
Humans and aliens were depicted in a more gritty, realistic way. Characters die, are reassigned, or are forever changed by their actions and those of the people around them.īabylon 5 broke a lot of SF TV conventions, and not just because of the way all shows were interconnected in a 5 year arc. The setting of the show is affected by events in each episode - the status quo isn't neatly restored at the end of the hour. Each episode is enjoyable on its own, but is also a piece of a larger whole, a chapter in a five year long novel for television.

Unlike most television series, Babylon 5 is a single story, completely planned out from day one with a beginning, middle, and end. Humans are not alone.īabylon 5 is the story of the last of the Babylon stations, the result of a project intended to find peaceful ways of resolving conflicts between the various races. "It was the dawn of the third age of mankind", in the middle of the twenty-third century.

But that event will only happen one time per game at a random location.Starship Modeler: Babylon 5 Starship Reference There should be an event where Babylon 4 will show up and we could investigate it. We could play the ages of Before-Narn-Centauri-War and Post-Narn-Centauri-War and some other ages. The Vorlons and Shadows could have pre-FTL and normal empires as their slaves, although some of them may not be aware of that fact.

We could capture these ships, or at least destroy them and salvage some tech, when we have highly advanced technology (armor, weapons.), but it will always be possible to attack the ships. There could be artifacts of the First Ones, including ships of them coming out of nowhere and disappearing shortly after. They don't expand, but will destroy everything that stands in their way.

Vorlons and Shadows could be fallen empires that will scriptedly fight eachother when they meet. The mod could have:Īll the species (Humans, Minbari, Centauri, Narn, Vorlons, Shadows, and the minor species that weren't so important) I watched all episodes of Babylon 5, and I agree completely.
