Who am I?
I guess you know who I am, or you think you know, because you have heard my name probably many times. After all I am quite celebrity, I am "trigger happy idiot" who gave order to open fire on Minbari Cruiser, killing their beloved leader and starting the Human Minbari War as the result. I am also known as the coward who, when faced with consequences of his actions, committed suicide. I could at least try to do something, to call them, to appease them. They hated us, at that time, they did not wanted to talk to us, but if their leader's killer called them, that could get their attention, they could listen at least for a while, they could stop and perhaps they could accept such offer. We would talk and we would have peace much earlier, and the price would be my head given to Minbari on the silver plate, but the war could be finished without the Battle of Line. I choose otherwise and that is the way my name will be written in all history books and this is how I will be remembered: fool, unfit for command, who obtain his rank and post only due to being married to influential senator's daughter, and finally coward who decided to run away. But that is only part of the story, the other part will remain unknown for all eternity, and no one will ever know that it was I who saved humanity and all known galaxy.
I understand that I have been subject of countless historical debates. That my action were almost vivisected. That I guess no one looked at me with sympathy. That I was the one to blame and all Earth Alliance arrogance was placed on my shoulders. After all we were arrogant. We have just defeated Dilgar and come out victorious as a new galactic superpower. I agree, I was not the best captain, and my promotion was mainly due to my father in law influence not due to my own actions. I had my share of failings like infamous Omega Incident. But I wasn't an idiot, as they say I was. And I cared for an Alliance and every man and woman in green-blue uniform. So when you nest time start another discussion "What if things were different? Was it all necessary? Did 250 thousand human needed to die in order for humanity to understand that galaxy is not great chocolate cake ready for us humans to take, but it is filled with dark and dangerous things?", don't judge me to harshly for I was made a scapegoat. And there is more to say than meet's the eye.
How can I be so sure? How could I know answers to all this questions? Do really you know? Well, if you insist: I know because I have seen it, I lived this scenario through. My name is Michael Jankowski and this is my story.