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Re: FTL capable fighters (B5)

From: Brendan Robertson <denian@s...>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 01:10:09 -0400
Subject: Re: FTL capable fighters (B5)

> The new Kathryn Drennan B5 book seems to indicate that a large number
of
> Jump gates were built thousends of years ago by First Ones. Lucky
younger
> races like the Centauri and the Minbari found gates like these either
in or
> near their home system. After long research they discovered the access
> codes for these gates and were able to use them. They then aquired the
> technology to build them for themselves.
> 
> Its possible that this 2 Light Months distant gate was one of the
originals
> now incorporated into the Jump gate network. Why the First Ones should
put
> a gate there?, only they know.
> Regards..... Roger
> 
	At a guess, that location could have been where Epsilon Eridani
was
located when they built the great machine on the planet.  The system
could have kept moving through space, but the jumpgate wasn't anchored
to the system?

Brendan R
'Neath Southern Skies

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