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Skriven 2006-08-06 23:43:00 av Robert E Starr JR (6243.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Questioning "Beauty i
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On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 23:54:55 -0700, "Vorlonagent"
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>
>"Charlie Edmondson" <edmondson@ieee.org> wrote in message 
>news:44d3d538$1@news.cadence.com...
>> 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.

I thought the cycle was "normally" 10KYr. And the 1000 year "gap" was
because the Shadows moved too soon in this latest 10,000 year cycle
and had to regroup for 1000 years.

-Wendy
                                                                               
                                           
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