You look over the options…you can’t decide which one to choose…if you select option A, you’ll be mainly robotic and thus defeats the purpose of staying alive and remaining as human as possible. If you selected option B, you would have no knowing what might happen. Knowing how the Minbari acted, they might give you gills, and scales, and fins and turn you into a fish and then kill you to eat you.
Nevertheless, both options are out of the question…must choose either one…ah hell, let the computer choose for me!
As your finger releases off the button for option C, you feel an odd sensation develop all over your body. You look over at the technician. “Well what is going to happen to me?”
The technician looks at you, and shakes his head, “Don’t know…the computer is deciding.”
You decide to leave the transformation chamber, but all of a sudden your legs give out on you. You feel extremely tired and you actually find yourself wanting to sleep. As you try to straighten out your legs, they seem to be shrinking…getting smaller…but then of course so are your fingers.
You stare at your hand…it seems to be thinning and shrinking. Your shirt becomes baggy, and your pants baggier yet. You look down at your privates and notice that the pubic hair is missing…all that is left is smooth, prepubescence skin. You look back at the Minbari and both of you now know what is happening…you are age regressing.
Younger and younger…this is worse then any of the torments of options A or B. Pass age nine to age five. You find yourself unable to remember you security codes, unable to remember your creed with the Earthforce military. Five years old, your hair falls out…all of it. You are confused, scared…alone, your very mind is reconditioning that to a four year old Minbari child.
You crawl out of your pants and drag your uniform as you approach age two. Finally you stop age regressing, your memory has been completely erased, you have no memory of earth, no memory of being human…you are Minbari, a Minbari not born of Minbari. You were transformed into this because you lacked the ability to decide on your own and this trait is not favored amongst the Minbari. Maybe if you are reborn as a Minbari, you’ll learn your lesson. Now you’ll serve the Minbari race, willingly, equally, and religiously.