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Want more info on the episodes? Here's a quick link to the Lurker's episode guide. The information contained in these web pages come from the internet/pay service notes of J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, B5 comics from DC, novels from Dell, trading cards from Fleer, and the actual episodes of Babylon 5. Entries have been written to be as canon as possible. Those entries maked below with a [M] have been embellished by the author of this website. Entries maked below with a [G] contain an original illustration based upon a written description.   Featured Appearances: "Deathwalker" Entry: Antarean [M] Featured Naming: page 16 of John Vornholt's B5 novel, Voices. (Antarean Sector- "The Gathering") Notes: Must be the ones who make Antarean Flarn (?). The pictured alien is from the pilot and its true species name is unknown. Entry: Arnassian [M] [G] Appearances: First mentioned in the original script for the pilot, but was edited out. A second mention can be found on the pilot's edition of Universe Today. Entry: Belladon [M] [G] Appearance: B5 novel #4, Clark's Law Entry: Berserkers Featured Appearance: "A Day in the Strife" Entry: Brakiri Appearances: "The Fall of Night," "Convictions," "Interludes and Examinations" Entry: Bremmaer Appearance: B5 novel #4, Clark's Law Entry: Carnellian Mentioned: "The Gathering" Notes: The image and most of the data comes from the briefly seen alien in medlab in the episode "Interludes and Examinations." I have no idea if that alien is a Carnellian or not, but I placed it here anyway. Entry: Cascor Notes: The Cascor were previously confused with the Llort due to a mis-named picture file uploaded to the Lurker's Guide. Entry: Cauralline Appearance: B5 novel #4, Clark's Law Entry: Cotswa [M] Appearance: B5 novel #5, The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name Entry: Cthulin Appearance: B5 novel #4, Clark's Law Notes: The pictured alien is from the pilot and its true species name is unknown. Entry: Deneth [M] [G] Appearance: B5 novel #4, Clark's Law Entry: Dilgar Featured Appearance: "Deathwalker" Entry: Drazi Featured Appearance: "The Geometry of Shadows" Entry: Froon [M] Appearance: B5 novel #4, Clark's Law Entry: Gaim Appearance: First appeared in a few blurry frames in "And Now For a Word" (Thanks to Kurt L. Reisler for discovering this!); seen clearly twice in "Confessions and Lamentations," "A Day in the Strife," "Exogenesis," thereafter became a regular background alien... Featured Appearance: "Interludes and Examinations" Notes: The name is probably an homage to Neil Gaiman, creator of the Sandman comic (which, BTW, had a 75 issue story arc). The Gaim's encounter suit looks much like Dream's helmet, which was made from an unknown beast's skull. Perhaps it was also a ploy to get the famed author to pen an episode for the series (I hope!). Entry: Goblyns Featured Appearances: Babylon 5 comic, Issues #6 and #7 Notes: No official name is known. Entry: Golian Appearance: "Born to the Purple" Entry: Grome Appearance: Background alien; "Fall of Night," "Convictions" Entry: Hyach Appearance: Background alien. In the second B5 Novel, "Accusations," a telepathic Hyach is caught cheating in the Casino. Notes: Picture provided by Kurt L. Reisler. Entry: Ikarran Featured Appearance: "Infection" Entry: Inquisitors Featured Appearance: "Comes the Inquisitor" Entry: Ipsha Appearance: Ship seen in "Deathwalker" Entry: Keepers Appearance: "War Without End Part II" Entry: Live Eaters Appearance: B5 novel #5, The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name Entry: Llort [M] Mentioned: "Legacies" Appearances: Background alien Notes: The Llort were previously confused with the Cascor due to a mis-named picture file uploaded to the Lurker's Guide. Entry: Lumati Featured Appearance: "Acts of Sacrifice" Entry: Markab Featured Appearances: "The Long Dark," "Knives," "Confessions and Lamentations" Entry: Morellians [M] [G] Featured Appearance: B5 novel #4, Clark's Law Entry: Onteen Featured Appearance: "Believers" Entry: pak'ma'ra Appearances: "Legacies," "Hunter/Prey" Notes: Looks like a mini-cthulhu. Mainly a background alien. Thanks to Robert Berman for pointing out that "pyramidal" cells make a lot more sense than "barameter." Entry: Pre'lek [M] Appearance: "The Gathering" Notes: No official name is known. The name is a amalgum of Twi'lek (from Star Wars) and Predator - since the tentacles and facial features of those aliens make up this one. Entry: Red Monks Featured Appearance: "There all the Honor Lies" Entry: Shadows Featured Appearance: "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum" Other Appearances: "Deathwalker" (probably what the first Vorlon volley was aiming for), "Signs and Portents" (can't see 'em, but they're there), "Chrysalis" (partially seen), "Interludes and Examinations" Entry: Shadow Thrall Featured Appearances: "Signs and Portents," "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum," "Interludes and Examinations" Notes: No official name is known. Entry: Shadow Warriors Featured Appearance: "The Long Dark" Notes: No official name known. Entry: Shedraks [M] Featured Mention: Page 57 in John Vornholt's B5 novel Voices. Entry: Sh'lassen Featured Mention: "GROPOS" Entry: Slaani [M] Appearance: "The Gathering" Notes: No official name is known. Entry: Soul Hunter Featured Appearance: "Soul Hunter" Notes: JMS has mentioned we'd be seeing more of these guys once the Great War gets going. Entry: Streib Mentioned: "All Alone in the Night" Notes: The name of this race is supposedly derived from the author Whitley Strieber whose books focus on the abduction of humans by large-headed, almond-eyed aliens. Entry: Thrakallan [M] Featured Appearances: "Soul Hunter," "Born to the Purple," "Parliament of Dreams," "Survivors," B5 novel #4, Clark's Law Entry: Thrantallil Appearance: B5 novel #4, Clark's Law Entry: Throxtil Appearance: B5 novel #4, Clark's Law Entry: Ti Kar Mentioned: "A Spider in the Web" Entry: Tokati Mentioned: "A Distant Star" Entry: Trivorian [G]Appearance: B5 novel #5, The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name Entry: Tuchanq [G] Appearance: B5 novel #4, Clark's Law Entry: Varn's People Featured Appearances: "A Voice in the Wilderness pt. I," "A Voice in the Wilderness pt. II" Notes: No official name is known. Entry: Vicar Featured Appearance: "Deathwalker" Entry: Vindrizzi Featured Appearance: "Exogenesis" Entry: Vin'Zini [M] Mentioned: "Sic Transit Vir" Entry: Vree Mentioned: by G'Kar in "Survivors" Entry: Walkers at Sigma-957 Featured (Brief) Appearance: "Mind War," "Voices of Authority" Entry: Warp Entity Featured Appearance: "Knives" Entry: the Worm [G]Appearance: B5 novel #5, The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name Entry: Xon Mentioned: "Parliament of Dreams" Entry: Xoth Appearance: B5 novel #4, Clark's Law Notes: The pictured alien is from the pilot and its true species name is unknown. Entry: Ylinn Appearance: B5 novel #4, Clark's Law Notes: The pictured alien is from the pilot and its true species name is unknown. Entry: Ynaborian Sinnining [M] [G] Appearance: B5 novel #4, Clark's Law Entry: Zathras' Kin Featured Appearances: "Babylon Squared," "War Without End Parts One and Two" Mention: "The Long Twilight Struggle" Entry: Zener Featured Appearances: "Ship of Tears" Notes: No official name is known. The given name comes from the cards used to test for ESP. The symbols of cross, square, circle, star and waves were supposed to be viewed by the tester. The subject is to try and "see" the symbol in the tester's mind. Entry: Undocumented: Alternate Atmosphere - Miscellaneous Notes:
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  Mentioned: B5 Comic #10 "Coda for Human and Narn in B-Flat" Entry" Fingal [M] Mentioned: "Believers" Entry: Flamebird [M] [G] Mentioned: "Exogenesis" Entry: Gok [G] Mentioned: "A Race Through Dark Places" Entry: Grylor Featured Appearance: "Knives" Entry: Jaki Mentioned: B5 Wars Rulebook Entry: Leati Mentioned: "Knives" Entry: Natok [G] Mentioned: "Acts of Sacrifice" Entry" On [M] [G] Mentioned: B5 Comic #10 "Coda for Human and Narn in B-Flat" Entry: Rihaty [M] Mentioned: "Sic Transit Vir" Notes: No official name for this insect is known. Entry: Slitch Mentioned: "Eyes" Entry: Spoo [G] Mentioned: "Midnight on the Firing Line," "The Geometry of Shadows," "Point of No Return" Notes: Spoo is also mentioned in an episode of Master of the Universe that JMS wrote. Entry This [M] [G] Mentioned: B5 Comic #10 "Coda for Human and Narn in B-Flat" Entry: Treel Mentioned: "TKO" Entry: Val [M] [G] Mentioned: B5 Comic #10 "Coda for Human and Narn in B-Flat" Entry: Vorchan Mentioned: B5 Wars Rulebook Entry: Yokdri Mentioned: "TKO," "GROPOS" Entry: Zarg [M] Featured Episode: "Gray 17 is Missing" Entry: Zoon Mentioned: "TKO"   Appearance: Raider Ship stats from B5 Micromachine collections. Entry: Conspiracy of Shadows Appearance: "Sky Full of Stars," "A Spider in the Web," "Divided Loyalties" Notes: in the absense of a true name (and one not legally owned by someone else, namely Tri-Tac Games) I used this heading. Entry: Homeguard Appearance: "War Prayer," "Survivors" Entry: Combari Sect [M] Appearance: B5 novel #5, The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name Entry: Cult of the Universe [M] Featured Episode: "Gray 17 is Missing" Entry: Fermi's Angels [M] [G] Appearance: B5 novel #5, The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name Entry: Foundationism Featured Episode: "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum" Entry: Life In Transition [M] [G] Appearance: B5 novel #5, The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name Entry: Universal Church of Solar Illumination [M] [G] Appearance: B5 novel #5, The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name Entry: Mutai Featured Episode: "TKO" Entry: Nightwatch Featured Episode: "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum," "Voices of Authority," "Messages from Earth," "Severed Dreams," "Point of No Return," "Ceremonies of Light and Dark" Entry: Raiders Appearance: "Midnight on the Firing Line," "Believers," "Signs and Portents," B5 novel #2: AccusationsEntry: Spoomun Complat [M] Entry: Technomages Featured Episode: "The Geometry of Shadows" Entry: Transport Pilot's Association Featured Episode: "A Day in the Strife"   Information source: Babylon 5 Wars Rulebook Entry: Black Omega Carrier Featured Episode: "Epiphanies" Entry: Centauri Blockade Mine Featured Episode: "Matters of Honor" Entry: Earthforce Breaching Pod Featured Episode: "Severed Dreams" Entry: Earthforce Dreadnought Featured Episode: "GROPOS" Entry: Earthforce Heavy Cruiser Featured Episode: "Alone in the Wilderness (Part 2)," "Severed Dreams" Entry: Exploration-class Vessel Featured Episode: "A Distant Star" Mention: B5 novel #5 Clark's Law Entry: Minbari War Cruiser Information Source: B5 Screen Utility, Babylon 5 Wars Entry: Minbari-Vorlon Heavy Fighter Picture: image created and (c) 1997 by Christopher Russo Information Source: To Dream in the City of Sorrows by Kathryn Drennan Entry: Narn Heavy Cruiser Information Source: John Vornholt's B5 Novel #3, Blood Oath Entry: Shadow Battlecruisers Featured Appearance: "Messages from Earth", "Ship of Tears," "Walkabout" Entry: Vree Saucer Appearances: "Deathwalker," most eps since "Severed Dreams" Entry: Black Light Cammo Suit Featured Episode: "War Prayer" Entry: Changeling Net Featured Episode: "The Gathering" Mention: Clark's Law Entry: Chrysalis Device Featured Episode: "Chrysalis," "War Without End Part II" Entry: The Great Machine of Epsilon 3 Featured Episode: "A Voice in the Wilderness (Parts 1 and 2)," "The Long Twilight Struggle," "Voices of Authority," "War Without End (parts 1 and 2)" Entry:Lifegiver Featured Episode: "Quality of Mercy," "Revelations," B5 novel #4 Clark's Law Entry:Telepath Bomb Featured Episode: The Shadow Within by Jeanne Cavelos   Featured Appearance: "Walkabout" Entry: Taan Churok Featured Mention: B5 novel #4 Clark's Law Entry: David MacIntyre Featured: "A Late Delivery from Avalon" Entry: Morden Notes "I'm fairly sure he was a technician aboard the Icarus. If you obsessively freeze frame through the scene in "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" where his file scrolls down the screen one can make out "echnical." The DP on that scene did a great job making sure we don't see a damn thing in that file. However, his action in "Interludes and Examinations" leads me to believe that he was planted there by a government agency (as an offering/inside man??). Nobody calls him Dr. Morden either." - myself, Aug. 1996. Of course, I can always be wrong. When novel #7 came out it was revealed that Mr. Morden is really Dr. Morden. However, in my defense I offer this quote from Jeanne Cavelos, author of The Shadow Within: "JMS mentioned that he'd thought of Morden as a low-level tech on the Icarus, not a scientist. But he never asked me to change it, which I appreciated." So my original article was correct at the time it was written. :) Entry: n'grath [M] Featured Appearances: "Soul Hunter," "Born to the Purple," "Parliament of Dreams," "Survivors," B5 novel #4, Clark's Law Notes: According to the VEX Internet Poll: 89% liked n'grath, while 8% did not. 94.5% of the respondents would like to see n'grath again. When asked how they would like to see him: 27% would like to see him as is, 41% would like to see him revamped (altered suit/CGI), and 25% would like to see his head as the next "fixer's" paperweight. (based on 37 responses from rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5, alt.tv.babylon-5, and alt.babylon5.uk for 6/18/95 - 6/24/95) Entry: Zathras Featured Appearances: "Babylon Squared," "War Without End Parts One and Two" Mention: "The Long Twilight Struggle"   Notes: Anti-Agapic ("Deathwalker"), Devalera ("Long, Twilight Struggle"), Dust ("Dust to Dust"), Florazyne ("The Gathering"), Metazine ("Quality of Mercy"), Morph Gas ("By Any Means Necessary," Clark's Law), Oxy Pills ("Survivors," "Eyes") Entry:Diseases and Maladies Notes: Drafa ("Confessions and Lamentations"), Lake's Syndrome ("Quality of Mercy"), Netter's Syndrome ("Convictions") Entry: Galactic Map Notes: The Milky Way is an incredibly large area. The two political border maps following this page are an attempt to outline where and how large the borders of the respective empires lay. These are very approximate, and IMHO, a bit too large considering most governments number their colonies in the tens. Any help in impoving these areas would be much appreciated. |
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