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Star Trek indirectly introduced me to Babylon 5. A Fanfiction writer by the name of AlbertG wrote an outstanding crossover between the two, and one of the first substantive events is the Battle of Babylon 5. The inflection point was specifically as Clark reinforcements showed up, and cemented by love for not just the crossover, but also Babylon 5 as a whole. The following exchange is a bit long, and far longer than what occurred in canon, but a fun read nonetheless. It is always so satisfying seeing these space fascists have their asses handed to them on a silver platter. ---Onboard the Evanston, the communications officer expected and received an answer to his Captain's hail. But he was looked perplexed and somewhat surprised by what came over the radio link. "Sir? We're receiving a hail." "So. What is it?" he snapped. "Are they surrendering?" He hoped it wasn't true because he was already feeling vaguely disappointed. "We're having trouble with the video feed, but it's from the white ship." Comms piped it thru. "This is Captain Jean-Luc Picard onboard the USS Enterprise," the voice said. "Babylon Five is under our protection. You will stand down and leave Babylon Five space or we will open fire and evict you from this area. Respond." How dare they interfere with this mission! Irritated, Captain Drake punched his comm-link. "Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to fire on you, Enterprise." That was an Earth name he realized. Earth Intelligence was correct in their assessment. This may very well be a Human-run vessel. Who was this 'Captain' Picard? Logic suggested that this was one of Sheridan's secret weapons. To his navigator and weapons officers: "Proceed and target that ship if they even twitch." Interference would not be tolerated. "Affirmative, sir." As the Captain requested readout of the ship from tactical, he found the analysis strange, but impressive. How Sheridan's people managed to build a ship of that size without anyone getting wind of it was a mystery. But one thing was clear; that configuration was something no Human mind would produce. It was designed as a large saucer with three pylons, one large and two small connected by struts of various sizes. The overall saucer shape suggested a cobra with its hood spread. The lettering was clearly in English, USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D. There appeared to be no thrusters and how it moved was a mystery. The overall mass of the ship was four hundred meters smaller than a heavy Hyperion-class destroyer. It was six hundred forty-one meters in overall length and there appeared to be no visible weapons ports open that they could tell. Some sort of distortion field was reflecting his Omega class Destroyer's deep scans. Its Captain sounded Human but it was clearly some type of deception, most likely by Sheridan's people. If he was Human, then he was another traitor. Well, it was not going to work. Already his Breeching pod was heading towards the Babylon station and other than this one little alien ship, a battered B5, the remains of the Churchill and a few Star Furies there was nothing to stop him and his five Destroyers from accomplishing his goal. He opened the comms channel again. "Enterprise, you will surrender your vessel immediately or we will disable or destroy it." He decided to make this Picard sweat by calling his bluff. Without waiting, he switched to inner-fleet comms. "Open a channel to our fleet," he ordered. "Channel open, Sir." "To all ships," Drake announced. "The Evanston and Rochester will neutralize the Enterprise threat. To the Nimrod and Pournelle, subdue the Alexander, and Lenmark escort the Breeching Pod to B5 and give it cover. All ships will converge on B5 after we have completed our initial tasks. Let's make this happen people." "Lieutenant Hung, steer us to that Captain Picard's ship. I want it out of the way as soon as possible." The Captain of the Evanston fully expected the ship to turn tail and run. And if not, then two to one was never good odds for someone to play with. "Fire as soon as you get into range." "Targeting." "Sir," the radar officer said, his voice raised. "They're moving towards us." Captain Drake looked at the white ship growing larger in his window by the second. "So be it. Lock on and fire as soon as we're in range." It was a shame that they would have to shoot holes in such a pretty ship, but when you played with fire, you got burnt.

well done. even brought a tear to my eye. i miss this show so much...

Homeworld was an amazing, interesting game. Its expansions were good. Embellishments upon something great. Homeworld 2 was mid at best. It lost the character of its progenitor. Homeworld 3 on the far left field foot is a miserable disgrace that ever fell upon the world of storytelling. WOW. You did it. You made one of the weirdest stories into a political event. Good for you. Happy selling.

Babylon 5 was the first space opera tv show that had a believable universe. I loved how humans weren’t the top dog (as seen in other shows), but were trying to find a place in the galaxy. Mass Effect felt the same way.

Damn, i bought this book way back in the early 90s (sometime after playing the first game) and never thought to see something like this! Loved it!

Love these videos and can tell you put a lot of work into them. This mission really hit hard as it seemed the Kadeshii were exterminated in a genocide by their own lost brothers and sisters. I still, to this day, don’t quite believe they were all killed but some may have stolen away, ready to rebuild….or perhaps there was a larger craft (battle station?) that was too far away to assist during this incursion.

Only downvoting because the app won’t let me shut down

Love this lore, thanks for making the video ^^

Its weird reconciling Good Guy Geoffrey Tolwyn with Scumbag Tolwyn, but it was nice seeing the character as more then just a foil for the player character in WC 2 and the big bad in WC 4. Somehow I skipped 3, so I don't know how he was portrayed there.

It feels illegal to watch this for free on UA-cam. This is so good.

I hadn't played this in 20 years but it's amazing how quickly it all returns during your descriptions.

Thank you for putting this video together! it was fun. Even comedic with the mortal kombat style cartoons! :)))

I love this video/story

The Ion beams in the intro movie look and sound better than the HW3 version

Waaait, so they must have smuggled the hyperspace core out, since their transports were sub-light?..

So glad I subscribed. I love the lore. Super high quality videos ❤ Awesome job good sir.

Protoss / covenant feelings

I wonder which streaming service is going to pick it up and make it into a series?

Babylon 5 is the closest you'll get to 20th century shakespeare done sci-fi style

Great video and visuals. Look forward to seeing where you take the channel. +1 subscriber.

What an absolute piece of art as assembled down into a lovely compendium, a lore movie for the uninitiated. This is a level of quality completely alien to UA-cam as a whole, much less the 'lore' genre, which is attached to its slow pans of loosely related game screenshots and occasional 2d, silhouettes. Which may even move if your lucky. The concept that there's a whole channel worth of this waiting to be seen is incredible, and I plan to watch allll the rest of your content in time. In the meantime, Incredible work! Please, keep up what your doing, its a step above all your competition in a way that's frankly unbelievable.

Not enough use of Salvage Corvettes.

I take it's a pc game or is it available on a console platform?

Good Shit!!!!

Homeworld 1 and Cataclysm were the 1-2 punch that dominated 2000-2001 for me. I was obsessed with those games. I still have the CD and case for Cataclysm even though I haven't had a CD drive in my PC for years. I really hope they can find the source code or reverse engineer Cataclysm because it was great. I never got into H2. I feel like its design was clunkier or something or just not as intuitive as the previous 2 games.

Can’t wait for Homeworld 2! I can wait for Homeworld 3.

I think it would be fun to have an optional mission to raid a military installation. Would be quite the spectacle for sure.

The music always gets me every time you return to Kharak. Turning the camera, seeing the horror, the dry and hopeless response from your compatriots…

In Homeworld 2, if you force fire on the ship Bentus, you get unique dialogue. Try it. (And then apologize to the aliens)

Truly an epic equal to Homecoming, Wing Commander, and Starsiege.

The dystopian New Speak of the Cybrids is a fascinating twist.

15:50 The reason to fight as with Germany and Japan in 1945? Maybe some can live?

I love the eas churchill had a Darjeeling emblem

as a WFP commander, I feel this.

The story of the first three Babylon's brought to mind "When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England." lol

Ah Commander Sinclair... The man out of time... trapped in a causality loop, doomed forever to live two lives

I did not expect them to fire on the Bemtuzi and also reject the galactic council. If they would abide by the rules they still had the chance to find the last jump core, the Bentuzi still prevented their annihilation by the Other B faction as they wouldn't have demilitarized. It was a stupid plot twist. Also it is a gaping plot hole as the exiles were able to snuggle a fucking core. Sunlight even. Yeah their transport had no weapons but you'd at least escort them ffs they had trigger ready planet crackers stationed above Karak for endless generation, yet they couldn't be arsednto check the laugage of the exiled? They really need a story heavy game around that.

It sucks you never covered homeworld 2

It’s amazing how one person can view an action as insignificant and at the same time be the first domino to fall that eventually leads to the downfall of an empire.

You have to do all of them now 😂