CHRONICLES

���Jeffrey David Sinclair was born on May 3, 2218, on Mars, but spent as much of his youth on Earth as on Mars. His mother was a professor of North American Literature (presumably she has died prior to 2257). He has one brother, Malcolm, who lives in Australia. Jeff was a "military brat," having lived in numerous places on both Mars and Earth while growing up, then in "a hundred more locales throughout the solar system" since joining Earth Force. The one place he considered home was the Babylon 5 station.

���The Sinclairs have been fighter pilots all the way back to the Battle of Britain. Jeffrey Sinclair's father fought and died in the Dilgar Wars. After his father's death, Jeff's mother sent him to the Jesuits. He completed three years of high school with them. The husband and wife priests who ran the school, the Raffelli's, were a great influence on this angry young man, not only after his father's death, but after the Earth-Minbari War also. It was they who encouraged him to study the Minbari culture and language, in order to attain forgiveness through understanding and knowledge.

���Sinclair's favorite books are of Tennyson's poems (of which he has most committed to memory), Ulysses in particular, and The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.

���Between 2235 and 2237, Sinclair traveled "around" working construction and odd jobs, trying to "find" himself. He entered Earth Force Academy in 2237. While a plebe, he ran afoul of an upperclassman, John J. Sheridan by name. Sheridan then dedicated the remaining months of his last year at the Academy to making Sinclair's life miserable. When Sheridan graduated and Sinclair was no longer a plebe, Jeff celebrated by getting drunker than he'd ever been before... or since. While at the Academy he also met Catherine Sakai, his "three parts passion two parts teeth," on-again-off-again lover and soul mate. Sinclair went onto become a fighter pilot, and by 2241 had been promoted to Squadron Leader.

���....we know little to nothing of where Sinclair was assigned prior to and during the Earth-Minbari war, except that just prior to the Battle of the Line he again ran into John Sheridan in a transport station. Apparently the passage of the nearly ten years since the Academy, or perhaps the stress of the war and the impending battle with the Minbar kept them from recognizing (or at least acknowledging) one another. They exchanged words, Sinclair passing wisdom beyond his years on to Sheridan, words which would shape the senior man's attitude toward the future: "I do not... cannot ... believe that everything that Humanity has accomplished, that everything we've aspired to, will simply just come to an end. To be obliterated by a superior race, just because they can. There has to be more to them, and more to us, than that"... "we are intended for some great purpose that's coming upon us sooner than we think."

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