Nightwatch (Babylon 5)

In the Babylon 5 science fiction universe, Nightwatch was an Earth Alliance paramilitary organization set up during the Presidency of Morgan Clark. Like the Gestapo of Nazi Germany, Nightwatch became the secret police organization of Clark's New Order.

History

Beginnings

Nightwatch began by offering extra credits to various people to be their eyes and ears (See: In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum) to report on crimes especially subversion. Because of this, Babylon 5 security officer Zack Allan decided to join Nightwatch. He was in it for the extra money, but soon became more and more disturbed over the course of events, and the escalation of Nightwatch's activities. Zack became increasingly worried about the erosion of civil liberties that was happening with Nightwatch around.

With events on Earth coming to a head, Captain Sheridan and the others knew that the Nightwatch was a threat that would have to be dealt with. When Clark issued the martial law orders, Nightwatch was ordered to take over station security. Sheridan found a loophole in the orders for Nightwatch to take over station security - they had been issued by a civilian office outside the normal chain of command and were therefore invalid.

Knowing he finally had a way of dealing with Nightwatch, Sheridan approached Zack, who agreed to help the command staff take care of the Nightwatch threat. Zack went to his Nightwatch superiors and revealed that a ship was arriving with a number of Narn who would take over station security. Believing that they could catch Sheridan in the act, nearly all the Nightwatch personnel went to the airlock where this ship was supposed to be docking. When everyone was assembled in the docking area, Zack gave the orders that sealed the Nightwatch personnel in the room. Sheridan then arrested all of them for attempted mutiny and failure to respect the chain of command. Each Nightwatch operative was ordered to come out one at a time and surrender their weapons and equipment. Sheridan then revealed that the local Narn population was then going to take over Babylon 5 security, as he put it, hiding a lie within the truth.

Downfall

The Nightwatch presence on B5 ended after the station declared independence from the Earth Alliance. All the known Nightwatch personnel were sent back to Earth. A small covert team remained. They were able to take Delenn and a number of Minbari hostage briefly, but were all either killed or captured when the station's command staff rescued the hostages. However, Nightwatch continued tightening its grip back on Earth and Mars (with help from Psi Corps) until Sheridan's fleet liberated said planets late the following year.

Babylon 5

Series	Episodes The Gathering In the Beginning Thirdspace The River of Souls A Call to Arms The Legend of the Rangers The Lost Tales Crusade Episodes

Characters	Lyta Alexander Zack Allan Alfred Bester Byron Marcus Cole Vir Cotto Delenn Dukhat Stephen Franklin G'Kar Michael Garibaldi Susan Ivanova Kosh Naranek Lennier Elizabeth Lochley Lorien Londo Mollari Morden Na'Toth Lord Refa John Sheridan Jeffrey Sinclair Ulkesh Talia Winters Zathras

Species	List of civilizations Centauri Drakh First One Human Minbari Narn Pak'ma'ra Vorlon Shadow

Ships	Agamemnon Black Star Excalibur Explorer class starship Frazi heavy fighter G'Quan class heavy cruiser Hyperion class heavy cruiser Liandra Nial class heavy fighter Nova class dreadnought Olympus class corvette Omega class destroyer Primus class battlecruiser Raider Fighter Sentri medium fighter Shadow Planet Killer Sharlin Class Warcruiser Starfury Sun Hawk class gunship T'Loth class cruiser Trigati Valen class cruiser Vorchan White Star

Wars	Centauri-Narn War Dilgar War Earth Alliance Civil War Earth–Minbari War Shadow War Telepath War

Locations	Babylon 4 Babylon 5 Z'ha'dum

Organizations	Earth Alliance EarthForce Grey Council Interstellar Alliance League of Non-Aligned Worlds Minbari Warrior Caste Nightwatch Psi Corps Rangers Technomages

Miscellanea	Novels, short stories and comic books List of people involved with Babylon 5 List of people involved with Crusade Babylon 5 influences Babylon 5's use of the Internet Babylon 5 Wars Collectible Card Game Babylon 5 Roleplaying Game Babylon Park Battle of the Line The Be Five Book of G'Kar Foundationism Great Machine Lurker's Guide Mythology PPG Shon'Kar Spoo Triluminary Index of Babylon 5 articles

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