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Just Another Lurker posted:Even some pirates had jump ships in the show so access may be slowed but never stopped. The raider vessel with jump engines (the battlewagon) was very much the exception ("It cost us every credit we stole over the last 2 years", or words to that effect) and it was blown up in Signs and Portents. It's also (deliberately) unclear quite how hyperspace navigation works - you generally follow beacons to get places, even the Cortez was in trouble when it fell off the beacon - and the beacons are (assumed? stated?) to be part of the jump gate networks.
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SlothfulCobra posted:When Sheridan's friend got lost in hyperspace, it was because his own ship was malfunctioning, not because it was out of range of the network. If that was the case then they wouldn't have had the issue with the Starfuries helping each other find the way back to the beacon. (JMS also specifically called it a narrow-beam signal back on usenet.)
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There were loads of named League ambassadors - Kalika (Abbai), She'lah (Gaim), Vlur/Nhar (Pak'ma'ra), etc. Sadly the best database of obscure character names (Mahasamatman's Babylon 5 CCG website) has been offline for some time and, given it was last updated in about 2002, is likely never coming back
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Jedit posted:Similarly, if Londo hadn't killed Morden then the Vorlons would have destroyed Centauri Prime and Londo with it. Neither of these are good outcomes for him, but he would have avoided the fire. If Londo doesn't take out the Shadow ships, the Shadows and Morden then Centauri Prime wouldn't pay the price for what happened there that day, although it was obviously a High Risk play given that they had no idea that the planet killer would have been called off
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The Chrysalids by John Wyndham (better known for Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos) is about a post-apocalyptic society which has reverted to a kind of puritanism, in which some children develop telepathy. Not very long, worth a read.
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Eighties ZomCom posted:It does make you wonder how Kosh died so quickly to two Shadows, when Sheridan and Co had quite a bit of difficulty killing off new Kosh while the Shadows die quickly to ppg blasts or equivalent. I guess he could have fought back but that might have punctured a hole in the station in the process. Lorien specifically said that the Shadows had an easier time of it because they're also First Ones
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:The trend these days is to "reboot" or "reinterpret" a series by overexplaining every slightly mysterious detail in that series' history. Star Trek is an obvious example with Section 31 but Star Wars has probably fallen victim to it with stuff like the Solo movie. Star Wars fell victim to it before the release of The Phantom Menace, even
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Worker Caste will presumably be along for the ride with Minbari trade vessels, as well as being attached to the diplomatic mission
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The church has been historically one of the biggest landowners, so 3->2 as the series progresses
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Eighties ZomCom posted:Watching Grail now and it's there that Lennier says that there's only two castes, followed by Delenn saying that terrible things happen when they agree on something. So I guess the concept of worker caste wasn't introduced then, which leads to the question of who the orange and grey Minbari are. It wasn't written by JMS, Christy Marx just got something wrong that wasn't caught
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John Wick of Dogs posted:Just got to Sheridan first episode, he's more of a goober then I remember He's deliberately playing up the gooberness
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Eighties ZomCom posted:Isn't everyone in Europe supposedly descended from Charlemagne? Sort of, but it's also much less special than the phrasing makes it suggest. The idea is that if you go back enough generations, then you'll get to a generation where everyone in it is either related to all living humans or has no living relatives. A paper from about 10 years ago claimed that this point for European heritage was about a thousand years ago, and we know that Charlemagne has living descendants, ergo everyone with European heritage is descended from Charlemagne. This is also true for a vast number of others (also I think the leap from "lots of common ancestors even from pairs from very disparate parts of europe in only the last 1000 years" to "only common ancestors in only the last 1000 years" is a bit of a big one that is unsupported by the argument they make. Context: I do population genetics research.). But we don't need to know any of that because the series already gives context - Delenn is referred to as a child of Valen and this is something noteworthy.
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