In addition to its communications and sensing abilities, the Machine features formidable defence systems, including missiles and particle beam weaponry capable of taking out warships in near orbit. Within the Machine's great storehouses of knowledge are the designs for many advanced technologies and the facilities to fabricate them. Among the devices known to have originated from the Great Machine are the Triluminaries, Time stabilizers, the Chrysalis Device and the time-jump system that allowed Babylon 4 to travel 1000 years into the past.