Registered: Jul 2001
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I 've been scanning these posts...and something odd struck me: Do we even know if all of these names are canononical?

I know that Starfury, Warlock, and Omega are because they were mentioned in the show. But what about Hyperion, Olympus, Nova, Thunderbolt, and Sharlin? I could be wrong (I'm pretty sure I am about Thunderbolt), but I don't recall any of these names being used in the show. I'm particularly concerned about Hyperion and Nova. Hyperion was merely the name of the ship to appeared to secure the EA claim on the great machine of Epsilon 3, I have never heard the class on a whole referred to as Hyperion, usually it was just "Heavy Cruiser". As for Nova, this one perplexes me especially, we've only seen a handful of them and no indications of this being the name. Olympus too is in doubt, these ships are scarcely seen, I didn't even know they existed until two years ago. Now, as I said, these could be wrong and the team (who is doing an excellent job) and community will keep using them, but I'm a stickler for accuracy. Hmmm...come to think of it, where'd we get Primus, Vorchan, Sentri, Frazi, and G'Quan. Theres probably a whole host of ships that have names commonly used in fandom that may be non-canon. *Sigh* my greatest worries are the ones I create for myself, and they matter the least.

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fear not all names are cannon. just do some searching around some official babylon 5 sites.

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yeah, here is a chart from the Official B5 Ship guu Tim Earls

http://www.geocities.com/omar_londo/B5/ea_fleet.jpg

The classes of ships scare me tho, one of us (him or all of the online B5 community) is high.

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Hey the EA Nova is actually called the EA Gunboat

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Yes, "Nova" was made up by a fan, later it became so widely accepted that it is considered as canon name.

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I think Nova was mentioned on JMS's news group and was discussed alot and then it basically became accepted as the name of that ship class. Nots not *exactly* official...but very close. Its alot better than EA Gunboat.

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Originally posted by IceFire
I think Nova was mentioned on JMS's news group and was discussed alot and then it basically became accepted as the name of that ship class. Nots not *exactly* official...but very close. Its alot better than EA Gunboat.

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I agree with that it is a good name.

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OK could anyone recommend a AVI player that actually can play AVI files since my WMP cant play AVI for szhits even though ive tried autoupdates and all that BS....

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Windows Media Player is the best and it sounds like you need codecs

divx and mpeg4 sort out most things

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Note: MediaPlayer will not auto install DivX codecs. You have to find and download them yourself. AVI's take more than one form....and DivX can be one of them.

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well, tell me if I am wrong, but that was one of the first encounters, what if a nova was fitted with an experemental beam to see if it worked better than a plasma cannon, it may have not been completely tested, so they decided to use a field test to see how it went, I mean from what I hear, the EA advances very quickly, so they could have reverse engineered a dilgar beam, and that was the prototype nova, sent into battle for a field test.

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Who knows...in any case, no Particle Beams for the EA right now. When we get a little farther with the MOD and we put that weapon on an Omega and Midwinter, if you want to try the Nova with that weapon, try

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and nothing is as funny as trying to run an avi that was encoded with MP4.3
Hell , took me 1 hour till I could look TombRaider.

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quote:

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Originally posted by IceFire
I think Nova was mentioned on JMS's news group and was discussed alot and then it basically became accepted as the name of that ship class. Nots not *exactly* official...but very close. Its alot better than EA Gunboat.

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I have an I dea why its called nova...it exploded to great efect when a minbari hits it in ITB.KABOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!! Super-Nova, take out SUper and we stick with the NOVA

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