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Feb 20, 2024 · The Babylon 5 space station takes its inspiration from O’Neill’s design. Warner Bros. Unlike the O’Neill Cylinder, the space station in Babylon 5 bypasses the whole issue of solar energy by ...
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was the fifth and final space station in the Babylon Project, located in neutral space in orbit of Epsilon III near Epsilon Eridani.
Originally run by Earthforce as a diplomatic outpost with a galactic peacekeeping mission, the station's role had irrevocably changed by the end of 2259 due to the reemergence of the Shadows and the rise of the Clark administration on Earth. In 2260, the station broke away from the Earth Alliance soon after President Clark declared martial law, leading to its personnel joining the Army of Light. The station and its administration became the central link uniting the forces of many different races in winning the Second Shadow War. After the Shadow War and the Earth Alliance Civil War, the station became the temporary capital of the Interstellar Alliance until ISA leadership could be moved to Minbar. It remained an important hub for trade and diplomacy for many decades before being decommissioned in 2281.
Babylon 5’s habitation cylinder was 5 miles long and had 2,500 (crew) personnel that manned the station.
Unlike Babylon 4, Babylon 5 was immobile. It was constructed in the L5 point in orbit around planet Epsilon III near Epsilon Eridani, positioned near the local jumpgate where it could serve as both trade station and strategic command post.
The station was about 10 light years from Earth's system.
Gravity was produced by rotation. Fusion reactors generated the main power to run the station's systems.
Water reclamation systems recycled water, and included water for showers for the executive suites and command quarters only.
The station was armed with a Defense Grid.
The core of Babylon 5 was divided into six color-coded sectors: Blue, Red, Green, Brown, Grey and Yellow, the latter of which was not part of the rotating carousel. Each rotating sector was subdivided into 36 regions divided along 10-degree lines respective to the station core. Directions within the station were noted as spinward, retrograde, forward (toward the command sphere), and aft (toward the power plant).
In the front of the station, two large prongs were forward cargo stabilizers.
Babylon 5 had, for the most part, its own self-sustained economy. While the station was granted a military and operations budget during the years it was attached to the Earth Alliance, it generated almost all of its own revenue, which covered operating expenses. This fact became central when the station broke away from Earth and was no longer entitled to a budget of any kind. After the station became a free state of its own, the station imposed docking fees on visiting ships to offset expenses. Additionally, the station depended increasingly on trade and commerce from outside sources to generate revenue. A substantial source of income for the station was the rent paid both by individuals for their living quarters and by businesses for the spaces they utilized to conduct commerce. Other sources of revenue included, but were not limited to, money paid by persons undergoing treatment in Medlab and the fees paid to have visiting ships serviced or repaired.
Station regulations permitted transactions involving weapons, but all physical transfers of those weapons had to take place off the station.
Core Shuttle & Monorail
Long distance, rapid transit on B5 is provided by use of the core shuttles and the monorails. The core shuttles run the length of the station's habitable areas, along the central axis and as such operated in a low/zero-gravity environment requiring passengers to make use of hand rails, mag-strips, seat-belts, and foot-straps.
Transport Tubes
The transport tubes offer short to mid-distance transportation and are used mostly to move between levels.
Babylon 5 was built to support around 250,000 humans and aliens, though most were often in transit to and from various worlds, many others actually lived and worked on the station. About 42% were alien and 6,500 were Earthforce personnel. In addition to Earthforce personnel, there were over 5000 technical staff in addition to medical support, environmental personnel, the Ambassadors and diplomatic staff from nearly two dozen races and over 1000 Docker's Guild workers. From the beginnings of the Earth Alliance Civil War onwards, the security team of Babylon 5 consisted of both humans and Narns, as several Narns enlisted to replace those security personnel who had joined the Nightwatch.
Among the technical staff was an environmental team which periodically sent teams outside the station for maintenance.
After the sabotage and destruction of the first three Babylon stations during construction and the disappearance of Babylon 4, the Earth Alliance financed one final station and received co funding from the Minbari Federation and substantial contributions from the Centauri Republic. As a result, the Minbari government received final veto on the pers...
Enforcement was largely performed by the security team or occasionally Garibaldi himself.
Code 245 - assault with a deadly weapon.
While an animator at Foundation Imaging, Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz said that Babylon 5 revolves once every 1800 frames, adding that the rate was selected during the pilot to match the size of the station. This converts to 60 seconds at 30 frames per second. More recently, Ron Thornton elaborated that B5 is one mile in diameter "at the floor surface of t...
- The Show's Five Year Plan Was Rushed To Fit Four Seasons... only to get a fifth season! The story of Babylon 5 had always been plotted to be a five-year journey.
- The episode "Believers" missing from Hulu. The first two seasons of Babylon 5 were available for a time on Hulu, save for one episode - "Believers". The tenth episode of Babylon 5's first season, the episode focused on the conflict between the station's head physician, Dr. Stephen Franklin, and the parents of Shon, a sickly alien child.
- Actors Jerry Doyle and Andrea Thompson got married (and then divorced) It was heavily implied in the early seasons of Babylon 5 that the station's Security Chief Michael Garibaldi (Jerry Doyle) had a crush on the station's official registered telepath, Talia Winters (Andrea Thompson).
- Canceled trans character. Transformation is a major theme of Babylon 5 and no character better exemplified this than Delenn, the Minbari ambassador. In order to act as a symbolic link between her own people and the Earthlings, who were still recovering from a war between their two species, Deleen underwent a metamorphosis that transformed her into a half-human/half-Minbari hybrid.
Feb 22, 2023 · Here’s how it works. It’s a five-mile-long cylindrical hunk of spinning metal, containing a menagerie of aliens, soldiers, leaders, and secrets, lost together in the night, amidst a futile ...
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The Babylon 5 space station is located in the Epsilon Eridani system, at the fifth Lagrangian point of the fictional planet Epsilon III and its moon. [7] It is an O'Neill cylinder 5 miles (8.0 km) long and 0.5–1.0 mile (0.80–1.61 km) in diameter.
Jul 20, 2020 · By July 1994, Babylon was wrapping up its first season, and the future of science fiction on TV would never be the same…. In retrospect, Babylon 5 made Star Trek better in the 1990s. Like Paul ...
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Sep 7, 2023 · Babylon 5 won its first Hugo Award with The Coming of Shadows, a major second season episode that managed to fully turn the tables on the show’s debut, sending two major empires to war in the ...
