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Question about recurring characters in Crusade

There's really no point of reference to make any kind of informed estimate about the deck count, or for that matter the deck height. Besides, as I said, the way they're irregularly arranged it's rather meaningless. If you *must* describe a certain area, best to just use something nice and ambiguous like "section" or "sector" rather than a deck number.
 
Don't forget the recording Kosh made of Talia - catching a whiff of it and the chase to find the tape alone could make a good story, whether Talia herself is ever found, let alone having the tape played to restore her.
 
Crusade related question: Will there be a conclusion to the Crusader ark, in form of a book perhapes?

Anything's possible but it doesn't seem likely at the moment. First, JMS has always said that he envisioned Crusade for TV and isn't inclined to continue in novels or comics. Even if he were, no publisher seems interested in licensing B5 from WB and commissioning novels.

Jan
 
Since this is the closese thing to a current Crusade thread, I thought some folks here might be interested in this:

Just Released - Crusade: Other Voices Volume 2 featuring *three* never-before-published Crusade scripts! $10 off through Tues., May 24.

Jan
 
Since this is the closese thing to a current Crusade thread, I thought some folks here might be interested in this:

Just Released - Crusade: Other Voices Volume 2 featuring *three* never-before-published Crusade scripts! $10 off through Tues., May 24.

Jan

Well, to be fair it's really only two never-before-published scripts. Value Judgements came out with the other two ages ago.
 
Yeah, it is really great that Jason and his crew found the stuff that they did, isn't it?

Jan
 
I'd really like to see that map of the Excalibur tram system. The ship always looked so spindly that with those giant train-tubes threaded through it, there'd hardly be room for anything else. Never mind how quickly it'd make the circuit. Didn't Gideon say in one episode where Galen was sitting in one to think that he was going nowhere at 200 miles an hour? The ship's only two miles long, tops! It'd take longer to get in and sit down than to get where you were going.

Eh, technical and behind-the-scenes stuff for B5 is few and far between, it feels like even moreso than when the show was new. I just the other day whiled away some time looking for a floorplan of the Observation Dome for a project. Then I looked for set photos of the Observation Dome. Then I looked for screencaps of the Observation Dome. Ultimately, I began to wonder if perhaps I'd imagined Babylon 5 actually having an Observation Dome.
 
Pretty sure Observation Dome was just another term for C&C.
More or less. Technically I think the Obs Dome is that whole round structure in which C'n'C is located. There may be other facilities in there--including an escape pod if the signage is to be believed--but David is right; actual behind the scenes technical info from B5 is very difficult to find (and yes, we saw Obs Dome 2 in Thirdspace.) I always thought this odd considering how often JMS and others went on about the care that went into making all the Earth tech as scientifically accurate as possible. You'd think they'd have at least a folder full of usable notes, diagrams and other stuff.

Oh and I've had a look for a C'n'C floor plan too before now and came up empty. I also had a go at doing a map of B5 as a whole but stopped half way through because of a lack of reliable info. I can't even find for sure where blue sector ends and red begins.
 
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Oh, matching up the color coding was always a fun one. The biggest trouble was the the Little People weren't allowed in Green Sector, but most of them had the entire open-air section in Green, which makes no sense, since we saw people who weren't B5 staff or diplomats in Fresh Air or the Zen Garden all the time.
 
I don't see how the core could have been color coded at all. Probably only decks would have been.

Jan
 
I believe the restaurants are in Red Sector, as well as the Zocalo. According to the Babylon 5 Security Manual, the Garden is publicly accessible by the shuttle, so it might not matter what sector it's in. Green Sector is more about conference rooms and business dealings and such, for which the participants would probably have been given access by their governments.
 
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Yeah, Fresh Air was defiantly in Red Sector and was of course in the core, so the common preconception that all of the interior core is Green Sector ('coz it's full of green stuff) doesn't track very well. It also makes little sense when you consider that as far as dialogue goes, the only thing green sector has been associated with is the ambassadorial suites and the alternate atmosphere sections (the "alien sector".) All the commercial stuff like the Zocalo, the Bazaar, the Casino, Earharts, the conference rooms and even Garibaldi's quarters after he quit as head of security were all in red sector.

However, since Londo's quarters have a view of the core, then at least the oxygen/nitrogen areas of green sector are on the inner surface. Actually, since there was that line in 'The Gathering' about altering the rotation of certain sections to vary the gravity, the most likely place for green secot as far as I can see in that little "bulge" about mid-way down the habitat cylinder. It stands to reason that in order to have a separate carousel within the main centrifuge that can move against the spin to reduce the gravity effect (or with it to increase it) there'd need to be some extra space to accommodate it and some bulky machinery to make it work.

For me the trouble kind of starts when you have the commander's office which also has a view of the main core (or a dodgy painting of it hung outside the window at least. ;) )
I did make a start on charting the rough layout based on the two different displays seen on screen and the version presented in the Security Manual (an unrelable document at the best of times) and the only thing they appear to agree on (aside from the never mentioned and only once seen yellow sector) is that most of the front end in all blue sector, green sector is somewhere in the central core and red sector is in between them. The demarcations are all over the place, brown sector even manages to vanish altogether in one version and it's anyone's guess what's going on in the station's zero-g "spine".



No matter what version you pick there are a number of problems. For instance, as I mentioned above, the supposedly all zero-g yellow sector is seen only once (in 'TKO') and it was most assuredly not without gravity. For one thing, it's where they held the mutai! I think there's also that bit in 'The Gathering' which (if I remember this right) has Sinclair and Lyta taking a shortcut through the alien sector to get to red sector...after *walking* from customs. I suppose it's possible that there would be a smaller "alien sector" closer to the docking bays for short stays (layover for transport crews and the like) which now I think about it might for the zoo-like openness of the place, but it's never addressed as such. Plus cramming a variable gravity ring into the docking sphere might be pushing things a bit.
 
^Not in the version depicted in the security manual, no. As I said: an unreliable source of information.
 
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