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   From: paul@harper.net   
      
   On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 12:54:42 -0500, Squibnick@webtv.net (Oberlin Astra   
   Muselix) wrote:   
      
   >Lorien and the dung hill beetles.   
   >   
   >Group: alt.tv.babylon-5 Date: Wed, Nov 2, 2005, 2:45pm From:   
   >Squibnick@webtv.net (The Keggling Gnome)   
   >IF Lorien was the oldest living creature in the galaxy, then he   
   >remembers when the shadows and vorlons were simple beings. the shadows   
   >were supposed to be old. REAL old, So they must have been some of the   
   >first creatures to evolve in the galaxy. was zhadum their original   
   >homeworld? was it loriens? Lorien had them all beat, age wise. Did he   
   >stand on the shadows homeworld untold billions of years ago, watching   
   >the bugs that would evolve into the shadows scuttling instinctively   
   >along, maybe the equivalent of dung hill beetles? No worse than saying   
   >that human life evolved from primordial ooze. Did they find intelligent   
   >cephalopods in an ancient ocean that would one day be the vorlons? So   
   >many questions unanswered. In "thirdspace" it was intimated that many   
   >vorlon "mistakes" still presented a danger to the younger races. What of   
   >old shadow "mistakes" that went awry? Who knows what dangers lay hidden   
   >in the galaxies nether reaches waiting for unwitting younger sentient   
   >races to unleash? Lots and LOTS of fodder for stories. Thank you, JMS!   
      
   Agreed absolutely. Now if JMS would only do a series on punctuation,   
   capitalisation and spelling, think how much better off we'd all be   
   *then*!   
      
   Paul.   
      
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