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How will the Vorlons be done? And will they be like the Shadows ie: GET OUT OF THERE! Or will they help in some battles? And the battle in Interludes and Examinations, wil we get to take part in that.

Also, Shadow Ship freezing is that possible? (They freeze when get hit by beam weapons...)

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(They freeze when get hit by beam weapons...)

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The shadows also freeze if hit by beams, as long as the beam is up.

You see it several times in the show.
For example when the "later to be" alliance fights the first time united against the shadows, a crab is hit by a minbari cruiser with a beam and stops moving.
Just when the minbari is destryed by another battlecrab it moves on.

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As far as I know, that is because a telepath is disrupting the connection between 'crab and CPU.

Of course battlecrab must be stopped same time as the 'crab is being fired upon. This is why it looks like a battlecrab is stopped by a beam.

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I agree with them Fury, on more than one occasion a shadow vessel has seen to be frozen by a strong beam weapon, when its confirmed that no effective telepath activity is present. Case in point, in "Walkabout", the 3 teeps on the Minbari cruiser are holding 3 shadow cruisers from advancing, while the 4th manages to break through. It heads towards the White Star and Lyta reports that she's worn out from their earlier engagement and can't stop or even hinder the 4th ship. As the shadow cruiser closes to optimum firing range, the Narn heavy cruiser G'Tok drops out of hyperspace to its right and opens fire with both forward beams. Both beams make direct contact with the inner hull and it bring the shadow cruiser to a halt. It still appears to be struggling, or wiggling down its centerline, but then the White Star comes about and lets loose on the shadow cruiser. The combined firepower of both ships manage to destroy the shadow cruiser. There are more instances and not all of them can be explained as telepath intervention. On occasion, a beam-weapon hit has not halted a shadow cruiser, but these were glancing blows on their spines. Examples of this include "The Long Twilight Struggle" and "Messages From Earth".

I hope this long winded explanation does the trick.

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I have to agree with Trivial Psycho...
I think even Mr.Fury would be stopped if he would be hit by 2 particle beams

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OK, let it be so then.

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I think even Mr.Fury would be stopped if he would be hit by 2 particle beams

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Oh yeah? Thy shall be beaten. Behold the Prophet holds the everlasting secret weapon of the Ancients! Beg slimy mortal for thy cannot resist Vorlon milk and cookies!

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Check the Lurker's Guide for [url=http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/042.html]The Long, Twilight Struggle[/url] - search for lines with "pain". I'm not surprised that, for an organic ship, being on the business end of heavy beams has such an effect as it seemed to have on the show...
In TLTS the narn energy mines weren't enough to deter the battlecrabs, but the one that was hit by several beams and got one of it's spines shot off did become incapacitated, requiring another to assist it when the battle was over. So yeah, it's reasonable to say there's a possibility of incapacitating a battlecrab (a little) with *massive* pounding ("pain"). This mustn't be overused however, or we would be seriously undermining them...

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Oh yeah? Thy shall be beaten. Behold the Prophet holds the everlasting secret weapon of the Ancients! Beg slimy mortal for thy cannot resist Vorlon milk and cookies!

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But what about...




Shadow Milk and Cookies?

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Shadow Milk and Cookies?

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Shadow Milk and Cookies?

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You can't get them anywhere apart from on Z'ha'dum. They tried to market them elsewhere but it fell through cause the brand name was 10,000 letters long and have you ever tried fitting all that on a label?

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I think the TBP veterans know how this one [URL=http://www.volitionwatch.com/vwbb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4380&highlight=vorlon+milk+and+cookies]ends[/URL].

We come full circle, the beginning is the end and the end is the beginning.

Anyway, back on topic...

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This is quite futile theory, but anyway I would say that Shadow ships come on halt when it receives a continious beam fire. Usualy ships fires only small bursts of beam, but against shadows its more longer fire than against normal ships.

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Speaking of shadow vessels...
Will they make that cool sound (scream) when they pass by our ship?

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well, seeing as we don't actually have the ability to make sounds come from inside the player's head, I expect the shadows will make that scream sound.

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It would still be a cool sound effect and with the SCP should be no problem to have a sexp to play the .wav file when the Shadow vessel got within a certain range.

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Is there any thought of having the Vorlon Outpost from "Into the Fire" in release 5?

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It would still be a cool sound effect and with the SCP should be no problem to have a sexp to play the .wav file when the Shadow vessel got within a certain range.

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