All of life can be broken down into moments of transition, moments of revelation. G’Quan wrote there is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, but against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope; the death of dreams. Against this peril, we can never surrender. The future is always around us waiting in moments of transitions, born in moments of revelations. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only is that it is always born in pain.
-G’Kar, 2260
Babylon Project is a Traveller® game set in Babylon 5 universe, where the crew of the Jacaranda skirts around the main plotlines of B5 series, revealing mysteries and details of the show – or altering them irrevocably.
Character Introductions
A student of Philosophy and History, Warfare and Politics, and above all; an officer and a gentleman.
Zadora’s early life spent on cultural studies, his adult life in the army, and his later years in politics. After an incident in a Centauri research laboratory, Wesley abandoned his duties as an elected official and equipped Jacaranda to distance himself from people that might want to get him. How soon until his shadows will catch him?
Origin: Earth Alliance, Earthforce Marine Corps.
A primus of Earth Alliance military academy, and a man of unquestioned military talent, with a soaring career. That is until he was betrayed by his fellow officers and left for dead on the plains of Mars. He however with gritted teeth made it to civilization and rendered his resignation, joining his old service buddy on the Jacaranda.
Origin: Earth Alliance, Psi-Corps
As a natural born telepath, Femi was raised by the Psi-Corps to be a commercially employed ‘normal life’ telepath. After a long career he has however decided to strike, having invested his fortune on the Jacaranda he braves the unforgiving galaxy. But will the Corps leave him be?
Turns out, they didn’t, and Femi passed into the great void of Hyperspace.
Origin: Centauri Republic
He is a charming Centauri naval officer with a dash of panache and a cartload of political promises. After his failure of a naval career he decided to pull his connections and get all the wealth and technology he can, betting all of those on the Jacaranda and becoming a part of her crew to make a fortune of his own.
A charming xenobiologist and a medical doctor from Earth, having made a somewhat dubious career in his past and ended up working for with an unknown entity that has a keen interest in Jacaranda’s activities.
Du’Gar, Narn Mechanic
Fir Jaddo, Centauri Astrogator
Freja, Drazi Pilot
Miana Vesa, Centauri Engineer
Lannon of Night Walkers, Minbari Warrior Caste
Episodes
Season 1
At the beginning of the Third Age of man, a group of four shareholders of the recenty refurbished space yach Jacaranda gather to marvel at their fresh coat of paint at Mars Spacedock, when a call from pilot Landas Cortas’ wife propels the crew to fulfill an urgent diplomatic mission on behalf of the mighty Centauri Republic.
After picking up the ambassador Vir Cotto from Centauri prime, the crew’s illustrious captain decides to host a sensitivity training meeting to resolve a dispute between engineer Miana Vesa and mechanic Du’gar. Effect of the training still under scrutiny.
Upon reaching the Epsilon Eridani system, group’s telepath Femi Dran instructs the ship to engage a shuttle transporting stolen goods. After disabling the shuttle, crew boards it and in the opening volley marine colonel Noah Malone is shot and incapacitated, ship decompressed as an illicit Centauri weapon creates a hole in the shuttle’s bow. Unknown to rest of the crew, a corpse of an Earth telepath is discovered by Femi as he clears the ship of valuables.
After being shot to a state similar to swiss cheese Malone finds himself, not on the shuttle but back in the lecture hall at Westpoint Academy, looking around he finds a very confused Landas Cortas is sitting near him. The two try to discreetly talk about what is happening but find that a woman from Psi Corps is looking at them, before anything can be done, the scenery around them changes.
This leads to the two of them finding themselves in various different scenes of Malone life, during each scene Malone is disorientated but Landas who was not present at these events notices that the events do not match the stories Malone has told him. Seeing the woman from Psyi Corp leads to the two of them finding themselves on Mars. Following the chain of events they find the woman again who introduces herself as Talia, she advises the memories are being corrupted by an entity that she is trying to fight. She asks for Malone and Cortas aid in fighting the creature. They agree to stop running and confront the creature, a high stakes battle ensues as Malone and Cortas confront the creature head on and eventually kill it.
The crew find themselves in a sticky situation trying to explain themselves to the local authorities, with the options either to allow the authorities to escort them to Babylon 5 for questioning or running and forfeiting their money for getting Vir Cotto to the station, the party decides that money is more important. Despite Zadora’s initial attempts trying to argue that Babylon 5 had no right to board his ship, a initial investigation results in the crew being asked preliminary questions about what happened.
At this Landas declares that the ship a is a diplomatic courier for the Centauri government and he suspects the dead Narns were an attempt to kills his Brother in Law Vir Cotto. While station security leaves for the interim, Landas organizes for the diplomatic status to be added retroactively.
Due to Malone injuries the crew transport him to the station to get immediate attention, also sent along with him is Landas who has fainted a few times in the last day.
The crew hand Vir over to Ambassador Mollari, and get agreement for the Embassy to cover the medical bills of what has happened. Before the party can attempt to profit for their adventures are interrupted by galactic events take hold as Landas finds out that Raghesh 3 has been occupied and he thinks he sees an opportunity to profit from it.
The group are still at Babylon 5 trying to take advantage of opportunities or make sense of what has happened. Landas attempts to make plans with Ambassador Mollari about what to do about Raghesh 3. Zadora tries to find buyers for pieces of art that the group have obtained, meanwhile Malone while in recovery is interrogated by a Mr Garibaldi.
At a meeting on the Jacaranda, 2 potential plans emerge, they could either go to Raghesh 3 and investigate the attack on behalf of the Ambassador and Landas or they go about selling the goof they have obtained. Both plans have merit and worth, the group tries to have it cake and eat it, they head back to the station to organize a deal for the goods and then head on their way to Raghesh 3.
The group however on boarding finds themselves under arrest for piracy, murder and theft, despite their best efforts to talk themselves out of the situation, they are later informed that they and their ship will be escorted to Proxima for the authorities there to deal with.
On arrival at Proxima they discover that Femi has been able to pull strings with Psi Corps to get them released, but the goods they had obtained had been seized and returned to their right places with no remuneration for Zadora’s efforts, also incident at Raghesh 3 had been resolved without any aid from Landas. But Psi Corps were not acting out of charity they were wanting the Jacaranda to do a mission for them.
The crew of the Jacaranda find themselves stuck at Proxima, while the ship is upgraded so that she fulfill the mission they have for him. She is to head out past the rim of known space and find the out what happened to ship that belongs to IPX called the Icarus. Not a lot is explained why Psi Corps is helping the corporation, but the corporation is offering 1.5 million credit reward for info on the ship and further 100,000 credits for the rescue of any of it crew.
The group head to Jericho the last recorded place that Icarus was seen, gather some intelligence and then head off into the unknown to find the ship. Praying against the odds, the Jacaranda heads to the reported final destination hoping that whatever befell Icarus occurred there and no where else.
When they finally arrive they find that they are not the only ones in the system, another ship has found the wreckage of the Icarus. Despite the protests of Landas. Zadora negotiates with with the Markab vessel, they pay the Markab for the retrieval of the Icarus black box and what appears to the only surviving member of the crew.
The Jacaranda leaves the area in haste, when Femi advises that something is wrong. As the crew sees to the surviving member they learn his name is Morden…
The crew of the Jacaranda make all haste to get back to known space with their retrieved cargo, after a few weeks recovering, a certain Mr Morden ends up conversing with members of the crew which has them puzzled as he simply catches them off guard with “What do you want?”
When they return queries with IPX, leads to the Jacaranda making it way to Earth. Landas and Malone bring Morden and the black box to the IPX representative, a Mr Ivan Valenkov. While Mr Valenkov checks the authenticity of the returned items, Landas makes a call to Vir Cotto.
During the conversation, Vir asks about obtaining Star Laces for the Ambassador, Landas advises he will have a look and finishes the call.
Arriving back, Landas finds that Mr Valenkov talking about a potential job run for the Jacaranda to a planet call Ikarra, Malone advises he will raise it with the crew.
During this time Femi makes a diversion to visit his wife on Mars and Zadora makes preparations for receiving his father. Despite Zadaro’s best efforts to talk up his recent accomplishments during dinner, his father is not impressed and before he leaves expresses how much of a disappointment he is.
As the owners get together they discuss their options for work, Landas has secretly purchased Star Laces and was hoping to transport them to the station and complete the Ikarra job on the same run as Landas had been lead to believe they were in the same direction. This was not the case, attempts by Landas to send the Star Laces on was not possible due to his credit being maxed out with a purchase of property by his wife. The fee was covered by his fellow ship owners and Landas left a message to Vir to expect the flowers.
After a week of travel the Jacaranda finds itself in orbit with jacaranda, while they are scanning the planet and discussing what to do, another ship jumps in system close by, it’s weapons ready to go.
Picking up from the last episode the crew of the Jacaranda find themselves facing off against an hostile vessel that has jumped into orbit with them above Ikarra. The crew ready themselves for battle with Noah Malone and Landas Cortas manning the stations for the Space Yacht’s pulse turrets, Femi sets himself up at one of the navigation stations and and Zadora takes his place at the captain’s chair.
The opposing ship launches 2 fighters at the Jacaranda. Landas seeing the danger the fighters could pose to the Yacht shouts out to target the fighters first as he proceeds to target the that catches his eye first, as the ships come in range Noah follows the advise of Landas and targets the other fighter and both sides open fire.
Du’Gar tries to keep the Jacaranda weaving as best it can through the fire that is pouring on enemy ships, a few light hits are scored on the Jacaranda but Malone and Landas score more hits on the more maneuverable fighters eventually destroying one of them in the process.
The opposing mother ship attempted to up the ante by launching missiles at the Yacht, but some quick work from Femi working on Yacht sensors force the missiles to explode prematurely. The launch of the missiles bring Malone’s Turret focus on the Mother ship and starts to fire away as much as he can. Landas eventually brings his own turret to bear on the opposing mother ship.
The sustained fire from the Jacaranda cause damage to the opposing ship that make the attackers decide that staying around will not be in their best interests, start to form a jump point. Noah and Landas desperately try to get in a last few hits in an attempt to destroy the ship before it can escape while Malone last burst hit the ship, Landas shots hit some floating debris from the enemy ship allowing it to escape. Just the ship escapes it last shot finally does some damage to the Jacaranda.
The ship owners quickly gear up to pick up Dr Vance Hendricks before any more ships arrive, from scans done on the planet they gain indications that the camp of the good Doctor is under assault from the ground. The y put on their heaviest gear and Landas pilots the shuttle down, the decision is made to land the shuttle behind the attackers of the camp and attack from behind. As the group moves up Landas and Malone can recognize the clatter of very heavy energy weaponry.
As the group runs up they find that they have surprised the camp attackers. Landas and Zadora spot heavy weapons operator and decide to try and take him out at once. Meanwhile Noah and Femi rush up to take on 3 infantry men that are 20 metres or so to the left of where Zadora and Landas are.
The firefight begins in Earnest while the party got the element of surprise the heavier armour of the heavy weapons operator allows him to absorb the shot from both Landas and Zadora and they slowly but surely find themselves pinned under heavy fire. Noah and Femi have greater success in taking out 2 of the 3 infantrymen in quick succession but the 3rd hides behind some rocks to make it harder for them to take him out with ease.
Despite the valiant attempts of Landas and Zadora, their weaponry is having trouble penetrating the armour of the “heavy”, and both find themselves getting hit and going to ground heavily injured.
Malone decides to cover Femi who runs to the other 2 in an attempt to save their lives, using his superior armour to withstand shots from his own opponent.
Continuing from the previous episode the situation the group looks dire until the brave intervention of both Femi in seeking to provide medical aid to Landas and Wesley and a Mr Nelson Drake in attacking the pirate group from behind allows the group to eventually overcome the hostile forces. Nelson brings the group to Dr Hendricks and plans are made for the group and the expedition party to escape from Ikarra, but due to limitations of the Firoro, the shuttle will have to make 2 journeys to get everyone aboard the Jacaranda. The crew of Jacaranda escape with their passengers but not before taking some damage to their shuttle. Dr Hendricks thanks the crew and asks that the expedition members are dropped off at Proxima 3 while the crew along with Dr Hendricks and Nelson Drake head on to Babylon 5.
Dr Hendricks admits he will need to smuggle some items aboard the station, but is able to make sufficient persuasion to get the group to agree. Landas and Noah head on to Babylon 5 with Dr Hendricks and Nelson Drake and ensure that a decent enough distraction is caused for Nelson to ensure the items are smuggled past security. After this Noah and Landas head their separate ways, Landas seeking to speak to Vir and Noah seeking to speak to Garibaldi. Meanwhile while this is happening Femi is busy investigating an orb of darkness in his mental landscape that he retrieved from Noah. Despite his best attempts to fully assert control he finds himself without the mental strength required to accomplish his goal, he sends a communique to a Mr Alfred Bester to discuss the situation.
Zadora and Cortas find themselves waking up in the same room worse for wear, but it is obvious that something is happening as thy find they are in one of the Jacaranda cells with all the other members of the crew minus Femi and Malone. During the attempts to find out what has happened the crew are interrupted by a Centauri backed by some Narn.
The Centauri introduces himself as Soran Virini, a man that Zadora has encountered before to the point that Virini is seeking revenge and doesn’t care about the collateral damage incurred.
The crew hatch a plot to get out but the console they need to access is not easily reachable by most of the crew. Landas takes advantage of his Centauri Biology to access the said console but when one of the Narn guards stops Landas in the middle of his attempt, Landas lulls the guard into a false sense of security and attacks the guard.
The crew decide to rearm from the armoury (Malone’s Quarters) and taking advantage of the material obtained, they proceed to retake the ship, during the course of this Virini makes his escape in an manner that alerts Babylon 5 to some irregular activity.
The crew doesn’t resist when Babylon 5 security take them in for questioning, Landas and Zadora are questioned together by Officer Welch, afterwards they are visited by Vir and Ambassador G’Kar. Landas has Vir set up a welcome home party for Virini and G’Kar wants Landas and Zadora to investigate the possibility of their being a mole in his embassy as he suspects the mole to be working for the man that the Narn that were on the Jacaranda answered to ultimately.
Landas and Zadora investigate and have reason to be suspect the mole is Ko D’Ath despite their attempts to bring B5 security in to some aspects of her activities of her illicit dealings they don’t have enough evidence for them to act on. Creating the situation that Landas and Zadora decide they may have to potentially abduct G’Kar own Ambassadorial Aide.
Episode opens up with Zadora and Cortas trying to obtain incriminating information on Ko D’ath, a conversation where they are lead to believe that potentially illicit drugs are being dealt and handled. As best as they can they try to follow the aide without drawing attention to themselves, finds the Ambassadorial aide in another meeting in an airlock. Zadora and Cortas pursuit is cut short when a tragic malfunction leads to the airlock decompressing and flushing the occupants out into space, our heroes decide that it best not to be found anywhere near the airlock and depart the area.
Meanwhile Femi finds himself recovering from another black out, in front of a computer terminal, a quick check shows he was trying to access station security for unknown reasons, concerned Femi makes his way to finding someone else on the crew before anything else happens. Noah is in a bar waiting for an old friend to appear with some information that he has requested but the friend is a no show, letting his mood get the better with him he ends up in a fight with a Narn, luckily the only thing that got hurt was Noah’s ego.
The party all make their way back to the dock to head for the Jacaranda, but any plans on returning are ruined when Londo is informed by Vir that Soran is on the station booking passage for Narn. Cortas makes a plan to get aid from Londo Mollari in stopping Soran from leaving for Narn and asks Zadora to hand all the info they got to G’kar, The party splits Femi following Cortas and Noah following Zadora. Despite the attempts of Zadora and Noah they are unable to get hold of G’kar, Zadora uses the time to finalize some business arrangements of transporting some Narn Breen to Earth to sell. Cortas meeting with Londo explodes in Landas face, the actions of Landas have been heard all the way back on the home world and Soran family members have pulled strings. Londo gives very clear instructions on how he expects Landas to act.
The group meet up again to discuss the setback they have incurred but Landas catches a break, he sees G’kar and decides to talk to him there and then, despite the unusual circumstances G’kar seems receptive to what Londo has to say. The party make their way back to the Jacaranda and Zadora announces his plans to go to Earth and see his new cargo, Femi decides to veto this when he dumps the cargo into deep space ad sets course for the planet that Dr Hendricks gave the co-ordinates for. Meanwhile Cortas finds that his money issues have been solved for now and Noah finds out he wasn’t stood up, the friend that he planned on meeting was killed on Babylon 5. Zadora is unable to discuss his disagreement fully with Femi as Femi asks a favour of Zadora involving himself and a airlock.
Our tale opens up with Femi in the airlock of the Jacaranda, Zadora initially hesitated but has at Femi request opened the airlock doors to the vacuum of hyper-space. Zadora summons the crew to gather so he can advise of the recent development, the initial upset shown by Landas especially in not being kept appraised in the recent events leads to the adsence of Noah Malone from being properly commented on.
It is only later that the absence of Malone is brought to the attention of Landas, who promptly organizes a search of the ship and has the securicam footage of the ship reviewed in an attempt to pinpoint the location.
Fir Jaddo notifies Landas that all evidence points to Noah being in his quarters, Landas leads a group into the quarters upset as he advises Fir that they the quarters were checked and no presence was found being sarcastic asks “I guess he is hiding in the toilet then?”, which leads to Du’Gar finding an unconscious Malone.
Malone condition and the fact that they have lost a crew member forces the ship to report what has happened and seek medical aid. Fortunately they are in Centauri Space and won’t have to explain the death of Femi to Psi Corps immediately.
Landas argues it would be best to go for as much disclosure to the authorities as possible but machinations behind the scenes lead to Landas and Zadora having to defend their actions in the Centauri courts.
Meanwhile the Doctor, a Dr Derrick Turner, that has seen to Malone condition reveals that he is not just a doctor, advising other shipowners in a more quieter moment that he has purchased shares of the ship though the bank, causing a situation for Zadora on how much to reveal to the good Doctor.
The trial concludes with Jacaranda impounded and the crew given a year to acquire 20 million credits or lose all rights to their beloved ship!
The crew of the Jacaranda find themselves without their Captain as he has attempted to gain support and aid in resolving the situation from his resources in Earth Alliance space. Leaving a poor Landos Cortas in charge of a bleak situation by process of elimination as Noah is still in a unresponsive state and the new addition to the crew Dr Derrick Turner is taking care of him.
Landas tries his best to keep the other crew members from splitting but is thankful when Noah apparently makes a full recovery and is able to give a driving force to resolving the situation. In a full crew meeting Landas explains that something was iffy with the results and all but admits that he pulled strings to get a good result in their favour, someone had to have done the same. While some of the crew expects that Landas will call on the aid of Londo, Landas decides to get everyone involved in investigating the situation from multiple avenues of approach.
Eventually it is found that the person that interfered was the EarthGov Consul to Beta 2, a woman called Karen that Noah seems to recognise when pictures are shown, he reveals that his and her marriage ended up in a disaster and there seems to be a tendency for matters to get out of hand when they cross paths.
Based on this information Dr Turner decides help in trying to talk Karen down from the situation, Landas tags along as a escort, in a private discussion between Karen and the good Doctor he is able to persuade her to rectify her actions. She persuades the Centauri court that the matter should be handled at a more neutral location due multiple interests involved with this incident involving a Earth Alliance registered ship, with a multiple species crew and an incident potentially in Centauri Space but who could be sure.
Jacaranda is ordered back to Babylon 5 with a few Centauri Gendarme on board to ensure the crew don’t fly somewhere else. The wait before their trial results in a lot of free time for the crew. Miana Vesa has to deal with the affections or two men at once, Noah tries to get friendly with security, the doctor lends his services to the station medical lab and Landas makes contact with Vir and Londo. After his meeting with Londo, Landas finds that G’kar wants to talk to him now.
Zadora has arrived back at the station with good news, his connections are willing to sweep everything under the rug if a mission is down in retrieving a certain artefact of import.
Meanwhile Landas and Dr Turner have received offers of jobs from different sources, G’kar is expecting Landas to turn up info on a incident involving Delenn, whereas Dr Turner is asked for aid in transporting a biological sample from planet in Centauri Space, both of them offer money. Discussion about what actions to take happens, Turner calls Landas out on his interactions with the Narns but Landas doesn’t go into detail about his dealing. The crew make preparation to go on the mission that Zadora has been given, confident that their absence and time away from the station will not be highlighted, while this happens Turner tries to gain info on what happened with Delenn but is only able to confirm a time of potential incident in the medical lab. Landas forwards on this info with his regrets that he is unable to get any more without exposing himself and G’kar but offers reparations for his failure.
The group find themselves on a Earth Alliance ship that is on “manoeuvres” when it stops over the planet that Zadora contacts want him to go down on to. It is then revealed that the object they are retrieving is The Eye, a symbol of the Centauri Emperors that has been lost for a 100 or so years.
Landas makes plans with Fir to ensure that if anything happens that elements of the Centauri government know that The Eye may have been found.
Crew lands on the planet, Zadora sponsor has ensured that their transport is guarded by Earth Alliance Marines while the group trek into the Jungle, they come across their destination a archaeological camp nestled amongst some ruins, walking around the perimeter is some form of automata that is still moving about, watching the movements of ancient robots the group head through a “window” in the patrols to find themselves walking into an ambush of creatures native to the Jungle, the crew dispatches the creatures with minimal injury.
They rush into the camp before their window closes and start to search, they come across the remains of a Brakiri, and when they check the last but largest tent they discover they are not alone there another automate in that tent but also one life form, a Minbari life form.
Before anything can be done to ascertain the Minbari intention the group discover one of the ancient automata in the tent with them. A firefight ensues with the members of the crew flinging themselves out of the way of the heavy fire-power and returning fire when they can. The fight ends when the Minbari uses the group as a distraction to sneak up and gain the killing blow on the robot.
After searching the tent and talking to Lannon, the mysterious Minbari, advises them that he was chasing after a Techno Mage and it is possible that the item they are looking for may be with him.
The group heads on in pursuit and eventually catches up with the Techno Mage, while Lannon is willing to fight the other are hesitant and finally persuade him not to take any action as long as a certain artifact that the Mage has taken is returned. The group also finds The Eye.
Mission completed the group head back to the shuttle and the Earth Alliance ship takes them back, Zadora contacts are waiting for the eye, there is a tense moment when Landas seems hesitant to hand The Eye over to someone else.
The group find themselves back on Babylon 5 in front of the Judge who advises that all previous charges have been dropped, but it clear that the Judge is suspicious of what has happened to bring about such an event.
Landas sends word that The Eye has been located to Vir Cotto, the group return Lannon to his people on Babylon 5 but find that their actions have resulted him owing a life debt that must be resolved. The crew of the Jacaranda find themselves with a new crew mate.
Dr Turner reveals to the group that he has been offered a job to retrieve a biological specimen from Centauri Space. The pay is good bur details will not be revealed until the group confirms they are taking the job. Looking to put the recent incidents behind them the group agrees to take the job, they are advised that they will be attempting to retrieve a Na’ka’leen Feeder.
Landas reveals he can’t give a lo of info himself about the creatures but they are dangerous to the point the Centauri abandoned the colony they had placed on the creatures home planet and maintain a strict quarantine over the planet but enlists the aid of his wife in getting all knowledge of the creature so as to aid in hunting one down.
The crew, confident in their preparation, head down on the shuttle and move off in the wilderness in an attempt to capture the Feeder, run into difficulties in that the Feeders are highly resistant to PPG fire ,can move a lot faster that anyone on the ground team could believe and are perfect ambush predators.
After a few dangerous close calls, the team beat a hasty retreat back to the shuttle which goes back to the Jacaranda. While the crew reassess their plan of action on how to capture a Feeder, screams are suddenly heard from the quarters of Malone, after an assessment of the injuries, the crew make a shocking discovery, a Na’ka’leen Feeder is already on the ship free to hunt the crew.
The crew of the Jacaranda find themselves scatter all over the ship when the hunt for the intruder begins. The task is made more difficult the crew finds that power appears to go off and find that the doors are not locking. The crew is formed into groups in an attempt to track the alien down but also restore power. A nervous hunt begins,as the good Doctor decides to wake up the still recovering Malone by injecting him full of stims. The crew only appear to find traces of the alien but there is no definite sightings. The lights and power are restored, the team sent to Engineering advising that some material was blocking the reactor from getting the fuel it required. The light go out again but this time but this time it appears that a fuse box or the controls on the ring may have been attacked instead.
Noah leads a team into one of the gun turrets and before he can react he is attacked and stunned, Landas moves in pushing Noah to the rear and sees a tentacle darting into a air vent. The crew realizing that alien has the ability to outmaneuver the crew decide to attack the problem by another, one group led by Zadora start to manually lock the rooms on the habitation ring, While the doctor, Malone and Landas decide to grab the gas that they had been making for a second attempt at capturing a feeder. The canisters of gas are retrieved, masks are distributed amongst the crew and the air is filled with the Feeder knock out gas.
After a few tense moments the crew find 2 feeders in the ships that were knocked out by the gas, one of them is secured, the other is used by the doctor to further his research.
While the Jacaranda makes there way back, the doctor finds evidence of psychic ability in Malone and promises to make enquiries into a drug that might help repress the ability. On the other end of the ship Landas gets a call, a Mr Morden is wanting a favour, a item is to be picked up in hyperspace and brought onto B5, with assurances that everything is above board, Landas makes arrangements to pick up the item.
While the crew are handing over the feeder to Doctor Turner contacts, Landas is having a meeting Morden, Landas reveals that he knows what he was carrying and makes a deal with Morden that as Landas leaves the room, he is already wondering if he will regret his choice.
The story opens up with the crew of the Jacaranda finding themselves leaderless again as Zadora headed back to Earth to deal with crucial tax forms that needed his signature. After some discussion the idea is floated of visiting the coordinates that they were provided by Dr Hendricks, the concept of a previously undiscovered treasure is appealing to the others. Landas advises that everyone needs to settle their business at B5 before they head to Earth and pick Zadora along with the supplies that they need to make an expedition.
Doctor Turner finding himself on a ship full of aliens decides to get as much info of the other species on the ship and finds no issues getting hold of the medical knowledge needed for the Centauri and Narn crew members, complications arise when he tries to get info on Drazi biology from the Drazi embassy. Later during a conversation between the good Doctor and Freja, it comes about that he is actually a she and she has runaway from the family to fly shuttles. The young Drazi explains if it is found out she is female, they will take her back to her home world.
The doctor reveals his plan to Freja, if the Drazi expect there to be a Drazi Male he going to falsify and create some false identification for Freja that they can present when they have to, but he will need some Male Drazi DNA for the biometrics of the ID.
Meanwhile Landas and Noah are spending some time in the casino playing Ducati but find that themselves losing their money. As they are leaving the casino, Dr. Turner contacts them and asks if they can obtain a sample of male Drazi blood. Discussing the various ways to do this and legally, the decision is made to visit the Mutai ring.
This leads to a confrontation where Landas faces off against a Brakiri, Landas gets in one good hit before the Mutari provides a lesson in pain. Malone decides to take advantage of the situation and challenges a Drazi fighter he spots. The fight goes a lot smoother for Malone and finds he has collected the sample he needs with his fist.
The doctor starts his new project of falsifying Drazi records during which time Landas tries to talk about recent incidents that has made Landas wonder if there is something going on with Noah, before any accusation can be made they are interrupted by Freja who reveals their secret to the 2 clearly stunned ships owners.
The Doctor makes a communication to a Celes Refa and reveals that their previous arrangement is no longer working and he will longer spy on the Landas and his compatriots for her. Afterwards the Doctor makes his way to Landas’ room and tells him the truth. Landas in a rage demands the doctor to leave before he does something he may regret.
The Doctor then checks up on Noah and they go over their option for potentially dealing with the discovery that Noah may have Psychic abilities, they both make the decision to see if they can get access to drugs that may inhibit the newly awakened abilities.
The Jacaranda settles into orbit over Earth and while the crew starts to buy the equipment they may need, the Doctor finds Landas waiting at his door, Landas apologises for his earlier outburst but reveals that he had a dream which if Centauri tradition is believed reveals the moment of death to a Centauri. He reveals that his potential death is only maybe a few years ahead in the future and he is afraid that Celes Refa may be one of the people involved in his eventual demise.
The crew make final preparations before leaving Earth to head for the co-ordinates of the world that Dr Hendricks gave to the crew as payment for their aid in helping some items to be smuggled on Babylon 5.
Each crew member secures the equipment or items they need for what they expect they will need on this expedition. Most of the ship owners but gear that be needed for what anyone would expect but Landas buys a Centauri Commodore’s Uniform and some fake ID cards to go with them.
While the Jacaranda is leaving jump space thereis a moment where it appears that the ship was in danger. Initially there was much arguinging between a certain Narn and Centauri crew members who will not be named about who fault it was that the ship was nearly ripped in two.
After being told to work together and figure out the issue Miana and Du’gar suggest that it wa slike the Jacaranda had been carrying excess weight. A short spacewalk outside leads to Landas, Malone and Zadora finding evidence that someone hitched a ride with the Jacaranda but with no evidence to suggest who it was.
The ship slowly makes it way to the planet and the crew get ready to go excavating, the first 2 spots have already excavated but during the search traces of Centauri excavations are found, it is during their flight to the last potetnial spot when they find that they are being challenged by a Centauri military broadcast. Landas uses the credentials he has obtained to allow the shuttle Firoro a safe landing, it is at this point he reveals he is impersonating a Commodore Refa.
When the Firoro arrives, the Centauri captain awaiting Landas and the rest of the group advies that the Commodore’s cousin is awaiting them inside.
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In a flashback to the last trip to Earth, it is revealed that during Landas latest call to his wife, he was advised that certain young male of the Cotto family has run off with his girlfriend to Earth with the Intention to Elope.
A series of disastrous and questionable plans by Landas is made in an attempt to find the young couple, may strain Landas future relationships on the ship.
Committed to a course of action Landas continues the con of pretending to be Commodore Refa and is thankful to find out that young Refa in question has never met the true Commodore Refa and doesn’t even know what he looks like. With some subtle persuading Landas has the young Lieutenant Refa ake the crew on a tour of the ancient ruins, eventually leading to the locked vault door that Centauri science has been unable to crack.
There is moment of panic as an Lieutenant Janno seems to recognize Cortas, but without missing a beat Landas brushes past the Lieutenant in question advising there must be a case mistaken identity.
Zadora using his knowledge in regards to art and culture notices that the clue to opening the alien vault has been left in the artwork that adorns the walls. Leading to vault opening for the first time in Millennia.
Landas makes orders for the vault to be emptied as soon as possible, as he is concerned that the real Commodore Refa might turn up.
Doctor Turner meanwhile has been gathering intelligence on the size of the garrison and the layout of the camp and relays the information back to the other members of the crew.
Cortas has the young Refa escort him to the Jail where a female Narn and a Dazi are currently being held. Malone and Zadora at the command of Cortas free the prisoner and force Refa and his guard into the cell.
A quick plan is made to jump the soldiers when they are bringing the ancient treasures out of the ruins, secure the fighter that been assigned to the base and destroy the SAM launcher so that they can escape with the loot.
A brief battle begins ahead of schedule before the crew is able to secure their objectives but despite a desperate fight are able to fight the Centauri garrison to a standstill.
The action opens where the previous episode finished. Confident that they have the upper hand and can dictate terms to the Centauri garrison they relax their guard when the garrison seems to give up.
The garrison “surrender” was a ruse to give them time to reorganize and rethink how they would take back their base which the crew discovers when the treasures that garrison sent out to the Jacaranda crew explodes violently sending crew members flying injured.
Landas who had hijacked the Centauri fighter finds that he has been targetted by a portable anti fighter weapon system which leads to him having to eject before he is killed.
The rest of the crew find themselves in their most desperate fight trying to recover and escape without taking any more losses. With only a few seconds to spare the crew escape before they are overrun but the fiasco has lead to a hit in morale of the crew and leads to question of what they can do to survive.
While the ship owners discuss a possibility of heading to Narn space in an attempt to avoid the Refa family, the crew of the Jacaranda find that they have been joined by the Techno Mage that they came across earlier. He advisies that he can help them escape to Minbari space but in doing so he gets to hitch and provide aid.
In desperation the ship owners agree to the offer, and have the Jacaranda head into Minbabri space, while they are still a few days away from Minbar their Techno mage guide tells them to drop out of Hyperspace. As the Jacaranda does so, the crew find themselves in front of a Minbari warship.
The crew of the Jacaranda find themselves on board a Minbara War Cruiser that is inhabited by a sole Vorlon on the ship, with a dark secret. A desperate escape attempt by the crew results in the members of the crew escaping in some Minbari fighters.
Season 2
The crew find themselves back in Earth space questioning what to do but also suddenly bereft of a Captain. As unknown issues finally lead to Zadora not being fit to command the ship at the current period of time. Landas Cortas takes command and instructs Malone to make inquiries with IPX about what they will offer for the Minbari Tech.
Landas tries to compromise on the situation by getting everyone view on the matter but the meeting just bhighlights the current tensions on the ship.
Meanwhile a shuttle makes it way to the Jacaranda, carrying a cargo that is unexpected and poses a threat to the crew as their guard is down due to them orbiting Earth.
After some heated arguments about what will happen to the Tech from the previous session, Landas decides to sound out the Minbari after deciding that the offer that he has received from his people would have some strings attached that may not be obvious immediately.
After trying to discuss the situation with the ambassadorial aide Lennier, Landas finds himself giving up more than he was planning and finds he has agreed to come to B5 station to discuss the situation directly.With the limit given. the crew need to make their way to B5 as soon as possible.
A message comes to the ship, to advise that rental company wants the shuttle that the Draxi boarding party from prev episode used. Landas gives orders for the shuttle to be returned as quickly as possible.
After close to a week of travel the crew find themselves in B5 spcae with a day to spare. The crew decides to relax. Landas goes to the casino to relax but is concerned about some of the attention he is getting and calls in Noah to back him up. Not long after Noah gets to the casino he collapses with a headache and is taken to medbay.
While Landas is trying to figure out his next course of action,a message is received from a Drazi male who is wanting to speak to Freja. Preparing for the worst, the young Drazi male finds himself staring at an armed party ready to attack if they have to. But looking at the items brought, the crew realizes that the conversation is best left between the 2 Drazi in question.
Afterwards another call is received in Landas quarters and finds that the Drazi Ambassador want to have a chat…
Recaps written by GreatLordD, player of Landas Cortas