Babylon 5: The Lost Tales

by Grand Admiral Harmon

Part 8 of the Babylon 5 Alternate Universe. Sheridan has died and is contemplating the mistakes he made in his life. Then a strange man approaches, and shows him that not all choices he made were bad. And not all were good. This is the last installment of this series.

6. Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes

Five years ago I first watched Babylon 5 in its entirety and fell in love with the story. During my third re-watch of the series, I began reading A Dark, Distorter Mirror which is a wonderful five part series based on what would have happened if Earth had been destroyed by the Minbari. It set into motion a desire on my part to write my own alternative history series about Babylon 5 based as well upon a lost Earth-Minbari War. But unlike A Dark, Distorted Mirror I went even further and asked, what would have happened of Dukhat had actually tried to reach out to the humans. How would it have transpired.

And thus began a nearly three year project. Three years and spanning nine books, it is the second largest Babylon 5 series, second only to ADDM, which clocks in at over a million words. The Babylon 5 Alternative Universe is also one of the largest fanfics in history, period.

I cannot describe the feeling of accomplishment I feel right now as I write these words. When I first set off, I never imagined what twists and turns this series would take and I had absolutely no idea how exhausting this series would be. There was many times I sincerely gave up all hope that this series would ever see an end. As many will have noticed, entire months passed in this last book in which I simply did not post. Well, when you have written over 300,000 words as I have you get utterly tired.

But now that I have accomplished my goal of finishing the series, I feel more confident now that I can finish the additional storylines and chapters that I want to do. More Human Remnant Civil War. More of the Hand and many more stories that we could see. And with them being singular chapters, I don't feel so daunted by the task of getting them finished, even if I am not going to be worrying too much about getting them cranked out in any timely fashion.

I wanted this series to end where it had begun, basically with two people that had once shared a dream coming back together one last time. Forgiveness not spoken but freely given. That is the best kind of forgiveness and the best kind of ending.

Now I explore other stories and finish other works but no longer will the great masterpiece of the B5AU hang over my head as an unfinishable task.

Farewell and see you all on the other side.