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**Shabaz** · 12-24-2006, 07:56 AM

You're certainly not alone, and while I certainly don't blame anyone who disliked the episodes we got, I thought there was some potential for some really nifty stuff in there too.

To your question to the chances of a Crusade continuation in TLT; if you would want to see the 5 year arc story as it would've played out had the show not been cancelled, then the answer is that we're almost certainly not going to see that.

Are we going to see certain story elements that would have been touched upon? Yes, there is actually a pretty decent chance for that. Apart from the plague, the biggest event in the background of Crusade as we saw it was probably the teep war. And JMS has stated that he does want to get to that, at the SDCC panel TLT was announced at:

Q: My question is, there is still a great big gaping hole in the Babylon 5 story. Will we ever see anything of the Telepath War?

JMS: As IÆm laying out these DVDs IÆm thinking ôWe can do this story with Sheridan, this story with so-and-so, this storyàooh, Lytaàthe Telepath War. So IÆm starting to play with that for down the road. HereÆs the deal, if these first DVDs sell well, if the broadcast get good ratings, these will be an ongoing thing. We will keep putting out æThe Lost TalesÆ and broadening that out until weÆve got ten thousand of them, whatever it is. If you want to get to the Telepath Wars, get the first ones. Eventually we do plan to get to that, yeah. Or I plan to get to that anyway.

The other big thing that Crusade would've touched upon is the subject of left over shadow tech. The plague is of course an example of this, but from interviews and online postings, JMS has made it clear that left over shadow tech would have ended up playing a much wider role in the story, in particular tech left over at the EA. One character that has a particularly strong tie with this subject in his personal back story is Galen, a character we're going to see in Voices in the Dark. Some of the cryptic story descriptions you can find here have been speculated by fans as potentially concerning this subject, but there is no way to tell if this is so from what JMS has said so far.

Will we see any events that would've happened during Crusade's run? Yes, sort of. The first TLT instalment is set 10 years after the founding of the ISA, or roughly 9 years after B5's final season set in 2262. This places it roughly at the fifth season of Crusade, had it not been cancelled. Are the events in Voices in the Dark big enough that they would've been mentioned in Crusade, or relevant enough to the story Crusade would've been telling that it would've been part of that show? No way to tell, really. But there is some overlap there timeframe wise.

If the question is, will we see any Crusade characters, then there the answer is a definite yes.

While Galen appeared in ActA, technically a B5 movie, he was very much a Crusade character, and like I said, he will appear in the first TLT installment.

**Tim_Fleming** · 12-26-2006, 10:51 AM

You are not alone. I and many others worked hard to prevent TNT from killing Crusade. It was a fantastic show with great potential. I think that "Racing the Night" is an example of that potential being realized. I believe that Galen would have been the "New G'kar" in the sense that he understood how mysterious and strange the universe and the things within it were.

Will we see a continuation of Crusade? Well if you'd asked me this time last year "Will we ever see any new Babylon 5 shows?" I would not have hesitated in replying NO!! Yet here we are with something new on the way.
So....

JMS is drawn to the technomages. He likes them as a concept. Evidence of that is in three out of the last four post B5 projects, technomages have been involved (Crusade, The Memory of Shadows, and now B5:TLT). Crusade will return ...in one form or another.

**JohnFourtyTwo** · 12-26-2006, 09:08 PM

I'm in the process of getting another overdose of B5 by watching the entire series and movies during my days off and time before and after work when it permits just to get back into the groove, plus I'll be throwing the Crusade discs in also.

So yes, I too would like to see Crusade return in one form or another.

**KoshN** · 12-28-2006, 04:15 PM

Originally posted by munnp001

Im Relatvely new to the B5 Universe, and i have bought and watched all the DVD sets, and in my opinion Crusade had a lot of potential, with a different energy to B5 which frankly i preferr.

I like 'em both, and am drawn to the characters in both. They're just different. Also, IMHO, Evan Chen's music suits Crusade, and adds just the right bit of "alien-ness" to it. There's only one bit of Chen's Crusade music that I don't like, the end credits to Ruling from the Tomb.

Originally posted by munnp001

Does anyone think that there is a chance that the story of Crusade could be continued in The Lost Tales or perhaps some TV Movies? I realise it being over 7 years down the line it is unlikely this will happen, but i would like to Crusade return in one form or another. Am i alone or there others out there who feel the same way?

I, too, would like Crusade to return in one form or another. B5: The Lost Tales may help facilitate this.

**KoshN** · 12-28-2006, 04:34 PM