"His name is Kalain," the Minbari said, coolly. "He was the second-in-command on a cruiser. When his commander died, he took over. He is here now and I feel he is a danger to the safety of this station."
"What makes you think that he's a danger?" Sheridan asked.
"I have my reasons, otherwise I would not be here," the thin man said. "Arrange to have him picked up and I will arrange to have him returned to Minbar."
"You say he was second-in-command on a cruiser," Sheridan noted. "Which one?"
"I don't see how that is important," the Minbari noted curtly.
"Was it the Trigati?" Sheridan asked, unfazed.
With a clearly disgruntled look, the Minbari nodded.
"What's the Trigati?" Ivanova asked.
With a deep breath, the Minbari reluctantly went into an explanation of the end of the Earth-Minbari war and how the commander of the Trigati killed himself rather than surrender.
"Since then, the Trigati has been rogue," the man said.
"There's one thing I don't get," Sheridan said, standing up. "You said you worked in the Minbari government, with the Ministry of Culture?"
"That's right," was the response.
"Then how do you know a high-ranking member of the Warrior caste well enough to recognize him twelve years later?" Sheridan asked pointedly.
"I would answer your question," the Minbari said. "If I recognized your authority. Unlike your predecessor, my government wasn't consulted on your appointment."
"EarthGov felt the Minbari had too much influence on Babylon 5," Sheridan snapped. "Times change."
"The day a man such as you is assigned to a position of this importance is a dark day indeed," the Minbari said stepping forward, close into Sheridan's face. "We lost many of our best warriors on the Black Star. And many more to your assassin on Proxima 3. We do not forget such things. If there is a doom on this station, then you brought it here!"
Then the man stormed out of the room, without listening.
"You're right, they don't like me," Sheridan noted blandly to Ivanova.
"Well, the Blackstar was their flagship," Ivanova noted.
"That's what made it a good target," Sheridan agreed.
"What did happen with the Blackstar?" Ivanova asked in curiosity. "I heard it was some new manuever, but I never heard the details."
"There wasn't much to it," he said. "We couldn't lock on to their ships, some sort of stealth technology, so I got the idea of miningthe asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars. A fusion bomb doesn't need a targeting lock to hit a target. They lost the Black Star and three of their cruisers before they got out."
He took a moment to think things through.
"I don't like what he said about an assassin, however," he said. "Sounds like our hunter-killer."
"Shall I make her something more than a casual priority then?" Ivanova asked.
"Yeah," Sheridan's eyes started to stare off for a moment. "But first, I think I know where Kalain might be."
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