He takes up residence in a small hotel in Paris under a false identity.

In this environment, Bester expertly fades into the background, hiding from the new Corps, and hoping to simply live his life out. Through the telling of the story in this novel, we see an overall shift has occurred, changing the longstanding friction between “teeps” and “normals (or Mundanes)” to something resembling a genuine balance of power between the two. A new Corps is formed, this time to hunt these criminals down and bring them to justice. With the help of the Interstellar Alliance (and specifically President John Sheridan), the bloodshed ends, trials are held, and some were even declared war criminals, including Bester. Within the Corps, Bester’s hand was so heavy it bolstered a new (or renewed) resistance and a telepath civil war erupted-often referred to as the Telepath War. To be blunt, the book makes some correlations to his abusive authority on par with many of history’s most horrible rulers. Bester had served as its commander, and was unsurprisingly ruthless in his pursuit of rogues, not to mention using the power of the Corps against “normals”. The novel takes place on Earth, and primarily in the city of Paris.Īs things kick off, we’ve moved forward in time and the Psi Corps as we knew it has ended. Bester approximately in the year 2250, and follow him until approximately 2281, around the time John Sheridan dies and the Babylon 5 station is decommissioned. As with the other two, Final Reckoning: The Fate of Bester was based on a script written by JMS, and are considered canon, and written by J. Here we are, ready to discuss the third novel in the Psi Corps trilogy.

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