Character
Gideon was chosen to command the Excalibur by Sheridan because he has the qualities required for this type of mission - he is "obstinate, difficult, independent, not prone to following orders from home, not politically astute...but he'll get the job done". He enjoys feeling the wind on his face whenever he is planetside, something that is not possible while on a starship. This is until he finds a spot in the Excalibur's "core tube" transit system where the air pressure of the cars passing simulates the wind. While he is committed to the mission he has been assigned to, he has also been engaged in trying to find out why the Cerberus was destroyed, even going to the lengths of diverting the Excalibur away from its search. Gideon engages in a sometimes flirtatious, sometimes aggressively intimate relationship with Captain Elizabeth Lochley, the commander and military governor of Babylon 5.
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