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On Saturday, November 17, 2012 2:52:21 PM UTC-5, jack wrote:
> Some fifteen years later am going through the series again, now on DVD. 
> Still such a great series.   One question on the Z episode.  Did Shadows 
> prefer telepaths to run their vessels, they were better at it than 
> "normals"?  Anna was never written as a telepath but she was
written to 
> have been hooked up to drive a Shadow ship.  Did the Shadows use 
> non-telepaths in other ways in their vessels or is there an error in the 
> writing?

I don't think it's an error, I think the Shadows actively started using 
telepaths in their ships when the League worlds started using them to jam 
their ships.
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The way I read it was that the shadows were starting to try to get telepaths 
because they wanted to stop the Vorlon advantage of having telepaths that 
could stop ships. We'd seen shadow ships since season 1, and Ship of Tears 
didn't happen until late in Season 3, so it was a good probability that the 
Shadows were just starting to initiate that plan. That's why there was a 
ship filled with "weapons components" when Sheridan, Bester, and company 
went after the convoy -- they were moving experimental material for field 
testing.
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