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• Hague, General: A member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Hague ordered Captain Sheridan to assume command of Babylon 5 on January 2259 (DEPARTURE) and instructed him to assess the loyalty of the station’s senior command staff. He then told Sheridan to invite his colleagues to join their Conspiracy of Light aimed at the forces that were trying to destroy Earth from within (ALONE). Hague’s operatives include Sarah, who instructed Sheridan to prevent Earthforce Intelligence from capturing Dr. Everett Jacobs. The fugitive physician possessed a data crystal containing evidence that President Morgan Clark was not ill when he disembarked from Earthforce 1, thus corroborating the theory that Clark knew his predecessor would be killed. When Sheridan saved both Jacobs and his data crystal from their opponents, he scored the first victory for Hague and his associates. (HUNTER) General Hague doesn’t care for protocol and prefers not to be greeted by honor guards. (ALONE) (Played by Robert Foxworth.) [BAB5]
• Hampton, Lise: A former girlfriend of Michael Garibaldi. The couple first met each other a few days after Garibaldi had been stationed on Mars and had spent a year together when he was offered the post of chief security officer aboard Babylon 5. Lise had a life, a job, and some friends on Mars and didn’t want to leave. The couple argued and Garibaldi took the first shuttle to the station. (VOICE I) During the Mars Rebellion in 2258, Lise was caught in a crossfire whiel trying to get food. When Garibaldi contacted her to try to restart their relationship, he learned she was married to Franz and was expecting their first child. (VOICE II) (Played by Denise Gentile.) [BAB5]
• Hanson: A security officer stationed on Babylon 5. (SPIDER) [BAB5]
• Happy Daze: A rough and ready bar in Down Below. When he was framed by the Homeguard, Security Chief Garibaldi hid in Happy Daze and succumbed to having an alcoholic drink there. As he left the bar, Garibaldi said he liked its decor, ambience and clientele. He was captured leaving the bar in a drunken haze by Major Lianna Kremmer and her security staff. (SURVIVORS) [BAB5]
• Ha’Rok: Narn councilor sent to Babylon 5 on the Callisto to meet with Jha’dur and arrange a deal for her anti-agapic. Na’Toth was waiting for him to arrive on the station when she saw Jha’dur and tried to kill her. When Ha’Rok learned what had happened, he immediately returned to Narn, leaving Ambassador G’Kar to deal with the negotiations. (DEATHWALKER) [BAB5]
• Harvester: A large spice-mining machine, often called a "crawler" because of its buglike body on independent tracks. Used on Arrakis, known as Dune. [DUNE]
• Hazeltine, Eric: An environment technician aboard Babylon 5, Eric Hazeltine was killed in 2257 by the Minbari assassin posing as his old friend, Del Varner. Security found Hazeltine’s body in a transport tube access panel. (Played by Steven Barnett.) (GATHERING) [BAB5]
• HazMat: Abbreviation used on Babylon 5 to describe any hazardous materials. [BAB5]
• Hebka: City on the Narn homeworld. Da’Kal lived there prior to the Narn-Centauri War. (BLOOD) [BAB5]
• Hedronn: A member of the Minbari Grey Council, Hedronn was present at the Battle of the Lineb. He claimed to be a member of the Minbari Ministry of Culture, and didn’t accept Sheridan’s authority on Babylon 5. (Played by Robin Sachs.) (DEPARTURE) [BAB5]
• Hendricks, Dr. Vance: A respected teacher and researcher who decided to pursue a career as an interplanetary archeologist. Hendrick’s expedition to the ruins of Ikaara 7 was funded by Interplanetary Expeditions (IPX), which he later revealed was a front for an important bio-organic weapons supplier. He ignored the standard quarantine procedures to bring Ikaaran artifacts aboard Babylon 5 and didn’t care what his assistant, Nelson Drake, did as long as he got them onto the station. Hendricks then met his former pupil, Dr. Stephen Franklin, and together the pair studied the Ikaaran relics. Hendricks was pleased one of the artifacts assimilated Drake and tranformed him into an Ikaaran killing machine, as it proved the bio-organic weapons still worked, thus increasing their financial value. However, Dr. Franklin ignored a very lucrative offer from his former teacher and turned him in. (Played by David McCallum.) (INFECTION) [BAB5]
• Hernandez, Dr. Maya: Physician in charge of one of Babylon 5’s medlabs. In 2258, Dr. Franklin bet her a steak dinner he would save Shon. When Shon’s parents refused to allow him to operate on their son, Dr. Hernandez assisted Franklin to perform the operation illegally. (Played by Silvana Gallardo.) (BELIEVERS) [BAB5]
• Heyerdahl, The: An Earth transport named after Thor Heyerdahl, the noted explorer. The Heyerdahl brought Cynthia Torqueman and an ISN crew to Babylon 5 in 2259 just in time to witness the N’Ton’s attack on the Malios. (WORD) [BAB5]
• Hidoshi, Senator: Senator Hidoshi acted as a liaison between the Senate and Babylon 5 during 2258 and the early part of 2259. Among other things, he ordered Commander Sinclair to send Jha’dur to Earth immediately (DEATHWALKER), instructed him to find a quick and decisive solution to the dock workers’ illegal strike (MEANS), and confirmed President Santiago had given Commander Sinclair jurisdiction over Babylon 5’s entire sector (VOICE II). Hidoshi’s grandfather worked in space docks and, as a result, he had a great deal of sympathy for the dockers aboard Babylon 5 in 2258. When Sinclair used the Rush Act to give them a pay raise, Hidoshi enjoyed the way he had beaten his colleagues and warned the commander he had made several new enemies as a result. (MEANS) When asked about the numerous management changes on the station, Hidoshi suggested they might have occurred because Babylon 5 was "too big for anybody to ride." By September 2259, he was no longer a member of the Senate. (WORDS) (Played by Aki Aleong.) [BAB5]
• Hokey-Pokey: Classic human song and dance. Ambassador Mollari couldn’t understand why, out of all of humanity’s musical compositions, the Hokey-Pokey remained the most popular. He studied it for seven days and had it analyzed by computer, only to conclude it had no meaning. Despite Londo’s rendition, Draal quite liked the song. (VOICE I) [BAB5]
• Holy Grail, The: The legendary cup which promises the regeneration and redemption of its owner. Also known as the Sacred Vessel of Regeneration and the Cup of the Goddess. In 2258, Aldous Gajic traveled to Babylon 5 in search of the Grail. Upon his death, his quest was assumed by Thomas Jordan. (GRAIL) [BAB5]
• Homeguard: A radical pro-Earth movement, the Homeguard has members and sympathizers across the galaxy. The organization’s goals are to prevent alien races from setting human policy, to stop aliens from stealing human jobs and to resist growing alien social and cultural influence on Earth and its colonies. In 2258, the Homeguard launched a series of vicious anti-aline attacks on Bablyon 5. The local Homeguard cell, under the command of Malcolm Biggs, planned to assassinate the station’s four alien ambassadors, but they were brought to justice by Commander Sinclair and Lieutenant-Commander Ivanova. Had they succeeded, the ambassadors’ deaths would have acted as a signal to the other members of the Homeguard to terminate the other alien emissaries on Earth. (PRAYER) [BAB5]
• Horn, Abel: Abel Horn became involved with the Free Mars movement before the Earth-Minbari War and stayed with the organization when it abandoned the use of peaceful protest and turned to violence as the only means of winning independence from Earth. In the years leading up to the 2258 Mars Rebellion, Abel Horn became known as one of the most dangerous leaders of Free Mars. He was responsible for countless acts of violence and devastation, including the destruction of the Ritchie Station. However, during the rebellion the Earthforce cruiser Pournelle destroyed his ship over Phobos and killed Abel Horn. Horn’s body was recovered by Bureau 13 operatives who used him as a subject of Project: Lazarus. Telepathic scanning focused the former revolutionary on the moment of his death, which he then relived over and over again while his thought processes and actions were controlled by a computer implant. In 2259, Abel Horn was sent to Babylon 5 to kill FutureCorp executive Taro Isogi and discredit Amanda Carter, a member of the Mars Conglomerate and Horn’s former lover. Horn killed Isogi with a massive electrical charge produced by his prosthetic arm which disrupted every cell in the executive’s body. However, on the two occasions he tried to kill the witness to the murder, Talia Winters, she entered his mind and undermined his program. The cyber-organic killer became confused and unfocused, and demanded to know what he had become. Horn was killed for a second time by Captain Sheridan when he tried to shoot Security Chief Garibaldi. His body then self-destructed to eliminate all pieces of evidence. (Played by Michael Beck.) (SPIDER) [BAB5]
• Hunter-Seeker: A sliver of suspensor-buoyed metal guided as a weapon by a nearby control console or individual; a common assassination device. [DUNE]
• Hyach: An alien race aboard Babylon 5. (ACCUSATIONS) [BAB5]
• Hyach 7: A Narn colony once conquered by the Dilgar. (DEATHWALKER) [BAB5]
• hydroponics: Used to grow fruit and vegetables. (GATHERING, PRAYER) [BAB5]
• Hyperion, The: An Earth Alliance heavy cruiser, the Hyperion was one of the few Earth Alliance ships which survived the Earth-Minbari War. In 2258, the ship was sent to Babylon 5 following the discovery of advanced alien technology beneath the surface of Epsilon 3. Under the command of Captain Ellis Pierce, the Hyperion’s mission was to stake the Earth Alliance’s claim to the technology and protect Babylon 5 from possible attack. (VOICE II) [BAB5]
• hyperspace: A different dimension in space which allows shorter travel between points in the galaxy. Entered through a jumppoint, many of which are generated by jumpgates. No ship lost in hyperspace had ever been rescued before 2259. Sheridan made history by recovering the Cortez, using a line of Starfuries (DISTANT). There is some speculation as to whether or not it is possible for anything to live in hyperspace. [BAB5]

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