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About the Blue Star
I only saw the blue star, in the final episode of season5, Sleeping in Light, in the first 10 seconds, when minbar homeword appears . Where u get the information about the ship? How u now that is a fighter? (in that scene seems to have almost to same size of a white star, at least for me ) And the weapons?
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The physical size of the craft can be gauged buy the physical size of the bridge interior, compared to the external shots.  This clearly makes it smaller than a Whitestar.  Also, in "Sleeping In Light", one was able to dock with Babylon 5, something which the Whitestars were too big for.  The model clearly shows a pair of weapons on the front of the engine pylons, so that would indicate that it has some combat capabilities.  Had it been just a transport, they'd probably have given it a defensive turret or something.  As for the nose gun... well, that was my idea.  It seemed that for our purposes, the pulse guns seemed a bit limited in armament, so rather than creating another whole class of beam weapon for the nose, I decided to use the Nial's neutron gun in a cycling set of firepoints.
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Re: About the Blue Star
take a look here, seems to be a little diferent

http://www.b5tech.com/oldb5tech/isa/bluestar/bluestar.html

 

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And if you read the notes 90% of that info is made up or speculation too.  Only fact is it's jump capable. 
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And that it can be piloted by a single person.... but then so can the Whitestar, at least as long as you stay out of combat (Episode Za'ha'dum).

 
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I believe that the blue star is an scout ship. A smaller version of white star, so rangers can use for patrol/spy, because that kind of task usually are for one single ranger, and not and entire crew. Don't seems to be a fighter, is to big, cannot be carry by a whitestar (is logical that and ISA figther, can be carry by the ISA ships, like the white star and the victory class destroyer)
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Why when they are jump capable?
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