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Londo´s Partnership with the Shadows, Part I

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In season 1 we see G´Kar as the one who is being boastful and difficult. Londo Mollari takes a back role and does not do much but drink and gamble, and long for the old days of the republic. We know that the Centauri had conquered Narn many years ago, but that situation was much changed now.

Then along comes Mr. Morden, in Signs and Portents in Season 1, end of season 1, asking everyone one simple question, "What do you want?" G´Kar tells Morden that what he really wants is to decimate the Centauri -- "to completely, utterly erase them." "And then what?" asks Morden. G'Kar, taken aback, answers, "I don't know. As long as my homeworld's safety is guaranteed, I don't know that it matters." (Lurker´s Guide) Morden is not completely satisfied with this so he leaves.

He visits Delenn, and she sees him for what he is "With her back to Morden, she questions the purpose of his visit. In midsentence, she stops as if she suddenly feels faint. Her hand shoots to her forehead, covering it, and then away, to reveal a hollow silver triangle glowing in her skin. She covers her forehead again and spins around to face Morden. He becomes darker and darker until he appears nothing more than a silhouette -- a shadow. Delenn demands that he leave immediately; he does so, apparently unaware that she sensed anything odd about him. After he's gone, Delenn's triangle fades away as she looks on, shocked. "They're here," she says, a hint of fear in her voice."(Lurker´s Guide)

The others do not interest Morden. But Morden does ask Londo. First he is annoyed and says he wants to be left alone. Then he gives his real answer, "He wants the Centauri Republic to stretch forth across the galaxy, to regain its days of glory."I want to stop running around like a man late for an appointment, afraid to look forward or look back ... I want it all back, the way that it was." He calms down. "Does that answer your question?" (Lurkers Guide) And finally Morden is satisfied. During this episode he trying to get a valuable relic off the station, but before raiders can steal it, a Shadow vessel comes and takes it. Morden returns the box to Londo. He is overjoyed.

So Londo decides to accept Morden and his friends the Shadows. In Chrysalis, Season I, he was going to have to give up some Centauri territory, quadrant 37, to the Narn and he did not want to do this.

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