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Personnel and People of Babylon 5

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EA/Station Personnel and other Humans

Sinclair started out as a fighter pilot in the Earth Alliance, career military like his father before him and his father before him. He rose in rank quickly, commanded a squadron of Starfuries in the Earth Minbari War, and was promoted to Commander afterwards. It was the identification of a Minbari soul heving been reborn into a human body, namely his, that saved the human race from extinction at the Battle of the Line, by causing the religious caste to end the holy waged against the humans.

He was in command of Babylon 5 from its inception, managing the in effect military garrison for a year before he accepted posting to the Minbari Homeworld as an Human Ambassador to the Minbari. Not much is known about him afterwards, although it is rumored that he joined a Minbari order and spends the rest of his days in spiritual mediatation.

Recently there have been a number of unconfirmed stories circulating about Sinclair. The Minbari religious caste seems to hold him in awe close to their most holy figure, Valen. It is also reported that Sinclair now holds the position of Enthil'zha, or First One among the Rangers, the fanatically dedicated paramilitary arm of the religious caste. Judging by his postings, it would seem that Sinclair is blessed with a Minbari soul.

As of 2260 nothing is heard about Sinclair anymore, indeed, he is even succeeded as Ranger One by Delenn. (Note: It would seem that the triluminary, which was used to identify his Minbari soul, does not indicate just any soul of Minbari origin, but rather those which have particular proximity to Valen's own.)

 

 Race:

  human

 Gender:

  male

 Date of Birth:

  unknown

 Place of Birth:

  Mars Colony

 Rank/Profession:

  Captain

   
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A solid, dependable man, Sheridan has risen through the ranks of Earth Force at a somewhat accelerated pace. He is the only officer on record to have scored a tactical victory against the Minbari during the Earth Minbari War, when he destroyed their flagship "Black Star".

Sheridan has taken command of Babylon 5, succeding Jeffrey Sinclair. During his time at Babylon 5 he plays a leading role in the political development of firstly Babylon 5 itself, and later the forming of the Interstellar Alliance, of which he will be president, after he is discharged from Earth Force in response to his role in the Earth Civil War of 2260.

It is also of note that Sheridan is the only being ever to have returned from Z'Ha'Dhum, alive.

 

 Race:

  human

 Gender:

  male

 Date of Birth:

  unknown

 Place of Birth:

  Earth

 Rank/Profession:

  Captain

   
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Born of russian parents, her mother commited suicide in response to intense psychological pressure brought to bear on her by the Psi Corps. Ivanova has never forgotten this, and carries a deep hatred of anything bearing the Psi insignia.

She joined the EA to follow in the steps of her older brother, who is killed in the Earth Minbari War. Starting in 2258, she is assigned to Babylon 5, and acts as Liutenant Commander for four years.

In 2261 she is fataly wounded in battle. She owes her continued life to a close friend, Marcus Cole, and leaves Babylon 5 after his death.

 

 Race:

  human

 Gender:

  female

 Date of Birth:

  unknown

 Place of Birth:

  Earth

 Rank/Profession:

  Lt. Commander

   
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Garibaldi leads station security for four years from the commissioning date of Babylon 5. During that time he plays a valued role in the day to day life of Babylon 5, preventing many a disaster from coalescing.

It is unfortunate that he loses control of his personality following his disappearance at the end of the shadow war. A prolonged and intense struggle forces him to review his lifes decisions, leaving him hollowed out and broken. After he regains a measure of self control following the dismantling of Edgars Industries, Garibaldi is slowly able to sort himself out, serving in an unofficial capacity as intelligence officer for the Interstellar Alliance.

After five years full of personal ordeals and hardship, he decides to leave Babylon 5 and finally settles down on Mars.

 

 Race:

  human

 Gender:

  male

 Date of Birth:

  unknown

 Place of Birth:

  Earth

 Rank/Profession:

  Chief of Security

   
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A brilliant doctor and medical research scientist, Franklin heads the Babylon 5 MedLab facilities during his five year stay, 2258 - 2262.

After his graduation, Franklin works as a research scientist on extraterrestrial biology. During the Earth Minbari war, he refuses to turn over his work to the government, who want to use it to create weapons for biological warfare against the Minbari.

After his imprisonment for traitorous activity Franklin tramps the spaceways, offering his knowledge in return for passage. He travels far in these years, and acquires a firsthand knowledge of alien species unobtainable any way else. This is also the point in his life where his ideals turn towards Foundationism.

After his five year stay on Babylon 5, he accepts posting to head the xenobiological research division back on Earth, completing his career ambitions.

 

 Race:

  human

 Gender:

  male

 Date of Birth:

  unknown

 Place of Birth:

  Earth

 Rank/Profession:

  doctor

   
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Lyta was the first posted telepath to Babylon 5. Babylon 5, being an EA facility, qualifies for a P5 telepath posting.

She is the only human to ever see and scan a Vorlon being. Immediatly following this encounter, she is transfered to Earth, surely with intent to gain access to her singular knowledge and experience.

She is not heard of for a while, but breaks with the Psi Corps, forcing her to flee from their grasp. On her flight from captivity she passes through Babylon 5 on her way to Vorlon space.

Once more she disappears for some time, only to set another precedent, namely to be the only human to return from Vorlon space alive. It appears the Vorlons not only refrained from attacking her, but embraced her wholeheartedly.

She is a key to the discovery that telepathic powers are a mere utility, a weapon of war in the struggle of Vorlon against Shadow. Her abilities have grown in orders of magnitude, intended as a final doomsayer in this war.

After the war is won, her life has lost focus, but she finds another cause that fills her large and compassionate heart, the wellbeing of the now orphaned telepaths of all races.

 

 Race:

  human

 Gender:

  female

 Date of Birth:

  unknown

 Place of Birth:

  Earth

 Rank/Profession:

  telepath

   
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Second in command in the hierarchy of Babylon 5 security, Zack Allen is a born seargant. He is an invaluable help to Security Chief Micheal Garibaldi, and later succeeds him as Chief of Security of Babylon 5.

A seasoned veteran of Earth Force, he asks for and receives posting to Babylon 5 after the rotation of his predecessor, Lou Welch.

Within a short while, Allen becomes as familiar to Babylon 5 as the peculiar gunmetal gray of the Zocalo floor, and while he was not there when it was built, he will be there when it is decomissioned. During his stay there he does build a lasting friendship with the command staff, and especially Michael Garibaldi.

 

 Race:

  human

 Gender:

  male

 Date of Birth:

  unknown

 Place of Birth:

  Earth

 Rank/Profession:

  security

   
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Marcus Cole lost his older brother when the Shadows attacked the mining colony he was staying at. His brother, being a ranger, warned him of danger, which Marcus ignored.

His brother saved his life at the cost of his own. In memory for him, and also for atonement, Marcus joined the Rangers, following his brothers footsteps.

He is often seen on Babylon 5, either on business, or just in transit.

Being in love with Ivanova, he sacrifices his life for her when she is mortally wounded in 2261, by transfering his life-energy to her with a strange alien device.

 

 Race:

  human

 Gender:

  male

 Date of Birth:

  unknown

 Place of Birth:

  Earth

 Rank/Profession:

  security

   
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Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Lochley succeeds Susan Ivanova as second in command of Babylon 5 while the station is still officially independant from earth in 2262.

She applies for the posting after a period of, to her unsatisfying, deskwork. Sheridan approves of her as Lt. Cmdr., even in light of their history together (just out of the acadamy they were married for a very short, but intense, while).

In such trying times, Lochley masters her task of keeping Babylon 5 in one piece, even though it officialy is independant, in addition to being the official headquarters (temporary) of the Interstellar Alliance.

 

 Race:

  human

 Gender:

  female

 Date of Birth:

  unknown

 Place of Birth:

  Earth

 Rank/Profession:

  Commander

   
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Talia Winters is the resident telepath, rated P5, on Babylon 5 after the recall of her predecessor, Lyta Alexander.

She keeps her personal distance from the rest of the crew, and fends off Mr. Garibaldi's occasional advances coldly. A complicated relationship develops between her and Lt. Commander Ivanova during her 2 years on the station, which comes to a sudden end when in 2259 she is found out to be a Psi Corps plant.

After this incident she is removed from the station and never heard of again.

 

 Race:

  human

 Gender:

  female

 Date of Birth:

  unknown

 Place of Birth:

  Earth

 Rank/Profession:

  telepath

   
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Born Lise Hampton, she is a martian born and bred. She met Michael Garibaldi when he was working for Mars Security. They managed to keep up a relationship for a while until Garibaldi opted out of life by way of inebriety, until he was convinced by Sinclair to join him on Babylon 5 as Security Chief.

Having lost touch from then on, Garibaldi tried, unsuccesfully, to reopen that chapter in his life with her, only to find out she had married in the meantime, and later that her first husband might be gone, but that she had married again (becoming Lise Hampton Edgars of Edgars Industries).

After the fall of Edgars at the hands of the Psi Corps, ironically by means of Michael Garibaldi, Lise and Michael manage to find together one more time.

 

 Race:

  human

 Gender:

  female

 Date of Birth:

  unknown

 Place of Birth:

  Mars Colony

 Rank/Profession:

  unknown

   
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William Edgars of Edgars industries of Mars is one of the Megacorps that call the red planet their playing ground.

Manufacturing almost anything from medical supplies to arms, Edgars Industries has a decided interest to keep Mars the way Earth Gov likes it, under control and peacefully productive.

After the start of the Mars riots and during the subsequent turmoil of civil war, Mars does manage to throw off that yoke.

 

 Race:

  human

 Gender:

  male

 Date of Birth:

  unknown

 Place of Birth:

  Earth

 Rank/Profession:

  head of Edgars
  Industries

   
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Brother theo is the leader of a religious order that has taken permanent residence on the station during the Earth civil war.

His order's goal is to gather information on other (in most cases alien) belief systems. The order also established a sanctuary where they hold services every sunday.

Theo played an active role in the resistance against President Clark by bringing information from Earth's underground resistance to Babylon 5 through religious friends allowed to travel to Babylon 5.

 

 Race:

  human

 Gender:

  male

 Date of Birth:

  unknown

 Place of Birth:

  Earth

 Rank/Profession:

  monk

   
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Warren Keffer is a starfury pilot of great skill, stationed on Babylon 5.

Early in 2259 he had a mysterious encounter in hyperspace, and for the next months he should spend much of his time trying to find out what he had run across. His squad leader died in said encounter and thus Keffer was promoted to the rank of squad leader in his stead.

After several months of search he finally picked up a trace of the mysterious alien vessel, and he paid for that discovery with his life, only having enough time left so send of a drone with recorded footage of the vessel.

Due to his discovery everybody became aware of the existance of the Shadows, and thus he unknowingly caused the increased pace with which the Shadows pursued their war afterwards.

 

 Race:

  human

 Gender:

  male

 Date of Birth:

  unknown

 Place of Birth:

  Earth

 Rank/Profession:

  fighter pilot

   
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Lt. Corwin was at one time, or more precisely during the growing conflict that would erupt into civil war, stationed on Babylon 5.

It might be safe to assume that he was one of the many admirers and occasional recipients of Lt. Commander Ivanova's brash style of command.

 

 Race:

  human

 Gender:

  male

 Date of Birth:

  unknown

 Place of Birth:

  Earth

 Rank/Profession:

  Leutenant

   
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From the time Babylon 5 came online, Lou Welch has assisted Michael Garibaldi as second in command of security on Babylon 5.

Shortly after Garibaldi is attacked by a traitor in his own ranks, Lou Welch is rotated off the station.

 

 Race:

  human

 Gender:

  female

 Date of Birth:

  unknown

 Place of Birth:

  Earth

 Rank/Profession:

  security

   
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Dr. Lillian Hobbs is chief administrator of the Babylon 5 medlab facilities under direct command of Dr. Franklin.

During the absence of Dr Franklin in late 2260 she became chief medical officer on the station for a short while.

Dr. Hobbs can be considered an expert on the human immune system.

 

 Race:

  human

 Gender:

  female

 Date of Birth:

  unknown

 Place of Birth:

  Earth

 Rank/Profession:

  doctor

   
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Holding a variety of offices on Earth Gov, last but not least President, Luis Santiago will meet a particularly mysterious fatal accident that will propel his Vice-President into the seat of power, one William Clark.

Before his untimely demise Santiago was a strong proponent of the democtratization and slow accretion of autonomy by the colonies, as well as being an acknowledged humanitarian.

 

 Race:

  human

 Gender:

  male

 Date of Birth:

  unknown

 Place of Birth:

  Earth

 Rank/Profession:

  EA president

   
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