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The Centauri are a humanoid species in the fictional universe of the Babylon 5 television series.
As a species they bear a close physical resemblance to humans including much of their body chemistry, structure and hair but taxonomically differ greatly, especially in the arrangement of internal and reproductive organs. The species is separated into two sexual genders correlating well with the accepted Male and Female aspects. They are warm-blooded and live-bearing. The females nurse the young in similar fashion to humans, showing some parallel to Earth mammals. Cultural norms are for the males to fashion the head hair into large crests from one side to the other - rather like a sideways Mohawk. The size of the crest was originally used to indicate social status, age and wealth but with the decline of the republic are subject more to fashion - one later emperor in particular was known to follow such and consequently displayed a much smaller crest representative of youth. Females are seen mainly to go shaven headed (or sometimes with a "ponytail"). The head crests figure on idols of Centauri deities, even those that display hermaphroditic body features.
They were the first alien species to make open contact with the human race trading technology (including the jumpgate, required for Hyperspace travel) and medical treatments for Earth "Art and trinkets" and the trimmings of decadence.
Their homeworld is Centauri Prime, a small Earth-like planet consisting of two large continents and several smaller islands divided by large oceans of water. The government of the Centauri Republic is, despite it being called a republic, ruled by an Emperor and an assembly of Ministers and heads of various Houses that form the Centaurum. Despite the name, the Centauri are neither from nor associated with the Alpha Centauri star system (within the context of Babylon 5, this inaccurate naming is explained as having resulted from a mistranslation during first contact between humans and the Centauri; however, there are also a number of other stars named Centauri).
Centauri may refer to:
- Any of the stars (or star systems), in the constellation Centaurus, including:
- Alpha Centauri, a binary star including the brightest star of Centaurus
- Beta Centauri, the second brightest star of Centaurus, at a much greater distance to the Sun
- Proxima Centauri, the nearest to the Sun of all stars, and close to Alpha Centauri
- Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, a 1999 computer game
- Centauri Production, a Czech computer games company
- Centauri (Babylon 5), a species, civilization, and related terms, in the US TV series Babylon 5
- Centauri, a character in the US movie The Last Starfighter
Usage examples of "centauri".
Malik the First who united Alpha Centauri Alif Prime and left it to Malik the Second to consolidate the whole Alif system .
It was more than four light-years to Alpha Centauri, but fear made a long string.
She was taken to Alpha Centauri by her husband, an artisan, many years ago.
And when he finally disembarked at Alpha Centauri, he would be separated from everything and everyone he had ever known by a gulf of time.
A trip to Alpha Centauri would take five years of our lives instead of two.
The first load of colonies to Alpha Centauri took ninety years to reach there, and when they landed, they found the children of the second colony ship waiting there to greet them.
Assassin on this ship, he probably has business on Alpha Centauri like everybody else.
Alpha Centauri was still a long way off, and any errors would be multiplied at the destination.
Zarrab, who had been going to join his married daughter on Alpha Centauri and who had a pet bird named Sindbad.
I hear they go for ten times their Solar system value on the Alpha Centauri black market.
Truly the Sultan of Alpha Centauri must be a monarch of overweening ambition, he thought.
The golden dome, of course, represents our main sun, Alpha Centauri Alif.
The night was brilliantthere was no such thing as dark during the six months when Alpha Centauri B remained in the heavens after prime sunsetwith the orange dab outshining a hundred full moons and casting sharp-edged shadows.
In any case, no one here on Alpha Centauri can influence political events unfolding four and three-tenths light-years away.
Alpha Centauri after he was told of the enormity being planned by the Sultan.