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"Babylon 5" was a five-year space opera for TV, broadcast in the USA and UK between 1993 and 1998. This not-for-profit fan website is an interactive game, created in homage to the show. Many people have contributed text and images to this site. To list all the credits for each page separately would be a huge undertaking. So, instead, all contributors are listed here, with their contributions gratefully acknowledged.

• Glori Anon: provided most of the 32px x 32px buttons that appear at the foot of some pages; in particular the Babylon "5" button, the Security badge button, the PPG-Gun button, the Narn cruiser button, the Psi-Corps badge button and the Isolab button. Glori has a website Babylon 5 Graphics Central, containing a large number of buttons, animations and specially treated images. All buttons are © Glori Anon, 1999.
• Laura Appelbaum: provided a fabulous original picture of Sinclair's Starfury ramming a Minbari Warcruiser. This was a photograph of a model she had built, against a CGI image of the cruiser. The model is really excellent, adapted from the Revell/Monogram Starfury kit with battle damage and LEDs. Check it out at Sinclair's Line Starfury, which contains a number of model shots.
• Alan Baker: provided a screen capture of Maintenance Techs Mack and Bo. Alan and Jenny Baker have an extensive website devoted to: Babylon 5, with episode synopses, character bios, details of the major races, images and classified quotations from the show.
• Holger Barton: provided the deliberately half-rendered image of "Babylon 5 under construction" specially for this site, after visiting it! Thanks, Holger. For many years, Holger has produced fine original renders of scenes from Babylon 5. He created the original German website: Babylon 5, The Place to Be, which is now preserved in the archive of The First Ones.
• David Boyd: provided some of the larger spacecraft images from his archive of older published Warner Brothers images. David and others maintain the website: ISN News, a super-site that encompasses a "Babylon 5" website, a "Crusade" website and Lars Joreteg's Hyperspace website. All images © Time Warner Entertainment Co., LP, 1997.
• Brandon Bray: provided one source of technical data on spacecraft dimensions and capabilities. He maintains the website: The Babylon 5 Tech Manual, one of the three main sites devoted to spaceship technology (the others belong to Brian Young and Lars Joreteg).
• Tim Earls: provided the detailed design specifications of the Babylon 5 station, the Starfury and Thunderbolt, the Atmosphere shuttle and the Nial class fighter. Tim was the conceptual artist for the show's early seasons (later this job went to Luc Mayrand). Tim's designs are published in Boxtree's Babylon 5 Security Manual.
• Eclipse: is the pseudonym of someone who created the larger animated Starfury and animated Whitestar icons. Originally supplied by "Whitestar 3" from his now-defunct "BabCom Gold" website, they may currently be found at the: Babylon 5 Animated GIF Gallery, which collects these.
• Holger Fausek: provided the original digital copy of the Security Officers image, which was subsequently enhanced. Holger maintains the German website GoldKanal (Gold Channel), a guide to the "Babylon 5" television series. Image © Time Warner Entertainment Co., LP, 1997.
• Ben Gilboa: provided the original high-definition copy of the station map, from which Anthony Simons made the lower resolution coloured zone maps. The original map bears some similarity to the Sierra Studios' interactive map on the original Babylon 5 CDROM and may hail from this source. Image © Time Warner Entertainment Co., LP, 1997.
• Steven Grimm: provided the source for the thumbnail of John Sheridan. Steven created the original and most complete Babylon 5 fan website: The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5. Originally, this was maintained at Hyperion, from which the show's creator J Michael Straczynski took the name for the Hyperion-class heavy cruiser. He also took the name for Babylon 5 vagrants from internet folklore. A "lurker" is someone who listens in on usenet postings without participating. All character images © Time Warner Entertainment Co., LP, 1995-1999.
• Chris Huffines: provided a useful historical note about how spaceship sizes were not fixed during production of "Babylon 5" and how fans established realistic sizes by measurement of on-screen information. The cited opinion was contributed to the message boards of Brandon Bray's technical website, The Babylon 5 Tech Manual.
• John Iacovelli: provided original images of the sets on Babylon 5, which are reproduced in smaller size here, in particular, views of the Zocalo, the Casino, the Zen Garden, and two shots of interior quarters. John was the innovative production designer on Babylon 5, who created re-configurable sets that could represent hundreds of different locations. See the rest of his work on his website: Iacovelli Design, in particular the television gallery with many scenes from his shows.
• Lars Joreteg: edited a number of spacecraft images down to a 250px standard width; in particular the Starliner Asimov, the Transfer Shuttles, Atmospheric Shuttles, Cargo Transports, Personal Yachts and Science Vessels, and provided some of the larger images of capital ships and fighters. Lars maintains: Hyperspace: A Guide to the Ships of Babylon 5 and Crusade, which has a complete collection of all the spacecraft that ever appeared in the Babylonian universe. All original spacecraft images are from the old Warner Brothers Babylon 5 website; images © Time Warner Entertainment Co., LP, 1999.
• Brendan Lambe: provided an original view of the Nova-class dreadnought. Brendan has a site devoted to digital models of vessels from the Babylon 5 universe, Celestia SF Addons. Celestia is a particular graphics rendering tool.
• Corey Marion: provided a couple of 32px x 32px icons for the "B5" emblem and the Medlab "caduceus"-style badge. Corey built these in Adobe from web references. These and many other icons are maintained at the Icon Archive of science-fiction themes. Original artwork © Corey Marion. All badges and indicia © Time Warner Entertainment Co., LP, 1999.
• Massimo Martini: provided the scan of the contrasting station map from the Babylon 5 Role-Playing Game; and a capture of Maintentance Techs Mack and Bo. Massimo maintains the Italian Babylon 5 Fan Club's large website, devoted to the show.
• Damon Muma: provided the original copy of the Earth Alliance pin, used both in a larger size as a logo; and in a smaller size as a navigation button. Damon's website has since moved or vanished into hyperspace. All badges and indicia © Time Warner Entertainment Co., LP, 1999.
• Becky Murphy: provided a number of archived images and logos from now-defunct official Babylon 5 websites. Some of her screen captures from season 1 of "Babylon 5" have been down-sized and used here to illustrate technical discussions; also a number of alien flags and logos. Becky maintains the Babylon 5 and Crusade Spoiler Junkie's Archive, which contains a wealth of saved logos, patches and screen captures. All images, badges and related indicia © Time Warner Entertainment Co., LP, 1999.
• Stuart Penn: provided the animated laser blast used as the content-separator at the head and foot of each page. The laser blast is in the style of the Shadow Battlecrab's main beam weapon; image © Stuart Penn, 1999.
• Christopher Russo: provided the alien sector graphic, the Babylon Transit Authority logo and three of the smaller 33px x 32px buttons containing alien text, used here to indicate diplomatic, alien or hazardous places. As the fictional technomage "Voltayre", he created the wonderful: Voltayre's Encyclopedia Xenobiologica detailing all lifeforms in Babylon 5. This site is now a mirror, since the current maintained version is less pretty, although more up to date. BTA logo © Warner Brothers. Original images © Christopher Russo, 1999.
• Troy Rutter: provided a number of archived set-photographs, scavenged from several of the now-defunct official Babylon 5 websites. These include shots of the Observation Dome, and a recreated Babylon 5 desk terminal, used here. Troy maintains the fan website Babylon 5 Fans, devoted to archiving rare material. Deserves the Llort prize for scavenging. image © Time Warner Entertainment Co., LP, 1999.
• Sci-Fi Info: this Scandinavian website provided the only picture of the Babylon 5 Customs area available on the web; plus a number of scenes from corridors. Original images © Time Warner Entertainment Co., LP, 1999.
• Sci-Fi 3D Models: this Romanian website provided one of the few quality renderings of an Olympus-class corvette available on the web. See their frontpage at: Sci-Fi 3D Models.
• Dean Scott: provided the lightwave model of Babylon 5, including the rendered text "Babylon 5" and the patrolling Starfury fighter, used for the main title page and this page; image © Dean Scott, 1999.
• Anthony Simons: designed the structure and interactive storylines of this website; and wrote all original text and pastiche dialogue, based on the characters and situations created by J Michael Straczynski. He created the zone-coloured station maps from an original master image provided by Ben Gilboa.
• Art Skiles: created the smaller animated Starfury fighter icon. This animation was originally obtained from Stuart Penn. Animation © Art Skiles, 1999.
• J Michael Straczynski: created the "Babylon 5" television show, including all characters, situations and major plotlines. He was also the lead writer, authoring the majority of episodes, a feat unparalleled in television. These scripts are now being offered in a limited edition, 15-volume set at Joe's site: Babylon 5 Scripts. Without Joe's inspiration and creative vision, none of us would have enjoyed the 1990s half as much. This whole website is in homage to "the Great Maker".
• Warner Brothers: provided the original digital sources for photographed scenes and CGI spaceship model shots on their Babylon 5 website. Some of this material was licensed to Sierra (the Babylon 5 CD ROM) and Boxtree (the Babylon 5 Security Manual). Various fan websites have used images from these sources, for example, the Security TacTeam (from Boxtree) or the station map (from Sierra). Warner Brothers own the copyright for the "Babylon 5" television show and all images, characters, names and related indicia are © Time Warner Entertainment Co., LP, 1995-1999. All rights reserved.
• Jeff Warnant: provided some additional thumbnail images of alien characters from the League of Non-Aligned Worlds. He has a whole website devoted to alien and character makeup that is well worth a visit. All character images © Time Warner Entertainment Co., LP, 1995-1999.
• Jeb Woodard: edited most of the of character images used here to an approximate 100px x 130px size. This was useful, since these thumbnails are slightly larger than the standard images available through the Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5. The animated Omega-class destroyer also came from Jeb, although the original source is uncredited. All character images © Time Warner Entertainment Co., LP, 1995-1999.
• Brian Young: provided the animated BabCom screen used here as an information terminal, and a couple of captures of internal station scenes, such as the larger view of the core shuttle, and scenes of ship weaponry. Brian has one of the best technical sites devoted to Babylon 5, BabTech on the Net, with the most accurate measurements of spacecraft dimensions and their capabilities in the "Babylon 5" universe. BabCom animation © Brian Young, 1999.

Credits: This not-for-profit fan website was designed by Anthony Simons. Images on this page were kindly provided by Stuart Penn and Dean Scott. Click on Babylon 5 to start the story.