CHAPTER THREE The Great Wars

As Delenn sat down with Bri, Bri is worried that this may be a prelude that Delenn may injure him, but Delenn just looked at Bri in her keen way straightened out her robes and began the long story of the legionary battle of light, darkness, and shadows. Now Bri you see the wars of the worlds began in the year 1261. Most of the younger races were present including your race the Humans, but were not that advanced to build spacecrafts. Even the Narn Regime was not really as advanced as the Centauri Republic, but was enough advanced to get the attention of the Shadows in the year 1261. You see the war actually began to escalate in 1261, but actually began four years previous to 1261. In 1258 the Shadows planned to strike back against the Vorlons and the other first ones to make a harsh point that chaos always promotes evolution. Now the Minbari who had just mastered organic technology were somewhat allies of the Vorlon Empire and it was the Vorlon Empire who knew that Agents of Chaos were awaken, but this never means that there will be war, there is only war if the Eye is awaken."

Bri looks at Delenn confused, "What is the Eye, is it Asron?"

Delenn chuckles, "Oh no, the organic ring that Asron trapped himself in is trapped in the shadows of his once powerful planet K'ha'dum. No we named it the Eye because it actually looks like an Eye of a Shadow."

Bri shakes his head, "I am sorry Delenn, but I have never viewed these Shadow's so I can't visualize what you're saying."

Delenn stares at the picture ahead of her wondering how to explain the Shadow's to Bri. "Well I have only seen the Shadows twice, but viewed on the Eye once to really fear its presents. The Shadow's are like an insect, like a hybrid of spider and praying mantis—species common to Earth. It has six legs, and two arms with five fingers. It is a blackish purple creature that can filter into shadows. Its language is one of the things that can make a biological creature shriek with terror."

Bri smiles, "What does it sound like?"

Delenn still looking at the picture, "It is like a metal screeching sound. The last most noticeable characteristic that I believe can put nightmares in your mind is the eye's all 24 of them. Like 24 little fires that can draw you to psycho-like behavior. This is what the Eye looks like. The Eye in general is very powerful and when Lyta, Susan, and I went to Z'ha'dum we encountered the Eye. It was huge and it burned like fire. Yellow like thousands of suns burning at once."

Bri turns to look at the picture, but can't see what it has to do with the Eye. "So how did you survive?"

Delenn looks back to Bri, who is still staring at the picture. "Lennier programmed the vessel to leave if he does not push a bottom the ship would flee back to hyperspace and in Valen's name we ran into danger."

Delenn sighs due to memory of the encounter. "Are you all right Delenn?"

Delenn looks at Bri, "Yes Bri, it is a stressful moment." There is silence, "Well let's get back to the story. It was the year 1258 and the Shadow's began to ask their question to drive terror and chaos."

Bri looking at the crystal pillars amazed in the beauty, "What is the question?"

"What do you want?"

Bri looks at Delenn, he has a slightly amused and annoyed look on his face. "That is a rhetorical question!"

Delenn nods, "There are other questions and statements that the Shadow's base their campaign, which are: What do you desire? What you need? And the planet has the answers, which are, All you desire, all that you want and the other states that Every light carries a Shadow."

Bri thinks for a second,"So are you saying that we are part Shadow?"

Delenn shakes her head quickly. "Oh no, it is a psychological confusion to make you question yourself. No one is immune to the question—as you even seen!"

Bri looks at the floor and speaks in a slow tone. "Wow, they are radical!"

Delenn nods again, "I suppose, now where was I—oh yes the spreading of chaos. It was now 1259 and it was only three years till the Great War would reach its climax. The Shadow's have convinced the Centauri to wage war against all of its neighbors, but the Centauri were reluctant to wage war—they had what they wanted—power. So in 1260 the Shadow's laid off on their campaign and sent out spies to watch the younger races, middle race, and the other first ones. We had a name for them—Shadowwatchers. By 1261 the silence was broken when the Shadow's rushed into terrorist events striking at planets destroying usually a fleet or a city and vanished out again. They did this pattern till 1261. We tried to figure out the strategy to their battle, but when we were done reading the charts there was no pattern—it was just simple chaotic striking. When the Minbari joined the First Ones we set up a base of operations against the Shadow's, but when it went operational the Shadow's came in and destroyed the base. As they waged war against the major races like the Vorlon's, Walker's, Centauri, and Minbari they made a devastating strike against the Narn's. They killed every Narn telepath and with the death of millions came the Narn reformation under their new leader called G'quan. As the war spread out they focused now on the Walker's of Sigma 957, and destroyed almost 95 of their race, the ones that fled away were the only ones to survive."

Bri looks confused and tries to catch up. "Sorry to interrupt you Delenn, but where is Sigma 957?"

"Sigma 957 is located near neutral space, but is actually under the jurisdictions of the Narn Regime."

Bri nods in understanding, "Oh, go on."

Delenn takes a deep breath then begins once again. "Well as I was saying the Walker's were defeated badly and the Shadow's had actually taken control of the planet and the Eye made its base on the planet. When 1262 came around we were close to surrendering and sent out missionaries to the unmapped sectors under 20, which included Sector 14 and a planet in the system Sol—Earth, but our fleets never made it that far for we discovered a new base in Sector 14. When our warriors found the station two Vorlon vessels also met it. When they got on the station, they were met by Zathrus who took them to Valen" —Delenn sees that Bri is lost— "understand, after the Minbari searched for his name they could not find his family or caste ties, so rumors began that Valen was Minbari not born of Minbari. After he gave the Minbari Babylon 4 he trained the Warrior caste to fight ancients."

Bri looks up at Delenn, "Ancients?"

"The Shadow's."

Bri does not know what to say, this story is confusing him. "Oh!"

Delenn seems not to notice Bri's irony, "He told about their ships how they fired and flew because Valen has fought once in the future against these Shadow's."

Bri looks up again, how can someone fight an enemy if their was no Great War to wage battle in the first place? "I don't quite understand?"

Delenn takes another deep breath, all these questions are making Delenn lose her place in the story. "Well Bri, it's a complicated matter to comprehend. You see the soul never dies—it's reborn in a new form, or maybe the same—it only depends on how you influenced it. Valen is also known to be Jeffery Sinclair, a once fighter pilot and Commander of Babylon 5." Delenn gets up to pick up scrolls that are dated back to the Great War. As she sits down by David she opens the scrolls and they are sketches of major turning points and people. "They been translated into English for Humans-strangely, and Minbari in subtype."

As Bri reads the captions in English, he glances to the Minbari and can see bits and pieces of words—sort of like reading a technical book—some of the words you just can't read. As Bri looks at the Uniform the Religious Caste member is wearing Bri looks at Delenn, sees not similarity except for color. Delenn looks are Bri, curious if he can read Minbari. "Do you understand the text Bri?"

Bri looks at the text, "Sort of, this Valen character must have used that device to fight Shadow's, but I see no weapons."

Delenn looks at Babylon 4, "There is, but only defense—the true weapons are we."

Bri looks at the black cloaked individuals, "What is up with the dark 10 Nazgul?"

Delenn looks confused at Bri, "Nazgul?" Bri points at the picture, "Oh, that is the Grey Council." David senses hesitant in Delenn's voice—maybe this Grey Council has something to do with Jake and his being here. "The next picture is from a much different prospective David—of the Warrior Caste." Delenn further opens the paper to expose the next series of photos.

As Bri now viewed the Warrior captions he noticed that it was filled with determination to win the was, but what was interesting to Bri were the photos that sort of went with the story of Rashok. They were brutal and showed a lot of ground combat—not much space combat as Bri had first thought. As Delenn looks at Bri she reads one section of the Minbari text.:

(A true warrior never surrendering until the war was over.)

Bri is confused by what Delenn has just said, "What?"

Delenn smiles, "Oh nothing Bri, just reading a piece I somewhat missed." Looking at Bri. "Well you seem occupied with the war scene?"

"Oh no—I am just looking at this one picture" Bri pointing to the middle-right side picture of Valen fighting, "are those human's?"

Delenn looks at them, "well it can't be, human's were never space bearing at this time—maybe Soldiers of Darkness?"

Bri looks up at Delenn, "But I thought you said they were all trapped on K'ha'dum?"

Delenn looks back at that same picture, "Not all, some were still working for only the Shadow's."

Bri looks at the picture before him, "But then why do they look like human's?"

Delenn looks at the picture, "Well myth says that they mirrored our second-self—so if you were to meet one they would look like your next soul—now this scroll actually been used to prove that human's are our second half, it was one reason why my people accepted your people—except the Warrior Caste—well that we have had a good discussion about Warrior Caste lets go on to the story of Valen and Babylon 4." Delenn unrolls more of the scroll to expose a series of more pictures. As Bri read about the terror of losing their base, Bri came to a sense that he could trust what Delenn has been saying, because if he had argued he would have been proven wrong and Bri does not to make stupid commits—mostly to such an aggressive race. one thing Bri did notice about the photo is of the fish-like ships—it is almost like the vessel Delenn had shown to him a while ago, but this one was elongated, but Bri decided this was not important to ask about "Are you finished viewing David?"

"Yes." Delenn rolls the scroll to the next photo.

Delenn looks at the photo, "This was about the fall of the caste system, Religious would not agree with Warrior, and both would not agree with Worker—this lead to civil war during the Great War, so Valen created the Anla-Shok, which means--."

Bri looks at the characters on the paper, "Rangers?"

Delenn is surprised, "That's correct, the language is becoming easier for you to understand." Delenn smiles and looks at the photo. "Now Sinclair, when he was Ambassador to Minbar learned first hand how the caste system worked and knew that they never cooperated."

Bri interrupts Delenn, "I do have one question Delenn?"

Delenn looks up from the picture, "Yes?"

Bri looks at the picture, "I see Valen in these photos—he's the one with the brown robe—right?"

Delenn nods, "Correct."

Bri points out this furry creature, "So who is the other alien that is by his side in two of these scenes?"

Delenn smiles fills her face. "Oh that is Zath'rus. Even to this day we do not know where he came from, all we know is that he is a servant to the Epsilon Grid." Delenn rolls the scroll to the next photos.

Bri looks at Zath'rus. "So this Zath'rus, is it species or its name?"

"Name."

"Okay—that makes sense?" Bri says quietly. "This may sound silly, but did you ever meet Zath'rus?"

Delenn's smile remains, "Yes I have."

Bri digress' off the subject, "And that we are no longer in Earth time and now dead, on this planet is it possible to meet Valen here?"

Delenn looks forward for a while, "Yes—in time Bri—Valen is apart of the Grey Council, you should not align yourself with the Grey Council so early, they may promote you or use you—don't ever forget that—always keep your options open."

Bri looks at Delenn, his reflection is plain, "I was not deciding to joining the Grey Council, I just want to actually meet someone who influence the past and actually talk to them—you know—make associations," Bri sees that Delenn is confused. "If I meet an important person, they may show me down the right road to this—ah—well, new life—I suppose?"

Delenn speaks with a plain complexion. "Supposing only requires knowing."

Bri laughs quietly "I really need to remember that one just incase if Jake really says something clueless." Delenn just looks at Bri; Bri has just reached the point of 'stop talking'. "Well there is nothing wrong about being clueless—well I will take that back, you may on accident slaughter millions of species to actually get a clue."

Delenn looks awkward to an awkward question. "What?"

Bri laughs silently, "Oh—nothing."

Delenn looks at the pictures, "Ready to go on to the next page?"

Bri thinks for a second for something to say. "Well sure." Delenn turns the page to the next photo.

Delenn turns the page and Bri looks at the picture...as confused as the first time. "So what do you think it says Bri?"

Bri looks at the Minbari writing, trying not to cheat by looking at the English translation. "How am I supposed to know?"

Delenn looks at Bri disappointed, "You haven't even looked at the photo."

Bri looks at the photo, when he sees it the station seems to be trashed and up on the top is a three letter word, Bri can't make out the first word, but can read the other two. "It says: something of light."

Delenn smiles, "Well the something is wrong, but the other two words you got right. It reads, Children of Light. After Valen had married a human, they had three children named Deltalenn, Casthmatic, and Delenn."

As Bri looks over the picture he hears the word Delenn at the same time sees a photo that is almost a dead match in facial expressions to the one sitting next to him. As Bri looks up to Delenn, it is now understood why Delenn wanted Bri to see this, to help him understand, but what—that still remained unclear. "Are you saying that you are a Child of Valen—his daughter?"

Delenn sits back in her chair, another strange question from Bri, "Yes, and no. Valen was may father in 1270, and Valen's soul was only half, to unite Human's and Minbari for the next Great War, but it was my mother in 2236 who married my father to have me."

Bri looks at the picture, "So your father in 2236 was Valen, but so was Sinclair?"

Delenn referring to Sinclair, "No, not my father—my mother, your soul can't remain in the same realm as your body. In your mind, you have always been Bri even to now, but now that a transition has been made, this must change."

Bri scratches his head as he sits back in his chair. "This does not make since!"

"Well lets reflect on me as a tool of understanding…I was first born in first Earth, the beginning, as Mir of Delenn, father was Valen I lived most of my life on Minbar. Now to clean up the scale, where you live has no boundary, so it will not affect you soul. After the ending of the Shadow War, I was married to a human after I had to flea Minbar because I looked not whole Minbari. When I died I was then sent to Second Earth, and I was born on Minbar as whole Minbari, but with a hybrid soul. Closer I got to my 30s; my body was degenerating because it could not decide which way to go. My mother who in soul wise carried Valen latter joined the Valenra to prepare for her transition."

Bri looks at Delenn, "Into what?"

Delenn's eyes tell Bri that that was a wrong question. "Not into, it was death." Delenn pauses for a second, then slightly smiles, "Her duties were finish; she had to go to Third Earth, because she needed to marry who was herself."

Bri thinks, "Who...Valen?"

Delenn nods, "She was Valen's wife, and as one they are as the human's call it soul mates. When I entered the Grey Council I was meet by Dukah, who was actually a friend of Valen in first Earth named Rashok."

Bri thinks of the name, "Rashok, but that is the Warrior?"

"Yes, correct—his purpose was to influence me, like a guider—I was indeed lost at the age 18, that is why I said to be weary of the Grey Council until you are certain about your path or you just may have to live your life over again!" Delenn looks at Bri, but Bri does not understand the concept of rebirth. "Well to get back on track, when we were going to Z'ha'dum we ran upon the Human's, and our peoples have never met, but I was able to translate their language, speak it, and know customs, because I was half human, but appeared full Minbari. Does this seem to alert to you about anything you've done in the past hour?"

Bri thinks about the growing ability to speak and read the language. "Are you hinting that I am Minbari?"

Delenn smiles and shakes her head lightly... "David, all Human's are Minbari, all Minbari are human's it only depends on the amount of each species." Delenn thinks to herself again and begins on with her conversation. "Towards the end of the war with Earth, I was to pick one human fighter pilot for interrogation and guess whom I picked?"

Bri can guess one name... "Jeffery Sinclair?"

Delenn nods, "That's correct, the Vorlon's told me to choose the right target, and I listened to the calling of my heart. When we interrogated Sinclair we were disturbed that he held the most religious leaders of all—he did not look much like Valen, but his soul said otherwise. After we released Sinclair it was my job to watch him, and I myself knew a great change was coming. When Babylon 1-3 were sabotaged, they built number four in an unstable location where saboteurs could get stuck. The station was complete, but then after 24 hours being operational it disappeared. So they built Babylon 5 and that is where my soul told I needed to be to defeat the darkness. When Sinclair was to soon be sent to Minbar to begin his prophesy, I was to enter a painful state of suspended animation where I was to be changed into my true form permanently. I can never exit from the body you see for this is my souls ideal form, all I can do now is transgress into a higher being like a Vorlon."

Bri being pessimistic, "Or a Shadow?"

Delenn feels a cool chill go down her spine thinking about that. "Lets hope not Bri." Delenn pauses for a second then continues again with her long story. "Well when I emerged out of the chrysalis, which is a cocoon I was uncertain what I had become—and hoped I was correct, for if I was not what I expected I could have been changed into a full Human and that would defiantly not stand well with my people. Well when I had finally seen myself I was relieved and just like clockwork, Jeffery Sinclair was sent to Minbar, the Earther's president was killed, the Shadow's Eye had awaken and Caption John J. Sheridan had taken over the station. When I first saw him it was like—well peace at heart Bri—hopefully one day you may experience it."

Bri nods, "Hopefully, but as I see it my disease seems to only date me."

Delenn nods her head. "Well as the war began, I had to bring John up to speed about the Shadow's and as we spent more time together we fell in love strangely enough. The Shadow War lasted for nearly four years, but the Shadow influence would last beyond even my child's lifetime. In 2277 I became pregnant with my first son, David Sheridan who appeared as a human till his 16th birthday when he went through Minbari Cresting."

Bri looks at Delenn confused. "Minbari Cresting?"

Delenn actually has to think how to explain this in terms that Bri would understand. "Sort of like puberty, but at least it really is not much physical, but painful. One week of sheer pain, the process is just belligerent!" Delenn pauses, but not for long. "In 2279 I became pregnant again this time with Delenn II. In 2289 my husband died and in 2596 I died of old age. I then awoke in the hill above Yedor on Third Earth, now I am here trying to figure out what to do now. And my history ends with now meeting you."

Bri sits up and the table, Delenn remains laying back against the chair. "But why, here at this point of time?"

"I don't know David—I can't answer those questions—only you can—you see we are made up of stars, we are like little universes trying to figure out how to get home, so we struggle here and there, what is past is also sometime the future. I truly did not understand myself till I was given a scroll of my past life in 1270, thus saw whom I was.

Delenn gets up to get the second scroll—it is very small and not as thick as the Great War scroll. As she opens it, it is Delenn.

"So tell me Bri, what does it say?"

Bri looks at the letters, they are mashed together. "Well if I am going to become Minbari I better learn the language…the series of Minbari numbers to the left of the scroll spell out 1270, and the numbers to the right spell out 2236. The writing on the right says Entil'za Delenn Mir Sheridan—I take the numbers represent your birth date?" Delenn mouth and facial expressions are still as if she just was shocked, "Are you all right Delenn?"

Delenn remains shocked, "Bri, what you just read was ancient Minbari writing, only the ones of the prophecy can recite that writing and you did it very well."

Bri motions Delenn to continue with his hand. "So…you're getting at?"

Delenn goes to almost a whisper "As I said I knew you had Minbari in you, but I imagine you might be like a Grey Council member who influenced Valen, but with what I've seen I would say that you are possibly either a carrier of my son, but he would not know the ancient dialect, so one of the Children of the Light. If you don't want me to tell the Grey Council I will keep this confidential. I don't think it would be logical to say anything at this moment." Bri nods his head.

After Delenn closes the scrolls she puts them back on the counter. As she looks at Bri her mind is filled with wonder, is this the person who was chosen to give half of his soul to create her into a hybrid—she was uncertain. As she thought for a while she remembered she had not finished the rest of the story, she had just skimmed over the Shadow War. So as Delenn walks back to sit near Bri she begins the long story about the Babylon Project. "I am sorry Bri if I had made you feel uncomfortable!"

Bri still is uncertain what the reading the ancient text has to do with Delenn's freakiness. "That's all right—I am sure that the truth would have to come out sometime."

"I suppose—do you wish to continue on about the Great Wars?"

Bri sits back in his chair to get comfortable, "Well you have my attention so go on."

"Well the Shadow War actually did not begin till 2259, but the end of the Minbari/Earth War brought change to all the races. It was named Babylon 5 when it went operational in 2258 all the ambassadors of all the league worlds were present on Babylon 5, from the Earth Federation was the Line leader Jeffery Sinclair, from the Centauri Republic was Londo Mollari, from the Narn Regime was G'kar, from the Vorlon Empire was Kosh Nanarke, and from the Minbari Federation was I."

Bri's expression shows clarity, "So you served on Babylon 5?"

"Yes, for about nine years till we created the Interstellar Alliance here on Minbar, but to get back to 2258, the Shadow's were all ready awaken by the Earther's and in 2259 Mr. Morden came to Babylon 5 under the influence of the Shadow's. He went to every ambassador except Jeffery Sinclair because Ambassador Kosh blocked Mr. Morden."

"What did he want?"

"Exactly."

Bri does not understand "Exactly what?"

"That was his question—what do you want?"

Bri remembering, "Oh that question." Bri smirks.

"When he got his replies I was also setting up my chrysalis. When the president was coming to visit Babylon 5, but I had all ready asked Kosh if the Shadow's have returned to Z'ha'dum? And he replied yes. So as I was transforming, Commander Jeffery Sinclair was sent to Minbar to learn the Minbari life, Security Chief Michael Garibaldi was shot in the back and the Earth's President was killed. When I was reborn out of the chrysalis I learned that the station was now lead by Caption John J. Sheridan. When I met him in 2259 I knew that he was the one and by the middle of 2259 the Centauri and Narn went to war and the Centauri were lead by an extremely powerful race—the Shadow's. When we lead our forces against the Shadow's we hit them hard, and my husband John asked Kosh Nanarke to call on the Vorlon Empire to strike at the Shadow's, but Kosh knew it would kill him and he was afraid of the darkness. As Kosh complied, the Shadow's lost about twenty vessels in a surprise attack and the Vorlon Empire lost almost eighty vessels, but it was enough to show that the Shadow's could be killed and the non-aligned races joined the fragile alliance. That following night the Shadow's went to Kosh's quarters and killed Kosh and Kosh afraid of dying implanted himself in John."

Bri does not know why an powerful being would not defend himself. "Why did Kosh not fight back?"

"A Vorlon has a 40 chance of defeating one Shadow, but with three or more Shadow's it is impossible to defeat them. In the last days of 2259 something I never expected happening happened—the Shadow's lured Sheridan to Z'ha'dum with his past dead lover Ana Sheridan an thus John went to Z'ha'dum with two nuclear devices to destroy the central city of Z'ha'dum—and it worked. It delayed the war for about a week and would lead to shear chaos. When Sheridan came back to Babylon 5, Michael Garibaldi had disappeared—taken by the Shadow's. When Sheridan aligned the fleets a new Vorlon became ambassador to Babylon 5, his name was Ulkesh Kosh and he was a cruel Vorlon who cared for no one. 20 days after Z'ha'dum was hit hard the Vorlon Empire began destroying entire planets with their planet killers and the size of the vessel scared the younger races. By the following day we saw a device that was much scarier then the Vorlon Planet Killer, it was the Shadow Planet Killer called plainly as a Shadow Cloud because it looks like a giant cloud."

Bri asks a serious question, wondering how clouds can exist in space. "Can you see it?"

"Yes, but it is hard to focus on it. After we used Whitestars to attack Vorlon outpost, we focused on one area—the Corllani System, where we would have both the Shadow's and Vorlon's meet. And that day they finally meet. I myself was scared, we were in the middle of two ancients who were blind to our needs."

Bri wondering what happened to Ulkesh, "But did Ulkesh know?"

Delenn shakes her head. "No, we killed him to protect billions, for if the Vorlon Empire knew they were going to fight the Shadow's and the last First Ones and us they would have killed us!" Bri looks a little surprise, but Delenn does not pay any mind to the fact and continues the rest of the story. "Well after the Vorlon's and Shadow's went straight for one another they both brought their planet killers. We knew how the Vorlon's used theirs, but as for the Shadow's we were not certain, we knew it had missiles, but how many did they need?"

"How many did they have?"

Delenn tries to remember, "I don't know, many I think. When the Shadow's open fire against the Vorlon's they respond, but our worry was the Vorlon Planet Killer, as our fleet tried to stop it—they did not respond—so we began to somehow intercept it, but the Shadow's to our right and the Vorlon's to our left joined together and if anyone entered the middle they would not survive—so John who had seeded the fields with nuclear devices set them all off and that got the attention of both of the races. As our fleets fell in matter of seconds we made the decision to call in the last remaining First Ones and their goal was to destroy the Vorlon Planet Killer and as much of the Shadow Fleet—now I watched our fleets including the First Ones against the Shadow's and we didn't even injured half of their fleet because they were expecting battle. So Lyta tried to open a message to the Vorlon or Shadow Fleet telling them that we needed to talk to them the Vorlon's responded first, John, who was wondering what was wrong with Lyta went to her as she said "You thought we couldn't touch you, you were wrong"at that moment a bluish-white like energy surged over his body and I went to help him, but was stopped by Lorien who told me not to interfere, so I looked to Lyta and her attitude seemed to have changed. As she looked at me she then said in a high pitch, but dry way: "And you, they left for us." At that moment a cold purplish-black energy came over me. It was cold; it felt as if your soul was ripped from your body and taken into a black pit of despair, the last than I remember seeing was Lorien. As my vision was corrected I remember seeing nothing—I stood alone in a black chamber—so cold, and full of knowledge, song, and chaos…it was a place I never as a child wished to be in! As I stood there I heard them in their own language, but in Minbari it did translate and they came to me in the forms of my friends, but as if their darker half. The last person I remembering seeing was myself, it appeared in the same dress attire, but this—ah—Delenn seemed darker, harsher. She was demanding and I did not like the attitude of her. As we got into a heated discussion there was a hand that came through the darkness, it was Lorien who let everyone see the truth of the Shadow's and Vorlon's. As we snapped out of the mind freeze, our ships were down and it was bitterly cold. As I looked outside the space flashed purplish-black—we were in the Shadow Cloud, everyone even the Vorlon Vessels."

Bri jumping to conclusion wondering if that is how Delenn die, "So the Shadow's won?"

Delenn looks at Bri, but does not even move a single bone. "They would have, but they wanted to give us a chance to choose sides. When we refused, the Shadow's said "They will not follow you if you are dead." And they begun to fire missiles at us. but the other ships took the hit for us, first the Drazi then Minbari, but when I remembered the talk I had with the Shadow's the Shadow's were afraid to be alone. So I told them if they killed all of us they would be alone and would have failed to be guardians. As the Shadow's asked if they would be alone Lorien said no and with this understanding the war was over and we were alone, but that is what we thought—after the Drakh Plague and the fall of Centauri Prime came a massive war with the Human's, a group of men formed a group to destroy all technology claiming that if all technology was destroyed the Drakh Plague would end and most of the Human's believed this and began a war to save Earth. As the Earth burned we sent Rangers to rebuild the planet, but a religious extremist group had built a new Earth Gov and began to design vessels to conduct their battles, a space station was built and named Altavice, and one massive vessel was also build named Invincible. They were pushed to transform and to seek out darkness—strangely enough the plan worked." Delenn stops to catch her breath and decides that it is a good time to stop talking about war history. "Well if there is any other history you would like to know?"

Bri shakes his head, "No thanks Delenn; I have enough to ponder on for a while." As Delenn smiles Jake comes back in—in pain of the testing Dr. Franklin had put Jake through. Now it is Bri's turn.