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When Bester first appeared in the Babylon 5 series, he was in pursuit of a powerful telepath named Jason Ironheart, who had been the victim of illegal genetic and drug experiments by the Psi Corps in an attempt to create a powerful supertelepath, a P20 or beyond. Bester didn't get along with the command staff, a point which continually occurred ...
Babylon 5: Dark Genesis – The Birth of the Psi Corps (1998, ISBN 0-345-42715-7) Babylon 5: Deadly Relations – Bester Ascendant (1999, ISBN 0-345-42716-5) Babylon 5: Final Reckoning – The Fate of Bester (1999, ISBN 0-345-42717-3) Hardcover omnibus, The Psi Corps Trilogy. Published January 1, 1999 by The Science Fiction Book Club.
After the colony on Babylon 5 was forced to leave, Lyta Alexander began a crusade against the Psi Corps. Her actions led to a war in which rogue telepaths and non-telepaths fought the Psi Corps. The old Psi Corps was destroyed, and a new Psionic Monitoring Commission was built to replace it.
The Shadows used Psi-Corps personnel to reprogram humans. Alfred Bester diverted Garibaldi's transport to a Psi-Corps facility of his choosing, and spent the next two weeks carefully reprogramming him to uncover a conspiracy against the telepaths. After ensuring he remembered nothing, he was released unconscious onto an empty ship near Babylon 5.
"Mind War" is the sixth episode of the first season of the science fiction television series, Babylon 5. The episode deals with the arrival on the station of a telekinetically-enhanced fugitive telepath fleeing from Psi Corps experimentation, and introduces the Psi Cop Alfred Bester, who leads the manhunt.
In the aforementioned script book, Straczynski wrote that both Lyta and Lennier were killed in the explosion of Psi Corps Headquarters in a major battle of the Telepath War. Hints about her death had also been given by Straczynski in posts to the Babylon 5 newsgroup. [14] and in the final novel of the Psi Corps Trilogy by J. Gregory Keyes [15]
Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander (original TV movie, guest seasons 2–3, main seasons 4–5): A commercial Psi-Corps telepath who takes over for Talia when she leaves the station. Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar: The Narn ambassador to Babylon 5. Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari: The Centauri ambassador to Babylon 5.
In 2262, Earthforce Captain Elizabeth Lochley is appointed to command Babylon 5, which is now also the headquarters of the Interstellar Alliance. A conflict arises between Psi-Corps and a group of rogue telepaths that are seeking their own homeworld after learning that the Vorlons created telepaths as weapons against the Shadows.