Earth Force Lexington Vs Minbari Black Star

The Minbari Ace Cruiser "Blackstar" had been stalking near belt orbit swiftly defeating ship after ships of the Earth Alliance. On another one of it's attack the Blackstar destroyed the entire Lexington fleet and leaving the Lexington badly damaged.

The Lexington however survived and sent out a distress signal, the Blackstar intercepted the distress call and comes back to finish off the Earth Force ship...




However Commander Sheridan lurred the Blackstar into a trap and destroyed it, providing the Earth Alliance its first and only victory in the Earth-Minbari war.

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[angrydead]

@imsiriustube If they hadnt been callous enough to come back to shoot down defencless survivors they wouldnt have been blown strait to hell.

[explorer47422]

So if one tactical nuke could take out a Mimbaru cruiser, why weren't they just launching them everywhere?

[umjackd]

Ahh John "Nuke 'Em" Sheridan. 

[prudence00]

@explorer47422

I doubt that the writers realized this, but it would have been nearly impossible. With the very large distances in space most of them wouldn't come in range of anything but would keep going. In space if something is moving it doesn't stop until it hits something, and it could be (though rather unlikely) an inhabited planet. See the Mass Effect video with 'Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space' for details. Also nukes are expensive and usually impractical.

[Lightingwarrior]

@Cordar Persoanlly I think both sides shared fault, and it was more to do with a lack on understanding of one another.

The Minbari were at fault, because they had become overconfident and were ignorant of things outside their own territory.

The EA was at fault because like the Minbari they had become overconfident, given their victory over the Dilgar and didn't listen to the Londo's warning about the Minbari and sent in the wrong person to led the expedition who panicked under pressure

[ancalites]

@explorer47422 They'd probably get intercepted by the Minbari's beam weapons in a straight-up fight.

[TechnoMageB5]

@explorer47422 "Launching them everywhere..." and therein lies the problem. Due to their jamming technology, we couldn't lock on to anything of theirs. So how would the nukes ever arrive to their targets? Remember, these nukes were mined & hidden in an asteroid field.

[FlamingBadger84]

@explorer47422

Becasue it would cause the same if not more damage to their own ships!

[svartekaptenen]

Oh lets see nuclearmissiles with proxmimity fuses!

[williamskidfears]

@Cordar More precisely, the Minbarri warrior caste, as they were the ones who committed the blunder in the first place...then again, the warrior caste were probably not exactly big on first contacts that didn't involve using a fighting pike anyway. :-D

[Cordar]

@williamskidfears But regarding poorly thought-through peaceful first contact protocol/traditions in a non-parody setting, the Minbari pretty much takes the cake. It's like Dukhat was the only Minbari at the time who's wisdom included common sense.

[williamskidfears]

@Cordar Honestly, I think there was enough stupidity to go around....