As I mentioned over in the "One year later" thread, nobody really knows what if anything the Fivers do in Fenspace.
They don't have a major point-of-presence (the folks at Babylon .5 insist they aren't the faction headquarters), they don't have a role in the Convention beyond mediating interfactional disputes (which is being taken over by the Space Patrol's Section 3), and they don't have any named characters or ships.
CGI is a bigger part of Fenspace than the Fivers are, and they're nearly a decade younger than the Interstellar Alliance...
So... why are the Fivers one of the "Big Six" factions? Should they be demoted to Minor Faction status? If yes, should the Big Six become the Big Five, or should somebody else (possibly the Supers) be promoted to take their place?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
They don't have a major point-of-presence (the folks at Babylon .5 insist they aren't the faction headquarters), they don't have a role in the Convention beyond mediating interfactional disputes (which is being taken over by the Space Patrol's Section 3), and they don't have any named characters or ships.
CGI is a bigger part of Fenspace than the Fivers are, and they're nearly a decade younger than the Interstellar Alliance...
So... why are the Fivers one of the "Big Six" factions? Should they be demoted to Minor Faction status? If yes, should the Big Six become the Big Five, or should somebody else (possibly the Supers) be promoted to take their place?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012