![]() ![]() Finding a New Way Īfter nearly four years on the run, Byron and his followers arrived on Babylon 5 in January 2262 in search of a new home away from mundanes and the iron grip of the Psi Corps. Joining the underground, Byron swore to himself that he would never allow innocents be harmed like that again, and to find a better way for his people without violence, without preying on their own kind, or letting others prey on them. Still haunted by the incident with the transport, in April of 2258 Byron managed to escape the Corps by faking his own death in pursuit of a rogue ship near Venus. ![]() When he returned to base, Byron tried to file a report on the incident, but found that nobody wanted to know. Knowing that they really would kill him, Byron reluctantly pulled the trigger and destroyed the ship, since "after all, they were just mundanes." The other members of Omega Squadron followed Bester's lead. Intent on seeing if Byron had what it took to be in his inner circle, Bester moved to lock his own weapons onto Byron's fighter, telling Byron that either he carried out his orders, or face serious consequences. Byron protested at first, refusing to murder a ship full of unarmed civilians in cold blood. As the last lifepod containing the telepaths was clear, Bester decided to send the underground a message, ordering Byron to lock all forward weapons on the transport and preparing to fire on his command. Byron and the rest of Black Omega intercepted and surrounded another transport suspected of carrying rogue telepaths, demanding the crew turn the telepaths over to them or face deadly force, with which the mundane transport crew complied. Sometime later, Psi Corps received word of a covert operation smuggling telepaths into Earth's outer colonies, where it would be harder for MetaPol to find them. Unknown to anyone besides Bester's inner circle, it was actually Bester who staged the assassination, spending years planting telepathic triggers in Johnston's aides. Officially the bombing was blamed on the Telepath Resistance, playing out exactly as he claimed. The damaged modular section quickly flooded and Bester had only just been able to escape before it auto-detached to save the rest of the complex, though the Director was not as lucky. Claiming that one of Johnston's guards turned on the Director during a late night meeting with the Psi Cop, Bester shot the guard in the leg before he set off a bomb. Awoken by an explosion that rocked the facility, Byron found a wounded Bester near a flooded section of the base where the Director had been staying. Morden from Earthforce New Technologies Division, the members of Black Omega bunked down for the night. Escorting Bester back to the Black Omega transport, Byron and Ysidra then headed to Ganymede, docking at the secret Icehouse facility much to the surprise of base staff. The ship exploded, damaging Bester's Starfury. After a sensor scan showed that the ship was empty, Bester realized it was a trap set by Director Johnston and his cronies. On November 18, Byron accompanied Bester and Tapia in pursuit of a transport supposedly carrying rogue telepaths which they tracked and captured near Jupiter. Though Bester considered him somewhat young and naive, he still intended Byron to become one of his inner circle like Donne and Ysidra Tapia. In 2256, Byron was assigned to Black Omega Squadron under the command of Alfred Bester. Having tested as a strong P12, he was trained through the Corps' Minor and Major Academies before fully graduating as a MetaPol Psi Cop. Like many Earth telepaths, Byron was raised by the Psi Corps. ![]()
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