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-winning series Babylon 5

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. This book is authored by Jim Mortimore

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Synopsis

The novel is divided into 3 major sections—Prologue, the main story, and then the epilogue. The prologues follow the story behind the EAS Amundsen which fired the opening shots of the Earth-Minbari war by attacking the Grey Council ships which resulted in the death of Dukhat (and his later debriefing before then Vice President Luis Santiago and his claim that the Minbari fired first), the Narn occupation of the Tuchanq (led by none other than G'kar), the serial killing of Narns by the Tuchanq that became known as D'arc, and President Morgan Eugene Clark's thoughts on using the capital punishment against aliens who commit crimes against humans as a means of gaining for political power.

The main story then follows