Vorlon

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(thing) by erbo (7.5 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 8:52:55

Mysterious, ancient alien race in the Babylon 5 universe. While traveling among other races, they wear "encounter suits" that conceal their true form. When out of their suits, they appear as angelic beings. Their ships employ an advanced, organic technology.

The Vorlons place high value on order, in contrast with the Shadows, which favor chaos.

On B5, the Vorlons are represented by Ambassador Kosh Naranek. The Vorlons also have some ties to the Minbari.

(thing) by KMQ (5.4 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Feb 23 2002 at 19:13:56

In the Babylon 5 the Vorlons are one of two enigmatic secretive elder races, who remained behind to 'guide' the lesser races. They chose to be somewhat visible, and let their influence be known, even if by names of gods, and deities. They were the shepherds, emphasizing order, following the structure of the system.

Their true form, hidden beneath suits, and illusions, was like two conjoined squid, glowing with light, and composed mostly of energy, but with likely some organic roots remaining. They programmed each race they touched however to see them as an angel, a being of light bearing both similarity and difference from them self. Slowly they were revealed to have manipulated the very genetics of the child races they were to guide, even creating telepaths as a weapon against their sister race known only as the Shadows.

They were however in the end no better than their counterpart, just as self assuming, arrogant, domineering, thinking they knew what was best. By some arguments they were better, aiming for peace, and harmony, but when push came to shove they were willing to sacrifice billions of relative innocents to stamp out the opposing point of view.

A Vorlon will ask you, "Who are you?", but never ask a Vorlon, "What do you want?" Yes...the ultimate GTKY node war...see...told you they were both the bad guys. XD

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Kosh Naranek	Shadows	Minbari	Smallest number greater than 0
Vorlon Planetkiller	Angels	Beyond the Rim	Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
Ulkesh Naranek	Lórien	Why strapping buttered toast to a cat's back will not produce infinite power	Babylon 5
GTKY	Dawn of the Third Age of Mankind	Beings of pure energy	You're all fuckin big mouse
Shadow War	Don't panic	Loser	Windows XP
White Star	humanity	Bobbin Threadbare	Tell me of the nature of fear

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