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BABYLON 1-3

Hi there.
Does anyone know if any designs were made for the BABYLON stations 1-3? I know 1 is shown briefly in IN THE BEGINNING, with a red colour scheme. JMS posted "They went in spectrum order, from red, a coule of interim colors I can't remember, to green, to blue". Does anyone have any ideas/art/info on the other stations? Cheers.

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  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Take a look here - a whole thread about this topic:
    [url="http://66.34.85.240/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=3e1322657c90544f;act=ST;f=11;t=1128;st=0"]http://66.34.85.240/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=3e1322657c90544f;act=ST;f=11;t=1128;st=0[/url]

    The stations aren't online, but it looks like Eternity has some info on them that he can upload...

    --RC
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Anything you find will only be fan-made, since nothing official was ever made for the first three stations other than what's seen in In the Beginning.

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    [url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Never eat anything bigger than your own head.[/url]
    "Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
  • Thanks for that. I've joined up on that forum but there seems to be an error linking to that thread.

    I've seen Eternity's great work on the B1 model, there was a post by Eternity on B3 on the Artwork bit; and going through previous posts JMS made reference to the original three stations would have looked something like what B4 ended up being, but not as big, since they incorporated ion engines. Even so, it leaves a lot of room for speculation as to what they could have ended up being. I'm especially interested in B3 as my friend and I are developing a web comic on a story that incorporates the fate of B3 to make way for B4, so I'm trying to do as much research as possible. Eternity, if you're out there, do you still have your work on B3? I'd love to see what you did.
    Thanks again.
    REDBAZ
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    [quote]Originally posted by Biggles:
    [b]Anything you find will only be fan-made, since nothing official was ever made for the first three stations other than what's seen in In the Beginning.

    [/b][/quote]

    Wait a minute, don't we see shots of B 1-4 when Jinxo is telling Aldus about them in "Grail" ?
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Not that I recall.

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    [url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Never eat anything bigger than your own head.[/url]
    "Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    [quote]Originally posted by Biggles:
    [b]Not that I recall.

    [/b][/quote]

    Guess its time for me to pop the DVD in and have a look [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
  • David of MacDavid of Mac Elite Ranger Ca
    [quote]Originally posted by Entil'Zha:
    [b] Wait a minute, don't we see shots of B 1-4 when Jinxo is telling Aldus about them in "Grail" ?

    [/b][/quote]

    Why do people keep thinking that?
  • BekennBekenn Sinclair's Duck
    Must be the power of Christy's descriptive writing.

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  • Nope, checked the GRAIL episode myself, no images.

    Thankfully Eternity has got back to us about his designs, but still looking for as many ideas as possible.

    I realise anything found will be fanfiction, but still nice to do some speculation.
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    [quote]Originally posted by David of Mac:
    [b] Why do people keep thinking that?[/b][/quote]

    Cause i thought for sure we saw imgaes of them going boom,
  • EternityEternity Elite Ranger
    Hi REDBAZ & welcome!

    How many times do I have to say that Babylon 3 was made by Tachy??? This is HIS mesh (see image below)
    [url="http://alliance-shipyards.hypermart.net/Babylon_Project/Images/Main.jpg"]http://alliance-shipyards.hypermart.net/Babylon_Project/Images/Main.jpg[/url]

    I am going to make a B2 mesh (Orange) after I have finished texturing the Babylon Station - I am up to the fighter bays, working forward. Not long now!

    If you have any input for B2 I ahve started a thread here at beyondbabylon.
    [url="http://66.34.85.240/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=3e15d53a6ff77e50;act=ST;f=1;t=1152"]http://66.34.85.240/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=3e15d53a6ff77e50;act=ST;f=1;t=1152[/url]

    Catch ya there!
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    Explosions alone don't help much. You have to see debris. :P
  • you see B1 at some point, it looked like b5, but red paint (cheap blue/red swap on the texture, same model)

    Now, here is the more important question to me...how did B 1-3 explode?

    I have my own theory..

    I think Zathrus did it...the one line where he says "Zathrus was sent to take the biggest of the babylon stations, and so that is what I am doing"... I think the great machine had something to do with the first 3 blowing up, since it is essentally outside time and knew they would build the biggest one fourth..
  • ArgoneArgone Genuine Klingon
    In the show it refers to sabotage, but they never name who did it!

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  • David of MacDavid of Mac Elite Ranger Ca
    It's kinda obvious (and implyed) it was anti-alien groups like the Homeguard and the people that sent Knights one and two.
  • samuelksamuelk The Unstoppable Mr. 'K'
    [quote]Originally posted by Keyan:
    [b]you see B1 at some point, it looked like b5, but red paint (cheap blue/red swap on the texture, same model)

    Now, here is the more important question to me...how did B 1-3 explode?

    I have my own theory..

    I think Zathrus did it...the one line where he says "Zathrus was sent to take the biggest of the babylon stations, and so that is what I am doing"... I think the great machine had something to do with the first 3 blowing up, since it is essentally outside time and knew they would build the biggest one fourth..[/b][/quote]

    I really don't think that's likely.
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    Also, B1 was much more than just a B5 lookalike. It was more than that, although admittedly, it was made of B4 and B5 model pieces, but that's because of a limited time and budget for the shot. But it's not just a cheap ripoff with a simple texture swap.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    It had things like dual rotating sections, and two docking bays. I think.

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    [url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Never eat anything bigger than your own head.[/url]
    "Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
  • Theres a thread here dedicated to the theories of who destroyed Babylon 1-3: [url="http://www.b5tv.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB2&Number=150325&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1"]http://www.b5tv.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB2&Number=150325&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1[/url]

    bit of long link that really.

    there was no images of b1 in GRAIL that i could see, only that brief explosion in IN THE BEGINNING. I can't help shaking the notion though i've seen a babylon station in yellow, before i saw Eternity's designs. It must have been a few years ago now.
  • EternityEternity Elite Ranger
    Lemme see....

    One of the first 3 stations (Babylon Station I think) blew up due to a structural failure.

    Tachy's B3 was yellow. I posted an image above.

    I also came across a thumbnail of a hypothetical B3 design - dam it was BIG!!! Now the big image was bust and it was a low poly mesh but there is some info. Might do it as a B2. image was er this
    [url="http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:lX1FofdfG_cC:www.nexicom.net/~djackson/BABYLON-3.jpg"]http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:lX1FofdfG_cC:www.nexicom.net/~djackson/BABYLON-3.jpg[/url]
  • SpiritOneSpiritOne Magneto ABQ NM
    I 'seem' to recal hearing...

    "Babylon 5 was almost never made due to budget constraints, and it wasnt until the other alien government (specifically Mimbari) pitched in that it was finalized. B5 is much smaller than its predecessors..."

    Or something along those lines.
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