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The Secret History of Johnston's Crimes by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5, Babylon 5 (TV 1993), Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms
12 Oct 2025
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The old lady placed a small, sharp object into Emily's gloved hand, gently closing the younger woman's fingers around it.
For a moment, her sad, tired eyes did all the talking.
"This is what Johnston's men came looking for that day," she finally said aloud, gently holding Emily's fist. "Brett knew everything, you see. He knew what Johnston had done, and what he planned to do. That data crystal you hold... what's written on there... that is what he died for."
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- Part 215 of Behind the Gloves
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Power Play by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5, Babylon 5 (TV 1993), Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms
29 Dec 2024
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My fix-it of the first half of Dark Genesis in one place.
No knowledge of the original canon book is necessary to read this, because this is a complete rewrite/fix-it that can replace the original with nothing of importance lost (and a lot more explained and shown).
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- Part 1 of Dark Genesis Fix-It
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The Rise of the Black Fox by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5, Babylon 5 (TV 1993), Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms
28 Dec 2024
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My fix-it of the second half of Dark Genesis in one place (and edited).
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- Part 2 of Dark Genesis Fix-It
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The Rise of the Black Fox, Part 3 (The Fifth Missing Novella of Dark Genesis/Psi Corps Backstory) by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5, Babylon 5 (TV 1993), Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms
27 Dec 2024
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A book covering the missing story of the Dexter Gang in the years leading up to the final Psi Corps raid on their base, and how Bester became the missing "baby of hope" for the Telepath Resistance.
Since canon has nothing but a seven-or so year gap between the events of the Remy Ligeau story arc (which canon never finished) and the events before Bester's birth, I fill in the narrative and character gaps using material that's mentioned but never shown/elaborated on in canon.
This includes the missing stories about:
* The undercover Psi Cop who tried to expose Rentech (the evil pharmaceutical company);
* Vacit and Natasha Alexander's quest to find the origins of telepathy (and find Vorlons);
* The Senate catching on to Vacit's support for the Underground;
* The events leading up to the Dexter RaidRated M for violence, language, off-screen abuse and messed up dynamics between characters, not because of explicit sexual content. Characters are stated as being in relationships but nothing sexual is shown. There is also a scene (from canon) where a child is rescued from sexual exploitation.
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- Part 209 of Behind the Gloves
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Notes On The Missing "Bey's Backstory" Book by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5 (TV 1993), Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms, Babylon 5
08 Mar 2024
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As Bester says, "Bey was the Corps - he represented everything good about it."
So Director Johnston has him killed, so solidify his power as dictator (oops, director).
For years I've known this book needs to be written, but I've been at a loss how best to do it. Some notes on my plans.
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- Part 208 of Behind the Gloves
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On Rogue Telepaths, And How The Corps Classifies Them by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5, Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms
03 Mar 2024
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What's a "Type A Blip," anyway? And what happens when the Corps finds them?
Do they really torture people?
(The prologue of Behind the Gloves is here - please read!)
Edit 3/3/24: New chapter added as I revisit this post and plan for a new section.
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- Part 115 of Behind the Gloves
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The Orphans (The Second Missing Novella of Dark Genesis/Psi Corps Backstory) by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5, Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms, Babylon 5 (TV 1993)
13 May 2023
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How did the Corps become "Mother and Father"?
The year is 2156. Violence against telepaths surges across Earth. Kevin Vacit, now director of Psi Corps - and himself an orphan - pulls telepath orphans together from around the world and brings them to "Teeptown" in Geneva, forming the first "cadres" of telepath children.
But first, he must first face down the man who kidnapped him as a child... and pay a terrible price.
This novella covers (among other things):
* The "missing story" of the relationship between Kevin Vacit and Monkey
* The "missing story" of the Centauri first contact (drunk Centauri!)
* Fiona Dexter's origin storyNEW EPILOGUE ADDED!
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- Part 157 of Behind the Gloves
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The Trap Is Set by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5, Babylon 5 (TV 1993), Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms
28 May 2022
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In Deadly Relations (the canon book), adolescent Bester runs away from school (on a whim) and almost winds up dead - twice. This is the story of how Bey rescues him, except I'm telling it from Bey's point of view. Unlike (clueless) adolescent Bester in the book, Bey actually knows what is going on and why.
This is the missing story and context.
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- Part 174 of Behind the Gloves
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Canon Reference List of All the Times Normals Kill Telepaths by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5, Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms
19 Mar 2021
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I've compiled the Big Ass List of Examples of canon abuse of telepaths, by normals, over 150 years. This list only includes what is directly mentioned or shown, and does not include the Telepath War itself.
The same list can be found in my prior post here, where I dissect a JMS Usenet post and respond with a discussion of the canon history and the legal framework by which telepaths are "regulated".
I am presently working on a novella focusing on just the events of 2156 - the year the Centauri arrived and made first contact, and the year the Corps (as such) was formed. This is one of the most eventful six-month periods in canon, but it somehow only gets a few pages and some indirect references later on. You deserve the full book.
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- Part 155 of Behind the Gloves
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Sandoval Bey was framed and arrested by (mundane) Psi Corps director Johnston, but commits suicide instead. Bey's death cements the evil Johnston's takeover of the Corps.
What happened?
The book doesn't say, now or later.
Al Bester, who looked at Bey like a father figure, stands alone by Bey's grave and vows that some day, he will make Johnston PAY.
Except the book leaves that out, too.
You had one job, book.
The prologue of Behind the Gloves is here - please read!
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- Part 153 of Behind the Gloves
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Bester's second interrogation in front of Director Johnston.
It's a trap.
"Are you a traitor, or are you a traitor?"
(Since canon presents this scene from Bester's POV, and he's a kid who doesn't know what's going on - even after later events unfold - I comment on the scene to show you all what was really happening.)
The prologue of Behind the Gloves is here - please read!
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- Part 150 of Behind the Gloves
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,508
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 6
- Hits:
- 77
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The Third Time Bey Saves Bester's Life by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5, Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms
02 Mar 2020
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Something has happened off-screen, and Bey has to break off all contact with Bester in order to save his life from the director (again).
The canon books claim (disingenuously) to "uncover the secret history of Psi Corps," but only offer two vague scenes to hint at the most important and tragic events in Psi Corps history of this period: namely, the "purge" of telepath leadership when Johnston replaces Vacit as director. He kills Sandoval Bey (Bester's father figure), Natasha Alexander (Lyta's grandmother), and everyone Bester grew up with (along with many others); he sells Bester's lover Caroline and other prisoners as "weapons parts" to the Shadows; and he was involved in literally selling Earth out to the Shadows - basically, he's one of the biggest "baddies" of the whole B5 universe (I would argue even worse than Clark).
Bester plots for decades to assassinate him, and that's also cut out of the books till the final scene.
Someone has to write this... me?
The prologue of Behind the Gloves is here - please read!
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- Part 142 of Behind the Gloves
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,491
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 8
- Hits:
- 65
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Bester Makes Some Almost-Friends by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5, Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms
01 Mar 2020
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For the year and a half Bester spends under Bey's wing, things are looking up for him. There's still some critical writing errors and gaps in the canon books that need to be fixed, however.
The prologue of Behind the Gloves is here - please read!
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- Part 141 of Behind the Gloves
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,978
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 5
- Hits:
- 74
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The Search for Fatima Cristoban (Part 2) by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5, Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms
28 Feb 2020
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This is a reworked canon story - a telepath teen runs away from school, Sandoval Bey (Psi Cop and professor at the school) goes off to rescue her from human traffickers, and he brings Bester along to observe.
But like everything in this section of the canon book (written from Bester's POV), there are important pieces left out, so I'm showing them.
Part 1 is here.
The prologue of Behind the Gloves is here - please read!
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- Part 138 of Behind the Gloves
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,524
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 8
- Hits:
- 82
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The Search for Fatima Cristoban (Part 1) by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5, Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms
26 Feb 2020
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This is also a canon story - a telepath teen runs away from school, Sandoval Bey (Psi Cop and professor at the school) goes off to rescue her from human traffickers, and he brings Bester along to observe. But like everything in this section (from Bester's POV), there are important pieces that he doesn't know about, so I'm showing them. This is critical because the books attempt to mischaracterize these events later on, from the point of view of a character who wasn't there for any of it, and this needs to be explained and refuted.
The prologue of Behind the Gloves is here - please read!
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- Part 137 of Behind the Gloves
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Punishment and Reconciliation in the Corps by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5, Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms
25 Feb 2020
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Bester learns what justice means in the Corps... and from a teacher who wasn't even born in the Corps.
(This is a canon story, but canon's telling of it was out of order and missing important explanations.)
Edit 6/18/22: The story leading up to Bester's punishment, from Bey's point of view, can be found here. The story of Bester's "statue time" from the point of one of his peers is forthcoming soon - Bester becomes an unwitting hero among the students - and the entire story of Johnston's treachery and Bey's demise, told at least in part also from Bey's point of view, will eventually be forthcoming.
The prologue of Behind the Gloves is here - please read!
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- Part 136 of Behind the Gloves
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,594
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 10
- Hits:
- 113
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The first time Psi Corps Director Johnston tries to kill Bester... when he's only 15 years old.
Since canon presents this scene from Bester's POV, and he's a kid who doesn't know what's going on, I rework the scene to show you all what was really going on - what the adults know, but he doesn't. (He didn't even know how much danger he was in!)
Edit 6/18/22: The full story leading up to this scene, from Bey's point of view, can be found here.
The prologue of Behind the Gloves is here - please read!
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- Part 135 of Behind the Gloves
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Sandoval Bey's Backstory (2) by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5, Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms
02 Jan 2019
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Sandoval Bey was Bester's mentor and father figure when he was a teen in the Corps. (This is canon - he's a character in the canon books and was discussed in the unfilmed Crusade script involving Bester.)
Fragments of his backstory are given in canon - I've pulled them together and I'm reconstructing his story, because his life story is, in a sense, the story of a certain era of the Corps. Bey entered the Corps as a teenager, a "later" from the normal world with no connections, yet eventually rose to be head of all of MetaPol under Director Vacit. His eventual assassination at the hands of Psi Corps Director Johnston (Vacit's successor) marked a pivotal moment both in Psi Corps history, and in Bester's life.
Part 1 is here.
The prologue of Behind the Gloves is here - please read!
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- Part 126 of Behind the Gloves
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,394
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 7
- Hits:
- 70
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Sandoval Bey's Backstory (1) by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5, Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms
31 Dec 2018
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Sandoval Bey was Bester's mentor and father figure when he was a teen in the Corps. (This is canon - he's a character in the canon books and was discussed in the unfilmed Crusade script involving Bester.)
Fragments of his backstory are given in canon - I've pulled them together and I'm reconstructing his story, because his life story is, in a sense, the story of a certain era of the Corps. Bey entered the Corps as a teenager, a "later" from the normal world with no connections, yet eventually rose to be head of all of MetaPol under Director Vacit. His eventual assassination at the hands of Psi Corps Director Johnston (Vacit's successor) marked a pivotal moment both in Psi Corps history, and in Bester's life.
New to Behind the Gloves? What is this series? Where are the acknowledgements, table of contents and universe timelines? See here.
The prologue of Behind the Gloves is here - please read!
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- Part 125 of Behind the Gloves
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In case you missed it: the one where Bester's parents die.
It was a flustercluck.
Here's what happened and why.
(Cleaning up canon and explaining a few things that weren't in there.)
The prologue of Behind the Gloves is here - please read!
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- Part 76 of Behind the Gloves