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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hatchling Dragon" data-source="post: 4409" data-attributes="member: 580">Firstly, those weren't "The Hand", they're a lesser race (much like that spy) that were granted 'toys' to aid them in thier work.  That work is bringing about the return of "The Hand" to our space-time.I liked the fire-control idea, it's very intuitive, something we ourselfs are striving for.  Make it simple and instinctive, and you've made it easier to use and learn, not to mention shaving off those potentially crusial seconds.  Granted this was what I was thinking before that (in my opinion over-done) final scene where we see them.  They could also have been borrowing ideas from Earth: Final Conflict in way of user interfaces.  Pitty they didn't do a better job.I'm certainly glad they didn't get 'the other ship'.  Christ that thing was big 'n ugly as sin.  I don't care how new 'n modern it was.  I admit to expecting White Stars, but I figure those were too tied up in licensing or something.  Just when I'd gotten to liking that design too.I think the other ambasador (drazi?) summed up the 'new G'kar' with his "Been with the humans too long, he's gone nuts" line.  And God only knows what he saw when he and Lyta were out 'n about.   He had a bit of a habbit for understating things near the end of B5, and he called what he saw something like "More amazing than I could imagine, and I have a pretty good imagination!"  This would make me both curious and a bit nervous.As to "The Hand" being bigger 'n nastier than the Shadows or Vorlons, nobody said they were the end-all and be-all of creation, just that they were the last of the "Old Ones", what I'd understood to mean the last 'batch' of races to achieve transcendance and 'go beyond the rim'.  They were thousands of years old, whereas "The Hand" is supposedly at least Billions.  Quite a difference in scale there.  And who's to say that the Shadows didn't get a few hints for thier technology from "The Hand".  You'd noticed no doubt that those enemy ships had at least a slighty resemblance to Shadow vessels.Then again mabye it's just that I have more skill ranks in Suspend Dissbelief than you do, or the feat Greater Rationalising.   Maybe when you a few more Sci-Fi Geek levels can get them too.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />[Edit] Oh yes, nearly forgot.  "The Hand" seem to admire one thing above all:  Loyalty.  Remember that the brighter a life-form is, the more likely they are to question the actions/motives of thier 'masters', I'm sure "The Hand" took that into account.Hatchling Dragon - See I told you I wouldn't post on the icky new boards.... doh!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></blockquote>

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