The Hand
From The Babylon Project
The Hand, also known as the Hand of God or as the Hand of Death, are a powerful alien species of which little is known.[1]
They are an old alien species who were imprisoned in another dimension. G'Kar believed this to be the source of many races' legend about a dark force being driven out by a greater force of light in prehistory. After the second Shadow war, the Hand began to make their attempts at returning to reclaim known space. To accomplish this, they began to secretly raid other races' trading routes and attempted to destabilize the Interstellar Alliance. They formed pacts with servants who would be spared from this destruction and were given advanced pieces of technology, though these were toys compared to the race's full capabilities. One of these servants, Minister Kafta, said that rewarding loyalty is the Hand's only virtue. He also claimed that the Shadows were insects compared to the Hand.
Hand Servitors are a common type of servant of the Hand who appear as black robed beings with a deep monotone voice. These creatures controlled snowflake-shaped vessels that were capable of destroying vessels of other races.
Information on the Hand came to be known by the Interstellar Alliance and they attempted to learn more about the enigmatic race. The Valen, a diplomatic vessel was dispatched for the task but was destroyed by the Hand warships but not before dislodging their passengers onto the Ranger vessel Liandra. The Hand Servitors tried to destroy the Ranger crew but failed in their task.
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| Major Races | ||
| Ancient Races: | First Ones • First Born • Vorlon • Shadow • Walkers of Sigma-957 • Thirdspace Aliens • The Hand | |
| Major Races: | Minbari • Centauri • Human • Narn • Dilgar • Drakh | |
| League/Alliance Races: | Drazi • Brakiri • Gaim • pak'ma'ra • Abbai • Yolu • Hyach/Hyach-do • Markab • Llort • Grome • Hurr • Cascor • Balosian • Onteen • Iksha • Vree | |
