"It was the dawn of the third age of mankind ten years after the Earth-Minbari war the babylon project was a dream given form its goal to create a place where humans and aliens could work out there differences peacefully it was a port of call home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanders, humans and aliens wrapped in two million five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal all in the night it can be a dangerous place but it is our last best hope for peace this is the story of the last of the babylon stations the year is 2258 the name of the place babylon 5