But, they are not so much more so as compared to the younger races relative to prehistoric man, for example.Īgain, remember what we learned in the Technomage trilogy. Albeit, they are better and more powerful. Yet, the weapons we see them use aren't that much DIFFERENT from those of the younger races. Afterall, they're millions of years ahead of us. In the B5 universe, I never felt like we saw the full power of the First Ones. Sure, this was speculation by 'young races'. In one B5 episode we heard some characters say that the First Ones, if they noticed us at all, could destroy us as easily as we could squash a slow moving, visible bug on a floor. No doubt, they could do much more, in my opinion. In the Technomage trilogy, we learned what kind of power a technomage, with his/her implants, could yield. The best speculation about the motivation for these 'rules' that I've come across is that unconstrained combat would be way too destructive. We learn from B5 and from the Technomage trilogy that long, long ago, 'rules of engagement' were negotiated between the two, mediated by Lorien. Vorlon low-tech or Shadow low-tech forces, we can speculate. Vorlons or Shadows more powerful militarily? We have no evidence from the story either way. And in a War of Attrition, numbers always wins. My personal opinion would probably be the Shadows because a War between these two would be a War of Attrition. It also didn't seem like the powerful pink laser did much to the Vorlon Cruiser in the earlier mentioned battle before Kosh's death. No one ever came near the Vorlon Homeworld. The arguments against the Shadows consist of the fact that Londo's guards killed Morden's two associates pretty handily in "The Long Night." Sheridan was able to assault and devastate a Shadow city on their homeworld. Furthermore, it seems as though their armada of ships exceeds that of the Vorlons. It is suggested that they are older than the Vorlons, so they could be more technologically advanced. There ships are ran by a singularly concious sentient being, therefore there is no risk of death to a Shadow individual.
If there ships want you destroyed, you are gone. And since dying doesn't happen very often, I wonder how many total Vorlons there were. They need an actual crew complement on their ships. The Shadows were able to kill Kosh (at least mostly). In the episode "Into the Fire", Sheridan takes out their listening post without too much of a hassle. They are extremely powerful telepaths who live pretty damn near forever. They have four and five mile long planet-killers. The Vorlons would be a good choice because in the episode "Interludes and Examinations", we see one Destroyer group take out Shadow force with not too much of a struggle. One of the ages old question in the Babylon universe is which of these ageless, unconquerable races was more powerful.
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