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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 3794336" data-attributes="member: 14159">Okay, here's an explanation:In Babylon 5, one of the most powerful races in the Galaxy is the Minbari.  The central figure of their culture is Valen, an enigmatic wise man who appeared in their darkest hour 1000 years ago and lead them to victory against dark forces and laid down many basic tenets of their religion and society.When the human race begins to explore the stars, an arrogant human captain mistakes a Minbari gesture of peace for a threat and opens fire, starting a war.  The minbari have been travelling the stars for millennia, their technology was vastly superior to humanity, and although they were fighting tooth-and-nail (and secretly buying more advanced weapons from other races), mankind was on the brink of extinction after a couple of years of war.At the last stand of mankind, a minbari warship captured several human starfighters to interrogate them about the remaining humans and humans that were trying to flee known space.  Minbari technology includes some elements that are almost magitech to humans, including the ability to analyze what is essentially the soul.  While being interrogated, they discover that one human starfighter pilot has the same soul as Valen.  They believed that for some reason, their savior was reincarnated as a human.  Their highest law being that the minbari do not war amongst themselves, and their ruling council interpreted his reincarnation in human form to mean that Humans count as Minbari for purposes of the "no civil war" rule, they ended the war immediately and withdrew to their own space, but not before blanking the mind of the pilot of the experience, leaving him adrift in his fighter, and refusing to tell most of their own people why (thinking their own society would not believe it).In the aftermath of the war, the Babylon Project is created as a diplomatic station to try to prevent another massive war.  After a series of failures/sabotages, the project was almost abandoned, until the Minbari offered to front the money for a fifth attempt, on one catch, that pilot is named as the commanding officer.Eventually, that pilot has his origin revealed to him, Valen had left with instructions to give it to him when he reappeared.  It was a recording from himself from 1000 years ago.  Following instructions he gave himself, he resigns his commission and goes to live on the Minbari homeworld.Later in the series, he returns to use a piece of alien technology to travel back in time 1000 years and use Minbari biotechnology to assume a minbari guise and "become" Valen and lead the Minbari to victory.Thus, a main character in the series goes back in time to become a key figure in his own history.</blockquote>

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