 January 25, 2012 - 11:08am | Currently I have the entire first season of Babylon 5 checked out from the library and came across something interesting: The Thrid Principle of Sentient Life is the capacity for self sacrifice: the conscious ability to override evolution and self-preservation for a cause, a friend or a loved one. I did a quick google search and turned up a site on the Minbari that miss labeled it as the Second principle when the episode clearly stated 3rd (I double checked). This is rather interesting to me; "The Principles of Sapient Life" Its suggest a set of standards by which sapient life is judged. For that I'm currious as to what the other principles might be; anyone know? My searches haven't turned them up. Any ideas what they could be? I've changed them from Sentient to Sapient as per this rant: http://www.colonialchrome.co.uk/Pages/Rants/Rant_Sentience.html I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 February 8, 2012 - 2:51pm | There is always much speculation about older species but I think it is not age that matters but whether a culture feels superior. This works both ways. Take the meeting of Europeans with the Chinese. The Chinese culture is vastly older than the European and they felt superior because of it. This did not stop the Europeans from taking over their port cities and establishing unfair trade with the Chinese because they had superior tech (at least military and shipping) and they felt superior to the Chinese. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
