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Ported to OBJ from the fan-created model included in Firehawk600's supplemental Babylon 5 Pack for the Starfleet Command series of video games. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

This is fanon, although it's based on a B5 series canon concept. It's a fannish attempt to recreate in somewhat updated form the even larger starships than the Shadow Crab that are mentioned in the series and that the Shadows used to field in the distant past of the B5 universe. I believe the originals are called Ancient Shadow Ships in B5 series lore if I've researched this correctly, although I could be wrong. I can find no official stats on this, but judging from the fan-created model these are roughly twice the size of the largest type of Shadow Crab, which would make them about 6-7 kilometers long and have so much weaponry that it would take an entire fleet of Younger Race ships to even dream of besting one, much less destroying it, provided said fleet survives long enough to even try. Oh, and let's not forget that this has two of the most powerful molecular slicer cannon of any Shadow ship that are so strong they're capable of taking out anything up to a small planet (!!!). This would be the equivalent of a battleship type within the Shadow Fleet and is often classified as such by B5 fans, although as I said this is fanon and not official per the B5 franchise proper.

IMHO this is actually too powerful and that's why it was never employed in the series proper. Only the First Ones could have dealt with an Ancient Shadow Ship old or new, and you saw in the show how hard it was to convince them to join the fight. Also, let's not forget that when the Shadows were accidentally revived they adapted themselves to the raw resources available at the time, which is part of the reason why their later and presumably more sophisticated Shadow Crabs were considerably smaller, even in their largest forms. However, fans of all stripes love "what if?" and B5 fans are no exception. What if everyone in the B5 universe had to deal with Ancient Shadow Ships? Either they would have had to figure out how to deal with them very quickly or the Shadow War in that context would have been a very short one with a bad ending, as far as everyone but the Shadows would have been concerned.

While I am not making my ports of any of the models from the fan-created SFC B5 model pack available for general download, you can go get the pack and port them yourself. You can still find it on places such as NexusMods and Lone Bullet, and almost all of them (save the B5 station itself, awwwwww!) port quite easily with the SFC model format plug-in for the old Milkshape 3D modeling program. Some of the various free 3D model sites online also have free fan-created B5 CG models of various subjects, so you try searching those too.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

ASIDE - Under almost all circumstances you are NOT going to beat this ship no matter what you're fielding. It's simply too powerful. Your best responses, as well as the most believable scenarios you can make for it, are to either figure out a way to escape and fast, or find a way to get one of the First Ones or another race of comparable power (like the Vorlons or TMP's V'Ger, to pull from another sci-fi franchise) to fight it for you.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the fan-created model included in Firehawk600's supplemental Babylon 5 Pack for the Starfleet Command series of video games. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

This is fanon, although it's based on a B5 series canon concept. It's a fannish attempt to recreate in somewhat updated form the even larger starships than the Shadow Crab that are mentioned in the series and that the Shadows used to field in the distant past of the B5 universe. I believe the originals are called Ancient Shadow Ships in B5 series lore if I've researched this correctly, although I could be wrong. I can find no official stats on this, but judging from the fan-created model these are roughly twice the size of the largest type of Shadow Crab, which would make them about 6-7 kilometers long and have so much weaponry that it would take an entire fleet of Younger Race ships to even dream of besting one, much less destroying it, provided said fleet survives long enough to even try. Oh, and let's not forget that this has two of the most powerful molecular slicer cannon of any Shadow ship that are so strong they're capable of taking out anything up to a small planet (!!!). This would be the equivalent of a battleship type within the Shadow Fleet and is often classified as such by B5 fans, although as I said this is fanon and not official per the B5 franchise proper.

IMHO this is actually too powerful and that's why it was never employed in the series proper. Only the First Ones could have dealt with an Ancient Shadow Ship old or new, and you saw in the show how hard it was to convince them to join the fight. Also, let's not forget that when the Shadows were accidentally revived they adapted themselves to the raw resources available at the time, which is part of the reason why their later and presumably more sophisticated Shadow Crabs were considerably smaller, even in their largest forms. However, fans of all stripes love "what if?" and B5 fans are no exception. What if everyone in the B5 universe had to deal with Ancient Shadow Ships? Either they would have had to figure out how to deal with them very quickly or the Shadow War in that context would have been a very short one with a bad ending, as far as everyone but the Shadows would have been concerned.

While I am not making my ports of any of the models from the fan-created SFC B5 model pack available for general download, you can go get the pack and port them yourself. You can still find it on places such as NexusMods and Lone Bullet, and almost all of them (save the B5 station itself, awwwwww!) port quite easily with the SFC model format plug-in for the old Milkshape 3D modeling program. Some of the various free 3D model sites online also have free fan-created B5 CG models of various subjects, so you try searching those too.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

ASIDE - Under almost all circumstances you are NOT going to beat this ship no matter what you're fielding. It's simply too powerful. Your best responses, as well as the most believable scenarios you can make for it, are to either figure out a way to escape and fast, or find a way to get one of the First Ones or another race of comparable power (like the Vorlons or TMP's V'Ger, to pull from another sci-fi franchise) to fight it for you.