Ghosts of Centauri Prime
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Year Two: 2269: Episode 2 Ghosts of Centauri Prime |
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Marcus Cole secretly travels to Centauri Prime and meets with Neroon, who, using Techno-Mage disguise devices provided by Galen, has begun a long investigation of the suspected Drakh activity there.Marcus tells Neroon that he's becoming convinced that the present leadership of the Rangers must be dismantled. He shows Neroon the orders he received from Forrell, and tells him of Forrell's words, that only a select few Rangers had been chosen for this duty. Neroon gasps. "Only Human Rangers were chosen, yes?" Neroon asks. Marcus nods. "Easy to see why," Neroon says. Minbari do not kill Minbari-- and the orders Marcus has been given call for the killing of numerous Minbari from all walks of life. Neroon and Marcus puzzle over the list, but can find no rhyme nor reason to why these particular Minbari have been marked for death by Forrell. Just after Marcus departs, Neroon is attacked by a group of men in what looks like a variation of Ranger uniforms, who use Ranger skills and tactics. He barely escapes with his life, but is now more convinced than ever that Forrell and the Rangers are a deadly threat. In the throneroom on Centauri Prime, Shiv'kala tells Londo that he must dispatch forces to destroy the Excalibur-- that it has become too much of a potential threat. Londo has no choice but to comply, dispatching a squadron of Vorchans to track the Excalibur down and destroy it. After Shiv'kala leaves, Londo contacts Vir Cotto on Babylon 5 and obliquely manages to pass word of this to him, in such a way that Londo's Keeper and Shiv'kala do not detect it. Vir desperately seeks to contact the Excalibur directly. On Mars, the telepath Talia Winters awakes in a dark room, as waves of light and sound and telepathic power wash over her. When the strange procedure is completed, two other telepaths help her up. They tell her that they are part of an effort begun by Susan Ivanova to help victims of the Psi Corps. They give her the mixed news: Because of the strange data crystal she had with her, they have been somewhat successful in restoring her true personality. Fortunate for her that someone had somehow managed to record her true personality some time earlier! But because of some extremely strong blocks deep in her mind, laid down by someone vastly powerful, they cannot complete the process. If those blocks are not removed, she will surely regress and eventually lose her mind entirely. On Babylon 5, Captain Ivanova sits in her quarters with a disheveled Vice-President-elect Elizabeth Lochley, a wanted fugitive and murderer. Ivanova asks, "What really happened?" "I killed him," Lochley says, and then explains to a shocked Ivanova just what happened:On the night of the election, suspicious of the Senator, Lochley snuck into Redway's private offices. There she discovered a Drakh with him, apparently giving him orders. Lochley had a PPG with her and instinctively killed the Drakh, along with Redway's shadowy human advisor, Samuel Drake, who also had attacked her. She demanded that Redway explain just what was going on. Redway began to weep and tried to warn her to leave, but suddenly he stiffened and came at her with a weapon. Lochley had no choice but to shoot him. As she stood over the body of Jacob Redway, ISN announced that Redway had won the election-- he had been elected president of the EA. Lochley's first moments as vice-president were spent fleeing Redway's chambers, a wanted fugitive.The Excalibur finds itself beset by four Centauri Vorchan warships. Gideon and Matheson pull out all the stops to, as Gideon says, "Get those ships out of my sky." It's a close battle, but the Excalibur damages each of the Vorchans, and suddenly all four of them explode. "We didn't hit them hard enough to do that," Matheson reports. "They self-destructed." "Rather than be boarded," Gideon replies, nodding. "What--or who--was onboard that they didn't want us to see?" Out of the Vorchan wreckage floats a piece of a uniform with a Drakh insignia. |
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