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• Ladira, Lady: A Centauri seer and prophetess, Lady Ladira was the aunt of Lord Kiro. On Kiro’s first birthday, she predicted he would be killed by Shadows. Upon boarding Babylon 5 in 2258, she was haunted by visions of fire, death, and pain which culminated in the destruction of the station. She later shared the vision with Commander Sinclair, who saw a lone ship leaving Babylon 5 just before it exploded. Ladira said Sinclair could find a way to avoid this prophecy. (Played by Fredi Olster.) (SIGNS) [BAB5]
• LaGrange 2: Outpost near the Mars Colony. Col. Ari Ben Zayne stayed at LaGrange 2 prior to his arrival on Babylon 5 in 2258. (EYES) [BAB5]
• Lakes Syndrome: Lakes Syndrome is an extremely painful and fatal condition, the symptoms of which include arthritis, blurred vision, burning intestines, and inflamed veins. Dr. Laura Rosen contracted the syndrome, but transferred it to Karl Mueller in an act of self-defense in 2258. (MERCY) [BAB5]
• Langford, Catherine: Daughter of Dr. Langford, she resumed her father’s resarch in 1969 on the stargate. Her program and the gate were moved to Cheyenne Mountain. She recruited Dr. Daniel Jackson who deciphered the gate’s true meaning and led to the first stargate mission to Abydos. [SG, SG1]
• Langford, Dr.: A scientist who recovered the stargate beneath the sands of Egypt in 1928. He led the team which later conducted experiments on the artifact, but when the gate was activated manually in 1945 and Ernest Littlefield was lost through the portal, the program was abruptly shut down. His daughter, Catherine Langford, continued his work in 1969. [SG, SG1]
• Lantz, Frederick: Frederick Lantz was an idealist who joined the Ministry of Peace in the hope of building a better world for his grandchildren. Like British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain some 300 years before him, he desired peace in his time. In 2259, he traveled to Babylon 5 to finalize the Earth-Centauri Non-Aggression Pact. Presumably, Lantz was unaware of the Minipax’s more sinister motives. (Played by Roy Dotrice.) (FALL) [BAB5]
• Lardec 4: A colony wiped out by Jha’dur, who infected its entire population with Stafford’s Disease in an experiment to see how long they took to die. (DEATHWALKER) [BAB5]
• Large, Private: A loud, tough but friendly GROPOS, famed for endless war stories. Large was a GROPOS for more than 30 years, and served with his best friend Buffer for more than 25 years, until Buffer was killed during the Mars Rebellion in 2258. The following year, Large took Private Yang under his wing and befriended Lt. Keffer while aboard Babylon 5. Shortly after, Private Large was killed during Operation: Sudden Death. (Played by Ken Foree.) (GROPOS) [BAB5]
• Laser-Mirror-Starweb: Futuristic variant on Earth’s rock-paper-scissors game. (DUET) [BAB5]
• Lazarenn, Dr.: A Markab physician stationed on Babylon 5 when his race was wiped out by the Drafa plague. Dr. Lazarenn first met the station’s chief medical officer, Dr. Franklin, before the Earth-Minbari War, when the human visited the Markab homeworld and the pair became good friends. When new cases of Drafa were found on the Markab homeworld, Dr. Lazarenn was ordered to keep the situation a secret and, because the disease officially didn’t exist, he was given very little money to find a cure. When Franklin became suspicious about a series of unexplained Markab deaths in 2259, Lazarenn told him the truth and tried to help him find a cure. He then volunteered to conduct the autopsy on one of the disease’s victims in the isolab, during which he began to show the symptoms of Drafa. From his deathbed, Lazarenn helped Dr. Franklin find a cure, but it was too late to save his people. (CONFESSIONS) (Played by Jim Norton.) [BAB5]
• League of Non-Aligned Worlds, The: An alliance of non-aligned races which includes the Drazi, the Abbai, the Pak’ma’ra, the Vree, and the Llort. The League had a good relationship with the Earth Alliance ever since the Alliance helped the non-aligned worlds defeat the Dilgar in 2232. While they do not have a seat on the Babylon 5 Advisory Council, the League of Non-Aligned Worlds casts the deciding vote when the Council is deadlocked, and Commander Sinclair was keen for it to play a major role aboard the station. In 2258, the League was disgusted when the Advisory Council voted against making the infamous war criminal Jha’dur stand trial for crimes against sentients and threatened to withdraw from the assembly. Fortunately, it chose not to when Sinclair, as representative of the Earth Alliance, offered to make Jha’dur stand trial after she had developed her anti-agapic. Ambassador Kalika accepted the agreement on behalf of the League. (DEATHWALKER) [BAB5]
• Lennier: Born into the Minbari religious caste and a member of the Third Fain of Chu’Domo, Lennier traveled to Babylon 5 in 2258 to assume his position as Ambassador Delenn’s diplomatic attache. Lennier was raised in a Minbari monastery from birth. Among other things, he read extensively about alien cultures, considered the 97 Minbari dialects and subtongues, and developed a passion for history (MERCY, DEATHWALKER). He excelled in areas of probability, and was ranked Master Adept by his math teachers. This makes him a natural poker player, although as Ambassador Mollari discovered, he has yet to learn the finer points of strategy and bluffing. For self-defense, Lennier learned Minbari martial arts (MERCY). The young Minbari left the temple for the first time in his life to serve on Babylon 5 and was highly recommended to Ambassador Delenn by his teachers. When he arrived on the station, he wouldn’t look Satai Delenn in the eye until he was ordered to. However, Delenn could sense that even when he was looking at her, in his heart Lennier was still looking down (ALONE). When she instructed him only to refer to her as Satai when he was specifically told to do so, Lennier didn’t understand but followed her order anyway, quoting the Minbari proverb, "Understanding is not required, only obedience" (PARLIAMENT). Lennier developed a close relationship with his master and refused to abandon her when she faced the wrath of the Grey Council in 2259. When she lost her position as Satai, Lennier reminded Delenn that he had sworn himself to her side and would serve her for the rest of his life (ALONE). A few months later, Lennier accompanied Delenn when she entered the Markab isolation zone to comfort the Markabs as they died of Drafa. At the time, there was no way of knowing whether or not the Minbari could contract the disease (CONFESSIONS). Ambassador Mollari once convinced Lennier to join him for a tour of Babylon 5, which culminated in a brawl in the Dark Star when the Centauri was caught cheating at cards. When Commander Sinclair questioned them about what happened, Lennier claimed his unfamiliarity with the club’s rules and customs caused offense and consequently led to the brawl, thus saving the Centauri from embarrassment. When Lennier learned the ambassador had cheated using one of his sexual organs, he decided to take a vow of silence on the matter (MERCY). On the 30th anniversary of Mollari’s Day of Ascension, Lennier gave him a pack of cards marked precisely in the way he liked (MATES). Although he lost members of his clan and his family when the Black Star was destroyed during the Earth-Minbari War, Lennier had little interest in framing the "Starkiller," John Sheridan, for a crime he did not commit. He chose to believe the word of Delenn rather than that of his clansman, Ashan, because Lennier knew she was "honorable" and was willing to dishonor the Fain of Chu’Domo to reveal the truth about its plot to discredit Sheridan. (HONOR) Lennier serves as Sheridan’s first officer aboard the White Star. After the ship’s first battle with a Shadow vessel, he said his monastery didn’t prepare him for such events and considered asking them to incorporate them into their program. (MATTERS). Lennier believes all life is sacred and would willingly sacrifice his life for another. During the series of bombings in 2260, he was almost killed saving Delenn and Londo from an explosion (CONVICTIONS). As the Minbari ambassador’s diplomatic attache, Lennier has a small allowance (MERCY). (Played by Bill Mumy.) [BAB5]
• Li: As the Centauri goddess of passion, Li represents a synthesis of male and female Centauri. (MERCY) [BAB5]
• liata: A wild Centauri animal. (KNIVES) [BAB5]
• Li’Dac: A member of the Narn Fifth Council, Li’Dac sponsored Na’Toth as Ambassador G’Kar’s diplomatic attache. (PARLIAMENT) [BAB5]
• Lifegiver: See Alien Healing Device. [BAB5]
• Line, Battle of the: The final conflict during the Earth-Minbari War. The Minbari had brought the Earth Alliance to its knees and went past many of its colonies and outposts to attack Earth (TWILIGHT). Earth mounted a defense of 20,000 fighters, but they were outgunned and outmanned, and found they could not "hold the line" around their homeworld against the Minbari. However, shortly after the Battle of the Line, the Minbari surrendered to Earth (SKY). The 200 survivors of the Battle of the Line became heroes. They included Jeffrey Sinclair. (DARKNESS) Also see Earth-Minbari War. [BAB5]
• link: Personal communication device used by the staff of Babylon 5 which is also capable of accessing the station’s mainframe computer. A link is worn on the outside of the hand by means of an adhesive. [BAB5]
• Littlefield, Ernest: A scientist lost through the stargate when it was activated manually in 1945. The program was abruptly shut down until 1969. [SG1]
• llamuda: Traveling robe worn by the Children of Time for "great journeys," including the voyage into the afterlife. (BELIEVERS) [BAB5]
• Llort: Alien race and member of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, the Llort collect souvenirs just for the sake of doing so. They claim to have little interest in dead bodies. (LEGACIES) [BAB5]
• Lobos, Gila: See Jha’dur. [BAB5]
• Lovell: A member of the Third Fain of Chu’Domo, Lovell came from a highly-respected family. When his clan ordered him to discredit Captain Sheridan in 2259, Lovell sacrificed his life to fram the "Starkiller" for murder. (HONOR) [BAB5]
• Lu’Kor: A Drazi Mutari beaten by the Sho’Ri, Gyor, in 2258. (TKO) [BAB5]
• Lumati: An advanced alien race which prizes evolution and believes it is morally right for strong races to survive and grow, leaving the weaker races to die, the Lumati dislike intervening in the affairs of others and prefer to let nature take its course. They also believe alliances are built not just on tactical advantage but on similarities in culture, and claim only an "inferior" race would argue that all species are equal. The Lumati, as a "superior" race, refused to speak to any race which had not proven itself to be superior, in case it is actually an inferior race. In much the same way humans use a handshake to seal an agreement, the Lumati use sexual intercourse to seal a deal! The Earth Alliance was always keen for the Lumati to join the Babylon Project. Consequently, when they sent a delegation to Babylon 5 in 2259, Captain Sheridan instructed Commander Ivanova to do whatever it took to get them to sign on to the program. Although the Lumati delegate Correlilmurzon was initially unimpressed by what he saw aboard the station, he was convinced humanity was a superior race when he visited Down Below, which he believed was designated to separate inferior humans from the superior humans aboard the station. He was extremely impressed by this process of dividing the superior from the inferior and hoped the Lumati would try such a scheme on their homeworld. It was then left to Commander Ivanova to seal the deal with a manic dance which, she told the delegate, was the human race’s style of intercourse. (SACRIFICE) [BAB5]
• Lurker: A member of the Psi Corps who volunteered for a series of experiments which transformed him into a P12 or possibly a P13. Lurker knew Jason Ironheart and escaped with him from the Psi Corps to set up an underground railroad of unregistered telepaths (RACE). In December 2258, he was hired to load cargo fro Devereaux. He later saw Stephen Petrov just before he was killed by Devereaux and pointed Security Chief Garibaldi to his killer (CHRYSALIS). When Bester came aboard Babylon 5 searching for the unregistered telepaths, Lurker reluctantly gave the order to kill the Psi Cop and had Talia Winters kidnapped. Although Bester survived the attempt on his life, he managed to convince Talia to join their cause and seemed to know about the gift Jason Ironheart had given her. When Bester discovered the group, Lurker joined forces with Talia and the other unregistered telepaths to trick the Psi Cop into believing he had killed all of the group with Talia’s help (RACE). (Played by Gianin Loffler.) [BAB5]
• lurkers: Term for the inhabitants of Down Below who arrive on Babylon 5 looking for new jobs and new lives and become stranded on the station when they run out of money and can’t find work. Some lurkers take menial jobs, most of which are illegal. (CHRYSALIS, SACRIFICE) [BAB5]

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