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It would seem reasonable to conclude that the Vorlons would've learned what it was too, but we can't be certain. It isn't clear exactly what is occuring during that time, and whether she is traversing some transspacial network or simply probing the databanks of the Great Machine, but Ivanova does seem to believe that something noticed her. This is unlikely, however, given at least the fact that Susan Ivanova seemingly alerted the Shadows of its presence, and her use of it, during ‘Voices of Authority’, season 3, episode 05. It is also possible that neither Shadows nor Vorlons knew of the Machine. We certainly don't see evidence of it intervening when the Shadows took Garibaldi. That may be simply because the situations were not dire enough so as to require the intervention. It is possible that the Great Machine in Epsilon III served as a deterrent, but we never see any evidence that its defensive weapons were used against either the Shadows or the Vorlons. So, why didn't either of them take moves to eliminate Babylon 5 when they began cleansing the galaxy during season four? The Vorlons also knew that the Shadows had been using ever since Kosh first encountered Morden there in the first season. Now, what does Babylon 5 mean to either the Shadows or the Vorlons for those episodes of season four?īabylon 5 did have a Vorlon ambassador for quite some time, but they themselves ousted him during ‘Falling Towards Apotheosis’. They do yet want the younger races to side with their beliefs: both the Shadows and the Vorlons only attack those who have already chosen the other side. By the time ‘Into the Fire’, episode 06, comes along, the Shadows and Vorlons are going at it direct, but only because they were lured there by the White Star fleet. Then, when they are ready to move, they begin first attacking a few worlds which were faithful to the Vorlons. The Shadows, meanwhile, are playing a game of scatter–and–entrench.

The Vorlons are first targetting planets which have held, or are holding, contingents of Shadow forces.

Soon after - during the beginning of the fourth season, - the Shadows and the Vorlons begin cleansing the galaxy of those who've shown allegiance to the other.

It was only then that they were preparing to attack B5 directly - until the battlecrabs were called to fall–back, in response to Sheridan's own attack on Z'ha'dum with the thermonuclear weapons carried by the first White Star. Until that time, during the first three seasons, the Shadows weren't interested in B5 - they wanted Sheridan. During ‘Z'ha'dum’, when he asks straight–up why the Shadows hadn't killed him yet, Justin informs Sheridan that it would be unproductive to make him a martyr.