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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashanderai" data-source="post: 3195270" data-attributes="member: 13210">I have been playing with this idea for some time now, but have never acted on it.  I like some of the ideas presented here, though I think looking for an exact translation in every case is a disservice to the Eberron setting and the new spin flavor it can bring to the B5 conflicts and relationships.I like the idea of the dragons as the equivalent to the Vorlons and the Quori/Riedra/Dreaming Dark as the Shadows.  Naturally, the elves should be like the Minbari as the oldest of the PC races, but unlike the Minbari, they have an ongoing conflict with their Vorlon analogues, the dragons.I think the “station” should be a moving fortress, like the Breland one, discovered in the Mournlands.  It was unearthed by the Cyrans from that huge chasm in the Mournlands, but was a state secret while it was being converted into a mobile fortress, even though it had not been fully explored yet.  Unknown to anyone living now, after the fortress was made operational it caused the cataclysm that signaled the death of Cyre and the creation of the Mournlands.  After it is discovered in the Mournlands, it is then made into the equivalent of B5 by the multinational efforts of the civilized nations, Dragonmarked Houses, and powerful factions.  Naturally, it should be a huge Ptolus-sized thing, that is not fully explored yet (Aw heck, just use Ptolus with some slight modifications if you want!).I think the best Narn/Centauri analogue would be the Lord of Blades/Warforged and the factions of House Cannith.  Their relationship with the House feeling that Warforged are so far beneath them and enslaving the warforged, much to the anger of the Lord of Blades, draws a lot of parallels to the Centauri/Narn relationship at the beginning of the B5 storyline.  If the station is put in the Mournlands, then the warforged faction led by the Lord of Blades will have more influence than it would otherwise as just a large band of bandits and terrorists.  They might gain recognition from the other nations and houses, excepting Cannith and Karrnath, in order to make the mobile fortress more viable without having to worry about attacks from the Lord of Blades’ forces.  This could eventually even lead to warforged as security forces as the plot develops later, just as it did for the warforged.  Maybe the Lord of Blades could have revelations later that alter his outlook on life, just as it did for G’Kar.  Merrix D’Cannith might make for a very interesting Londo and with his house divided as it is, that leads for a lot of in-House intrigue as he and the others leading their factions of the House try to regain the House’s glory days in their own way while scheming against one another.The human nations are of course the equivalent of Earth at civil war with itself.  The plight of Q’Barra and the Eldeen Reaches might make for a decent equivalent to the plight of Mars and other colony worlds.  Many of the new nations recognized after the last war, combined with the Dragonmarked Houses could make for an interesting League of Non-Aligned Worlds.  The dragonmarked houses being included because they want more power for themselves after the fall of the empire and the other nations being forced to recognize them because of their innate power and the realization that the Korth Accords may have to be redrawn.  The Twelve is an interesting take on a Psi-Corps possibly answerable only to itself and slightly answerable to the dragonmarked houses of this analogue to the League of Non-Aligned Worlds.When you consider the history of House Kundarak and the Mror Holds, they might make for a pretty decent equivalent to the Drazi.</blockquote>

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