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EAS Agamemnon is fictional starship in the science fiction series Babylon 5. The Agamemnon is an Earth Alliance Omega class destroyer. She was named after the Greek mythic figure who commanded the Greek forces during the Trojan War.

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History

The Agamemnon was one of the first Omega class starships to be built following the Earth-Minbari war.


2259

She was commanded by John Sheridan until 2259 when he was named to replace Jeffery Sinclair as the commander of Babylon 5. At that point, Captain James was named as the next commander of the Agamemnon. A few months after Sheridan's transfer she helped rescue him from the Streib. When the Streib ejected those they kidnapped into space, the Agamennon destroyed the Streib starship.


2260

In 2260, the Agamemnon was patrolling the solar system when Sheridan took the White Star to destroy the Shadow cruiser being studied by Earth Alliance forces. The Shadow vessel had been activated when a human was merged with the ship to act as a CPU, but it was done incorrectly, and the ship went insane. The Shadow vessel was lured into Jupiter's atmosphere where it was crushed by the pressure and gravity of Jupiter. The Agamemnon was sent to investigate, and found the White Star in the atmosphere. The crew did not realize that Sheridan was in command of the White Star. Agamemnon tried to force Sheridan to surrender, but he was able to escape through establishing a jump point at the edge of Jupiter's atmosphere. President Clark used this incident as an excuse to declare martial law. Clark's actions later provoked Sheridan and a number of others in Earthforce to go to war against Clark.


The Earth Civil War

During the Earth civil war to overthrow President Morgan Clark the Agamemnon defected to rebel forces led by Sheridan. She participated in a number of actions against loyalist forces. It was the Agamemnon that retrieved an escape pod from a loyalist ship. This escape pod had a duty officer who knew Clark was planning to ambush Sheridan's forces at sector 300. Commander Ivanova was able to intercept Clark's Shadow enhanced starships, and even though Ivanova was critically injured she was able to destroy all the Shadow enhanced ships.


Ivanova asked Sheridan to command the final battle from the Agamemnon to give a legitmate appearance to Sheridan's forces. Sheridan and Captain James agreed to this. Sheridan arranged for telepaths altered by the Shadows for use as CPUs in their ships to be snuch on board the loyalist ships at Mars. This disabled nearly all the forces, and the White Stars disabled the remaining ships. Even though it cost the 30 telepaths their lives, it saved the crews of these ships - nearly 30,000 men and women.


When the Agamemnon arrived at Earth, the Senate rose up and went to arrest Clark. President Clark knew he was going to be arrested, so in a final vindictive act he turned Earth's planetary defense grid on the planet as a Scorched Earth policy and committed suicide. Sheridan's forces destroyed the defense grid. The last platform was destroyed by the EAS Apollo, which had been under the command of General Robert Lefcourt - the commander of the loyalist forces. During this final battle, the Agamemnon was seriously damaged by the defense platforms.


Current Status

The ships current status has not been revealed. It's not known for sure whether she was placed into dock for repairs, or if the damage was so severe that she had to be taken out of service.


For other uses of the name Agamemnon, please see the Agamemnon (Disambiguation) page.


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EAS Agamemnon at AllExperts (669 words)
EAS Agamemnon is fictional starship in the science fiction series Babylon 5.
In 2260, the Agamemnon was patrolling the solar system when Sheridan took the White Star to destroy the Shadow cruiser being studied by Earth Alliance forces.
Agamemnon tried to force Sheridan to surrender, but he was able to escape through establishing a jump point at the edge of Jupiter's atmosphere.
EAS Apollo - The Great Machine (192 words)
EAS Apollo was an Omega Class destroyer of Earthforce.
EAS Apollo, General Robert Lefcourt commanding, was the flagship for Clark's Earth Force fleet at Mars, whose mission was to delay or destroy Captain Sheridan's rebel fleet before it could jump to Earth.
General Lefcourt's quick thinking and his crew's swift action brought the Apollo back into the fight just in time to prevent Captain Sheridan, in the EAS Agamemnon, from ramming one of the remaining Earth Defense satellite platforms that President Clark had re-trained to obliterate the eastern seaboard of the North American continent.
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