Remember "Signs and Portents" from Babylon 5? The point when the series took a left turn and we realized it wasn't going to go as advertised?
JMS has said that Crusade was about to have one of those, except it was canceled. It was indeed going to be a rather separate story, with only a small lead-in. Just like the prior wars were lead-ins for Babylon 5's first season.
Cannot be done in a satisfying way. Babylon 5, after Signs and Portents, threw a curveball and the story went in a very different direction. One thing JMS has said is that Crusade was going to do the same thing - the Drakh plague was not the storyline planned for the full run.
On the Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5, on the episode page for "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part I", there is a quote of something you said:
> I tried to develop a basic language structure for each of the races on B5. There are certain commonalities to the structure of names. I came up with some prefixes and suffixes, and assigned meanings to them, the same as real names. For instance, Rathenn (referred to by Delenn in "Voices") and Delenn have the same suffix, which has a specific meaning. You can break it down; Ner-oon (Legacies), Del-enn, Rath-enn, Der-onn, and so forth. The various parts do have specific meanings, but I generally keep that to myself, just for amusement.
Please, what meaning have you given to those name prefixes and suffixes?
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Remember "Signs and Portents" from Babylon 5? The point when the series took a left turn and we realized it wasn't going to go as advertised?
JMS has said that Crusade was about to have one of those, except it was canceled. It was indeed going to be a rather separate story, with only a small lead-in. Just like the prior wars were lead-ins for Babylon 5's first season.
Cannot be done in a satisfying way. Babylon 5, after Signs and Portents, threw a curveball and the story went in a very different direction. One thing JMS has said is that Crusade was going to do the same thing - the Drakh plague was not the storyline planned for the full run.
On the Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5, on the episode page for "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part I", there is a quote of something you said:
> I tried to develop a basic language structure for each of the races on B5. There are certain commonalities to the structure of names. I came up with some prefixes and suffixes, and assigned meanings to them, the same as real names. For instance, Rathenn (referred to by Delenn in "Voices") and Delenn have the same suffix, which has a specific meaning. You can break it down; Ner-oon (Legacies), Del-enn, Rath-enn, Der-onn, and so forth. The various parts do have specific meanings, but I generally keep that to myself, just for amusement.
Please, what meaning have you given to those name prefixes and suffixes?
(Additionally, I have previously asked this on SciFi.stackexchange.com, and it would be amazing if you could also enlighten us there!)