I don't own Babylon 5. I was always interested in what Sheridan thought about how he viewed the name the Minbari called him, 'Starkiller.' And also how pathetic he viewed the Minbari for crying foul when they lost a ship when they were guilty of destroying escape pods.
Please let me know what you think.
Starkiller.
John Sheridan never planned to apologise for his actions in destroying the 'Black Star' during the war, regardless of what the Minbari did. The Minbari had never apologised for the deaths they had caused during the war, why the hell should he?
While he believed that the Earth Alliance should never have sent Jankowski anywhere near the Minbari border in the first place, Sheridan was still horrified by the lengths by which the Minbari had gone through the war. Sheridan had faced them several times, not once did they ever show any kind of adherence to the rules of interstellar war.
The Minbari had been so determined to exterminating humanity they had destroyed ships that no longer had the capacity for fighting back, ships that were trying to surrender before systematically shooting down the escape pods which managed to get out while the Minbari ray beams were methodically carving the ships like a fiery knife cutting through meat. Sheridan would never forget the Fridays of the war; it was when captains, admirals, generals, majors and other commanders circulated the latest casualty lists, displaying those who were believed to be dead, injured or missing.
So many people had died at the hands of the Minbari. Sheridan had lost dozens of his friends, people who had been at the Academy with him before entering into the different Earthforce units. Many of Anna's friends who'd left IPX to help stop the Minbari by using their experience and expertise in space had died as well (he needed to stop thinking of Anna; his wife's disappearance and reported loss on the Rim had taken its toll on him, to say nothing of the guilt about how he hadn't had the time to tell her how much he loved her and how much he missed her. That guilt had been cutting into his heart and soul for too long now), and he recalled the look on her face whenever she was reminded of it.
What sickened Sheridan the most was how the Minbari still refused to see that humanity had lost more than they had.
So they had lost a ship?
Oh, please.
If they went to war expecting no casualties, and yet they cried whenever they took a little bloody nose when a ship was destroyed then maybe they shouldn't be travelling through space at all.
Sheridan actually thought it was pathetic, especially when the Minbari talked about honour and how they made a song and dance about how many warriors had died on the Black Star; did they see humans doing the same thing?
No, not as far as Sheridan knew, the only anger from humans came from those who'd lost friends and family, not some kind of alien honour that humans didn't give a damn about, especially him. He'd had enough contact with them over the decade to see there were Minbari who clearly resented their leader's orders to surrender at the Battle of the Line, and now he'd heard the truth about the reasons, Sheridan found he couldn't blame them although he wondered how the Minbari in all three castes outside of the Grey Council would react; Lennier had made it clear the Minbari people were not ready to cope with that sort of information, and considering what the renegade ship Trigati had tried to do, Sheridan doubted the Minbari people would learn the truth for a long, long time.
Personally, Sheridan doubted the humans have a Minbari soul thing, it seemed too unrealistic for him but truthfully he didn't have any kind of evidence to refute it. But it didn't matter much to the President. Thinking of Clark as the new President made Sheridan wonder what else was going on with Earthforce. Clark had certainly begun making changes, but Sheridan still couldn't work out what was possessing Earthforce to post him at Babylon 5.
As a command posting, the place was a dream, and it was an incredible opportunity for an officer wanting to stretch their diplomatic experience. Sheridan had never wanted the post; he had had his hands full with the Agamemnon and his other posts, but he had followed the status of the Babylon project for a long time, but Sheridan knew his name had reached the top of potential Military Governors of Babylon 5. In any case, Earthforce knew he had experience with other races anyway.
As he walked through the corridors of the station, mentally trying to come down to grips with his new command, Sheridan nodded his head at the Minbari he saw; he wasn't surprised by their frankly childish reactions to his presence, but he was the new Military Governor of Babylon 5, whether they liked it or not, and if they wanted to talk to him about it then he was willing to listen but he wasn't going to give them any of his time otherwise.
God, he only prayed Ambassador Delenn was more reasonable.