babylonfan
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So, with the book series about to be completed, I am hopefull to get a resolution on the story. But, before we get there, how about making up the story ourselfes, and seeing how much of it is true when the books are released.
Just to be on the safe side: spoiler warning for both B5 and Crusade. I suppose everyone on these boards has seen both series multiple times already, but it never hurts to be thorough.
My guess where the story was headed is this:
It is well established that the remnants of the psi-corps would feature quite heavily in Crusade. This is both seen on screen, with seemingly a reference to the corps every other episode, but also and most definately seen of-screen. For instance the unfilmed script Value Judgements featuring Bester. Or in To the ends of earth a half dollar coin floating amongst wreckage of the hybrid shadow fighter, this to me is clearly a call-back to the psi-corps telekinetics experiments referenced in Mind war and one or two other episodes.
We also know that the psi-corps and the Shadows were cooperating. For instance, by sending blips to the shadows in Ship of tears. Clearly they had a long term plan as well: Morden, Earth Dome and a psi-corps agent where discussing strategies in Messages from Earth.
I am thinking that the Drakh virus was not just a virus to kill people.
I think that the virus would have gone strictly after "mundanes", leaving telepaths alone. This would have been done by modifying the virus Edgars Industries was working on in episode The Face of the Enemy.
As payment for the Drakh's services, the corps might have send low level telepaths to them. Who knows, the virus might force mind-bursts on anyone that had the dormant telepath gene. Those low level telepaths would not be incredibly valuable for the corps, but would be very usefull for the Drakh and their leftover Shadow tech.
A lot of people seem to think that blowing up Psi Corps HQ in The well of forever was the conclusion to the telepath war. I am not buying that. For me, it was just a small step towards the real war. The real war I feel would have been the latter seasons of Crusade. I find it hard to believe that JMS would close such an important and interesting storyline in a two minute flashback scene.
So, what do you guys think? What's your headcanon.
Just to be on the safe side: spoiler warning for both B5 and Crusade. I suppose everyone on these boards has seen both series multiple times already, but it never hurts to be thorough.
My guess where the story was headed is this:
It is well established that the remnants of the psi-corps would feature quite heavily in Crusade. This is both seen on screen, with seemingly a reference to the corps every other episode, but also and most definately seen of-screen. For instance the unfilmed script Value Judgements featuring Bester. Or in To the ends of earth a half dollar coin floating amongst wreckage of the hybrid shadow fighter, this to me is clearly a call-back to the psi-corps telekinetics experiments referenced in Mind war and one or two other episodes.
We also know that the psi-corps and the Shadows were cooperating. For instance, by sending blips to the shadows in Ship of tears. Clearly they had a long term plan as well: Morden, Earth Dome and a psi-corps agent where discussing strategies in Messages from Earth.
I am thinking that the Drakh virus was not just a virus to kill people.
I think that the virus would have gone strictly after "mundanes", leaving telepaths alone. This would have been done by modifying the virus Edgars Industries was working on in episode The Face of the Enemy.
As payment for the Drakh's services, the corps might have send low level telepaths to them. Who knows, the virus might force mind-bursts on anyone that had the dormant telepath gene. Those low level telepaths would not be incredibly valuable for the corps, but would be very usefull for the Drakh and their leftover Shadow tech.
A lot of people seem to think that blowing up Psi Corps HQ in The well of forever was the conclusion to the telepath war. I am not buying that. For me, it was just a small step towards the real war. The real war I feel would have been the latter seasons of Crusade. I find it hard to believe that JMS would close such an important and interesting storyline in a two minute flashback scene.
So, what do you guys think? What's your headcanon.
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