EarthForce

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EarthForce is the military branch of the Earth Alliance, Earth's governing body in the fictional Babylon 5 universe.

[edit] Organization

EarthForce is organized into three separate branches:

  • Navy (blue uniforms) - although the full dress uniform is grey trimmed black
  • Marines (brown/olive)
  • Security (light gray)

Officers and crew are allowed to transfer between branches; Richard Franklin (father of Dr. Stephen Franklin) once served as first officer on the EAS Ares, but by the time we actually meet him, the elder Franklin was a general in the EarthForce Marines. EarthForce uses a unified rank system, with both Army/Marine and Navy-style ranks:

  • Ensign
  • Lieutenant Junior Grade
  • Lieutenant
  • Lieutenant Commander
  • Commander
  • Captain
  • Major
  • Colonel
  • General

Admirals were mentioned in a few episodes, although they did not appear onscreen; its place in the above rank system is unknown.

[edit] EarthFleet

EarthForce operates a large fleet of ships, comprising such vessels as the Cotten class tender, Olympus class corvette, Omega class destroyers and Hyperion class heavy cruisers, Nova class dreadnought, and numerous smaller support craft. Their newest design is the Warlock class destroyer, which incorporates several new technologies such as artificial gravity (given to EarthForce by the Minbari). The Victory class starship Excalibur, designed and built for service with the Interstellar Alliance, was loaned to EarthForce for the mission to scour the galaxy to find a cure for the Drakh plague that had infected Earth in 2267.

All EarthForce ships have the registry prefix EAS, which stands for Earth Alliance Starship.

EarthForce may have many hidden black ops projects some of which could have been seen in the Earth Alliance Civil War where Omega class Destroyers were merged with Shadow bio-tech to create powerful warships for President Clark's regime. Even after Clark's defeat, these rogue operations continue to experiment with the technology to create even more powerful ships, one of which was responsible for the destruction of the Cerberus, a ship that Matthew Gideon (then an ensign, later captain of the Excalibur) was the only survivor of.

EarthForce One is the ship of the President of the Earth Alliance.

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