Man that original plan was insane. I've often wondered how it'd have played out if we got BABYLON PRIME after B5. Although, the majority of the story beats did eventually end up in the show we got.
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Man that original plan was insane. I've often wondered how it'd have played out if we got BABYLON PRIME after B5. Although, the majority of the story beats did eventually end up in the show we got.
Looks like a bumble bee.
I guess it's just as well there'll never be a Babylon 6: It'd have to be purple! 
As for that fan art: Where are Babylon 1's solar panels?
As for that fan art: Where are Babylon 1's solar panels?
As for that fan art: Where are Babylon 1's solar panels?
Good point. There weren't any in the under construction shot, so I guess this artist just omitted them. There are more takes on Babylon 1 floating around than the two totally-unseen stations, and most of them do include solar panels/radiators.
Here's someone's rendering of the previous stations I found on Pinterest.
Here's someone's rendering of the previous stations I found on Pinterest.
Now that is interesting. It looks legit, like it was scanned out of a magazine or something. It's definitely old, so how have I never seen it before (and the only other reference I see on-line is a Russian fan site... a couple months ago... that also found it on Pintrest)? And the Pinterest post just says "Found on FB." It's like they designed that website just to defeat reverse-image-search and make it impossible to figure out where anything comes from.
I'm leaning fan-made, there are some wonky proportions of the B5 parts in the kitbash that look like WombatControl's model, and the Babylon 4 chunks could be from Chris Guinn's model. But it's a very interesting image. Reminds me of the image of the fighter-sized prototype White Star that appeared in the late '90s that no one could figure out the provenance of. Kier Darby swore up and down that the engines had to be from an early version of his White Star, but I think the ultimate concensus was that it was a really good Photoshop, since there were no other images, suggesting it wasn't a 3D model.
While I was researching the above reply, I did find a few old entries for the B5MG "Babylon 6" contest. There were one or two that played it straight as another Earth-built station, a Minbari version, even a Shadow version.
It'd look like a giant aubergine/egg plant/engorged male member.I guess it's just as well there'll never be a Babylon 6: It'd have to be purple!
Edge on so you only see a line. I suspect the panels fulfil a dual purpose of solar collector and radiator or, given there is at least one stonking great fusion reactor, they are radiator panels only - the shuttle's radiators inside the cargo bay doors had a two-layer coating of a silver reflective layer covered by a thin Teflon film. The ISS has separate panels for each function. Its radiator panels are white. That was one thing about the DIscovery spaceship in 2001: A Space Odyssey - the book version had radiator panels, but the movie version didn't. I believe they thought the audience would mistake them for wings.As for that fan art: Where are Babylon 1's solar panels?
I guess it's just as well there'll never be a Babylon 6: It'd have to be purple!
As for that fan art: Where are Babylon 1's solar panels?
Next to the reactor same as the other designs, they are at a 90° to the station and appear as a line 3 pixels wide. Take a closer look.
ETA: Fucken ninja'd!
I've always thought Annorax should have been a bit more like Red Forman:
"GIve my regards to Captain Dumbass!"
Yeah that's how I've always seen them mentioned in any B5 tech—as radiator panels. Or as heat exchangers and emergency solar collectors.
The B5 technical manual states the array consists of heat exchangers and secondary solar collectors, but I don't trust anything it states as being accurate. It also points to primary cooling fins near the fusion reactor. A heat exchanger in a vacuum can only serve as a radiator. Keeping cool in space is a big problem - radiating heat is the only way to lose it besides heating up mass and dumping it. Not only would they need to get rid of waste heat from the reactor but from the inhabited cylinder as well. Obviously, the laws of thermodynamics have not been broken in the 23rd century.
I've no doubt that was the production's intent since it was very much about using real physics, especially for Earth tech.
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