Babylon 5: Warlock Class Advanced Destroyer - Spacedock 

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Every time I see a video on or about something in the Babylon 5 Universe I want to watch the series again. I miss that show, it was a great show in a happier time.

G'Kar "We are the fire that will light the way to a better future" Poe "We are the spark that will light the fire that will burn the first order down" B5 did it first!

The most famous of Warlock Class Destroyers was the 'Ivanova's Pimp Hand'

We need a sequel series to Babylon 5 which also ties up the lose ends left by Crusade. Not a reboot, just a contiuation, maybe 20 years after the "end" of Crusade.

This ship is under-apreciated in the sci-fi world against the likes of star wars or star trek but this thing it one of the most bad ass ships in sci-fi

It was very fitting that Ivanova got to be among the first to captain a Warlock.

This looks like a design that would be comfortable in The Expanse.

This is really serendipitous timing. I just started Babylon 5 last night. I am really enjoying it.

The Lost Tales had the best scene with one of these in it, splitting a Centauri Warship in half with 2 beams from it's forward weapon batteries, but even then it was getting pounded!

After hearing the news from JMS about the state of Babylon 5 withing the WB, that they still hold a grudge from over 20 years ago, it is heartening to see newer insight into the Babylon 5 universe. good video.

I really wish we coulda seen more of this warship in the tv show. Great design.

Practical yet still pleasing to the eye. I like.

What to say, "Its a bloody time to see Warlock, best Babylon 5 ship design"

I love the Babylon 5 ship universe. Thanks for reminding me to find the TV movies! Are you considering anything more from that universe such as the Shadow and Vorlon planet killers?

One thing that you didn't mention is the hints that significant parts of the ship technology was derived from recovered, stolen and secretly acquired Shadow technology. I'm going from memory here, so forgive me if I'm wrong in the detail - there is a short story, of dubious canonicity (from what I recall it was written by JMS, and published in the B5 magazine and is canon compliant, but it wasn't on screen), that explains this. The power and computer systems involved Shadowtech, and consequently would cause debilitating nightmares and discomfort to any telepaths aboard. Captain Ivanova, having some awareness of this and it's potential impact, took her ship - the EAS Titans - to B5 and had President Sheridan come aboard. The ship's computer freaked out in reaction to his Vorlon/Lorien ... ness, and thus proved it. In order to protect Ivanova, her ship and the assets both represented, they secretly moved Kosh/Ulkesh's shuttle, still berthed on the station, onto the Titans. It reacted to the Shadowtech on the ship, and being that much more advanced and 'complete', overrode and took over the Shadow-influenced systems, freeing it from the potential influence and allowing it's captain, and any other teep aboard, rest. It also meant that the Vorlon shuttle would be well hidden, away from where it's tech could be stolen or undermined by the Drakh.

RIP centrifugal gravity thingy. It's like the Flintstones in space, footpower! Babylon 5 is so cool for featuring those as well as artificial gravity.

I get the feeling the Pillar of Dawn in the Halo Series of Games and Books was totally inspired by this ship. As I can see a lot of similarities between the two ships.

This is one of my favorite Earth ships from B5 as well. Thanks for covering Babylon 5 as much as you are.

Biggest weakness was the use of shadow tech in the computer core. This caused it to be vulnerable to telepaths. Ivanova got Sheridan to fix this with the remains of Kosh II's ship. Gave the Psi Corps a very short but NASTY surprise.

I love the variety of sci fi weapons Babylon 5 included.Laser, plasma, particle beam, railguns, missiles, and mines, not to mention really exotic stuff like the Shadow battlecruiser's beam weapon.

When Ivanova fixed her ship, the Vorlon remnants changed it. Is there enough info for an episode on that ship after the Vorlon conversion?

Too bad this ship came so late in the show, would love to see more of these.

Nice Video I wish we go to more of these ships. Also to temp you into doing a video on the Hammerhead from Space Above and Beyond. The fighter use retro thrusters to turn and maneuver in space

FINALLY!!!!!!! Spacedock has now shown the Warlock-class some love!

Loved b5 wish they would do new series say focused on telepath war or some thing then we could see these ships in action

One of my favorite capital ships, thank you for covering it. A little on the brief side but, good all the same.

You forgot to mention how powerful the Ageis god cannons are they are able to down most species captial ships in a single shot at beyond targeting range of most ships, this is why they were the best on sattelties and star bases. A small preview from the babylon 5 movie lost tales showcases its awesome firepower as it annihilates centurai warships in a single salvo

I don't know if its canon but I read that the Warlocks have a very big secret advantage: Their armor and computers were made with Shadow tech.

good god that is some thick armour

2km long destroyer? thats a bigass destroyer, i wanna see the babylon 5 battleships damn

As part of a newscaster's voiceover at the end of Season 4 she mentions Susan Ivanova being promoted to Captain and given the command of one of the new Warlocks so that's pre-Interstellar Alliance. I'm trying to remember from where, but I recall the Warlocks being the first Earthforce ships with gravimetric drives and allowed the crew to experience 0.3G instead of full 1.0G. I would hope once Earth received Mimbari tech after joining the Interstellar Alliance they would have gotten upgrades to a full gravity. As for Shadow technology there's so little of the Warlock in canon they're really vaporware. Very cool vaporware though! I wish we could have seen them in Season 5 of B5 or more than a glimpse on Crusade.

It's ashame that we don't get to see more of these in the series and movies. If they do any spin-off/sequels from the show they should show more of the warlocks.

Always nice to see some love given to the Babylon 5 universe. The ships/tech especially.

Always did love B5 ships, just for their realism. Yeah, yeah, I know that when you start getting to Warlock's with artificial gravity and other stuff Earthforce picked up from the Minbari and Vorlons and/or reverse engineered from the Shadows it gets a bit more fantastic, but it's still a cool design

Check it out. Independently targeting particle-beam phalanx. WHAP! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phase plasma pulse rifles, RPGs. We got sonic, electronic ball-breakers! We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks... Oh wait, its from another universe. I don't know the last time I saw Warlock in action, it got served by Vorchans. For my the best ship was Shadow Omega destroyer ( aka Omega-X) .. at least it was stylish

Thank you!! been asking for this a long time. My favorite B5 ship.

After like, 20 years, the Warlock is still my all time spaceship design. It's damn perfect.

Quite similar to Homeworld I stuff (Ion frigate, assault frigate)

Great Vid! Love this ship even though it didn't get much screen time. Few extra notes I found in my research, most likely Non-Canon. 1. The EA had actually developed a gravity control system on their own. This system was only able to generate 1/3 G. This was significant because the Warlock was designed with artificial gravity, so when EA was given the advanced Minbari AG system it was able integrate it more easily. 2.A lot of tech received or stolen by the EA from the Shadows was intended for the Warlock. President Clark had wanted these ships fielded during the EA civil war to counter the White Stars. The EA engineers couldn't finish the Warlocks in time, so the systems were tacked on to some Omega class destroyers. This tech was later given back to the IA when earth joined the IA. Even though some rouge elements in the EA kept Shadow tech research.

I have a personal connection to the Warlock Class Destroyer. The Agent of Gaming first released the Warlock for their game Babylon 5 Wars, it was covered with Mass Drivers. I sent an email to them about the use of "retro weapons" and though that the Pulse/Laser array would make more sense for the ship. A few days later they released a design for the Warlock-B with Pulse/Laser arrays. :-)

Nice background music, well chosen.. FYI: Main Theme from Supreme Commander, composer: Jeremy Soule

Awesome work! Always psyched for B5 content, too.

The Warlock Class warship is one of my favorites from Babylon 5 and Crusade series.

I always enjoy the B5 stuff!

Excellent choice of music. Now I want to go fire up Supreme Commander to hear more of it.

FINALLY! Today is amazing!

The warlock should have been the ship in crusade. The one they used was so uninspired.

Perhaps the main Minbari Staple cruiser, The Sharlin class, for another video? As well as perhaps the K'tinga and Valdore classes, respective to (Star Trek) the Klingon Empire and Romulan Star empire?

6th Sept 2022 - JMS announces a project involving the surviving original cast members, that has already been filmed and is in post production. This is in addition to the 'reboot' that is *apparently* still underway.

I absolutely LOVE the Warlock. In B5, it's the ultimate in "FUCK YOU, XENOS!" from the genius Human shipbuilders.

Everything time I see this ship comes up in a video, I can help but laugh at the thought that there is most likely a EAS Ron Weasley

Love your work as always. I swear the music is from Supreme Commander

I still love the look of the Omegas (one of my all time fav sci fi ship designs) a bit more, these were still pretty awesome looking craft

This is one of my favorite capital ships ever

That's one badass ship

I always liked the Warlock. Looks so bad-ass.

Saw the title and thought: ‘Gunna be a damned short video’ xD

Global Orbital Defense (G.O.D.) cannons... made to protect entire worlds. These madmen put two on a ship, forward facing! The amount of concentrated firepower is hard to put into words.

Wow I’m surprised no one made the correction. The god cannons are commonly misrepresented as those two small particle cannons as shown in this video. This is a mistake. Those cannons are no different than the cannons found at the aft of the omega glass. The actual GoD cannons can be seen on either side of the ship, above the plasma mortars, inside the lattice structure. It ends with a antenna dish structure. That’s the focusing dish. The particle beams can be slightly moved during firing. Only slightly. But that’s how big and long those god cannons really are. You made an oops Spacedock !

15 meters of armor. Wow.

Thank you so much for this. This is amazing.

I especially like how it looks kinda like a shark.

I wish I couldn't see this and it's gonna show kick in some butt

I thought that the Warlock did retain ion-engines (which, when combined with the Minbari/Centauri etc. inspired gravitic drive system gave that behemoth acceleration previously unknown to EA ships)? Not to mention that a lot of the tech had already been recovered (the IA just helped iron out the kinks!), like the artificial gravity system (they weren't able to produce Earth standard - 1G - but it did work before the IA showed up...I mean Clark intended these to beat almost anything in space and an AG-System for long deployments is almost required for a ship like that!)

I thought the Warlock class was a much earlier class of ship One that include shadow tech

The ISA victory class should have been more like this, but with the vorlon and minbari tech.

Strange that this class wasn't seen in the TV movie "Call to Arms" at least I don't remember seeing one. And it was mentioned in the season 4 (I think) finale that Ivanova got command of one.

I love these kind of videos.

Would love to see a fight between this and a Sovereign-Class Reaper from Mass Effect.

Legend of Galactic Heroes ship! Please do even just ONE!

1 person Was on an Omega X.

Thank you for another B5 ship vid! Have you seen the new "Lost in Space" on Netflix? It has mixed reviews (I, personally, enjoyed it). The Jupiter series spacecraft, though, are really amazing (with DYNAMITE set design) and I hope that you can do a short or just a quick vid on your thoughts about them.

Read somewhere that the Warlock can go toe-to-toe with a Sharlin. But there are only 50 or so of them in the Fleet (confirmed in Crusade), so it’ll be a while before they replace all the Omegas.

Should do more fleet battle analysis.

I think it came armed with the same anti ship nuclear missiles the aegis platforms were equipped with as well.

My small outer reaches trading company would like to procure 200 of these units for... um.... Piracy purposes... I meant ANTI PIRACY purposes!

15m deep deck armour? That's insane. That's deeper than most houses in my home city.

I haven't seen the series in years. I have to rewatch it, I don't remember this BATTLESHIP

i would would have loved to see this on a show

Still hoping for the White Star from B5, but a great video none the less.

I would like to see a video on the hammerhead cruiser line from star wars the old republic era.

did you know that JMS gave information to the tabletop game and there was included a nemesis class destroyer for Earth Force it's controversial but it's worth looking into it is JMS design. I would love to see a breakdown from you

You should add starcraft ships to your list too. I would like to see them on this page

Эх. Вавилон, вавилон. Не хватает сериальчика. Очтается с грустью вспоминать былое. Но спасибо.

That's a fucking Halo 3 assault rifle I swear to god

Concordia from Wing Commander please.

I would have liked to see this badazz design with the shadow hull. Like the Destroyer class had.

B5 avoided the Humanity Is Superior trope for so long, only for the EA to magically get all that new tech at the end and arguably field better warships than the much older and more advanced Minbari. You would think that the events of the Shadow War would teach the Minbari to be a bit less trusting but no, they gave us all this tech and essentially got nothing in return.

Anyone else think the Warlock bears a resemblance to the Conestoga Frigate from Aliens?

The ship we all love but hardly saw lol

JMS said the Warlock has Shadow Tech

If only Babylon 5: Crusade wasn't cancelled as a series? Or had Legend Of The Rangers been given a series and been picked up, we would've then seen the Earth Alliance Warlock Class Destroyers in action! As a helpful ally ship or as an antagonist even (in hunting down the Excalibur in Crusade had it continued?).

some Stark trek fansboy should watch that, they always complian that Babylon ship are weak, cause they have laser guns;P lol and Shields in ST can easy to take any laser....they always forget that most weapons on Babylon 5 ships are heavy ion cannons, plasme pulse guns and plasma techology is known in ST universe as Fusion beams cannons - create by Hydrans, that weapons are large stronger than phasers.....

now, its been a while, and we could do with a breakdown of the Narn G'Quan class... just saying

Good review!

Nice ride

I love Babylon 5

How does this compare to the Earth Alliance Nemesis Destroy Class? Would love to see a side by side comparison of all Earth Destroyer classes.

Awesome, thank you