[B5] The Dilgar War
Aug. 1st, 2005 12:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldAlthough it reads as if it was translated badly from the Italian, this Dilgar War history (at the Earth Forces Naval Intelligence site) provides all the canon-compatible backstory on that formative conflict of Earth's that any Babylon 5 fan might want.
The author was quite right to point out that the nova of the Dilgars' home star was very suspicious. Even now, Earth's astronomers would be able to tell well ahead of time if a star was about to go nova. Stable stars likely to produce life do not go nova quickly. While the League of Non-Aligned Worlds would certainly want vengenace against the Dilgar for their atrocities, it isn't at all obvious that the League--and as importantly, the Earth Alliance--would be complicit in the complete extermination of the Dilgar. The Centauri bombardment of Narn was controversial. Had the League and Earth collaborated in permitting the extermination of the Dilgar, Londo surely would have raised this point when the Council condemned the Republic's actions.
I think that the nova of the Dilgar star was a surprise. The responsible parties? The author of that Dilgar War page excludes the Shadows and the Vorlon, but we don't know about the upper limits of their power. Keep in mind that the Vorlon cruiser did happily destroy Jha'dur's courier. Were the Vorlon finishing their job?
The author was quite right to point out that the nova of the Dilgars' home star was very suspicious. Even now, Earth's astronomers would be able to tell well ahead of time if a star was about to go nova. Stable stars likely to produce life do not go nova quickly. While the League of Non-Aligned Worlds would certainly want vengenace against the Dilgar for their atrocities, it isn't at all obvious that the League--and as importantly, the Earth Alliance--would be complicit in the complete extermination of the Dilgar. The Centauri bombardment of Narn was controversial. Had the League and Earth collaborated in permitting the extermination of the Dilgar, Londo surely would have raised this point when the Council condemned the Republic's actions.
I think that the nova of the Dilgar star was a surprise. The responsible parties? The author of that Dilgar War page excludes the Shadows and the Vorlon, but we don't know about the upper limits of their power. Keep in mind that the Vorlon cruiser did happily destroy Jha'dur's courier. Were the Vorlon finishing their job?
