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The Drazi Sky Serpent is one of the most powerful fighters found in the League of Non-Aligned Worlds and is credited with changing the view of many worlds' approach to fighter construction. It is possible for a single Sky Serpent to be berthed with a Drazi Sun-Hawk variant.[2] Many Sky Serpents saw service during the Shadow War, including the Battle of Sector 83.[3] An undamaged Sky Serpent is capable of surviving after taking a direct hit from Centauri blockade platform's energy weapons.[2]

Characteristics[]

ITF icon The following is based on Babylon 5: Into the Fire.

Until the Sky Serpent was first seen most races took the Centauri approach building fast and manoeuvrable fighters to protect large capital ships from small gun ships and cruisers. The Sky Serpent was designed to overwhelm the Centauri fighters in raw fire power during long combat operations. Since the introduction of the Sky Serpent, several other races have used a similar principle with their fighters such as the Narn with their Frazi class heavy fighter, and the Earth Alliance with the Starfury.

Notable Sky Serpent Fighters[]

  • Marcus Cole’s Sky Serpent - This unidentified Sky Serpent was used as Marcus Cole’s personal ship and was carried aboard a Drazi Sun-Hawk warship that was commanded by Drosak, a member of the Anla’Shok Rangers, and an old friend of Marcus Cole. When Centauri Blockade Mines surrounded the colony on the planet Zagros VII, both Marcus Cole and Drosak used his Sun-Hawk to attempt to get through the heavily armed minefield, knowing full well that it’s a suicide mission. The Drazi vessel was destroyed by Centauri Blockade Mines shortly after ejecting Marcus Cole’s personal Sky-Serpent fighter, in an successful attempt to reach Babylon 5 in order to ask them for help, but not before taking some damage to his fighter. Luckily, Marcus Cole’s Sky Serpent’s jump engine were still able to function. Marcus Cole had the ship’s systems reroute power from life support to the engines in order to get to Babylon 5 as quickly as possible, but not before wiping out the fighter’s data logs upon arrival. It is unknown what happened to Marcus Cole’s fighter, but according to Babylon 5 head of security Micheal Garibaldi: “The ship was shot up pretty badly.”

Notes[]

  • Archived website of unreleased computer game Into The Fire states the fighter is 15.3 meters long,[4] while one of the size charts released by 3D artist Tim Earls, who worked as a lead designer during fourth and fifth episode of Babylon 5 TV series, states it is 19.12 meters long.[5]

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