Byron quotes from Babylon 5

Byron

At the moment of death there is a passing of energy, an explosion of consciousness. It permeates everything in close proximity... your clothes, jewelry... anything. We can still feel him - what he was, what he did, his hopes, and fears, and expectations. It's still there for a minutes, then it will disappear... joining him in silence.

Byron

We are no longer who we were. We are what we have become. What you made us!

Byron

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.

Lyta Alexander

They forget we're human beings, too.

Byron

No, not human beings. Better. That's why they're afraid of us. It's all ego, you know. "What a piece of work is man. How noble in reason. How infinite in faculties. In form and moving how express and admirable. In action how like an angel. In apprehension how like a god. The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals...." The paragon of animals. 6,000 years of brutality, murder and slavery. An animal does not do this to its own kind, but they do it to each other. And they would do it to us! Unless we stop them. Unless we find a way to help each other. Unless we care for one another.

Lyta Alexander

Byron, the Vorlons changed me. More than you could possibly know. I don't know what it'll do once you get past my barriers and I get past yours. It could burn you.

Byron

Then let it burn.

Lyta Alexander

Byron, the Vorlons changed me. More than you could possibly know. I don't know what it'll do once you get past my barriers and I get past yours. It could burn you.

Byron

Then let it burn.

Byron

It was the Vorlons.

Lyta

Yes.

Byron

They created telepaths on a hundred worlds. Interfered with their genetic development. Took people from their homeworlds and adjusted them over the course of the centuries.

Lyta

Yes.

Byron

Because they needed telepaths in their war against the Shadows. Needed us as cannon fodder.

Lyta

Yes.

Byron

We would be normal. We would have lives. We would be able to walk and live and work among normals without fear of persecution if the Vorlons had not interfered with our normal development. We were made for their benefit, to save them. We were told that our abilities were our gift and our curse, and that we were somehow responsible for it. But we're not. We're not.

Lyta Alexander

You can't change human nature, Byron.

Byron

Then there's not much point in living, is there? If you can't hope for something better, something nobler, at least something kinder?

Byron

I'm a strong P-12.

Lyta Alexander

But all P-12s are automatically designated Psi Cops. You were a Psi Cop?

Byron

Not just a Psi Cop. Bester's protege.