ShadowScout
Mongoose
Oh, as you can gather from my initial post, I am not so much worried about the references as the incontingencies (and it's not as if JMS always got his canon info right too - of course, in real life he just changed his mind, but things like the strange contradictionary tale of the "Drala'fi in cident" from S-2 and ItB make things really difficult for those who want a straight storyline in the B5 background...).
Most annoying is the fact that the (also JMS approved) TM trilogy gives the beginning of the technomages as during Valen's war, a thousand years before B5; while your "during pre-industrial period" visit has them appearing much earlier in the timeline. (And yes, of course I know that the real problem is the right hand not knowing what the left does - AoG fluff gave the centauri/technomage meeting almost a thousand years before the later TM trilogy set the creation date for the technomages -obviously the writer of that trilogy didn't read AoG stuff- but I had hoped you'd spot and correct that!)
Still not enough. Early cannons just Can't beat off an space-tech race that Really wants to invade. I could see them surprise an small expidition - say, technomages flee to Durana and use centauri solders as allies to ambush a Shoggren landing party... but in no way the early centauri could harm shuttles with their weapons. Not without a lot of help from someone else...
That'd be possible - but mere sabotage could again only stop a small incursion, not an real invasion.
That'd require more outside intervention... which of course could have been possible too. However, in that case it would either have been seen by the Centauri in some way (either recognized as help, or mystified as divine intervention - like all Shoggren ships turing into glowing craters overnight), OR the intervention would have happened off-planet, destroying the invasion force before it was seen by the centauri, which would mean the centauri didn't even become aware of them.
It just doesn't add up - not for an real invasion attempt.
Of course, it may be that the tale has grown in the telling, and in really Was an small incursion... stopped by outside action...
...or maybe an invasion attempt, that was recalled - now That would work; the centauri couldn't beat them back with their tech, and a few technomages also couldn't do enough... but if someone else recalled the invasion because it's forces were needed elsewhere (like defending the Shoggren homeworld from some other race) it would seem to the early centauri that they fought them off...
And if one were to re-qualify a few things in the technomage trilogy... like the two or three sentences where they give Valen's war as the beginning of the technomages - and assumes another Shadow War (hey, that Do pop up every millenia or so), another thousand years before Valen's to be the one where the Taratimude made that fateful deal with the Shadows... well, then everything would make sense again.
Hmmm... Maybe someone at Mongoose -hint, august, hint- should at least make sure all that gets written into the TM book, to prevent at least "mongoose RPG internal info" to be contradictionary... a revised TM timeline as mentioned above and an section about the Shoggren conflict from "beyond the centauri's viewpoint" would be a Really nice touch...
but I'm gald the fleets made it in! 
