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Encyclopedia > Babylon 5 (space station)
Babylon 5

Babylon 5 orbits Epsilon III
First appearance Babylon 5: The Gathering
Last appearance The Rules of the Game
Status Demolished
Affiliation Earth Alliance
Launched 2257
Decommissioned 2281
References The Lurker's Guide to B5
General Characteristics
Maximum speed Stationary
Fighters Starfuries
Armaments Particle laser cannon
Pulse and plasma cannons
Power Fusion reactor
Mass 2.5 million tons
Length Five miles (8 km) [1]

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Babylon 5 was designed as the last best hope for peace. It was the last of five stations to be built with its predecessors either being destroyed by terrorists, or, in the case of Babylon 4, vanishing without trace. The Babylon 4 Station Babylon 4 (also known as B4) is a fictional space station from the television series Babylon 5. ...

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History

The last of the Babylon stations, Babylon 5 was constructed ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. Its purpose was to "prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully"[2] It was a free port for a quarter of a million beings, and was co-funded by the Earth Alliance and Minbari Federation after the crippling financial loss of Babylon 4. The Earth-Minbari War is a fictional war that takes place in the science fiction series Babylon 5. ... The Earth Alliance is the name of at least two fictional governments or alliances in modern science-fiction. ... Mira Furlan as Delenn in Babylon 5 The Minbari are a fictional race in the Babylon 5 universe. ...


Sectors

Babylon 5 is organized into six color-coded sectors.


Red Sector

Red Sector provides habitation facilities, shopping, and other leisure facilities. The interior of Red Sector is the Garden, a 12 square mile facility which provides food and oxygen production. A small section of the Garden is also used for recreation facilities.


Blue Sector

Blue Sector contains station administration, docking bays, personnel housing, and the Medlabs. Babylon 5 is controlled from Command and Control, also called C&C, which is at the end of the station. At the center of the end of the station is the docking bay that ships enter through.


Green Sector

Green Sector is the sector that contains habitation facilities for the alien ambassadors. Access to Green Sector is restricted to the ambassadors, and authorized guests and personnel.


Yellow Sector

Yellow Sector is the long, non-rotating section of the station that contains zero-g docking and cargo storage facilities.


Grey Sector

Grey Sector contains the facilities for manufacturing, maintenance, and waste reclamation for the station.


Brown Sector

Brown Sector is primarily used by the transient population of Babylon 5 for habitation and commerce.


Downbelow

Downbelow, located in brown sector, is a term used in Babylon 5 to refer to the unused sections of the Babylon 5 station, mostly nearest the hull, occupied by its equivalent of the homeless or dispossessed residents, commonly called Lurkers. Downbelow contains the station's slums and brothels. Commerce runs primarily on barter. Babylon 5 is an epic American science fiction television series created, produced, and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. ... In Internet culture, a lurker is a person who reads discussions on a message board, newsgroup, chatroom or other interactive system, but rarely participates. ...


Downbelow is a center of criminal activity on Babylon 5, though by no means is crime confined to that area. It is estimated that Downbelow accounts for nine-tenths of the station's crime. Most inhabitants die in Downbelow unknown and unremembered, trapped on the station for various reasons.


This sector is mostly inhabited by humans, although a percentage of inhabitants include non-human species (Drazi, Brakiri, and Pak'ma'ra). The Drazi are an alien species in the fictional Babylon 5 universe. ... The Brakiri are a race in the fictional Babylon 5 universe. ... This article or section cites very few or no references or sources. ...


History

As Earth Alliance contractors ran out of money, the Downbelow area was not fully developed, resulting in it getting utilized by businesses of a disreputable nature. The Earth Alliance is the name of a fictional alliance of the countries of Earth in the television series Babylon 5. ...


When people searching for better lives came aboard Babylon 5 and were unable to find it, they would assemble in Downbelow after running low (or completely out of) money. With no means of getting home, the denizens of Downbelow became a cheap labor force for illegal business operations (Dust trafficking, smuggling, et cetera).


Technological specifications

Tactical

Babylon 5 carried several Starfury squadrons, and the station also had its own defensive grid system which was capable of taking on a Primus Class Battlecruiser and destroying it.[3] The Starfury is a fictional one or two person starfighter in the science fiction television series Babylon 5 and Crusade and the Babylon 5 movie Babylon 5: In the Beginning. ... The Primus class battle cruiser is a battlecruiser in the fictional universe of Babylon 5. ...


References

  1. ^ "And Now For a Word." Babylon 5.
  2. ^ Voice over by Jeffrey Sinclair — all season 1 episodes.
  3. ^ "The Fall of Night." Babylon 5.

And Now For a Word is an episode from the second season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. ... Babylon 5 is an epic American science fiction television series created, produced, and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. ... Jeffrey Sinclair is a fictional character in the television science fiction drama Babylon 5. ... The Fall of Night is the final episode of the second season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. ... Babylon 5 is an epic American science fiction television series created, produced, and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. ...

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