![]() With their mental powers, the Harbingers float like giant jellyfish and if they need to move quickly, they shoot forward like squid. Their multiple fang-filled maws are hidden beneath folds of flesh. Their bodies are hulking and beastlike, with malleable sinew and stony chitin atop swirling masses of tentacle-like pseudopods and segmented legs. The only emotions they feel are hunger and anger. Harbingers are ancient beings who are driven by the need to devour entire universes. The following is based on The Mongoose Publishing RPG books and contradicts canon sources. The artifact was finally destroyed by Captain Sheridan when he detonated a thermonuclear device inside the device's superstructure. Meanwhile, a large number of the station's inhabitants became controlled by the alien influence, starting massive riots throughout the station. With the gate open again, the aliens began to enter local space and attacked the station's defenders, resulting in a deadly pitched battle. It was subsequently brought back to Babylon 5, where the telepathic resonances influenced a team from Interplanetary Expeditions, compelling them to reactivate it. In June 2261, the gate was rediscovered drifting off the local tachyon beacon by a squad of Starfuries led by Commander Ivanova. They were, however, very patient and silently waited until the gate was found and opened again. Though the Vorlons would search for the lost gate for millennia with no success, with the portal on this side closed, the aliens were trapped in their own dimension. However, before the gate could be completely destroyed, the Vorlon thralls dropped it into hyperspace where it was set adrift, lost in the chaotic spatial eddies and gravitational inclines. In the ensuing battle, the Vorlons that weren't directly affected forced the aliens back into their own dimension and disabled the portal. ![]() They modified the gate to amplify their telepathic influence, making an army of Vorlon thralls willing to die for their new masters. ![]() The Vorlons soon discovered the aliens were powerful beyond their comprehension and older even than they were. The gate actually opened up into the Thirdspace dimension. Over a million years ago, the Vorlons built a jump gate to open a doorway to a place they believed was the well of souls. Their Dark Cities are even more mysterious, featuring squat, uneven buildings built around an enormous, twisted tower that reaches about five miles up into the twilight sky and surrounded by floating structures that appear to defy gravity.Īccording to the Vorlon memory implanted in Lyta Alexander, the creatures believe they are the only creatures worthy of existence and within their own universe they have destroyed countless other races and continue to destroy thousands more. Seemingly part organic with veined, tentacular projections, shell like structures, parts that appear to have no physical connections to the rest of the ship, parts that seem to be made of nothing but smoke and crackling energy and displaying neither windows or any discernible means of propulsion. ![]() While not indestructible, both types are protected by some form of energy shield that can absorb a significant amount of weapons fire before succumbing and their design betrays a technology beyond any known parameters. Only two types of ships have been observed the smaller fighter sized vanguards and the much bigger capital ships. Aside from them all being naturally telepathic sentients (contrary to the laws of natural selection) they've also been observed to instantaneously move from one location to another, "appearing" out of the shadows like a dark coalescing mist without apparently crossing the intervening distance and can manifest large additional appendages that can be hurled as solid projectiles.Īs with their physical forms the technology of the Thirdspace Aliens defies close analysis and only broad observations of their ships and architecture can be made. While they appear solid, they have been observed as possessing traits that defy classification or any know natural laws of biology or matter. Hidden within the deep fleshy folds is a mouth-like structure with a set of sharp snapping jaws, from which it emits a high pitched chirping cry. Some seem to be for ambulation, while others, studded with sensing structures are used for securing prey and can be retracted into the back of the structure under the "head". Very large by humanoid standards, their bodies consist of a large bulbous "head" with six glowing eyes, atop a folded fleshy structure that supports several sets of dexterous appendages. An ancient race from another universe whose power even the Vorlons found beyond their comprehension, their physical form aesthetically appears somewhat reminiscent of Earth cephalopods or arachnids. ![]()
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