Babylon 5/B5 aliens

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Expert: Byron Pennyworth - 5/6/2004


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One of the minor alien races was one with heavily armored heads. They looked a bit like armadillos. Garibaldi slugged one once and nearly broked his hand. What was the name of the race and is there a photo of one anywhere on the net?

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The armadillo species is the Llort.  In the first, when G'Kar asks for a second to pass a motion which is... dubious at best, it is a lone Llort who raises his finger.  They are packrats, collecting things that have no obvious or utilitarian use.  As for a photo, look for a mirro of the original "Voltayre's encyclopedia xenobiologica"  They might have one.

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Byron Pennyworth

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I have extensive knowledge in the area of the central five seasons, and I am also proficent in all other canon materials (save the 'Legend of the Rangers' pilot/made-for-tv-movie).

Experience

I have seen the 'Babylon 5 Experience' (the pilot, all 5 seasons, the made-for-tv-movies, Crusade, and The Lost Tales [discounting 'LotR', as above]) so many times I have lost count, though I may be in double digits. I have read all three book trilogies (Psi-Corps, Technomage, Centauri) multiple times, the novel "The Shadow Within" and the novel 'To Dream in the City of Sorrows' twice. I have read the first of the three comic-book storylines multiple times, as well as "In Valen's Name". When I was a kid I had The Lurker's Guide & Voltayre's Encyclopedia Xenobiologica websites printed out and put in large binders and I would read them every night.

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