The Deconstruction of falling StarsThe Deconstruction of falling Stars
Fourth season finale. A look back at the impact of Babylon 5 from 100, 500, 1000, and 1000000 years in the future. Some people on Earth are highly skeptical that the Interstellar Alliance will work, and distrust Sheridan's motives and ability. The station will be under the command of a Captain Lockley in 2262. With Sheridan's permission, a colony of telepaths will be established on Babylon 5 sometime in 2262. Eventually they will turn against him. Garibaldi will be held hostage, possibly by the telepaths, in 2262. The hostage situation will end in gunfire. Babylon 5 will be destroyed (though under what circumstances isn't clear) in 2282. Sheridan will die in 2282 under mysterious circumstances that will still be debated 80 years later. Popular opinion will hold that he died on Minbar, but not everyone will agree. Later legend will hold that he was carried bodily into heaven. Delenn will live until at least 2362, though she'll spend many of the intervening years out of public view, leading some to wonder if she's still alive. In 2762, Earth will again be divided into two factions, one in favor of breaking away from the Interstellar Alliance and another in favor of remaining. The two sides will launch a devastating war, rendering the surface of the Earth nearly uninhabitable. In 3262, the survivors of that war, now known as the "Great Burn," will largely have lost all records of the time before the war. At least one order of monks, marginally part of the Roman Catholic Church, will work to gather and preserve historical records. They'll be aided in secret by agents of the Rangers, who will slowly "discover" pieces of pre-Burn technology to inch Earth's people back toward the stars. The Rangers will still exist in some form a million years hence, and will still consider Sheridan and Delenn to be their founders. They will be involved in the building of something called "New Earth," though what that is isn't clear. One million years in the future, humans will apparently have evolved into noncorporeal entities (like Lorien, "Into the Fire") and will make use of Vorlon-style encounter suits and organic ships. Earth's sun will go nova in a million years. |
