The Babylon Project
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The Drakh were the servants of the Shadows.

Their home for some time had been the Shadow home planet of Z'ha'dum. After the Shadows left the galaxy with the remainder of the First Ones, Lyta Alexander triggered the planet's self destruct systems, the planet was destroyed. However, there was enough time for an evacuation, which allowed the Drakh to escape.[1]

Soon afterward, the Drakh began to influence the former enemies of the Shadows. They made contact with a member of the Minbari religious caste, to help sway the Minbari Civil War.[2] They had also attached a keeper to Captain Jack, in an attempt to kill the leader of the Martian resistance during the Earth Alliance Civil War. Border raids began to pick up across shipping lanes, which helped John Sheridan forge the beginnings of the Interstellar Alliance.

They also began to influence the Centauri by attaching a Keeper to Regent Virini, allowing them to control his actions.[3][4] The control over the Centauri was in retaliation against the actions the Centauri took when they destroyed the Shadow base on the island of Selini in order to stop the Vorlons from destroying their world.[5]

Over the next year, the Drakh helped build up the Centauri military in secret without even the ministers of the Centaurum knowing about it. When the Interstellar Alliance found out about the purported Centauri attacks, the Narn and Drazi led an assault on Centauri Prime, causing severe damage to the entire planet.[6][4] After this attack, Londo Mollari had a keeper attached to him and was crowned Emperor of the Centauri Republic.[4]

In 2267 the Drakh led an attack on Earth.[7] The new Interstellar Alliance ships Excalibur and IAS Victory were successful in stopping the Shadow planetkiller which the Drakh controlled, but were unable to stop the deadly plague from being released into the atmosphere. Due to the efforts of the Excalibur and others, a cure was found for the plague before all life on Earth was destroyed.

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