On Sunday, February 24, 2013 12:03:35 AM UTC-5, Andrew Swallow wrote:   
   > On 24/02/2013 00:08, Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:   
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   > > Previously on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, wrrlykam said:   
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   > >> The Shadows wiped out those with Narns the telepath gene a thousand ye=   
   ars before. So they weren't using them at that point. If they used telepath=   
   s in their ships then that would be a massive waste of 'components'. I vagu=   
   ely remember Garibaldi's head and neck areas being checked over after he we=   
   nt missing?   
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   > > Yes.   
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   > >> Clearly Mundanes were the standard Shadow vessel components up to the =   
   developments revealed in Ship of Tears   
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   > > I think what probably happened was in the prior cycle, only the Narn   
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   > > had telepaths of sufficient strength and numbers to be a threat, so it   
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   > > was easier for the Shadows to wipe them out.  Since that war, the   
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   > > Vorlons tinkered with the other races (they may have tinkered with the   
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   > > Narn first, way back then) as part of their weapons program, seeding   
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   > > telepathy in the Humans, Minbari, and others.   
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   > > We know from various places in the show and in the books that the   
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   > > Vorlons did tinker with Humans, and there was evidence once in the 5th   
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   > > season that they were still tinkering with other races at least through   
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   > > the time in the second and third seasons (Lyta's memories while having   
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   > > sex with Byron).   
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   > > This time around, there were too many races with telepaths for the   
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   > > Shadows to wipe them out, so instead they started to try to co-op them   
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   > > instead.   
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   > The other thing the Shadows did was invent the anti-telepath virus.=20   
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   > This would have infected all the human telepaths, remove the antidote=20   
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   > and they die.  The Shadows would have been able to destroy the antidote=   
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   > factories within minutes using their ships.  Bye bye human telepaths.   
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   > A suspicion that I have is that the anti-telepath virus can change=20   
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   > species, in the same way that the Shadow virus used by the Drahk can.=20   
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   > If so within 5 years all the telepaths in the galaxy would have been=20   
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   > infected and killed.  A repeat of what probably happened to the Narn=20   
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   > telepaths.   
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   > Andrew Swallow   
      
   A combination of that and the Narn Telepaths taking higher than average cas=   
   ualties in the war against the Shadows back in the day. They were the front=   
    line fighters and as such would have taken a lot of the casualties, more s=   
   o as the Shadows surely targeted them as priority targets.=20   
      
   The Vorlons got this which was why they played some with modifying Telepath=   
   s from different races.   
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