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Vorlon Prime

Flag of Vorlon Prime
Motto: Who are you?
None.
Region	Vorlon
Capital	Unknown
Official Language(s)	Vorlon, English, Adrenato, Many others
Leader	Emperor/High Chancellor
Population	25,000 Vorlons, Approx 1.457 Billion others.
Currency	Unknown
Stats: NSEconomy Pipian XML

Introduction

The Empire of Vorlon Prime is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons. It is a future-tech largely non-human nation which embraces the concept of telepathy.

Population

The population of Vorlon Prime is as follows:

1. Around 25,000 Vorlons
2. Around 30 Wikipedia:Minbari
3. Around 10 Humans
4. Around 1.4 Billion partially self aware organic constructs, including starships, engineering systems, habitats and military ground units.

Cultural Data

The Vorlons consider themselves dedicated to order, and believe in formality and ritual in their daily lives. Specific times are reffered to by formalised ritual names, such as The Hour of Scampering and The Hour of Longing. It is also the belief of the Vorlons that concensus should be reached in any matter before action is taken, which results in a highly effective means of establishing compromises existing within the Vorlon society

Biology

When in the company of aliens, Vorlons wear complex and intimidating environment encounter suits that completely conceal their physical form. Vorlons maintained this was because their ambassadors needed a specific environment. However, it eventually became clear that they could function in other environments - such as oxygen / nitrogen - just as well as their native environments.

In their natural state, Vorlons are a semi-crystalline physical entity which radiates light, and is capable of unaided flight or levitation. They are known to be telepathic, and have been known to impersonate divine messengers. This is made easier if the subject is of a race which has been genetically modified by the Vorlons in the past.

Vorlons are able to disconnect pieces of their conciousnesses containing personalitiy and duplicate memories and either implant them temporarily in other beings, including alien telepaths, or create offspring by combining such pieces. The current Vorlon Emperor, in a matter of comprimise on who precisely should have the title and so weild autocratic power, is the offspring of all living Vorlons, and has a gesalt personalitiy - Hence, all members of the species are fairly represented in an autocracy, as the Emperor contains the opinions and memories of all other Vorlons. Other Vorlons will typically carry with them pieces of the personalities of several others at any one time, which leads to an apparently unmatched concept of racial unity, as from a literal perspective, all Vorlons are one-another.

Beliefs

The Vorlons believe it is their duty to 'teach' the so-called younger races their philosophy, in order to benefit them. They are one of two races from their era to remain doing so, the other being the Shadows of Z'Ha'Dum. As a race, the primary theme of Vorlon Theological teaching is that in order to seek understanding of the universe, and properly determine one's goals in life, one must understand one's own self first. This constrasts with the theology of the Shadows who believe that the younger races will advance only through evolution and conflict, and endevour to sow the seeds of such chaos in order to benefit their victims.

Internal Politics

Factions:

1. Militristic Faction

"Respect? From Whom?"

The Militristic Faction of the Vorlons is the currently dominant force in internal Vorlon Politics. Their main beleif is that it is the duty of the Vorlons to exterminate forces they define as evil, such as the Shadows. The major flaw of this faction's belief system is that they can easily be accused of bearing no feeling of responsibility towards 'younger races' and seem to regard all non-Vorlon individuals as unimportant.

1. Liberal Faction

"What is need compared to the Path?"

While still retaining the same core values as the Militristic Faction, the Liberal Faction represent a less hardline approach to the place of the Vorlons in the universe. The Liberal Faction, while agreeing in principle with the destruction of dangerous ideologies such as the chaotic ideology of the Shadows, believe that the primary role of the Vorlons is as teachers and shepherds. They consider the Militrists to have fallen prey to excessive ruthlessness in their application of Vorlon Ideals.

1. Isolationist Faction

"There are still few of us. It is not our time. It is yours. We are not prepared yet."

After the defeat in the last Great War against the Shadows, a third faction rose to prominance in Vorlon internal politics. While not distinct in its beliefs from the two main factions, and small in its membership, the Isolationist Faction holds considerable pull because its concerns about the neccessity of inaction are logical. The Vorlons currently find themselves outnumbered two-to-one by their traditional enemies. If this situation changes, the influence and rhetoric of the Isolationist Faction may decline.

Foreign Relations

Vorlon opinons on foreign nations are at best patronising, and at worst extremely hostile.

1. Z'Ha'Dum: The traditional enemies of the Vorlons are generally looked upon with a mixture of hate, resentment, grudging respect and despair.
2. The Resurgent Dream: Looked upon as the most promising nation encountered in recent years, the Vorlons view the diversity of this nation as a positive sign. The matter of assigning a permanant ambassador to this nation has been debated, but the influence of the Isolationist Faction has stalled a decision.
3. Formerly United Indiastan: Regarded as a recent failure of the Vorlons, operation in United Indiastan did however succeed in harming the war efforts of the Shadows.
4. Weyr: The Vorlons consider this nation doomed.
5. The Island of Rose: An explorer vessel from this nation recently violated Vorlon Prime's territory, and was eliminated by a vessel of the Isolationist Faction. No further concensus has been formed.

Notes

The Vorlon concept and backstory is stolen shamelessly from Babylon 5 and its use on NS constitues in no way a legal claim to any part of the above.