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Shame that...always had a soft spot fer Londo ^
The Babylon 5 connection?
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Shame that...always had a soft spot fer Londo ^
Citizen G'Kar also flies the ED skies. Ivanova too. I think I may have seen Morden once.
Can't copyright names, only characters.
Ivanova. DAYUM.
Londo was a good guy at heart. He was just born with a bad hair doo.
I'd do that one for free 
It's fun finding various sci-fi characters in this game. I once took a hit on Faye Valentine of Cowboy Bebop fame. As in the show, it didn't work out too well for me.
".. one of the pirate lord:"
One of the pirate lords. One of the pirate lords, because there are many, and we are targeting one of the many (it drives me mental this typo is still there). Then again; I found mirrored decals and typos in decal names on FDL a couple days ago, so I don't even really know what to believe any more.
Rip Molari. The question is, which station will become Babylon 5, given the Thargoids (shadows) have returned. And are the Guardians essentially the Vorlons, then?
One of the pirate lords. One of the pirate lords, because there are many, and we are targeting one of the many (it drives me mental this typo is still there). Then again; I found mirrored decals and typos in decal names on FDL a couple days ago, so I don't even really know what to believe any more.
Rip Molari. The question is, which station will become Babylon 5, given the Thargoids (shadows) have returned. And are the Guardians essentially the Vorlons, then?
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Jacque's almost seems fitting.
Except it's literally in the middle of nowhere, doesn't have any meaningful facilities, there are no engineers and it's still as strategically relevant now as it was when it appeared (ie not at all). If you want a Babylon 5, then it needs to be where the action is. Jaques is more Babylon 4, than 5.
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You think so ah?
Londo was a self-righteous prig who didn't care who he stepped on to get what he wanted. And he stepped on a lot of people, used and abused them and discarded them when it suited him. Londo's only regret was that he wasn't as cruel as he would like to think he was. He didn't believe he owed anyone anything.
His Nemesis, G'kar on the other hand, had moral certitude and always looked to the greater good, not the 'good' of the self.
One of G'kar's sayings that I liked was:
"If I take a lamp and shine it toward the wall, a bright spot will appear on the wall. The lamp is our search for truth, for understanding. Too often, we assume that the light on the wall is God, but the light is not the goal of the search, it is the result of the search. The more intense the search, the brighter the light on the wall. The brighter the light on the wall, the greater the sense of revelation upon seeing it. Similarly, someone who does not search – who does not bring a lantern – sees nothing. What we perceive as God is the by-product of our search for God. It may simply be an appreciation of the light… pure and unblemished… not understanding that it comes from us. Sometimes we stand in front of the light and assume that we are the center of the universe – God looks astonishingly like we do – or we turn to look at our shadow and assume that all is darkness. If we allow ourselves to get in the way, we defeat the purpose, which is to use the light of our search to illuminate the wall in all its beauty and in all its flaws; and in so doing, better understand the world around us."
https://respectfulinsolence.com/2009/02/14/the-wit-and-wisdom-of-gkar/
One of the characters from B5 that I thought was more Nobler that he appeared at face value.
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It's the people that make a place.
Disagree. Londo was never an 'evil' character - he was a 'tragic' character.
(Don't reveal if you haven't watched the 5 seasons of B5)
Everything he did, he did out of a genuine desire to "help" the Centauri, as a race & culture. They were a beaten and sad people when we first encounter them.
Londo wanted respect, and to be taken seriously. Both the Centauri, and him himself... his own position was considered a 'joke' by his own people.
The tragedy is that whilst he achieved everything he set out to achieve in terms of power, wealth, 'respect' and so on, his poor choices resulted in the deaths of millions & he wasn't able to stop it after he'd woken the dragon (the Shadows). He lost sight of what is actually important - the people around him. This culminates in him asking Vir to kill him to save Centauri Prime from the Vorlons... a chain of events that he had started.
Londo wanted respect, and to be taken seriously. Both the Centauri, and him himself... his own position was considered a 'joke' by his own people.
The tragedy is that whilst he achieved everything he set out to achieve in terms of power, wealth, 'respect' and so on, his poor choices resulted in the deaths of millions & he wasn't able to stop it after he'd woken the dragon (the Shadows). He lost sight of what is actually important - the people around him. This culminates in him asking Vir to kill him to save Centauri Prime from the Vorlons... a chain of events that he had started.