From: jarrell@babylon5.cc.vt.edu   
      
   Doug Freyburger  wrote:   
   > Ron Jarrell wrote:   
   >>   
   >> But B4 wasn't destroyed in the first shadow war - it survived,   
   >> derelict, for another thousand years.   
      
   > Is that from one of the books?  Or is it what the vision was about?   
      
   From the Comic series JMS scripted.  The B5 crew gets a distress beacon   
   from B4, and travels there and finds it in a decaying orbit around like   
   the next system over or something like that.  Full of abandoned minbari   
   fighters, with minbari signs and such.  Also find a hitherto unknown race   
   that also heard the beacon and came to came the great religious object,   
   because it was the home of the great valen.  Turns out to be a race   
   from the first war that revered valen, but couldn't get along with anyone   
   else.  Our heroes are saved when the shaman-like leader of the boarding   
   party realizes that the minbari's name is Delenn - the name of the one   
   in the final prophesy of Valenn, who was to be given the sacred message   
   entrusted to the leader of the race a thousand years ago.   
      
   Comic gives you a brief look at Sinclairs life as Valenn, and fills in some   
   details about the war, and answers some questions like "so whatever happened   
   to b4 anyway?"  The answer - it was towed away to a secret spot because it   
   was a reverred artifact, and mostly lost.  Because valen wanted it that way,   
   so that a thousand year old human built space station didn't turn up in   
   known space.  And it was also his only chance a time capsule - something   
   the vorlon's really weren't happy about.   
      
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