I always thought after this...now Earth has to spend billions more in credits to rebuild their entire planetary defense grid. (Which they did, it's seen in A Call to Arms, set about 6 years later).
I think that there would have been considerable opposition to rebuilding the defence network as it was, given how easily it had almost been turned against Earth itself. Redesigning that sort of system from the ground up to avoid such a catastrophic outcome repeating itself would take years, perhaps a decade or more. And in the meantime if Earth can maintain a fleet or even limited manned defences then there might not be any perceived need to rush out a new orbital defence grid.
What a fantastic space battle. The very best after the episode Severed Dreams, and one of the greatest space battles ever in science fiction. As always, excellent special effects. Visual effects are impressive and astonishing. It says all about Babylon 5. Excellent and creative story lines for all five seasons of this sci-fi TV series. Babylon 5 could have become a franchise like Star Trek, Star Wars or Stargate, but the spin off TV series Crusade was a total disaster. Only one actress of Babylon 5 was in the cast of Crusade; it was Patricia Tallman who portrayed Lyta Alexander. Not the most important character of Babylon 5. The others were completely unknown actors. Does anyone remember the actor who portrayed Captain Matthew Gideon on Crusade? Babylon 5 is and will always be a sci-fi masterpiece and a TV classic of the 1990s.
Those planetary defense satellites are beasts. One big ass particle beam and 3 turrets and 18 heavy missiles and two 2-sided missile pods with total of 96 smaller missiles. If I remember the lore correctly resistance sabotaged missiles nuclear warheads leaving only kinetic impact of missiles themselves. If those particle beams would've been charged before the attack and all those nuke warheads worked... yikes.
It’s interesting that the EA never put those around B5 for defense but instead thought a few hidden weapons and a couple flights of fighters was enough to secure the (arguably) most important EA station out there.
@@tarn1135 Remember that Babylon stations 1 thru 3 were sabotaged during construction. And then when Babylon 4 that had all the bells and whistles including ability to move just disappeared. Earth gov was ready to call quits when Minbari made offer to pay part of the costs. After that Babylon 5 was partly made from leftover scraps. And as B5 was mainly a diplomatic station defence wasn't a priority.
There was no tension here at all. Considering Mimbari were OP against Earth forces during first War, they were even more OP against Earth with White Stars. So Mimbari combined with other forces was just overkill against Earth Alliance at this point.
The Battle was to save Earth from the Defense grid. If even one of them managed to fire, millions wouldve died. One platform wouldve been able to level most of America's Eastern seaboard
I dunno. I kinda thought the orbital platforms seemed ridiculously difficult to destroy given the far superior alien weapons being used against them. It's also hard to imagine that spacecraft would find it difficult to shoot down incoming missiles the size of ICBMs.
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i wonder how many of the minbari that were present secretly enjoyed opening fire on the earth defense grid modules
I always thought after this...now Earth has to spend billions more in credits to rebuild their entire planetary defense grid. (Which they did, it's seen in A Call to Arms, set about 6 years later).
Build it better and stronger I say!!
ISA probably helped
Better that than the damage the defense grid would have done to Earth itself if allowed to fire.
I think that there would have been considerable opposition to rebuilding the defence network as it was, given how easily it had almost been turned against Earth itself. Redesigning that sort of system from the ground up to avoid such a catastrophic outcome repeating itself would take years, perhaps a decade or more. And in the meantime if Earth can maintain a fleet or even limited manned defences then there might not be any perceived need to rush out a new orbital defence grid.
Cleaning up the space junk will be a headache though.
What a fantastic space battle. The very best after the episode Severed Dreams, and one of the greatest space battles ever in science fiction. As always, excellent special effects. Visual effects are impressive and astonishing. It says all about Babylon 5. Excellent and creative story lines for all five seasons of this sci-fi TV series. Babylon 5 could have become a franchise like Star Trek, Star Wars or Stargate, but the spin off TV series Crusade was a total disaster. Only one actress of Babylon 5 was in the cast of Crusade; it was Patricia Tallman who portrayed Lyta Alexander. Not the most important character of Babylon 5. The others were completely unknown actors. Does anyone remember the actor who portrayed Captain Matthew Gideon on Crusade? Babylon 5 is and will always be a sci-fi masterpiece and a TV classic of the 1990s.
Those planetary defense satellites are beasts. One big ass particle beam and 3 turrets and 18 heavy missiles and two 2-sided missile pods with total of 96 smaller missiles. If I remember the lore correctly resistance sabotaged missiles nuclear warheads leaving only kinetic impact of missiles themselves. If those particle beams would've been charged before the attack and all those nuke warheads worked... yikes.
It’s interesting that the EA never put those around B5 for defense but instead thought a few hidden weapons and a couple flights of fighters was enough to secure the (arguably) most important EA station out there.
@@tarn1135 Remember that Babylon stations 1 thru 3 were sabotaged during construction. And then when Babylon 4 that had all the bells and whistles including ability to move just disappeared. Earth gov was ready to call quits when Minbari made offer to pay part of the costs. After that Babylon 5 was partly made from leftover scraps. And as B5 was mainly a diplomatic station defence wasn't a priority.
Where you read that the resistance sabotaged the missile at?
@@studinthemaking Sorry I can't remember. Might have been RPG source book and therefore not actually canon.
@@YanyTori sounds like something that an rpg book would have in it.
I can't believe Clark was willing to decimate our birth planet.
What about him didn't scream "If I can't have it, no one can."
Great job
Nice video
Should've left those first three mini clips out, unrelated to the battle. Nice otherwise.
There was no tension here at all. Considering Mimbari were OP against Earth forces during first War, they were even more OP against Earth with White Stars. So Mimbari combined with other forces was just overkill against Earth Alliance at this point.
*Minbari
The Battle was to save Earth from the Defense grid. If even one of them managed to fire, millions wouldve died. One platform wouldve been able to level most of America's Eastern seaboard
I dunno. I kinda thought the orbital platforms seemed ridiculously difficult to destroy given the far superior alien weapons being used against them. It's also hard to imagine that spacecraft would find it difficult to shoot down incoming missiles the size of ICBMs.
The issue was not whether the minbari ships were in danger the issue was that the entire habitable portion of the earths crust was
The point of this one was to be as surgical as possible. Limit the damage to the minimum degree necessary to force a surrender.
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