Expert: Steve John Perkins - 7/13/2002

Question
1. How did the Shadows kill Kosh, how does something with a physcial body kill an entity made of energy?

2. Can you explain Vorlon anatomy please, it's very confusing?

3. If First Ones are evolved beyond the need of physcial bodies, why did the Shadows not abandon their physcial bodies?

4. I read somewhere that the Vorlons were once a humanoid race not too different from humans of Centauri, is this true?

5. Do Vorlons capture or destroy uninvited guests entering their space?

6. To make it more simple, can you please just give important helpful information of Vorlon/Shadow/First One politics/history/anatomy/religion/etc.  So much information was left out on these races during the show.

Thanx

Answer
1.) shadows are made of pure energy too, the bodys they have are like shells, like an encounter suit they feel its more intimidating. they killed kosh by ripping apart his bits of energy, its writeen up quite well in technomage trilogy. and lyta said they ruipped him apart.

2.) little is known abut vorlon anatomy, except they are beings of pure energy, telepathic and have genetically manipulated every race to perceive them differently. each sees gods from their own legends, but there is no offical info on their anatomy and any info youll find anywhere on that will be lies and unofficial.

3.) as in #1 they are beings of light and dont need physical bodies, but they use them like encounter suits.

4.) this was implied in the show as the humans became the new vorlons, with "new earth" being the vorlon homeworld, as lyta said we couldnt goto vorlon homeworld for a million years and "deconstruction of falling stars" the last episode of season 4 went far ahead in time to when the sun went nova and the human uploaded all archives and became energy, went into an encouinter suit and organic ship and went to new earth, which coincides with the date we can goto vorlon. so that implies the vorlons once were like us, though its not confirmed anywhere.

5.) all sources indicate they mostly destroyed them, except for lyta, and they occasionally abduxcted peopel like jack teh ripper etc. into their service.

6.) anything not in the show is unofficial and therefore useless, not much info is available about the firstones, except they were all aroudn after lorien, had great wars, then most went beyond the rim, shadows and vorlosn remained and fought and there were some left, then they all went away and the younger races struggled to find any for the b5 shadow war, and then they all and lorien went beyond the rim.

sorry i couldnt be more ehelp
steve