I hear a Babylon 5 reboot is in the works

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Re: I hear a Babylon 5 reboot is in the works

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Nealithi wrote: Fri Oct 29, 2021 9:20 pm Hang on. Its impossible in B5 verse?
I thought B5 had an AI initially but it was deactivated because it was a jerk?
Perhaps I should have said that *Strong* AI is impossible in B5. They could have Roombas if they wanted, and there's the Vicker guy - but the whole point is that he *isn't* an actual person, or even a very good imitation of one.

Computers can't be people in B5, because they don't have souls. And worse, 'souls' are required for a bunch of First One tech to function. The technomage implants that give them their powers are grown out of the nervous systems of kidnapped lesser races - each one is the neuronal ghost of a murdered person.
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