Re: \"Aurora\" Starfury?
To answer the original question, most of the stuff made up for the Games is NOT Canon.
JMS was way too busy to go over most of this stuff in the detail that would be necessary.
BTW, the actual Starfury is not really a fighter craft per se. It's a power plant that was originally developed as a sort of "orbital bulldozer" for moving large, massive chunks of construction materials around.
The Fighter configuration takes the standard power plant (ie, the Engines and frame) and straps a Weapons Package to it.
The same engines that can move 10 tons of steel efficiently around a construction site make for a Very responsive spacecraft when moving only a few hundred pounds of pilot and weapons.
Not having to cope with Gravity allows all sorts of interesting uses.
This part IS Canon.
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The fighters are the SA-23E Mitchell-Hyundyne Starfuries, and B5 has four fighter wings, each with approximately 12 fighters.
There are various "weights" of Starfuries, some much more massive and impressive. The ones on B5 are light, fast, not overly complicated, and quick-strike machines. Another kind, which you'll see in the two-parter, has cockpits fore *and* aft, a two-person ship with much heavier shielding and armaments; the "Black Omega" version is made for top speed as an interceptor with advanced stealth components.
Black Omega Starfuries are *hideously* expensive, rather like Stealth Bombers. They have to be carefully maintained, and their existence isn't generally trumpeted. (Like the Aurora, for instance.)
They're not mainly a defensive system, but rather an infiltration unit used on black projects/covert missions. They're not really meant for an operation like B5.
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) type Starfury. Is this canon?