  "the fall of centauri prime" is an episode from the fifth season of the science fiction television series babylon 5. this is a key episode in the series, as it marks the final downfall and story completion of londo mollari, one of the major characters on the series. ==synopsis== as the episode begins the combined narn and drazi fleets are bombarding centauri prime from space. on the surface explosions and fires rage across the capital city. in the royal palace, prime minister londo manages to get g'kar out of his prison cell, just before the ceiling collapses; g'kar is slightly injured but manages to walk with londo back to a room in the palace. desperate to stop the attack on his home world, londo searches for and finds the regent. he discovers that the regent has been under the secret control of a sinister alien race. the alien race is called the drakh. the drakh were "dark servants" of the ancient shadows, and lived with the shadows on their home world of z'ha'dum. when that world was destroyed, the drakh needed to find a new home world, and they decided to settle on centauri prime. they remembered the centauri home world from the time they spent there under the protection of the psychotic emperor cartagia. the drakh did not want their presence on centauri prime to be discovered and so they live underground, beneath the royal palace and the capital city. shortly after arriving they took control of the regent by placing a creature called a "keeper" on his shoulder; the keeper is telepathically linked to the drakh and can control the regent's mind when it wishes. it also has the ability to stay invisible; thus no one knows that the regent is under their influence. having explained themselves to londo, the drakh then make their demands: they will be allowed to remain on centauri prime, they will remain in covert control of the centauri government, and they will take the centauri republic out of the interstellar alliance. by doing this the centauri will be left alone in the galaxy, with no friends or allies, and thus the drakh will have no one to interfere with them. when londo refuses their demands, they tell him that they have planted nuclear fusion bombs underneath the planet's major cities
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