[Vainzki]

This vid got me silenced for a few minutes...after that I was all over MSN/ICQ telling people to download it

Very nice work!

[Deepblue]

We should probably wait until the TBP team actually releases it...

[Fergus]

Hmm, I have a feeling that of people are going to copy the Station and the assorted background materials for thier own Babylon 5 moments.  But as I have no idea if there were any, I may be talking nonsense.

[starfox]

I'm not TBP Staff memeber, but I'm also Finnish ! There is really suprising number of Finnish people involved in this glorious project.

[Woolie Wool]

Somehow, I think B5 would weigh many billions of tons, not 2.5 million. A Fenris cruiser would probably weigh at least 50 million tons, and it would be like a fly compared to B5.

[pyro-manic]

Originally posted by Woolie Wool
Somehow, I think B5 would weigh many billions of tons, not 2.5 million. A Fenris cruiser would probably weigh at least 50 million tons, and it would be like a fly compared to B5.

Uh, not quite. A Fenris is what, 300m long? Now your average aircraft carrier is almost that size, and weighs (or rathe displaces) 60,000-odd tonnes at most (perhaps not that much?). A Fenris would probably weigh a few times more - armour and whatnot is quite heavy - but 50 million is rather far-fetched. You'd have a hard job just finding 50 million tonnes of steel, let alone making a ship out of it.

I suspect the station would weigh something like a couple of million tonnes - I don't know anything about B5 so I don't know if it's armoured or whatever, but 2.5mt is a lot of metal, so it sounds fairly realistic to me...

[comic]

I tend to agree with Pyro, the station is mostly hollow with only the outer shell spinning at the correct speed to give gravity (see any B5 interior shot) so would weigh a lot less that what meats the eye.

Also Ha y Pyro im back guese who!?

[pyro-manic]

Be off, back-from-the-dead-person. :D Go and look at some SCP stuff...

I should probably play this mod, actually - it's been on my HDD for a while now. Hafta get my project work out of the way and then see what all the fuss is about...

[donlas]

2k d/ls from shareprovider.com

[Xaphod]

Wow.  You guys have done great job on that beast.

[IPAndrews]

... and you haven't seen it with the lights turned on yet.

[Xaphod]

Oooooooooooo

[-Norbert-]

then post a screeny of it with lights on please

[Akalabeth Angel]

Originally posted by Woolie Wool
What were the first and second ages of mankind anyway?

      I think it's in reference to some literary thing, where the first stage is being an infant and dependant upon the parents. The second being where they're under the guidance of their parents, and the third age is when they strike out on their own.

     It's somewhat similar to Lord of the Rings, which uses the same idea. The action in Lord of the Rings takes place in the third age, and in that the kind of old, wise people the elves are leaving and man has to make a world for themselves kind of thing.  (If you notice, when Gandalf is in the library in the first movie reading about the previous war he mentions that it's the second age).

     I'm not quite sure of where it comes from, maybe someone else can lend more insight.

[Stunaep]

Originally said by Sheridan in Into The Fire


     "We are all alone now, just the younger races. We can't blame anyone else from now on. It's a new age, Delenn, a third age."
"Why third?"
"We begun in chaos, too primitive to make our own decisions. Then we were manipulated from outside by forces that thought they knew what was best for us. And now .. now we are finally standing on our own. Lorien was right, it's a great responsibility. This is ours now."

[karajorma]

Sheridan reveals what the 3 ages were at the end of Into the Fire.

In the first age human were primatives unable to make our own choices.

In the second age humans were manipulated by outside forces who had their own agendas

The third age is when humanity is finally standing on it's own two feet.

So you're not too far wrong Akalabeth

[Tain]

Actually, i always thought "the third age of mankind" was a reference to "The Seven Ages of Man", by William Shakespere.

[Stunaep]

So that would make it "The whining schoolboy with his satchel, creeping unwillingly to school", or was it the lover?

[Akalabeth Angel]

One of the two.

[Woolie Wool]

Would the Fourth Age be where mankind starts guiding and ****ing with other races, like the Vorlons and Shadows? And then the Fifth Age could be when mankind goes beyond the Rim to join Lorien and the First Ones.