Registered: Mar 2001
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Ok i want to know who named it that cos wasn't the Excalibur the first ship of that class to be produced not the Victory? i'm sure that it was the first(could be wrong)? by the way who did the music to Call to Arms? it was crap!!!! the music in the preview was better!

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Registered: Aug 2000
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It's *suppose* to be the Excalibur Class.. but since the E was destroyed everyone calls it the Victory Class

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Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Finland
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There were two ships, the Victory and the Excalibur, which were built at the same time. So they called it the Victory class.

And the Excalibur hasn't been destroyed as far as I know

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Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Massachusettes U.S.A
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Actually the Victory was destroyed when Cpt Anderson rammed it into the Drak (Shadow)death cloud.The 2 ships were built at the same time.The name Excaliber class probably stuck because the Excaliber was the only one of its kind(it was told that the Drak destroyed the shipyard when they were retreating from Earth.


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Registered: Feb 2001
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I suppose it was named victory class because it was capt Anderson sacrafice that destroyed the death cloud and he was commanding the Victory, a sort of tribute to him and the crew

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Registered: Mar 2001
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Also, Victory class indicates that it will help the ISA win...

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Registered: Jul 2000
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Its the most commonly accepted class name for those ships.

Victory was destroyed. Excalibur survived.

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Registered: Jul 2000
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In response to your second question, Evan Chen did the music for ACTA and the short-lived Crusade series instead of B5's usual Chris Franke.

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Registered: Jul 2000
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I appreciated the music style of Crusade and A Call To Arms. Most of you have no musical appreciation anyways so whatever.

Anyways, Evan Chens music was good...but Christopher Franke's was better. Even Season 1.

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Registered: Aug 2000
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I guess I just got the names reverse on which one was destroyed [someone else had them backwards, said them to me back wards and messed me up... i know the thread is around here somewhere where they said the incorrected one.. and i haven't seen ACTA in about a year so sue me ]

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Registered: Jul 2000
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I'll admit I didn't like the music in ACTA very much (sometimes I got the music mixed up with sound effects in that movie), but the music for the credits for Crusade wasn't bad.

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Registered: Mar 2001
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to me the music didn't fit in with the film, wasn't dramatic enough like in the other films cause when a battle is going on you would expect the music to be dramatic like eps "servered Dreams" & "endgame" where they're figthing earths defense grid, the music gets really intense and thats wot i like with b5, it adds a lot of feeling to the battles. Ok i get the idea for the naming of the Victory class destroyer, but at the end of ACTA Sheridian says that they'll start the destroyer agian but they will probably make a hell of a lot of changes to it, so why not call that one Victory and leave the Excab as it is one of a kind. Thats my opinion.

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Registered: Jul 2000
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I don't think he said anything about making changes. He talked more about the symbolism...the Excalibur would return in the greatest hour of need and so on.

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