And I still don’t like your ages ideas.
I don’t want to start like present Earth, evolve into B5 Earth Alliance, then into the trek Federation, and then into the sw Empire, then somehow mutate into the Yuuzhan Vong

, to finally evolve into the Vorlon to end up being Q!
Do you like this ages order?
What I want to do, and think most of the others want is play any of those races and fight against the others.
Your point about B5 lack of shields is well seen. It will be harder to balance that with armor and lower costs, but it’s possible.
I just copied the first post, but I read the others.