Subj : The Vorlons and the Earth-Minbari War
To   : Rixter
From : Andrew Squires
Date : Mon Aug 11 2025 08:48:26



> If humans were as important to the Vorlon’s plans as the Minbari were, why
> didn’t they step in and stop the Earth-Minbari war before it escalated? A
> few Vorlon ships around Jericho 6 might have dissuaded the Minbari from
> retaliating, given cooler heads time to prevail and learn the truth?

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This was one of the points of discussion in the graphic novel "Valen's name".
Valen's last records in babylon 4 have him telling that he brainstormed this
with Kosh and Ulkesh about whether it could be possible to avoid Earth-Minbari
war, but they all came to same conclusion: if the war isn't allowed to progress
as it did, consequences for the whole timeline could be dangerously
unpredictable.

If Minbari do not survive the penultimate shadow war, then that basically gives
the shadows free hands to move as they see fit. Delenn's estimation were that
they'd emerge three times as big as fleet as they had now.

And that's just for starters. Now that nobody is there among the younger races
to bang the alarm bells, the shadow infiltration with all the younger races can
proceed without a hitch. There's a good chance that entire galaxy would turn
into a war-torn hellscape, where extinction events are daily occurrence.

Andy
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