John Sheridan sat behind his desk in his office. He was a tall man in a dark blue suit. The commander of the Space Station known as Babylon Five. He was a busy man with a lot of work ahead of him. It took a special kind of person to command a place like Babylon Five. The people of Earth felt like John Sheridan was the right man for the job.
He attained this position after the departure of Sinclair. Sinclair was a war hero like Sheridan himself. He was once the leader of the Rangers, the legendary explorers of space. Recently, Sinclair had gone to the planet Minbar as the Earth's ambassador to the Minbari people. Sinclair was perhaps the only human being in the universe whom the Minbari people trusted. There was still a lot of controversy concerning John Sheridan's appointment as the chief on the Station.
Many people, both human and alien, had misgivings about him. John Sheridan tried to shoulder his responsiblity... it was not easy.
Babylon Five was a very strange place. A gigantic space station shared by many beings from across the galaxy. Aliens and humans living together. They were brought together by trade, commerce and exploration. Babylon Five was the planet Earth's last best hope for peace after the war that opposed the humans of Earth with the humanoids of the planet Minbar. The Minbari were a technologically advanced humanoid species. They had surrendered to the people of Earth after a decade of war in deep space. Now, the Minbari and the humans were trying to cooperate in the interests of peace. That was the purpose of the Space Station known as Babylon Five. The humans did not get along with the many species of aliens that visited the Station. There were the war-like yet deeply spiritual Minbari. Also, the brutish Narn.
The shrewd and treacherous Centauri. There were many other alien species. None of them were as mysterious as the Vorlons. The Vorlons were a strange race. One of the oldest of the sentient species in the galaxy. No one knew where they came from. Their technology was far better than anything possessed by any other race. Their knowledge of space far more advanced than that of any other race. The Vorlons were beings right out of the stuff of legend. One of them came to Babylon Five and became the ambassador of his people to the New Alliance.
All of these beings as well as those they represented fell under the responsibility of John Sheridan. This was a very stressful job for any man to have. John Sheridan was a smart, capable man but he had his limits. He'd had the job of commander of the Station for a year and already it was taking its toll on him. John Sheridan was a very stressed out man. He needed to relax. Fortunately, he had...options.
As he was in his office, going over some new security protocols, he heard a knock on his door. Someone strolled in. The man who entered the office was of average height, dark-haired, with light blue eyes and really pale white skin. He had a suspicious air about him and looked alert in his dark gray uniform. The man's name was Michael Garibaldi. He was Babylon Five's chief of security. A very suspicious man by nature. Garibaldi was a native of the human Colony of the Planet Mars. The humans of Mars were a strange lot. They did not seem to care for wide open spaces. They liked dark places. They did not fear confinement. They were sturdy, tough and resilient.
They also seemed to hate the water, as well as cold temperatures. Old habits died hard. Garibaldi had served Sinclair as chief of security since the old days of Babylon Five. He'd had to adjust to having a new leader. Fortunately, John Sheridan and Michael Garibaldi got along quite well. Incredibly well, in fact. Still, Sheridan kept many things to himself, if you catch my drift.
John Sheridan was a busy guy. Still, he always managed to take some time off from his busy schedule to spend some time with his friend. His 'friend' was none other than ambassador Delenn of the Minbari people. Delenn was a tall, attractive brunette with dark eyes and fair skin. She was also a human-Minbari hybrid, the result of a very slow transformation that had been prophesized in her people's legends since ancient times. John Sheridan was new to Babylon Five and Delenn was one of the first friends he made.