The Fringe Worlds, the Dark Systems and Mafia Planets......
Welcome to the Free Worlds
The most notorious of the Free Worlds is Freeport. A center of trade and commerce since the very beginning of the Earth Alliance's outward movement when humans were colonizing every world they could find. From the very beginning, Freeport was a source of trouble as independant groups within the system sought to establish themselves as the legitimate government and on more than one occasion Earth Force had to send warships to put down riots. For years, it was suspected that the Raiders were using Freeport as a base but nothing could be proven. When the Earth/Minbari War began, Freeport broke away from the Earth Alliance to set itself up as an independant state. With the military forces needed to quell this uprising unavailable, Freeport was able to slip away from the grip of Earth and become completely free. Since then, the system has been a home to the lowest of the low, Raiders and mercenaries who will work for any price and will stab one another in the back at a moment's notice. At the present date, the various spaceports form a loose alliance which controls the main planet and the system, though infighting still rages. The government has also been somewhat destabilized by rumors that the Earth Alliance, armed with its new fleet and under the command of General Hague, has plans to move in and retake Freeport. However, these are just rumors.
The planet Adkor was once a member of the brutal and militaristic Shileasean Triumverate, an intergalactic power that finally collapsed during the Shadow War under heavy attack from the Centauri Republic. Prior to the Shadow War and the rise of President Morgan Clark as the head of the Earth Alliance, Adkor was a hotbed for rebellious activities against the Triumverate. In an agreement to gain technological advances, the Earth Alliance agreed to send ground forces under the command of General Franklin to subjugate the world and restore order to the mountainous region where the rebels were most active. The ground assault proved to be hideously costly as over seventy percent of the Earth Alliance Marines were wiped out by the heavy weapons of the defenders before the fortresses were taken. Back in control, the Triumverate reestablished itself with a vengeance and the world was almost entirely depopulated before the Centauri Republic attacked the Triumverate and defeated them during the Shadow War. Since then, Adkor has been left alone by the other governments.
Another former Earth Alliance world is The Rock. Established as a penal colony and given the name after the infamous prison on Earth which housed some of the most dangerous criminals of the twentieth century, The Rock was one of the most heavily defended worlds in the Alliance. When the Earth/Minbari War came, The Rock was abandoned by the Earth Alliance and the prisoners allowed to run free. In the scramble, several smaller Capital Ships were abandoned and later taken by the prisoners to form their own militias. A small scale civil war was to follow with various gangs attempting to seize the system and in the process much of the captured equipment was destroyed, the few remaining Corvettes coming under the command of a former convict by the name of Sloth. Since then, The Rock has been a quiet system.
The Coriana System's claim to fame appeared in the year 2261 when the Army of Light under the command of Captain Sheridan engaged both the Shadow and Vorlon fleets in a bid to end the massive war raging between these two ancient races. The Battle of Coriana ended with the retreat of both the Shadows and the Vorlons beyond the galactic rim and since that time the Coriana System has been quiet. However, disturbing reports from local authorities have shown that vessels have been prowling through the debris fields searching for old hardware from the battle. While patrols by the Coriana Defense Fleet have been moderately successful, the looting of the battle debris continues without pause.
The Dilgar System was once home to the Dilgar and their empire. A brutal race, the Dilgar showed a particular aptitude for the creation of particularly nasty biological weapons. For most of their history, the Dilgar had fought among themsevles, reducing their homeworld not once but three times to a pre-Stone Age state. Finally, in the year 2101, the Dilgar came together after their scientists realized that their star was going to annihilate their home system within the next two hundred years. This began a massive shipbuilding program which, by 2220, had given the Dilgar a massive fleet of warships. In 2228 the Dilgar left their home system and began a massive genocidal war against the League of Non-Alligned Worlds and then the Narn Regime. The Dilgar looked to have the upper hand an by 2231 had carved out an area of space for themselves. Then, in a reversal, the Earth Alliance declared war on the Dilgar Empire and with the Narn and the League were able to beat back the Dilgar and force them onto their homeworld. The Narn Regime then proceeded to bombard the planet to the point of total collapse, the surface in shambles and all life extinguished. The allied fleets then left, their work done. The system was later devestated when the sun exploded as predicted hundreds of years earlier, the few League watchers recording the end of the Dilgar System before fleeing. All that is left of the one-time home of the Dilgar is a single outer planet which wanders in a lazy orbit around the black hole which now sits at the center of the system. As for the Dilgar, they were all presumed to have died, though the arrival of the Warmaster Jha'dur, nicknamed Deathwalker, on Babylon 5 in 2258 showed that not all had died and has led to speculation that in fact some Dilgar are still at large.
The Streib Homeworld is the home of the mysterious Streib, aliens who for the past several hundred years have avoided open contact with the outside galaxy, instead preferring to use their scout vessels to abduct other species for study. To date, the only species to make any real contact with the Streib has been the Minbari who engaged the Streib in a brutal war over two hundred years ago which left the Streib Homeworld in ruins. Since then, there have been only two sighting of Streib vessels, one by the Earth Alliance and one by the Centauri Republic. In both instances, the vessels were destroyed after inflicting damage on local civilian shipping in attempts to secure subjects for study.
Owyn Hunter
Adkor
The Rock
Jebediah Sloth
Ross 128
Coriana
Dilgar
Streib
Raider Carrier
Zephyr 109-class Starfighter