In the
Babylon 5 the Vorlons are one of two
enigmatic secretive
elder races, who remained behind to 'guide' the lesser races. They chose to be somewhat visible, and let their influence be known, even if by names of gods, and
deities. They were the
shepherds, emphasizing
order, following the structure of
the system.
Their true form, hidden beneath suits, and illusions, was like two conjoined squid, glowing with light, and composed mostly of energy, but with likely some organic roots remaining. They programmed each race they touched however to see them as an
angel, a being of light bearing both similarity and difference from them self. Slowly they were revealed to have manipulated the very
genetics of the
child races they were to guide, even creating
telepaths as a weapon against their sister race known only as the
Shadows.
They were however in the end no better than their
counterpart, just as
self assuming,
arrogant,
domineering, thinking they knew what was best. By some arguments they were better, aiming for
peace, and
harmony, but when
push came to shove they were willing to
sacrifice billions of
relative innocents to
stamp out the
opposing point of view.
A Vorlon will ask you, "Who are you?", but never ask a Vorlon, "What do you want?"
Yes...the ultimate GTKY node war...see...told you they were both the bad guys. XD