Jeff Smith <76702.2572@compuserve.com> asks:
> This would certainly explain why a lot of info is 'missing' that
> one might think should be around, but why didn't the info
> survive? If the Vorlons/Minbari fought the shadows a thousand
> years ago, and had the FTL ships they obviously had, why don't
> they have records from that time?

It was also a very devastating war, and one of their mistakes
was that their were those who were entrusted to keep the past, sort of
a more advanced version of storytellers, who put all their data in one
basket, as it were...very possessive and jurisdictional. When they and
that center of data were taken out, a lot was lost. One drawback of a
very rigid and structued society.

jms

Jeff Smith <76702.2572@compuserve.com> asks:
> One follow up though, would such an event as described above have
> to occur well after the war to have such an effect, since if
> happened while there where still Minbari alive with personal
> experience in the war the records could still be mostly
> reconstructed?

Certainly it would've occured in the last days of the war.

jms