Editing Babylon 5 (section)

==A Quick Tour of Babylon 5 Station==
Most episodes take place on the Babylon 5 station.  From the front to the back, the station is divided up into sectors according to purpose.  

* '''Blue Sector''': Roughly spherically shaped, blue sector contains the station's docking bays, the command center, and houses the station's operations personnel.  Blue sector is a high security area and off limits to civilians outside of the spaceport areas.  "Behind" blue sector is a narrow neck connecting to the next sector, with supporting columns.  These columns are the cobra bays (so-named for their snake-like shape).  These are the rapid launch bays for the station's defense fighters.  To launch, the doors on the bays are opened and the fighters are "dropped", literally falling out of the station by centrifugal force.  Ships docking with Babylon 5 approach the station's "front" and match their rotation to the station's before flying into the docking bay, where they are lowered by elevator through an airlock and into the centrifugal gravity area to be unloaded; the vast docking bay itself is a gigantic torus inside blue sector's sphere that can accommodate dozens of shuttles and transports.

*  '''Red Sector''': This is the station's commercial hub, situated next to blue sector and the docking bays.  Red sector is a civilian heavy area, packed with apartments, hotels, marketplaces and warehouses.  The majority of the station's civilian population lives here.  The station's most popular open market, the Zocalo, is located here.

* '''Green Sector''': Constituting roughly 2/5ths of the station's entire length, green sector serves two purposes.  Its main volume is hollow, enclosing the station's vital hydroponics area, as well as some recreational spaces.  The second use of green sector is that it houses the station's diplomatic quarter.  Embassies and secure residence areas for ambassadors are situated here.  Consequently, green sector security is tighter than red sector, although not to the extent of blue sector.  Suspended at the axial center of green sector is the core shuttle, a set of suspended trams traveling the length of the occupied station, and a fusion plasma conduit that caries power across the station and provides illumination to the garden.  Several suspension columns extend down from the core shuttle to the station's cylinder walls, and elevators along these columns lift people up to the core shuttle.  There is one "building" of note in the garden: the Earthforce office tower, which hosts the station commander's working office (with a commanding view of the gardens), as well as the Earthforce officers club, known as ''Earhart's''.  The denser red and brown sectors form the bulkheads that bookend green sector's garden on either side.  

* '''Brown Sector''': Colloquially known as "downbelow", brown sector is the station's industrial hub, housing various factories and refineries as well as the station's waste reclamation facilities.  However, large sections of this sector were left disused after the station's construction was completed, and it has become the station's seedy underbelly, rife with fugitives and the destitute.  

* '''Grey Sector''': Grey sector sits between brown and yellow sector, and it houses the components that operate the station's centrifugal rotation system as well as other power and support systems.  Grey sector also includes the station's spine, which extends along the length of the station all the way back to blue sector (which it is attached to by a gigantic rotating ring).  The spine encloses the station's zero gee cargo handling areas (at the station's "front").  The station's solar panels are also attached to grey sector.  The simulated gravity areas of grey sector are largely fabrication shops and station support systems dating back to the station's construction phase.  Security keeps brown sector's slums from encroaching, but as the station's oldest and most mechanically complicated segment grey sector has a reputation all its own for strange events. 

* '''Yellow Sector''': The station's fusion reactor, radiators, and fuel reserves.  Yellow sector has no simulated gravity.  Given the sector's purpose, it's a high security area and most of it is exposed to vacuum.