Byron Gordon
From The Babylon Project
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- "That's why we're here. Because we're tired of being ordered around by those who cannot hear the song. Tired of being used as canon fodder, as inquisitors, as executioners, and as bloodhounds."
- – Byron
Byron Gordon is a rogue human telepath. He was formerly a Psi Cop who worked closely with Alfred Bester, but he left the Corps after an incident where, on Bester's orders, he shot down a transport full of "mundanes" that had been harboring rogue telepaths. Byron was overcome with guilt and vowed to find a better way for telepath-kind.
He and his followers arrived on Babylon 5 in 2262 in search of a new home away from mundanes and the iron grip of the Psi Corps. They were granted sanctuary on the station by Interstellar Alliance president, John Sheridan. They set up a small colony on Brown 3. Byron's group believed that telepaths can be better than mundanes by not adopting their violent ways, as the Psi Corps had done.
Soon many more rogue telepaths continued to travel to the station. The small peaceful group of telepaths soon became entirely too large to manage and incidents began to break out across the station.
In the meantime he begins a romantic relationship with Lyta Alexander.
They all soon realize that telepaths were created by the Vorlons to be used as tools to fight against the Shadows. After this revelation, he and his followers come to believe that the mundanes owe them for this role, and demand a homeworld immediately and threaten to use secrets they stole from the ambassadors of all the races of the Interstellar Alliance if they do not bend to his wishes. After these turn of events the Psi Corps are sent in to deal with the problem and Byron, along with a number of his followers, commit suicide rather than be taken into custody and to allow himself to become a martyr for his cause.
Lyta Alexander becomes the de facto leader of the remainder of Byron's resistance.
The song sung by his group of Telepaths is as follows:-
- And we will all come together in a better place, a better place than this
- My love will guide you, my love will hold you,:And my love will show you the way.
- There will come a tomorrow where we're free from our sorrows,
- And our love will show us the way.
- We are strong in each other, we're sister and brother,
- And we will all come together in a better place, a better place than this.
- My love will guide you, my love will hold you,
- And my love will show you the way.
- There will come a tomorrow where we're free from our sorrows,
- And our love will show us the way.
[edit] Notes
- The personnel files on the "Babylon 5: Season 5 DVD" special features lists Byron's homeworld as "Mars Dome".
