However, the Minbari code of honor and Warrior Caste System precluded this.

The Minbari on the other hand maintained ground tactics based more on ancient Warrior Codes.

Sheridan pursues the person but runs into a Warrior caste Minbari who attacks him.

In Minbari culture, there are three castes: Worker, Warrior and Religious.

Sheridan married three women, and while only one was Minbari, each represented a different caste: Anna ( Worker ), Elizabeth ( Warrior ) and Delenn ( Religious ).

The Council's cruiser encountered a flotilla of Earth Alliance ships, and approached with gun ports open, a gesture of respect in the tradition of the Minbari Warrior Caste.

Delenn did this to give the Worker caste a majority voice among the Minbari people-who she felt were ignored for far too long considering that when temples for the Religious caste or ship for the Warrior caster were needed, it was the Worker caste who built them.

* Minbari Warrior Caste-In the fictional Babylon 5 universe, the Warrior Caste is one of three castes in Minbari society.

Neroon was a member of the Minbari Warrior Caste from the Star Riders clan.

During the storied Earth-Minbari War, Neroon fought against the humans and eventually became Alit ( second in command ) of a Minbari warship under the command of Shai Alit Branmer, a Minbari of mixed Religious-and Warrior-caste parentage, who was so incensed by what he perceived as the humans ' unprovoked murder of Dukhat, the leader of the Grey Council, that he defied tradition and took up his father's caste, the Warrior caste.

Following the war, Jha ' Dur secretly entered the service of the " Wind Swords ", a particularly militant Clan of the Minbari Warrior Caste.

The Earth Alliance found itself being annihilated, losing soldiers and ships at an appalling rate, with the war itself progressing in favor of the Minbari.

At the Flinn colony, ground-based human weapons forced the Minbari to land soldiers on the planet, and massive hand-to-hand combat raged across the planet's surface.

In desperation humans employed elite groups of hunter killer soldiers who tracked behind Minbari lines and used all means to kill Minbari Warriors.

EarthForce ships and soldiers fought bravely, but after two years of bloody fighting the Minbari had conquered or destroyed all of the strategically important human colonies, bypassing the remainder and headed straight for Earth.

Dr. Franklin of Babylon 5 theorized that this was one of the reasons why the Minbari were so successful in the Earth-Minbari War-they could survive injuries and battle wounds that would kill or incapacitate a human, and they could keep fighting longer than most human soldiers could.

Just as the marriage of Aragorn and Arwen reunited the Humans and Elves, whose blood flowed through them both, the marriage of John Sheridan and Delenn reunited the Humans and Minbari, who shared each other's souls.

* The Soul Hunter alludes to the death of Dukhat, a Minbari leader who later is revealed to play a significant role in events leading up to the Earth-Minbari War.

Apparently all the officers proposed by Earth for command of Babylon 5 were rejected by the Minbari government, which as a co-sponsor of B5 had a say in who ran it, until Sinclair was nominated.

Sheridan believes that the re-appearance of the Trigati is a bad sign, especially since the Minbari still resent him as the " Starkiller ", the human who destroyed their flagship, the Black Star, during the war.

During the course of her investigation, Delenn encounters problems with the Minbari residents of the station, who still do not accept her new form.

She also interviews an Earth Alliance Senator named Ronald Quantrell, who equivocates on the Project's success and claims that Earth only supported the station immediately after the Earth – Minbari War, when Earth's weakness forced it to promote galactic peace.

His comments are strongly criticized by Captain John Sheridan, Babylon 5's commanding officer, who argues that Earth still doesn't have the level of technology to fight the Minbari, Centauri, or " god forbid " the Vorlons, and that Babylon 5 is still the " last, best hope for peace " in the galaxy.

( When David's CO gave the order to open fire on the Minbari ships, David was the one who actually carried out the order.

* The ultimate fate of Ambassador Sinclair is revealed-Sinclair has become one of the holiest figures of Minbari history, Valen, who will lead them to victory during the first Shadow War, form the Grey Council, and found large parts of their societal structure.

Humans who look upon an unclad Vorlon would see a winged angel from Abrahamic religions ; a Drazi would perceive them as Droshalla, a Narn as G ' Lan, a Minbari as Valeria, etc.

This war raged between the Shadows and the combined forces of the Vorlons and many younger species such as the Minbari, who, at the time, were the oldest spacefaring race who were not First Ones themselves.

* Legacies, Season 1, episode 17, in which a diplomatic incident results after the disappearance of the corpse of the Minbari war leader who oversaw the Battle of the Line.

This would normally be impossible, as Minbari and humans are not genetically compatible, but Delenn's transformation into a Human / Minbari hybrid, in addition to the fact that she was a descendant of the " Minbari not of Minbari " ( Jeffery Sinclair, former CO of Babylon 5, who went into the past and was transformed himself into a Human / Minbari hybrid-Valen ) made it possible for her and Sheridan to have a child together.

When Delenn chooses Sheridan, it drives a further wedge between the Minbari religious and warrior castes, who soon break a thousand years of cooperation and begin a civil war against one another.

After Sheridan and Babylon 5 break away from Earth, it is Delenn who rescues the station with a fleet of Minbari ships, but at a high cost.

* The Grey Council's orders to surrender at the Battle of the Line was bitterly opposed by much of the warrior caste ; this has led to a growing rift between the religious and warrior castes in Minbari society.

The Council's Triluminary detected Valen's DNA in Sinclair, so they assumed, to their profound shock, that he possessed the soul of Valen, a hero of the Minbari who led them to victory 1, 000 years ago against the Shadows.

He was not impressed by the revelation of the Grey Council's secret and was angry at the years their leaders had been concealing the truth about the end of the war from the Minbari people.

Only one battle was a real victory for Earth, involving the destruction of the Minbari flagship Black Star.

He and Delenn have a reunion on board the Minbari flagship.

When the ship's captain was killed in an ambush by the Minbari flagship Black Star, Sheridan took command of the Lexington.

Sheridan has made use of nuclear devices on at least four separate occasions: against the Minbari flagship, the Black Star ; at Z ' ha ' dum ; at Coriana 6 ; and again during the events of Thirdspace.

Commander John Sheridan succeeded in destroying the Black Star, the Minbari flagship — it was the only Minbari capital ship lost during the entire war, and it was ultimately a fruitless victory.

Ten years prior to the opening scene of the series, an Earth military commander misinterprets the open gun ports ( a Minbari sign of respect ) from the Minbari flagship and hastily attacks it, killing their leader Dukhat.

He had family aboard the Minbari flagship Black Star when it was destroyed by Babylon 5 commander John Sheridan.

The Minbari flagship Dral La Fi ( Minbari for " Black Star ") closes in to finish off the remaining Earth ship but is destroyed by the mine blast.