Season 2, Episode 4: The Ghosts of Omelos

by Simon-F. Laflamme

Mark Baggett, Ta’Ren’s human partner in MarTar Enterprises summons him to the head office on Beta IX with dire news: wanting to run for the Earth Senate, he asks Ta’Ren to buy him out. But trade around Beta IX has been greatly hindered by Raiders, whose tactics Carlson recognizes as Dilgar. Reunited with MarTar’s head of security, Mr. Smiths, Ta’Ren and Carlson investigate. They discover the Raiders operate out of a base on a mysterious alien station orbiting the neighboring dead home world of the Markab. Strange biological experiments are being conducted there, among which they find another Mr. Smiths, and another ambassador Zebruune. Carlson and Ta’Ren fight off the Dark Minbari posing as Mr. Smiths, and with Enoch’s help, escape the Raiders and their powerful alien allies with the captives in tow. Back on Babylon 5, Carlson goes to Zebrunne for answers. He discovers she has been attacked and is waylaid by Darzus, which he kills in single combat. Dr. Hobbs discovers Babylon 5’s Zebruune is really a Human who has been genetically transformed to appear Minbari by a familiar parasitic infection. Her name is Emily Jane Banks.

Season 2, Episode 3: Pandemonium

by Simon-F. Laflamme

Ever since the actions of Centauri in the War of Retribution have left the Nar’Shal a barren wasteland, Ta’Ren has done everything in his power to heal his home world. The MarTar Irrigation Initiative (M.T.I.I.) is the culmination of his efforts, his legacy to his people. So when the M.T.I.I. prototype experiment on Beta Durani VII goes silent, Ta’Ren and Carlson investigate immediately. They find a city miles beneath the surface, millions of years old, at the deep end of the borehole excavated to bring water to the surface. The sprawling metropolis sits at the feet of a massive sealed gate, and its sole inhabitants are a sinister cult of Pak’ma’ra led by a human possessed by a demon of ancient Earth: the rogue Vorlon whose chariot was the Goliath, bound by his kind to human flesh as a punishment for his membership of the Hand.

Season 2, Episode 2: Babylon Cubed

by Simon-F. Laflamme

When a lucrative underhanded deal brings the crew of the Goliath to investigate the tail of Brakir’s famed comet, they suddenly find themselves back in the year 2251, on a transport to the unfinished Babylon 3. The transport’s name is Goliath, and its captain is Ta’Ren. His passengers are all Babylon 3 personnel: engineer Salambo St-Cloud, Erich Crowley of the Psi Corps, Babylon 3’s wing commander Colonel Thomas Carlson, and his second-in-command Major Emily Jane Banks. The station’s commander is an old friend of Carlson’s, Colonel Tommi Salmainen. He has arranged festivities in an effort to get his crew to gel before the station is completed and goes online. But the celebrations are cut short when a rumor spreads that the station’s core is going critical and a general evacuation is ordered. As they flee with Banks and St-Cloud on the Goliath, Ta’Ren and Carlson discover the station is really under attack. Their last memory of the incident is the Goliath being boarded by the attackers. Carlson, Enoch, St-Cloud and Ta’Ren awake to discover they are on Babylon 5, hooked up in a VR Cyber-Net. A Drazi is seen fleeing the scene. Carlson and Ta’Ren catch up with him but discover his memory of the incident has been wiped clean. That night, in Carlson’s quarters, the frame holding the old photograph of he and his buddies crashes to the floor. Carlson discovers the picture had been folded so that the image Avis Ames was kept out of frame. 

Season 2, Episode 1: A Call to Order

by Simon-F. Laflamme

The year is 2264, and diplomatic business continues to move away from Babylon 5 to Minbar. The transfer of the Narn embassy is almost complete, and Ta’Lon hires the Goliath to move the most sensitive files. On their way to Minbar, they are waylaid by a Sharlin cruiser which the Goliath dispatches with terrifying efficiency, and as soon as they have set foot on Minbar, Carlson, Enoch, and Ta’Ren are the victims of an assassination attempt by the Dark Knives clan. When they visit the clan’s village to get some answers, the clan’s elder reveals that the Dark Knives do not adhere to common Minbari beliefs. They believe the Minbari were once enslaved and tampered with by the Vorlons. As such, many of the Dark Knives sided with the Shadows in Valen’s War, and many more have fled Minbari space since then. The Dark Knives also believe that the Goliath is a living entity, a Vorlon transport, formerly that of a particularly vicious Vorlon who enslaved the clan millennia ago. The elder also reveals that Zebruune, the new Minbari ambassador to Babylon 5 is a Dark Knife, and so is her attaché, Darzus. Before either side can make amends, the Goliath, powered by a mind of its own, attacks and destroys the Minbari village, using the raw matter therein to complete its maturation into a Vorlon transport. Minbari authorities rule that the Dark Knives attacked first, but nevertheless ban Carlson, Ta’Ren, Enoch and the Goliath from Minbari space.