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Just wondering where can I find info concerning the Posiedon, tempest and Triton EA ships? (ie. weapons, # of starfuries carried, # of Crew)

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Just wondering where can I find info concerning the Posiedon, tempest and Triton EA ships? (ie. weapons, # of starfuries carried, # of Crew)

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The Poseidon Supercarrier was developed by the Agents of Gaming for their Stratergy Game B5 Wars, outside the Atlas of the Earth Alliance Wars and My Enemy, My Ally, I have not seen any other books which have information on this ship. I do know the ship is supposed to be 2400 meters in length, holds a complement of 96 Aurora/Thunderbolt/Badgers, has the same laser/pulse system as the Omega Destroyer (though one book says otherwise), has 2 main forward launch bays and 8 additional auxiliary launchers on the sides of the main cobra bays, has approx double the crew of the Omega, and incorporates Minbari influence into its vastly superior command suite.

The Tempest Advanced Cruiser was created by Lars Joreteg. This ship was supposed to be the Warlock-era variant for the Hyperion. I'm not certain if Lars has made detailed descriptions on his website about the Tempest's abilities and technology, I'll get back to you on that one.

The Polaris Dreadnought (aka the EAS Triton) was originally designed by Lars Joreteg and created by Fabio Passaro. Like the Tempest I am uncertain as to how much info there is on that ship by its creators maybe there's something on Fabio's site.

If I can find detailed information on any of the 3 ships I'll post a link to where you can find it.

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Thanks Ghost Rider

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A lot of non-canon ships there (weapons too).

The three mentioned above too.

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those gunboats look fairly decent

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Yeah but tjey are the only ships wich look like EA ships.

And the Moonson looks realy good.

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A lot of non-canon ships there (weapons too).

The three mentioned above too.

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the poseidon is in an advance state in modeling.

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What is non-canon any way. I may sound dumb asking, but hey I've seen it so much I just wanted to know what it means.

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Non-Canon means that it didn't appear in the series or in the movies. Ships are classified into 3 categories: Canon, official and non-canon.

Canon ships appeared in at least one episode of either B5 series or in at least one movie, or like the Cotton Tender was designed to appear in the series but didn't.

Official ships are recognized as part of the true B5 universe by the shows creators even though they didn't make them nor did they appear in the series. The Poseidon, Bin'Tak, Octurion, Troligan, and the rest of the B5 Wars ships fall under this category.

Non-canon ships are usually fan-created designs. Though they aren't considered part of the "real" universe many people do use them in mods as if they were. Prime examples are the Monsoon Gunboat, the Tempest, Polaris, etc.

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Thank Ghost Rider. That helps a bunch.

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Yeah but tjey are the only ships wich look like EA ships.

And the Moonson looks realy good.

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You missed one.
I believe "semi-canon" is used to describe the ships from the defunct sierra game, and others that meet the same points:
official and licensed, but contradictary in some ways to some other official sources which have been officially recognised by JMS...

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Thanks Xaphod_x I see what you mean, I consider the "official" ships as the semi-canon ones. Officially accepted as part of the B5 universe without having been in the series, developed for the series or made by the series' creators.

I do see what you mean about the contradictions though, mainly the design of Dilgar warships from the Sierra sim opposed to the designs used by B5 Wars, both being official or semi-canon.

Still I think we both are talking about the same thing.

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I do get the impression that AOG is more canon than the Sierra sim, because AOG was specifically endorsed by JMS, while the b5 sim was just licenced to warner bros

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