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Centauri and Emperor
At this meeting, Morden informs Londo that Emperor Cartagia has granted the Shadows an island to serve as a hiding place, and as security minister, Londo would be Morden's liaison with the Centauri.
Londo chooses the former, and, after Cartagia is eliminated, Londo, now temporarily the Prime Minister and head of the Centauri, is informed that Morden was actually behind the death of Adira — information that Emperor Cartagia had ordered withheld from Londo.
Mollari receives The Eye, a highly valuable Centauri artifact, from Mr. Reno and is determined to see it returned to the Centauri Emperor.
Londo Mollari brings his three wives, all of whom barely tolerate him, to the station for the purpose of divorcing two of them as part of a special boon granted by the Centauri Emperor.
Despite having health problems which make travel dangerous, the elderly Centauri Emperor decides to visit Babylon 5.
The Emperor knows that he will die soon, and he wishes to meet with Narn Ambassador G ' Kar in neutral territory and offer a public apology on behalf of the Centauri people for their occupation and enslavement of the Narn homeworld.
Centauri Ambassador Londo Mollari and his ally Lord Refa plan to publicly confront the ailing Emperor about the seeming " decline " and weakness of the Centauri Republic.
The Emperor then asks Franklin to tell G ' Kar that he apologizes for all the evil that the Centauri inflicted on the Narn.
Knowing that the Emperor is about to die, Refa urges Mollari to do something dramatic to give their supporters on Centauri Prime an edge over their rivals for control of the government when the Emperor dies.
* The death of Centauri Emperor Turhan allows for his nephew, Emperor Cartagia, a supporter of Londo and Lord Refa, to assume the throne.
* The Centauri Emperor made use of four telepathic companions that serve as a means of communicating with his homeworld.
The prophecy also foreshadows several key events in the future, such as G ' kar having his eye plucked out (" the eye that does not see "), Emperor Londo allowing Sheridan (" the one who is already dead ") and Delenn to escape imprisonment and free Centauri Prime from the Drakh, Londo's death at the hands of G ' kar (" surrender to greatest fear, knowing that it will destroy ") and the ascension of Vir Cotto to the throne.
However, the two men have since become bitter rivals and enemies, and their rivalry has become so troublesome and vindictive that the Centauri Emperor himself has ordered it to end.
Once there, G ' Kar will be captured by soldiers loyal to Londo's House and turned over to the Centauri Emperor, thus winning the Emperor's favor for Londo.
Meanwhile, Londo Mollari discovers that the political climate on Centauri Prime has worsened-the Emperor is mad and has granted the Shadows a base on the planet in exchange for godhood.
* Londo and Vir are scheming to kill Emperor Cartagia, who Londo believes has seriously endangered Centauri Prime by giving land to the Shadows.
* Emperor Cartagia's hair is shorter than that of the other nobles ( as it is customary for Centauri nobles to have big hair to match their big position ).
On Centauri Prime, Londo is awakened and summoned to see the Emperor Cartagia.
In exchange for help overthrowing Emperor Cartagia, Londo has promised G ' Kar that the Centauri will withdraw from Narn after Cartagia is gone.
He uses this to convince the court that his death ( along with the death of Emperor Turhan ) is an omen that the Centauri should leave Narn.

Centauri and receives
Vir receives a message from Centauri Prime in place of Londo, and becomes increasingly distraught over it.
This is the civilization that receives a message from Alpha Centauri, signaling the success of the Kuan-Yins mission.

Centauri and personal
" G ' Kar brings up the fact that the Centauri government itself opposes military action and cautions Mollari against using the council to further personal vendettas.
* The Narn conquest of Ragesh III which included the abuse of his nephew to justify it, his own humiliation in council chambers over the issue and his government's impotent response to the incident establishes a personal motivation for Londo's dream of restoring Centauri dominance.
* The personal hatred between G ' Kar and Mollari almost escalates into violence again, and it tests G ' Kar's moral boundaries when he sends Na ' Toth to steal a Centauri artifact to attempt to force an exchange for the plant.
Vir's second appearance in this season coincided with President Clark of the Earth Alliance declaring Martial Law, and the third wife and ' personal seer ' of the late Centauri Emperor Turhan, Lady Morella, arriving to visit the station.
Two annual awards have traditionally been presented at TSP: The Lone Star Gazer Award ( for personal achievement, accomplishment, and expertise ) and The Omega Centauri Award ( for public awareness and / or promotion of astronomy ).

Centauri and with
The game can be won by destroying all other civilizations, reaching the end of the modern era with the highest score, or by winning the space race by reaching the star system of Alpha Centauri.
The 1999 game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri was also created by Meier and is in the same genre, but with a futuristic / space theme.
Alpha Centauri is not actually a sequel to Civilization, despite beginning with the same event that ends Civilization and Civilization II: a manned spacecraft from Earth arrives in the Alpha Centauri star system.
Gamers that year had a choice between a new game with the Civilization name but no involvement of Sid Meier ; and a " space "- themed civilization game without the name but clearly designed by the same team ( Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ).
In Tonga it is known as Toloa (" duck "); it is depicted as a duck flying south, with one of his wings ( δ Crucis ) wounded because Ongo tangata (" two men ", α and β Centauri ) threw a stone at it.
3 Centauri is a double star with a blue-white hued primary of magnitude 4. 6 and a secondary of magnitude 6. 1.
ω Centauri ( NGC 5139 ), despite being listed as the constellation's " omega " star, is in fact a naked-eye globular cluster, located at a distance of 17, 000 light-years with a diameter of 150 light-years.
Computer game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and its expansion Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire are set on the planet Chiron in the Alpha Centauri system where all indigenous life appears to behave in accordance with the Gaia philosophy.
Brice N. Cassenti, an associate professor with the Department of Engineering and Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, stated “ At least 100 times the total energy output of the entire world would be required for the voyage ( to Alpha Centauri )”.
A few of the brightest globular clusters are visible to the naked eye, with the brightest, Omega Centauri, having been known since antiquity and catalogued as a star before the telescopic age.
It lies near the Pointers ( Alpha and Beta Centauri ), with only Circinus in between.
Lengths with order of magnitude 1e18m: thousand light year radius circle with yellow arrow and 100 light year circle at right with globular cluster Messier 5 within and Carina Nebula in front ; globular cluster Omega Centauri to left of both ; part of the 1400 light year wide Tarantula Nebula fills the background.
* Avatar by ( James Cameron ) In 2154, the RDA Corporation is mining a valuable mineral called unobtanium on Pandora, a lush, Earth-like habitable moon with an atmosphere poisonous to humans in the Alpha Centauri star system.
But starting with their second album, Alpha Centauri, the group has been a trio or occasionally duo of electronic instruments, commonly augmented by guitar from Froese ( or, much later, other musicians as well ), and occasionally also other instruments.
Superscripts are also used to distinguish more distant, physically unrelated, pairs of stars with the same Bayer designation, such as α < sup > 1, 2 </ sup > Capricorni ( separated by 0. 11 °), ξ < sup > 1, 2 </ sup > Centauri ( separated by 0. 66 °), and ξ < sup > 1, 2 </ sup > Sagittarii ( separated by 0. 46 °.
1e16m lengths: Ten light years ( 94. 6 Petameter | Pm ) yellow shell ; Sirius below right ; BL Ceti below left ; Proxima and Alpha Centauri upper right ; light year shell with Comet 1910 A1's orbit inside top right
* Helghan — a planet of Alpha Centauri with a very hostile environment in the Killzone video game series.
It is also known as (, ), referring to Sea and Mountain, an asterism that Eta Carinae forms with s Carinae, λ Centauri and λ Muscae.
The astronaut family of Dr. John Robinson, accompanied by an Air Force pilot and a robot, set out from an overpopulated Earth in the spaceship Jupiter 2 to visit a planet circling the star Alpha Centauri with hopes of colonizing it.
His self-identification with Alpha Centauri results from it being the destination of his first warp voyage and his subsequent founding role in the first colony in the system.
The nearest star to the Sun ( and thus the star with the largest parallax ), Proxima Centauri, has a parallax of 0. 7687 ± 0. 0003 arcsec.

0.252 seconds.