Michael Alfredo Garibaldi
Garibaldi was born on Earth in 2221. His father was Alfredo Garibaldi, a hero of Dilgar War.

Garibaldi spent most of his adult life working in law-enforcement and by 2241 he was working in the security forces of a mining colony on Europa. Most of his co-workers were taking bribes, and eventually the pressure of being one of the few 'good' officers forced Garibaldi to search solace in alcohol. In th end the only thing that kept him sane was his close friend Frank Kemmer. When Kemmer was killed in a bombing, Garibaldi hit bottom. The fact that he was framed for the bombing and that the bomb had originally been meant for him, didn't make things any better.

During the Minbari War Garibaldi served as a GROPO on a distant outpost and didn't thus take part to the Battle of the Line. This didn't mean that he wasn't traumatized by the war - for years afterwards he had nightmares and had to see counselors because of it. The war didn't cure his alcoholism either. After the war he went from one job to another before ending up on Mars where he worked as a shuttle pilot. It was on Mars that he also met both Lise Hampton and Jeff Sinclair. By 2256 Lise and Garibaldi were already contemplating a marriage when Sinclair, now the commander of Babylon 5, suddenly contacted Garibaldi and offered him a job as the chief of security on the station. Lise didn't want to leave her friends and job on Mars, so the the two broke up and Garibaldi headed towards B5.

Two years later, on New Years Eve 2258, Garibaldi was shot in the back by his second-in-command who was trying to hide a conspiracy to kill President Santiago. Garibaldi was seriously wounded and almost died of his injuries. It was only after Doctor Franklin and Captain Sheridan donated their life-energy to him with the mysterious Alien Healing Machine that he came out of the coma. The incident gave Garibaldi a brief identity crisis and for a while he even contemplated suicide. Still, after he saved Commander Ivanova from a group of murderous Drazi, he came to the conclusion that he was the only man on the station who could to handle his job. Even though Sheridan had helped to save Garibaldi's life, the chief didn't quite trust his new commander (Sheridan had replaced Sinclair as the station's commander while Garibaldi was in coma) and even checked his confidential service record. Still, eventually the two became friends.

Later that year Garibaldi found out the truth about Sinclair's re-assignment and became a liaison for the Rangers. He also joined Sheridan and General Hague in their conspiracy to reveal the truth about Santiago's murder. In the middle of all these secrets and conspiracies Garibaldi's love life didn't go well. Talia Winters didn't warm up on his advances and a one night stand with the GROPO Elizabeth 'Dodger' Durman ended before it had even began (Dodger was killed in action soon after, but returned among the living for one night during the Brakiri day of the dead in 2262).

Even though Sheridan and Garibaldi considered each other as friends, their working together wasn't always frictionless. For example, when Sheridan arrested Morden and held him in custody without charging him on anything, Garibaldi resigned, but came back after the Captain came to his senses. Still, despite their occasional differences in opinions, Garibaldi stood by Sheridan's side when Babylon 5 seceded from Earth Alliance in April 2260.

In late 2260, while Sheridan was on Z'ha'dum, the Shadows attacked B5 while and Garibaldi was among the starfury pilots who went out to protect the station. When the Shadows retreated (having learned about Sheridan's strike against their base) he was abducted, turned over to the Psi Corps and brainwashed. The joint efforts of G'Kar, Marcus and Zack led the station personnel to a mysterious ship that self-destruct immediately after surrendering Garibaldi. What they didn't know was that this too was part of the Psi Corps plan.

Garibaldi was now - thanks to Bester's brainwash - even more suspicious and paranoid than before. He remained loyal to Sheridan for a few weeks until just days after the end of the Shadow War when he resigned and set out to pursue a career in finding people and things lost during the war.

The little amity Sheridan and Garibaldi had left vanished for good when Garibaldi gave ISN an interview where he criticised the Captain's nearly god-like behaviour. Sure that Sheridan had finally lost his grip on reality Garibaldi began working for a group that planned to remove Sheridan from power. His first job for this group was to protect their contact who was visiting B5. This contact turned out to be no other than Lise Hampton, who was now married to the Martian billionaire William Edgars. Despite his past with Lise Garibaldi handled his assigment well and Edgars invited him to work on Mars.

On Mars Garibaldi found out the true motives of his new employer. Edgars was planning to enslave the telepaths whom Clark had put into power. In order to remove the Psi Corps from power, Edgars had created an airborne virus that was lethal only to telepaths and would require constant medication (which, of course, would be controlled by Edgars' company). Garibaldi's part in this plan was to calm down Clark by turning Sheridan over to the president. Without any pangs of guilt Garibaldi tracked down Sheridan's father and used the old man as a bait to lure the Captain into a trap. Having proved his loyalty by betraying a friend, Garibaldi was then let in on Edgars' inner circle. He immediately betrayed Edgars by telling everything he knew to the Psi Corps. Having found out all he needed to know about Edgars' plan Bester had no more use for Garibaldi and allowed him to take control of himself again. Realising what he had done, Garibaldi first tried to find Lise and then contact B5 only to realise that he had burned all the bridges - Lise had disappeared and Ivanova had given B5 personnel the order shoot Garibaldi on sight.

Returning to B5 was out of the question, but Garibaldi still wanted to prove his innocence. He contacted the Mars Resistance who trusted him even less than Ivanova and thus had him captured. Resistance leader Teresa Halloran would have killed him immediately (because if Sheridan died, his promise to grant Mars independence would be worthless) had Franklin not been there. Franklin was just as furious as the rest of the resistance, but he gave an old friend the benefit of a doubt. Luckily Lyta Alexander was also on Mars and with a deep scan she was able to prove Garibaldi's innocence. The contacts Garibaldi had had with Edgars and other Clark-sympatisers helped the resistance to free Sheridan and by the time the resistance movements made their last strike against President Clark, Sheridan and Garibaldi were again fighting on the same side.

After the war Garibaldi remained on Mars for a while and with the help of the Rangers rescued Lise from the Martian mafia who had kidnapped her. With Edgars dead, Lise was now a widower and she and Garibaldi got together again. Still, even this couldn't keep Garibaldi off B5 for long. He returned to the station and almost immediately clashed with the new commander. Captain Lochley, who had replaced Sheridan (now the president of the newly-formed Interstellar Alliance), refused to accept Garibaldi, not officially part of B5's command staff, to the station's inner circle. The distrust was mutual as he in return was suspicious of her instant amity with Sheridan despite the fact that she had fought on Clark's side during the Civil War. In the end Lochley had to give in when Sheridan appointed Garibaldi as the head of the covert intelligence department of the Interstellar Alliance.

When Bester arrived to B5 in early 2261 alerted by the problems B5 was having with Byron's telepath colony, Garibaldi took matters into his own hands and tried to kill the Psi Cop. Unfortunately or not, Bester had expected this and had left a mental block in Garibaldi's mind that prevented the man from harming him. Depressed by his inability to revenge Garibaldi began drinking again and his relapse soon started to affect his work. When he was sent to the Drazi homeworld on a mission to recover a possible witness to the attacks on Alliance shipping lines, his drunkenness caused not only the death of the witness, but also the death of an old friend from his times on the Europa colony.

Despite the deterioration in his performance Garibaldi managed to keep his problem a secret even after his trip to the Drazi homeworld. The first one to find out about his drinking was Lise, who during a visit to B5 found a bottle in his kitchen. He persuaded her to keep quiet swearing that he had everything under control. Next one to find out was Zack, but he too gave Garibaldi one last chance and didn't tell Sheridan. The real problems then began when Sheridan, unaware of Garibaldi's problems, put him in charge of communication to the whitestar fleet. Garibaldi was supposed to contact the fleet at the first sign of aggression between the Centauri and the rest of the Alliance so that the whitestars could act as a buffer zone between the two factions. Unfortunately Garibaldi was drunk when the worst happened and was thus unable to alert the fleet. As a result a war broke out between the Alliance and the Centauri. Some time after this incident Sheridan found out about Garibaldi's problems and suspended him from his job.

Losing his job, albeit temporarily, helped Garibaldi to make up his mind about moving permanently to Mars with Lise. The only thing left between him and happiness was then Bester's neural block. In order to get rid of it Garibaldi made a deal with Lyta. In return for removing the block he would create an army of terrorists that she could use against the Psi Corps.

In secret Garibaldi was aiding terrorists, but in public he was the president of Edgars Industries (later Edgars-Garibaldi Industries) which Lise had inherited from her dead husband. Neither one was an easy job. Even before he could leave for Mars, Garibaldi found out that both he and Lise were on the hitlist of an assassin. The assassin was caught, but in the resulting chaos a Narn attempting to kill G'kar accidentally shot Lise. With the help of Lyta and Theresa Halloran (Garibaldi's replacement as the head of covert intelligence) Garibaldi tracked the assassination plot back to Edgars Industries and its board of directors who under Edgars' rule had been involved in many illegal operations. Garibaldi blackmailed the directors to resign by threatening to expose their secrets or even have them killed should something happen to either him or Lise. He then returned to Lise and the two were married with her still in hospital bed.

Leaving B5 didn't mean that Garibaldi had left life in politics behind him for good. He visited B5 on several occasions (and not only to annoy Lochley) and continued to work for Sheridan. He supervised the construction of the new Whitestar prototypes Victory and Excalibur and with Lou Welch and G'kar visited Centauri Prime on a mission to find out whether or not the Centauri were planning to attack the Alliance. His past with Bester and the deal he made with Lyta also continued to haunt him. He helped to arm Lyta's terrorists and in doing so was partially responsible of bringing about the so-called Telepath Crisis. As a reward Lyta removed his neural block and Garibaldi was finally free to revenge on Bester.

After the Telepath Crisis Bester, now a wanted war criminal, went into hiding. Garibaldi spent years following his trail until he finally managed to track the ex-Psi Cop down. He travelled to Paris, where Bester was staying, in person and took part to the manhunt risking his life, but eventually managing to bring his old tormenter down.

Despite all the ups and downs in his life, Garibaldi did finally achieve happiness. Edgars-Garibaldi Industries was succesful as was his marriage to Lise with whom he had a daughter named Mary.