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Skriven 2006-08-05 11:26:00 av Robert E Starr JR (6201.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Questioning "Beauty i
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"Charlie Edmondson" <edmondson@ieee.org> wrote in message 
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> John,
> I think you are looking at this a little sideways.  Remember, the 'Shadow 
> War' was not a hot war between the Shadows and the Vorlons, it was more a 
> cold war between the two, to show which one of them was better.  Just 
> destroying the other one wouldn't get the job done, esp. since they pretty 
> much couldn't, even in the final war.  The goal was to eliminate the 
> 'influence' of the other.

A cold war the flared into a hot war every thousand years.  Remember the 
Shadow War B5 took us through was atypical.  Shadow Wars were typically 
usually first and foremost a First One vs. First One affair with some 
younger races along for the ride.  At least if the previous Shadow War was 
any judge.  I think Delenn has some lines that back that up.  During the 
previous Shadow War, you can't tell me the Vorlon fleet was on the 
sidelines.

Well you can, but I wouldn't believe it.  The Vorlons seemed to me to have 
been the backbone of that war.  Perhaps that's why the Sigma Walkers didn't 
like them.  The Vorlons, perhaps, act all superior because it's they who 
took on the burden of defending the younger races from the Shaows.


> So, while I am not sure that telepaths had been weapons in earlier cycles 
> or not, I suspect that they had been.  After all, there had been millions 
> of years of cycles, at every 10,000 years or so, so I am sure all 
> different types of strategies had been tried.  It would be interesting to 
> know from JMS whether the Shadows had one any of the 'rounds' between 
> them, since we only know that in the prior round, the Vorlons had 'won' 
> and the Shadows retreated.  In times past, the Shadows might have been 
> triumphant, with their races conquering everyone in sight, before everyone 
> backed off, and let things rest of a few millenia...

Actually every thousand years.  The last "big" Shadow War was 10,000 years 
ago.  It stands to reason that the Shadows would eventually go back to sleep 
even after a "victory".  After all they weren't about genocide so much as 
culling the weak.

What made this Shadow War different is that the Vorlons expected the younger 
races to go at it with the Shadows without direct support from the Vorlon 
Fleet.  That meant the Vorlon Fleet was preparing to do something else.  And 
they were preparing to do exactly what they did do...blowing up planets 
whose inhabitants were tainted by the Shadows..I don't think the vorlons 
went mad because of what Sheridan did.  Sheidan just let them go mad sooner 
than planned.


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