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Babylon 5: Crusade

The New Babylon 5 Show CRUSADE.

It's offcial. Just weeks after the completion of Babylon 5's fifth and final season, Babylonian Productions has finalized a deal with Warner Brothers and the TNT cable channel to produce the oft-mentioned spin-off series, The Babylon Project: Crusade. The brainchild of B5 supremo Joe Michael Staczynski, Crusade will begin shooting on July 27th, and will premiere in the US on January 6th, 1999, courtesy of TNT . A British transmission - and indeed video release - is likely to follow later that year.

Starting in 2267 (five years after B5's fifth season), Crusade opens with the Shadows' former allies, the Drakh, mounting an attack against the Earth. Although the assault proves unsuccessful, it culminates with the Drakh releasing a biogenetic plague in the Earth's atmosphere that will wipe-out all life on the planet once its five-year incubation period has passed. The series will then follow the Rangers' quest to find a cure through the eyes of the crew of the Excalibur, a Deep Space exploration vessel assigned to search the remains of ancient worlds once occupied by the First Ones, in the hope of finding an antidote.






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