Hi.
In order to make sure that the pre-existing thread for the Orieni in A Call to Arms can be focussed on the ISA era, I'm starting up this thread for dealing with the Orieni Empire as portrayed in the Babylon 5 Wars supplements Wars of the Centauri Republic, Showdowns 8 and Variants 6 (as seen here) - and, for that matter, for discussing the kind of Centauri, Drazi, Abbai, Vree, Minbari, Drakh and other races' ships wich would have been in service in the year 2008!
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the era, this is a time when we on Earth have yet to make it out into the galaxy - despite whether or not we have had Vorlon and Vree 'guests' show up in the Sol system already - and when the known galaxy was dominated by two superpowers, the Centauri Republic and the Orieni Empire.
While the Minbari sat behind their borders (unless you count those in the Anla'shok who were fulfilling what they saw as the will of Valen) the Vorlons remained a mystery and the Drakh, for the most part, laid low, other powers such as the Abbai and Drazi struggled to maintain their position in the face of a Lion of the Galaxy at the very height of its power and influence.
However, neither the Centauri nor the Orieni could tolerate the presence of the other - the Vorlon-worshipping Blessed, the priest-caste of telepaths who had united Orien and forged a multi-racial Empire founded on the principle of Order, and the inerently chaotic and irrepressible Centauri nobility who bowed down to no one not of Centauri blood and saw non-Centauri races as fodder for slave camps, were stark contrasts to one another, and knew it all too well.
When the war broke out, dozens of worlds were ravaged, several races were left on the verge of extinction, if not exterminated outright, and while the Orieni Empire was left as a shadow of its former self - a shadow which took two centuries' worth of effort to restore to anything like its former glory - the Centauri themselves had been granted a truy Pyrrhic victory, one which sowed the seeds of the inevitable decline of the once-great Lion of the Galaxy.
And this thread is about how to bring those momentous events, already shown in B5W, to the ACTA system.
To those of you familiar with the WCR setting, what would you recommend as far as getting the ships and wespons systems shown into A Call to Arms?
To those who are fans of races who are featured in WCR, such as the Orieni, Centauri and Drazi, does this kind of setting sem like a good opportunity to fly your favoured race's ships in a 'new' era?
And to those of you who know about neither the Orieni nor the WCR-era Centauri and others, does any of this sound like it might be worth a try?
In order to make sure that the pre-existing thread for the Orieni in A Call to Arms can be focussed on the ISA era, I'm starting up this thread for dealing with the Orieni Empire as portrayed in the Babylon 5 Wars supplements Wars of the Centauri Republic, Showdowns 8 and Variants 6 (as seen here) - and, for that matter, for discussing the kind of Centauri, Drazi, Abbai, Vree, Minbari, Drakh and other races' ships wich would have been in service in the year 2008!
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the era, this is a time when we on Earth have yet to make it out into the galaxy - despite whether or not we have had Vorlon and Vree 'guests' show up in the Sol system already - and when the known galaxy was dominated by two superpowers, the Centauri Republic and the Orieni Empire.
While the Minbari sat behind their borders (unless you count those in the Anla'shok who were fulfilling what they saw as the will of Valen) the Vorlons remained a mystery and the Drakh, for the most part, laid low, other powers such as the Abbai and Drazi struggled to maintain their position in the face of a Lion of the Galaxy at the very height of its power and influence.
However, neither the Centauri nor the Orieni could tolerate the presence of the other - the Vorlon-worshipping Blessed, the priest-caste of telepaths who had united Orien and forged a multi-racial Empire founded on the principle of Order, and the inerently chaotic and irrepressible Centauri nobility who bowed down to no one not of Centauri blood and saw non-Centauri races as fodder for slave camps, were stark contrasts to one another, and knew it all too well.
When the war broke out, dozens of worlds were ravaged, several races were left on the verge of extinction, if not exterminated outright, and while the Orieni Empire was left as a shadow of its former self - a shadow which took two centuries' worth of effort to restore to anything like its former glory - the Centauri themselves had been granted a truy Pyrrhic victory, one which sowed the seeds of the inevitable decline of the once-great Lion of the Galaxy.
And this thread is about how to bring those momentous events, already shown in B5W, to the ACTA system.
To those of you familiar with the WCR setting, what would you recommend as far as getting the ships and wespons systems shown into A Call to Arms?
To those who are fans of races who are featured in WCR, such as the Orieni, Centauri and Drazi, does this kind of setting sem like a good opportunity to fly your favoured race's ships in a 'new' era?
And to those of you who know about neither the Orieni nor the WCR-era Centauri and others, does any of this sound like it might be worth a try?
