From: 047575y@acadiau.ca   
      
   Rohan Beckles wrote:   
   > Hello --   
   >   
   > I've just borrowed the first four seasons of B5 (DVD collection) from   
   > a friend and I am enjoying them once again.  I have a question   
   > though:   
   >   
   > In "Revelations", how does G'Kar manage to escape from the Shadow   
   > fighters at Z'ha'dum?  Obviously his squadron formed their own   
   > jumppoint(s) to jump in, but how did he obtain the codes to operate   
   > the local jumpgate in order to jump out?   
   >   
   > Is the Z'ha'dum jumpgate public, and if so, why would this be so?   
   > Surely the Shadows would not want everybody and their uncle poking   
   > around?  Or did they simply use such opportunities for target   
   > practice?   
   >   
   > Also, on an unrelated point, the Explorer-class ship Eratosthenes was   
   > apparently destroyed by the Shadows in sector 913, 24 December 2259.   
   > There was no mention of this in "The Fall Of Night".  In what   
   > publication does this appear?   
   >   
   > Thanks for your help.  Best regards,   
   >   
   >         Rohan Beckles   
   >         rohan.beckles@virgin.net   
      
   Remember that Z'ha'dum has been "dead" for around a thousand years.   
   Conceivably, in that time, a younger race with the ability to build   
   jumpgates arrived in that sector on an exploration mission, and found   
   nothing there; nothing of value, except that the sector was perhaps an   
   ideal transfer point to another system.   
      
   Alternatively, the jumpgate could have been built before the Shadows   
   arrive on Z'ha'dum (recall it was Lorien who told Sheridan that the   
   Shadows come back to Z'ha'dum because they think they're paying homage),   
   and thus the Shadows don't have control over the gate. Destroying the   
   gate wouldn't make sense for them either, since their minions needed to   
   get back and forth from the system.   
      
   As to the Explorer ship, I don't recall hearing anything about that, so   
   I can't help you there.   
      
   Justin   
      
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