Amy Guskin  wrote:
> > Rocky wrote
>
> > If Sinclair wasn't Valen, what did the Minbari see when they captured,
> > interrogated and analyzed his DNA with the Triluminary? =A0Why would
> > they stop the war if they didn't detect Sinclair as "having a Minibari
> > soul"?
>
> Reminder, please, for all who reply to this: make sure that your replies
> don't contain any story ideas. =A0Thank you.

It's been mentioned that it detected "Valen DNA".  Since
Valen was a human who went through a species
transformation, exactly how specific would the machine be
to his sequence versus pretty much any human?  It's not
like there were any other humans around when Valen
arrived.  Not until he started having a family and who knows
how hybrid they were - The triluminary might have needed
to be very inspecific about human DNA.

Which brings up the question - Did they apply the
triluminary to any other humans?  Not that I know of in
In the Beginning nor The Gathering.

And who's to say it doesn't detect a soul?  There are
species quite capable of making such a device.  If the
soul hunters can make a suction machine that works on
grand souls, some species could make one that detects
the sort of soul soul hunters would want.  It could be
typical Minbari chauvanism to think that equals a Minbari
soul.
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