Green V Purple

[MerchantDragon]

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In a B5 game I am about to start there are two Drazi PC’s, one of the players ha asked:

“When was the last Green / Purple debate on the Drazi home world and who won?”

I could just make it up, but I was wondering if there is any information out there on this.

 

[lastbesthope]

According to the Season 2 Episode 3 "Geometry of Shadows", the Drazi fight every 5 years, the last one 'on screen' being in 2259 or at least extending into early 2259 based on the episode. You can extrapolate other dates from there, assuming of course that other events do not change the schedule.

As for who won, I couldn't say for sure without rewatching lots of episodes for snippets of info.

LBH

 

[BuShips]

According to the Season 2 Episode 3 "Geometry of Shadows", the Drazi fight every 5 years, the last one 'on screen' being in 2259 or at least extending into early 2259 based on the episode. You can extrapolate other dates from there, assuming of course that other events do not change the schedule.

As for who won, I couldn't say for sure without rewatching lots of episodes for snippets of info.

LBH

Why Ivanova won of course, heh. :wink: :lol:

 

[FuryMaster]

There is a great adventure related to this topic called "Green v. Purple" in the Ragged Edge campaign book. The adventure gives you a great origin as to how things evolved into the blood bath that we were seeing in Geometry of Shadows. If you don't have the Ragged Edge, I highly recommend it...you can get a great campaign from it or just pull adventures from it and run them as stand alones. I think in the end, at least according to the Ragged Edge, Green wins.

FM

 

[tneva82]

I think in the end, at least according to the Ragged Edge, Green wins.

FM

In B5 atleast though purple was sorta "forced" to the drazi's. Atleast I remember Ivanova saying something about looking stunning in purple or something like that.

 

[Mongoose Gar]

Bugger, deleted my response accidentally. Brief synopsis:
* The League book says that the Drazi government has two parts - a council of elders, and 'Gorshas', district administrators, but it doesn't say how these Gorshas are chosen.
* My theory is that the Green vs Purple war is actually a load of little conflicts. Every Drazi colony, community and city would fight its own private little war.
* The winning Leader becomes the Gorsha for that district.
* So, Ivanova would be the Gorsha for B5. The Winner in the Drazi city of Kickintheface would become Gorsha of Kickintheface, and so on.
* After the conflict, Green and Purple become political parties. The 'winning' side is the one with the most powerful Gorshas.
* In short, it is very hard to say which colour won.
* Never discuss politics or religion with Drazi.

 

[Gabriel_Luna]

Ahh, good old Kickintheface! I haven't been there in years. How's little Drokala doing? All grown up now and hitting people like a big boy now, no doubt.

On topic: I've got an iteration of the Green v Purple conflict coming up in my game too. I only have one Drazi PC and they'll be in a relatively isolated area with only one Drazi NPC, so the conflict will end up mostly as comic relief, this time around. In act two, however, five years down the line, it'll be a little more interesting...

 

[Vortex]

they'll be in a relatively isolated area with only one Drazi NPC

That's a good one. I have to remember it for when I get a Drazi PC.

 

[Gabriel_Luna]

If you are actually interested, I'll provide even more specifics.

They'll be on an spacedock at the time, and the only other Drazi is a highly respected scientist with a specialty in starship design and related fields. He left home specifically to get the heck away from this stupid custom. Usually, when the time came, he was the only Drazi around and could happily report home that "Green win!" and then go on about his life. Now the PC Drazi shows up and he's the usual macro-talking, Drazi tackling, brute force SOB, and I imagine every time the NPC Drazi speaks up he's going to get a punch in the face. Basically he's comic relief during what is an otherwise intellectual episode.

(side note: the ceremony where they draw the scarves should be entertaining, with the PC taking it very seriously and being surprised that he is [color] leader, while the scientist will receive his first beating immediately after the drawing for insulting the barrel and its long tradition)

 

[Myrm]

Make him secretly a yellow drazi?

 

[MerchantDragon]

Many thanks for the info.

I have a copy of the "Ragged Edge campaign book" now the "Green v. Purple" adventure is very useful