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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2744222" data-attributes="member: 14159">It was set 20 years after the main run of the series, a lot had changed in that time.1. Humanity now has artificial gravity technology (among other advanced technologies given to it by the Minbari, taking it many centuries ahead technologically) and has had it for most of those 20 years, so Babylon 5 is incredibly obsolete.2. Babylon 5 is outmoded politically and economically, the huge changes to the political landscape make Babylon 5 not the big diplomatic outpost it was built to be after the creation of the Interstellar Alliance, so it doesn't get the huge amount of traffic it used to get.3. The maintenance costs on B5 were always said to be huge to EarthGov, and supporting a very obsolete space station, built a quarter-century ago in a different political and military era, that sees little traffic, while costing a fortune in upkeep isn't exactly bright.4. Babylon 5 isn't mobile, they can't just take it through hyperspace to store it, and leaving it intact but abandoned there is a huge security risk, so scuttling it was the option they chose.5. People sometimes make controversial decisions about the disposition of military hardware when the war is over.  The huge fleet we built for World War II?  Most of it was destroyed at Bikini Atoll in the "Operation Crossroads" H-Bomb tests to see what the effects of nuclear weapons on a fleet at sea would be.  Instead of mothballing or scrapping the largest fleet in our history, we blew it all up in a weapons test.</blockquote>

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