Babylon 5 – Casino

At another Bar Mal sat brooding. He sipped at his drink and looked around the casino. He was wearing his browncoat it a bar that alliance officers were drinking in without being challenged. Mal didn't like that; one of his constants was that he could provoke a fight just by sitting down wearing his coat. It was another universal constant that had been upset in recent days. The commander that he had been introduced to on his arrival sat down next to him looking pensive. He saw Mal and smiled. "How are you and your Crew settling in?"

"Well enough" Mal replied, a little tersely. "But it is a might unsettling not to be having a brawl by this time today" He looked at the commander's questioning look. He wasn't a bad man and was good at listing. He made you feel important, no wonder they had assigned him to a diplomatic station. "Unification day. I don't rightly know what date it is here, but back home its Unification day, the day the Browncoats lost the war. I don't know why but it seems right to celebrate my comrades by giving a purple belly a black eye or two."

"Well our alliance isn't like yours."

"Isn't it?" Challenged Mal, "I've seen the news on the cortex, ISN whatever you call it. Trouble's brewing on Mars. It's got the same feel that there was before I signed on with the independents. There's going to be violence before long, no matter how 'benevolent' your alliance people on the outsides ain't too fond of being told what to do."

"I think you could be right about the violence but I hope it won't come to that. If it does are you going to help them?"

"Nah," Mal drained his cup "It's not my fight, besides I don't want to changes this universe or any universe. Just lookin' to survive in them".


Mal is talking before voice in the wilderness part 1 which features the Mars uprising.