Redneck wrote on 24-jun-2001:
>Phil Thorne wrote on 23-jun-2001:
>>TRB wrote, and Direwolf seconded, on 19-jun-2001:

[Baseball, T'Khut Diamondbacks]
[Beta Colony != B5, == Vorkosigan + Betazed]
[Baseball, Landing Treecats]

>>>*Jyurai, Kingdom of Jyurai (Ohmu)
>>So not only Washu, [...]
>The answers for most of this are incredibly spoiler-riffic for a story
>or two currently in production.

Yay, an upcoming story with fuses! -- err, Jyuraians.
Oh -- glancing at the cast list, I'm guessing one of those would be UF:FI:SotS:2.

>>And given the size of the trees on planet Jyurai, Ohmu-bugs
>[...] there is an isolated and independent Kingdom of Jyurai,

I.e. not affiliated with the UFP, United Galactica, Old Republic, or any other predecessor or antecedent?

>and Nausicaa was a great heroine from that planet's early history.

I can imagine dinner conversation with the JRF (Jyurai Royal Family), somewhere up around Level 900 in the royal tree-palace. Something about Ohmu in the pantry again...

Would this be the early history that involves rampaging accidentally-engineered super-powered kids who have to be stopped with fleets of flying platforms led by a giant flying spinal column? Yeah, I know; -Muyo, -Universe and -inTokyo are obviously distinct continuities, and never the three shall meet; unless you ignore certain key details.

(And when you try, all the correspondences wham into a painful Jello blob, as at the end of "Timecop". <span style="ComicStoreGuy">"Worst use of the Blinovitch Limitation Effect, EVER!"</span>.)

[CFA-919 Downbelow-ish]
>I didn't think [JMS] needed justification; any large center
>of population will develop slums, homeless, and fugitives [...]

Perhaps, if there's room; I'm just skeptical that B5 would have enough unallocated cubic and "crawlspace" to accomodate them; and if the life-support budget is such that only senior officers get real-water showers, the excuse that "it costs too much to send them back" doesn't ring true. (In fact, the whole price-schedule for passengers-vs-sausage-freight seems off -- but that's bad-bureaucracy for you.) And there should be horrible lack-of-sanitation diseases sweeping through, too...