Jane (Babylon 5)

"Hello...I want to welcome back our viewers. We've been gone a long time. Over a year since ISN was captured by elite forces sent by President Clark. Over a year since martial law was declared. Many of us and our associates at other networks were imprisoned, interrogated, even killed."

- Jane, returning to work.

Jane was a minor supporting character in the Babylon 5 universe.

She was portrayed by Maggie Egan.

By 2259, Jane was working for ISN as a reporter and anchor, and would regularly be seen reporting from the anchor desk on news of importance - not only to Earth but to the wider galaxy as well.

In 2261 Jane was working the anchor desk after the dictatorial Earth Alliance President Morgan Clark enacted martial law. When the Mars government refused to enact martial law, Clark ordered EarthForce to bomb civilian targets on Mars in response. In the aftermath Jane reported that the bombings would continue until Mars surrendered, and that there had been no word from any of the other colonies.

At that moment her coworker Rick stepped in to announce that Orion VII and Proxima III had broken away from the Earth Alliance in protest over the bombings. He also announced that armed shock troops were coming to nationalize ISN. The last image of Jane before the transmission was cut off was of Jane ducking as the studio came under attack.

Jane was arrested by EarthGov forces afterwards, and imprisoned. During this time she was interrogated, with many of her colleagues at ISN and other networks also facing the same treatment, or being outright killed.

The following year John Sheridan led a successful campaign to remove Clark from power. After Clark committed suicide rather than face arrest and trial, Jane was freed from imprisonment, and she returned to her job at the newly independent ISN. In an emotional broadcast, Jane revealed the treatment she had received since her last broadcast, and explained how Sheridan and individuals dedicated to a free Earth had defeated Clark. She ended that broadcast with a plea for unity - that all humans on both sides remember that they were children of Earth in the coming days.

Jane continued to report on the aftermath of the toppling of Clark's regime, and the extraordinary events that followed. These included the installation of a new Earth Alliance President, the disbanding of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, the formation of the Interstellar Alliance, and the installation of Sheridan as its first President.

She was still working for ISN as late as 2269, when she reported on the aftermath of the Telepath War, and the effects of the Drakh attack on Earth.