In autumn of 2260 Draal created time rift with the Machine to steal Babylon 4 . He said that if Babylon 4 didn't become the replacement of the destroyed headquarters in a war against the Shadows, the Shadows would be to strong to beat. With the help of Zathras, a kind of engineer of the Great Machine, and former Babylon 5 commander Jeffrey Sinclair, Babylon 4 was taken back in time.


All except Jeffrey Sinclair left Babylon 4 before the station finally disappeared. During the travel back in time Sinclair transformed himself into somewhat half Human and half Minbari. He was accompanied by two Vorlons when he arrived back in time . With the new station the alliance finally managed to beat the Shadows.

Meanwhile the Vorlons sent a new ambassador to Babylon 5. His name is also Kosh but he's another kind of personality. While the old Kosh cared about the younger races the new one seemed to be quite uninterested in them.
In late 2260 Capt. Sheridan heard of a plan of the Shadows to attack and destroy a very large fleet of refugee ships. The Shadows have driven them into one sector of space. Sheridan and Delenn organized a very big fleet. All races sent some of the ships that they didn't need.


The great battle against the Shadows
The Shadows now knew that Babylon 5 and Sheridan were the main actors against them. They removed Sheridan's wife, Anna Sheridan, from one of their cruisers and sent her to Babylon 5.

The Shadows wanted to convince Sheridan of their position but Sheridan didn't agreed to that. Before they could kill Sheridan he killed a Shadow and escaped the room. Sheridan got to a huge underground city and was trapped by some Shadows.

He commanded the White-Star to crash down to this city. When the White-Star hit the ground the city was destroyed in a huge explosion caused by two fusion bombs on board the ship.Before this Sheridan jumped into a pit that he saw on the ground.


"It was the end of the Earth year 2260 and the war had paused suddenly and unexpectedly. All around us it was as if the universe were holding its breath, waiting. All of life can be broken down into moments of transition or moments of revelation. This had the feeling of both."
- Citizen G'Kar's closing statement, 2260, "Z'Ha'Dum"