Soldier of Darkness

The Soldiers of Darkness were a hostile alien species in Babylon 5.

At some point in the distant past they, along with the Drakh, had come into the service of the Shadows. During the Shadow war that had taken place in the 13th century they had served their masters on a number of worlds, including both the Narn and Markab homeworlds. The Narn prophet G'Quan made a drawing of such a Soldier in his book.

During the Earth-Minbari war a group of humans encountered a Soldier of Darkness. This Soldier fed on the humans, killing all but one of them. The sole survivor, a war hero named Amis, had been kept alive to serve as an ongoing source of food by the Soldier. When he was rescued he only weighed 85 pounds. The Soldier stayed attached to Amis for the next several years until it was finally killed in 2259.

Soldiers of Darkness had a number of abilities that made them very useful to their Shadow masters. These included the ability to turn invisible, pass through solid objects, and being highly resistance to PPG fire. However they could still be killed by concentrated PPG fire. It was not clear if they had naturally evolved these abilities or if the Shadows had provided them to the Soldiers.

It is unknown what happened to the Soldiers of Darkness after their masters left the galaxy with the Vorlons and all other first ones in 2261.