aye, sir.
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_Video Footage_
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_(Maintbot 02 shows the Narn ship attacking the Centauri ship,
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which causes a piece of debris to fly directly toward the
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observation dome.)_
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Ivanova
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Close blast doors, now! _[The doors close, and the Dome is
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rocked as the debris strikes it.]_
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_Video Footage_
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_(Maintbot 12 shows the two ships exchanging more fire before
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the Centauri cruiser is blown apart.)_
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An Officer
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Narns have destroyed the Centauri cruiser. They're trying to
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open a jump point.
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Ivanova
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Can they make it?
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An Officer
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[INLINE] I don't think so. They're hit bad. Jump engines are
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malfunctioning.
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_Video Footage_
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_(Maintbot 02 shows the Narn cruiser trying to generate a jump
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point and enter hyperspace, but the jump point looks malformed.
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The ship begins to explode. The view shifts to Securecam 15,
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which shows the remainder of the explosion of the ship.)_
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* * *
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Torqueman (at anchor desk)
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As journalists, we would be remiss in our responsibilities if
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we suggested that events such as those you've just witnessed
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were typical of the situation on Babylon 5. Like anyone else,
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they have good days and bad days. But there can be no question
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that it is a flash point that can only grow hotter as time
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passes. And yet, growth only comes through pain and struggle,
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so perhaps we should allow Babylon 5 time to realize, or one
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day, even exceed the dreams we have invested in it. We'll be
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back with some concluding thoughts right after this message.
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__________________________________________________________
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_Commercial break_
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__________________________________________________________
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Torqueman
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After the crisis was over, the debris cleared, and the bodies
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counted, we asked each of the people involved in this story one
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question: Given the danger, at the end of the day, as Mr.
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Garibaldi said, is it worth it?
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__________________________________________________________
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Garibaldi
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Absolutely. Sure, when things get tense out here, we have to be
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careful. Our search of the Centauri vessels we captured proved
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that they were bringing in weapons of mass destruction,
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offloading them outside the station, and sending 'em on to the
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front lines. Now that we know that, we can make sure it doesn't
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happen anymore. We learn. That's what humans do.
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* * *
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Londo
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Misunderstandings aside...yes, I definitely think it's worth
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it. We must simply work harder to make sure we communicate with
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each other to prevent this sort of tragic situation from ever
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happening again. A violent attack by Narn forces is an
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unacceptable response to a peaceful protest by my government.
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And with the intervention of Earth, perhaps we can keep them
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from making a similar mistake in the future.
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* * *
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G'kar
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I don't know anymore. I used to think so, but now...
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* * *
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Ivanova
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Yes.
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* * *
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Delenn
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Of course it is. For the simple reason that no one else will
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ever build a place like this. Humans share one unique quality:
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they build communities. If the Narns or the Centauri or any
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other race built a station like this, it would be used only by
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their own people. But everywhere humans go, they create
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communities out of diverse, and sometimes hostile, populations.
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It is a great gift and a terrible responsibility--one that
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cannot be abandoned.
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* * *
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Quantrell
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Well...I guess we'll just have to see, won't we?
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* * *
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Franklin (to medics)
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All right, med 2. Go. Go. (to Torqueman) Look, if we weren't
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here right now, half the people in this room would be dead.
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That should be a good enough answer for anyone.
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* * *
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Delvientos
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Sure. What, are you kidding? I have a retirement pension to
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make, you know?
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* * *
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Sheridan
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Yes, but not for any of the reasons that you've probably been
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told. The job of Babylon 5 is not to enforce the peace, it's to
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create the peace. And this place was built on the assumption
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that we could work out our problems and build a better future.
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And that, to me, is the key issue. See, in the last few years,
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we've stumbled. We've stumbled at the death of the president,
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the war, and on and on. And when you stumble a lot, you...you
|
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start looking at your feet. You know, we have to make people
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lift their eyes back to the horizon and see the line of
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ancestors behind us saying, "Make my life have meaning." And to
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our inheritors before us saying, "Create the world we will live
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in." We're not just...holding jobs and having dinner. We're in
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the process of building the future. That's what Babylon 5 is
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all about. Only by making people understand that can we hope to
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create a better world for ourselves, and our posterity.
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__________________________________________________________
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Torqueman
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I'm Cynthia Torqueman, ISN news. Good night.
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