Mimbari- pussies?

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2003-01-27 10:44am

Darth Wong wrote:Cultural relativism only goes so far; there comes a point when something is just so illogical that even a completely fucked-up society wouldn't do it. You don't adopt a fighting posture when you want the other person to think you come in peace.

Mike, you might want to take a look at ancient Japan. Very little there makes sense on first view. Realistically, the average forumite here dropped into a meeting with a 13th century Samurai might well lose his head over a trivial misunderstanding.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-01-27 12:37pm

I'll ask again. WTF are the Minbari?

DocMoriartty · Post by **DocMoriartty** » 2003-01-27 01:24pm

Darth Wong wrote:
Enlightenment wrote:The US isn't quite in the same league as Clarke's bunch just quite yet. If Shrubby cancels the 2004 elections, takes formal control over the media, or orders the security forces to shoot protestors, then he's on par with Clarke. Until then, however, Shrubby is just an idiot who stole an election and developed delusions of grandure.
No, but as I said, that's who they're supposed to represent. Don't you think that JMS was trying to make a point about the US with his portrayal of the EA?
Nor within western civilization do I see any nation peer to the Centauri 'republic,' an absolute monarchy that makes a habit out openly practicing slavery. Indeed, there is a distinct lack of dictatorships and absolute monarchies in western civilization when compared to the B5 YR.
Actually, at the time the age of western pluralism began, several centuries ago, slavery was widely practiced and absolute monarchies were common.

JMS has been straight out quoted as saying that he based President Clark off of Clinton.

DocMoriartty · Post by **DocMoriartty** » 2003-01-27 01:27pm

fgalkin wrote:
MKSheppard wrote:
Stormbringer wrote: Even in todays navies you fire a blank shot as a sign of respect to another warship and flag.
With special saluting guns that just make lots of noise and smoke,
not with your main armament.
Well, the Minbari targeting sensors were offline, which means that they were not going to fire. The EA would have realized that if they had bothered to check.

The problem, however, was not in the open gunports, but in the fact that Minbari sensors disrupted the jump engines of the Promitheus, which was interpreted as an agressive act by the captain.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Actually the Mimbari sensors were so powerful that the Prometheus could not tell if the Mimbari warship was getting weapon lock or not.

paladin · Post by **paladin** » 2003-01-27 01:36pm

HemlockGrey wrote:I'll ask again. WTF are the Minbari?

http://www.b5tech.com/minbari/minbarixe ... story.html

This link should anwser your questions.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-01-27 03:23pm

paladin wrote:
HemlockGrey wrote:I'll ask again. WTF are the Minbari?
http://www.b5tech.com/minbari/minbarixe ... story.html

This link should anwser your questions.

bah, most of that is pure crap!

A much better site is www.midwinter.com/lurk/

Check that out for all the basics.

Sam Or I · Post by **Sam Or I** » 2003-01-27 06:05pm

When I read the title of the post I thought we were going to be talking about Minbari anatomy. (Do they have bones down there?)

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-01-27 07:38pm

Sam Or I wrote:When I read the title of the post I thought we were going to be talking about Minbari anatomy. (Do they have bones down there?)

No, they don't have bone down there. And presumably they have something similar to the human equipment.