It seems like the First One’s are really set in their foreign policy ways. It’s like their foreign policies have remained unchanged for longer than human civilization. While here on Earth, its like our foreign policies change whenever a new leader or administration takes over which can be within a few years or decades.
Why is that?
Is it due to their long lifespans so they have a longer view on things, or is it some biological need for them to follow?
For example, the Third Space Aliens are intent on genociding all intelligent life in existence and have been going at it non-stop for millions of years. Did they never at one point think that it wasn’t a good use of their resources and time or is it just some biological consumption for them to just kill intelligent beings?
I guess the same applies to their tech. Its not like they’ve reached the highest tech level of their universe. Each FOs have tech that is unique to them, and the show seems to like to introduce bigger and bigger fish.
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It basically boils down to “why mess with success?”
Perhaps the drawback to immortality is this?
I mean on Earth we basically dedicated the latter half if the 20th century to the ideological war between the US and Soviet Union and we humans don’t live as long as the First Ones so to them the War between the Shadows and the Vorlons has been going on on a similar time frame.
Also after enough bloodshed war tends to become self-perpetuating, people start killing eachother not for the actual causes of the war, but as retaliation for previous attacks.
They’re immortal and so they don’t like change. Their ideas have drifted over millions of years, as the Vorlons and Shadows used to be allies.