FYI, in case you're unfamiliar with Meopotamian geography and history: the Babylonian Empire and modern-day Iraq overlapped by a lot, and there are plenty of ar

FYI, in case you're unfamiliar with Meopotamian geography and history: the Babylonian Empire and modern-day Iraq overlapped by a lot, and there are plenty of artifacts and ruins to be seen around there, at least those that haven't been pulverized and vaporized by millennia of instability and warfare. When Jonah's sent to the city of Nineveh on a mission to urge them to repentance for their sinful ways, that's pretty much Iraq too. So an absurd space gun called Babylon fits right in with the narrative in those parts.