"What if" early on in the Earth-Minbari war before we got severley arse whooped. A suicide taks force managed to get to Minbar and nuke a few cities?
"What if" early on in the Earth-Minbari war before we got severley arse whooped. A suicide taks force managed to get to Minbar and nuke a few cities?
"What if" early on in the Earth-Minbari war before we got severley arse whooped. A suicide taks force managed to get to Minbar and nuke a few cities?
How does that change story? Other than, the extermination of humanity being deserved.
B5 wouldn't have been built and the Shadows could be ruling the galaxy. Or B5 could have been built but by a Shadow alliance. B4 wouldn't have been built either so Valen would never had a ride back.
Need more ways?
Third Earth is annihilated so no B1, B2, B3, B4 or B5 resulting in a tear in the fabric of time itself.Not neccesarily. In the Dark Mirror Universe fan-fict. Earth was destroyed, but both Babylon 4 and 5 were build.
My mind has always played along the lines of how the Minbari have acted towards earthers. To start, before, during and partly after the Earth-Minbari War, the Minbari Warrior-caste always considered the humans to be barbaric. It was not until the Battle of the Line that the Religious-Caste via the Grey Council thought otherwise.
With the way the Minbari really pushed back the humans, had the theory off thier shared souls not come into play, the entire fleet would have been wiped out, and Earth would have been quarantined. I say this, because the thought at that time is that we were barbaric, uncivil creatures who were nothing more than leeches upon the universe. It may have been the thought that Minbari would not have thought us ready for the universe, and would have quarantined us with a way to do that.
I'm assuming that the Religious-Caste would have been more opt to a surrender under extreme circumstance. There has to have been some sort of way to allow the earthers to surrender. And say this happened before the Battle of the Line, Sinclair never would have been scanned and started the revelation among the Grey Council.
I'm assuming a lot, and yes it does seem really out of place. But it's a what-if scenario. A surrender in the sacrifice of their non-terrestrial solar systems, and their jump gate maybe not destroyed, but guarded by the Minbari, to ensure they did not leave or something.
This brings in the interest of Narn, Vorlon, and Centauri governments questioning the Minbari. And perhaps the Trigati would attempt to finish the job, and this breaks out into a civil war among religious and warrior castes. Who knows. It's probably too far-fetched.
It is kind of odd that there seemed to be no particular compulsion against targetting civilians during the civil war, which I always thought as odd, since, whilst I can understand the rule of 'Minbari do not kill Minbari' being overturned, altering the entire tactical mandate of the Warrior Caste would have been far more difficult, I would have thought.The Minbari didn't shy away from killing civilians in the EMW. They just went about neutralizing the threats first and finish the helpless ones later. Once they ran out of soldiers they would have started in on the civilians. And in the eyes of the warrior caste everyone whos not a soldier/warrior is a civilian, regardless wether they are armed or not.
I doubt that the Minbari would have ever stopped. Unless they got so tired of exterminating humanity that they left some shell of a species left. But I doubt humanity would have much in the way of society left, let alone any sort of space faring force. Except for whatever they managed to evacuate, assuming it wasn't hunted down and killed like all the other ships.I guess the Vorlons might have interfered more directly if their manipulations failed. After all Kosh told Delenn "The Humans are the key".
The Minbari didn't shy away from killing civilians in the EMW. They just went about neutralizing the threats first and finish the helpless ones later. Once they ran out of soldiers they would have started in on the civilians. And in the eyes of the warrior caste everyone whos not a soldier/warrior is a civilian, regardless wether they are armed or not.
Besides in the EMW they were led by the Grey Council.
...Read the Babylon 5 Parallel Universe at http://www.b5-dark-mirror.demon.co.uk/ for fantastic "What If"...
It was rather interesting to "see" all these familiar faces in completly different roles...Especially Ivanova...:drevil: Cant say any more without giving spoilers
Maybe this could be made into a campaign...
Of course it would mean putting engines on the B5 and giving it more anti-cap and anti fighter weapons...
Actually, I pictured the EAS Babylon in this story being a cross between S3 Babylon 5 and Grand Inquisitor Dask's EAS Tillman Dreadnought (The EA Civil war upgrade of course), which can be found at http://efni.org
precisely the nova X, no?That was my impression too, or at least something pretty close to it.
The one moment of hope came when Captain John Sheridan of the EAS Babylon managed to destroy the Minbari flagship by trickery.But I guess it wasn't so much a diversion form the official storyline but rather a mistake in formulating it.