And there was another war brewing closer to home. As anticipated, a few days after the Earth-Centauri treaty was announced the Centauri widened their war to include many of the Non-Aligned Worlds. It was the end of the Earth year 2259, and the war was upon us. like this.Ĭan your associates arrange this for me, Mr. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave. Vir: I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price.
This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations.
It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind the year the Great War came upon us all. A place of commerce and diplomacy for a quarter of a million humans and aliens. The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace.Ī self-contained world five miles long, located in neutral territory. Whatever they are, they walk near Sigma 957, and they must walk there. They are a mystery, and I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the universe that we have not yet explained everything. And we've learned that we can either stay out from underfoot, or be stepped on. And we have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. And if they are aware of us at all, it is as little more than ants. There are things in the universe billions of years older than either of our races. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. Humans and aliens, wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal. It's a port of call home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Its goal: to prevent another war, by creating a place where humans and aliens can work out their differences peacefully.
The Babylon Project was a dream, given form. It was the dawn of the third age of mankind ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. A dream that was in danger as never before, by the arrival of one man on a mission of destruction.īabylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. Under the leadership of its final commander, Babylon 5 was a dream given form: a dream of a galaxy without war, when species from different worlds could live side by side in mutual respect. Could be a dangerous place but we accepted the risk, because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace. It was a port of call for refugees, smugglers, businessmen, diplomats. It began in the Earth year 2257, with the founding of the last of the Babylon stations, located deep in neutral space. I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind. Opening narrations, and a few other speeches
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