"Jeffrey Kaplan"  wrote in message
news:pg23e358p7kf9dccfko9hsk4a0t8l142eb{at}gordol.org...
> It is alleged that Dennis (Icarus) claimed:
>
> > > The only thing we know about the universe where the cycle doesn't end
> > > is that B5 go boom -- hence Ivanova's message from the future
> > > intercepted by B5 while the Great Machine was holding open a time
> > > rift.
> >
> > But when B4 went back 1000 years, that closed off the timeline involving
> > Ivanova's message from the future.
>
> Sending B4 to the past doesn't prevent B5 from being destroyed by the
> Shadows, it only bought time needed by Sheridan et al to figure it out.
> If Sheridan didn't go to Z'Ha'Dum, he would not have learned what he
> needed to learn, both from Justin and from Lorien, to end the Shadow
> Wars once and for all, and eventually they would have destroyed B5.

Well, her message from the future was dated only a few days after the time
when Sinclair returned to the station.
Since Sheridan went to Z'ha'dum some time after that, its pretty clear to me
that the timeline involving Ivanova's message didn't happen.
The Minbari, using B4 as a base, were able to weaken the Shadows
sufficiently, such that they were not ready to attack B5 at the time of
Ivanova's message.
At least that's how I recollect it. Something about having x-many more ships
than they would have otherwise.

So it is theoretically, speculatively, possible that B5 might survive this
iteration of the Shadow war cycle, presuming the Vorlons don't destroy it
either.
Or it might not. :-)

Dennis


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