Minbari Fluff

[angelus2000]

Kind of an off topic question but I need it answer in order to amke sure some fluff I'm writing isnt wildly out of whack.

If by chance, the Minbari were ever defeated in battle and ordered to surrender or taken prisoner, are they the type to do some ritualisitic I'll-never-be-taken-alive spiel,even if they were confident they wouldn't be executed out of hand and the Minbari would win the overall conflict anyways?

My thinking is no they wouldn't, they would surrender and wait for their forces to retake them back. But nutball Warrior types get awful funny on occasion about things like that

 

[Court Jester]

I think with the Minbari you could find an excuse for ANY reaction. It just depends on how you spin it... :wink:

 

[Commador Q]

i'd say it would depend on the cast,
warior religios and worker cast would probably surender unless that had a specific reason not to, but the warior cast may or may not allow themselve to be taken prioner.

 

[angelus2000]

K thanx for the responses. My little fluff peice depended on minbari being reasonable under extreme circumstances. They get a might twitchy on occasion.

 

[Alexb83]

Off the top of my head, I don't think we ever see a scenario in the series where the Minbari stand down and surrender, rather than fight to the end - even when captured and kept at the mercy of others, they (religious caste, in the episode after severed dreams) still struggle to escape from captivity.
Look at Delenn facing the inquisitor..

But then again, the only time we ever see the Minbari outright defeated is in In the Beginning with the Black Star (and a few of their ships getting damaged and destroyed in the final battle with the shadows).

 

[Natxomann]

For some reason people keeps forgetting that some Minbari were captured during the war for humans , and that they should (supposedly) warriors...

 

[lastbesthope]

Off the top of my head, I don't think we ever see a scenario in the series where the Minbari stand down and surrender, rather than fight to the end

Season 4, Moments of Transition I think, the one where Neroon sves Delenn from the Starfire wheel. In that episode Delenn surrenders the entire religious caste.

LBH

 

[Court Jester]

Off the top of my head, I don't think we ever see a scenario in the series where the Minbari stand down and surrender, rather than fight to the end

Season 4, Moments of Transition I think, the one where Neroon sves Delenn from the Starfire wheel. In that episode Delenn surrenders the entire religious caste.

LBH

She then surenders the entires warrior caste as well... to the workers... :wink:

 

[lastbesthope]

She then surenders the entires warrior caste as well... to the workers... :wink:

No she doesn't, she simply gives the warrior caste a majority on the Grey Council, but you knew that.


LBH

 

[Court Jester]

She then surenders the entires warrior caste as well... to the workers... :wink:

No she doesn't, she simply gives the worker caste a majority on the Grey Council, but you knew that.


LBH

I might have known that...

But if I were a disgruntled member of the warrior caste I might see it my way... As I said with the Minbari you can justify many things depending on how you spin your beliefes... :wink:

 

[Iain McGhee]

You also had the crew of the Trigati blow themselves up rather than surrender (to other Minbari) but that wasn't necessarily the same as surrendering in battle. You do have the Ranger "we live for the one, we die for the one" thing which is really Minbari doctrine as well as the LOTR version of the Ranger code which states that they'd fight until death rather than surrender, again more Minbari doctrine. Don't worry, you only have to watch the titles to hear this, not the whole film

 

[Burger]

You do have the Ranger "we live for the one, we die for the one" thing which is really Minbari doctrine as well as the LOTR version of the Ranger code which states that they'd fight until death rather than surrender

Thats the "die for the one" part... what about "live for the one"? Surely that means surender and live to fight another day.

 

[Iain McGhee]

Yeah, G'Kar mentioned in LOTR that the Minbari placed a bit too much emphasis on the second part of that line.

 

[Lord David the Denied]

No, it means devotion to the Anla'Shok above all else. :wink: