In the future.
Several ships fled as Babylon 4 flickered out of existence one last time. The Survivors packed aboard the fleeing ships watched in awe as the station, abandoned by all, except for one unkown man from two years further into the future, disappeared to meet its destiny.
Those who fled could not help but wonder where the great station had vanished to and what future may lay in store for it.
1000 years in the past.
In the Shadow War’s darkest hour Babylon 4 reappeared, carrying new hope via a Minbari not born of Minbar. With the station’s capabilities and stored future knowledge, they and their Vorlon masters were able to turn the tide against the minion’s of the Shadows.
The Vorlon’s were pleased, they had future knowledge of what would happen and which races were important. Thus they could continue to prove their point in the great debate against the Shadows, both using and manipulating the younger races they were supposed to guide as expandable pawns as debating points, from a superior position.
Thus the Circle was completed. An infinite artificial timeloop, constantly repeating over and over to provide absolute control to the order obsessed Vorlon's in their long quest to prove the Shadows wrong. A near fool-proof method to shape and manipulate the universe to their whims. However the universe is not one to be so easily tampered with.
While the Vorlon's made sure that everything remained constant within the circle, they foolishly ignored what happened outside it. As the loop repeated, over and over, time began to twist on the outside of it. Forces beyond the grasp of even the self-proclaimed 'First Ones' strained and altered as the pressure grew greater with each repetition of the timeloop...
Eventually something had to give. In a dimension beyond time a barrier ruptured and the temporal energy's were released as the constantly time traveling Babylon 4 traveled to the past for the Nth time. As the energy burst, it interacted on a higher level with the aura of both the time traveling station sole resident and the psychic echoes of the workers and crew who built and manned the station prior to its disappearance. Brushing against it, the flow of temporal energy shifted and started to flow towards the common origion point of the auras.
For one last time Babylon 4 was deposited 1000 years into the past, but the energy remained traveling through space through the path it had been sent on. As it traveled to its ultimate destination, time continued to roll backwards as the energy slipt ever closer to 3rd dimension...
65 million years ago...
The nine planet system made its way merrily through the galaxy. There was nothing special about the system, aside from the third planet which had recently suffered a large asteroid impact. While somewhat interesting from a scientific standpoint, there was no sentient life yet to guide. Making a small note to check back on the world in a few millennia, the alien probe moved back into hyperspace to examine the next life bearing system on its list for younger immature races in need of guidance. Had it waited just a single day more however, it would have had something much more interesting to report than a recent asteroid kill to its first one masters.
One there were nine planets and one sun, then the image seemed to blur. Suddenly there were 18 planets and two suns, albeit one set seemed to be rather transparent and out of focus. Then the transparent system seemed to drift off in another direction at rapid pace, passing through the original as it slowly phased into the timeline.
Eventually it would finish phasing fully into reality, but not until it was flung far away from the territory controlled by the appointed guides of the younger races the Vorlon's and the Shadow's...
The present
Alyt Vashear grumbled in irritation. "What a waste of our time. Hunting down some stray human ship, when we could be teaching the rest of those Earthers a proper lesson in respect. So what if one of their pathetic ships got lost near the edge of Minbari space? It’s not like those vermin pose any real threat, let a few scurry and hide so the other younger races learn the meaning of respect."
"We have found them Alyt." The Minbari sensors operator called out drawing the Alyt’s attention to him.
"FInally! What took so long? We should have found and destroyed them hours ago!" Vashear cried out, eager to get this annoying chore out of the way. Soon he would be back with the rest of the Minbari fleet, crushing the Earther infestation out of existence once and for all!
"Even Vermin can be clever Alyt. They dropped out of Jumpspace in a rather turbulent area of a mostly unexplored sector. A blind jump, that takes guts."
"Feh" Vashear sneered "You give them to much credit... Nothing more than a lowly rat jumping into the sea to escape a fire. Have you located there current position..."
"Yes Alyt. But there seems to be another ship there, other than the one reported. Also due to the turbulence, I am unable to open a jump point on top of them."
Vashear frowned. So much for a quick resolution to this irritation. He shook his head in resignation, before a feral grin crossed his face.
"Two or more, it makes no difference. Drop us out of jump space as close to them as possible. We might as well let them tremble in fear for a few moments if we can't destroy them immediately."
"At once Alyt." The helmsman responded before the shipped shuddered as it dropped into real space.... As the Tinashi exited out of jump space into real space, the image on the ships screen changed. First showing the cold darkness of space, before shifting and magnifying slightly.
Vashear smirked as the image of the two ships came up on screen as his vessel purposely slowed its approach in order to maximize the fear of the Earthers. He quickly located the pathetic Human transport, the civilian craft desperately moving away from the Minbari ship. Now where was that other ship…
Vashear blinked as he caught sight of it. "I've never seen a Human ship like that before...."
"It doesn't match anything on our databanks Alyt. Perhaps it isn't human?" One of the Minbari offered as they attempted to scan the unknown vessel. "Its shape is definitely different from most human designs. I can’t seem to find any Jump engines on scanner either…"
"A unknown species perhaps? This is a mostly unexplored area...." Vashear murmured to himself before shaking his head. "It matters not. Tell them to stay out of our way. We'll deal with them latter."
"At once Alyt." The communications officer frowned. "They seem to be using a odd manner of communication.... we're only getting audio at the moment Alyt, give me a few minutes and I might be able to adjust to their visual transmissions..."
"Do what you can, in the meantime transmit our warning verbally. We will not be denied!"
The communications officer followed his orders and then turned. "They are responding Alyt... shall I open a channel?"
Vashear nodded, secretely annoyed that human ship was getting farther away. But if it was an unknown species, than his superiors would be angry if he didn't at least acknowledge their acquiescence to Minbari might. "Put them on."
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