Varje successiv station byggdes för att ersätta den sista;
Det finns en omfattande Q + A på Midwinter-webbplatsen där JMS ger ett antal viktiga fakta om tidigare Babylon-stationer inklusive det faktum att budgetarna för varje station inte passerade till den tidigare stationen hade förstörts. Dessutom rullades material för varje station till nästa;
The EA has owned all of the Babylons; 1-3 were sabotaged early in construction, so it wasn't too much of a loss. They dumped a BIG budget into B4, and when that died, barely passed the budget for #5, skimping all the way. cutting it down to bare bones operating expenses. They will and would never approve a #6.
B1-B4 were located in roughly the same sector, with B4 using some of the materials from 1-3 leftover. B5 was constructed about 3 hours (travelling time in real-space) from the location of B4.
I universum bekräftar Jinxo detta i avsnittet Grail '.
"The day I came to Babylon, we didn't number them at first"
Utanför universum uttalade JMS att serien inte skulle kunna kallas Babylon, Babylon 1, Babylon 2, Babylon 3 eller Babylon 4, eftersom
Remember the song "Babylon," (by, I believe, Donovan?) We did a titles search before we began production, and the title Babylon 1 has been used 4 times, Babylon 2 has been used twice, Babylon 3 appears in a copyrighted song title, and Babylon 4 has also been used (though neither copyrighted nor trademarked, so we've taken that step)