First Trilogy Novel 2
From Fantasy Novel
During 2258, Commander Jeffrey Sinclair leads the station. Much of the story revolves around his gradual discovery that it was his capture by the Minbari at the Battle of the Line which ended the war against Earth. Upon capturing Sinclair, the Minbari came to believe that Valen, a great Minbari leader and hero of the last Minbari-Shadow war, had been reincarnated as the Commander. Concluding that others of their species had been, and were being, reborn as humans, and in obedience to the edict that Minbari do not kill one another, they stopped the war just when Earth's final defences were on the verge of collapse. Ambassador Delenn is gradually revealed to be a member of the mysterious and powerful Grey Council, the planetary legislature of the Minbari. Towards the end of 2258, she begins the transformation into a Minbari-human hybrid, ostensibly to build a bridge between the humans and Minbari. The year ends with the assassination of Earth Alliance President Santiago, and with the escalation of tensions between the Narn and Centauri, after a Narn outpost in Quadrant 37 is completely destroyed by an as-yet-unidentified third party.
At the beginning of 2259, Captain John Sheridan replaces Sinclair as the military governor of the station. He and the command staff learn that the death of President Santiago was actually an assassination masterminded by Vice President Clark (who then assumed the Presidency). A conflict develops between the Babylon 5 command staff and the Psi Corps, an increasingly autocratic organization to which all human telepaths must belong. Commander Ivanova, the second in command of the station, is secretly a telepath who has illicitly not joined the Psi Corps. The Shadows, an ancient and extremely powerful race who have recently emerged from hibernation, are revealed to be the cause of a variety of mysterious and disturbing events, including the attack on Quadrant 37 at the end of 2258. Centauri Ambassador Londo Mollari enlists their aid in the ongoing territorial squabbles against the Narn. After full war breaks out, the Centauri eventually conquer Narn in a brutal attack involving mass drivers, outlawed weapons of mass destruction. A power struggle amongst the Centauri ensues after their emperor dies. Towards the end of the year, the Clark administration begins to show increasingly-totalitarian characteristics, clamping down on dissent and restricting freedom of speech. The Vorlons are revealed to be the basis of legends about angels on various worlds, including Earth, and are ancient enemies of the Shadows.
- Some kind of monestary or refuge in the deep heights of the mountains. Model off closing scene in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon when Jen jumped into the mist. An entire society of monks or what have you living in very interesting buildings (probably connected by your typical wooden bridges) above on jagged mountains, with the mist below the buildings, cutting it off from the rest of the world. This will become the "city in the sky" type story I was possibly looking to do.
- Make the characters travel to the island nation that I will be modeling (in the west, north of the landmass - ie a Britain type land) after the celts and druids specifically. Use the druid festival of Samhain (celebrated in a Halloween time of year) as a model. These people will be celebrating the end of harvest and the lowering of the barrier between the world of the living and that of the dead. The day of the celebration will be called "the day of the dead", where celebrants typically approach the Day of the Dead joyfully, and the traditional mood is bright with emphasis on celebrating and honoring the lives of the deceased, and celebrating the continuation of life; the belief is not that death is the end, but rather the beginning of a new stage in life. However, a large part of the festival of the day of the dead is the "All Hallows Eve" portion - ie the night before. When darkness falls the night before the Day of the Dead (you should name the night before something...) there have been many strange stories told of the nights events. People often speak of experiences they have of being visited by the dead, deeply personal stories that none elaborate on, few have experienced, but all who have have been impacted. All who have experienced something have been alone, in a quiet room, and were never really expecting it. Sometimes they were given insight into the meaning and importance of their own lives, sometimes they were given a chance to bring closure to something troubling in their lives, sometimes they were given cryptic messages about the future direction their lives would see. The model for the events where the main characters (or just Fisc and other people in general) interact with the dead should be after the B5 episode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead_%28Babylon_5%29
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