The Corps Was Right
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2272: Six years after the Telepath War. Chicago.
She knew she’d crossed the line. Would he call for security and have her removed? Would he have her arrested?
It had happened before. It would happen again.
Hopefully it wouldn’t happen today.Series
- Part 2 of Behind the Gloves
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Acknowledgments, Dedication, ToC and Timelines by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5, Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms
12 Mar 2017
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What is Behind the Gloves?
Why does this book exist?
Read on!
This chapter contains the opening pages of the "Behind the Gloves" series: the dedication, acknowledgments to my beta readers and line editors, timelines of events, a table of contents, the book's statement of purpose, and other materials useful for readers.
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- Part 1 of Behind the Gloves
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On the ride home, she sat in the car expressionless – silent, exhausted, confused, and angry. Her parents didn’t care what she wanted – they were going to do whatever they wanted, no matter what. And what did they know about what she was going through?
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Sometimes, going on sleepers causes no side effects, but that's not the problem: the problem is you still have to live among normals.
The prologue of Behind the Gloves is here - please read!
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- Part 3 of Behind the Gloves
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Andy ran past the shops on Main Street, zigzagging around the pedestrians, heading for the woods about half a mile off, hoping to lose them. If ever his track trophies mattered, it was now.
Even without turning, he could hear – and feel – the four bullies in hot pursuit.
The prologue of Behind the Gloves is here - please read!
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- Part 5 of Behind the Gloves
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John's Story ("The Metamorphosis") by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5, Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms
13 Mar 2017
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“I won’t lie to you,” Jefferson was saying, "it won’t be easy out there, on this side of the gloves. The real world isn’t a children’s book. Normals tolerate us when we’re useful to them, but they never truly accept us.”
John nodded. Useful. The book had shown all the ways that telepaths were useful.
“You’re special, John. You’re gifted.”
He hoped he wasn’t making the mistake of his life.
The prologue of Behind the Gloves is here - please read!
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- Part 6 of Behind the Gloves
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Garibaldi admits, in A Race Through Dark Places, "It's damn ironic, isn't it? The Corps got started because we were afraid of telepaths. Now they're victims of our own fears. We took away every right they had and shoved them into a big black box called Psi Corps."
Wait, what?
"Took away every right they had?" Telepaths used to have rights, and normals took them away, not the Corps? "Every right they had" has to be an exaggeration... no?
Sheridan: "Yeah, if you ask me we created our own monster. And maybe we deserve it."
Yeah, maybe you do.
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- Part 7 of Behind the Gloves
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“Let me get you a glass of water,” Athena said. “You’ll see – everything will be all right.”
The man who gave Josephine the injection wasn’t nearly so optimistic.
“Throughout history,” he said, as the needle went into her arm, “there have always been those who are so ashamed of what they are, who wanted so badly to integrate, to assimilate, to curry favor with those in power, that they would sell their souls, sell out their own, or even commit suicide. It’s not just telepaths – it’s a human failing, I believe.”
“Excuse me?”
“You’re trying to be better than those of us who wear gloves. You’re trying to separate yourself from me, to hold onto what I’ve been denied by killing what makes you special, makes you gifted. You’re ready to hand over your soul for an empty promise of acceptance from normals, and what you think you’re entitled to. But you’re a fool, because they will never accept you. There’s only one future for telepaths – in unity, honesty, and pride in who we are. In absolute mutual guarantee, despite our differences. That’s the Corps.”
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- Part 8 of Behind the Gloves
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Stevie Campbell nervously wrung his hands backstage. Five minutes till his entrance on the DiPeso show, watched by millions - maybe even billions - across the world.
He could hear the comedian cracking jokes for his opening monologue.
Something was wrong.
Very wrong.
Deadly wrong.
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- Part 9 of Behind the Gloves
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A mini history lesson about the origins of American "privacy law" and the beginning of the legal story of how we got from "here" to "there."
Oh Justice Brandeis, if you only knew how your fears were used to turn the Constitution on its head.
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- Part 20 of Behind the Gloves
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In Paragon of Animals, former Psi Cop Byron Gordon stands up to Garibaldi:
"Do you know what a telepath has to do in order to avoid picking up stray thoughts? We have to kick down our natural abilities. Run rhymes and little songs through our heads, round and round. All that to keep from picking up what you're broadcasting loud enough to be heard halfway down the hall. ... Mundanes want us to fill our heads with noise and babble so we won't hear what you're shouting at the top of your minds."
To be a telepath in the mundane world is like living in the never-ending hell of Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron, sometimes with physically dangerous consequences. Bester finds this out the first time he leaves Academy grounds.
After all, as it says in Deadly Relations, p. 58, when Al is attacked by a normal for the second time in two days, and this time decides to fight back: "Al came to the painful decision that he would have to break a regulation. He probably had already - [telepathically] pushing a normal, even in self-defense."
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- Part 10 of Behind the Gloves
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She pins her insignia badge to her jacket lapel, slips on her leather gloves, and examines herself in the mirror.
Perfect hair. Perfect clothes. Perfect smile.
All dressed up, and nowhere to go.
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- Part 13 of Behind the Gloves
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The Big Reveal of Lee Crawford's Evil Plans!
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- Part 11 of Behind the Gloves
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Somehow, since arriving at school, he had absorbed the deeper meaning of the artwork, as if through telepathic osmosis. Family. The ripped paper represented violence, he now knew – out in the wider world, telepaths were attacked regularly by normals, often for no reason at all. The glue stood for healing – imperfect, messy – and the empty gloves honored telepaths who had been murdered, or killed in the line of duty protecting the Corps. All the remaining shapes in the figure were interconnected, overlapping – none could be removed without tearing the ones around it, or cutting the string, if not unraveling the entire project itself. And the red border, he knew – the red paint stood for blood.
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- Part 17 of Behind the Gloves
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Part 3 of the "mini history lesson" series.
Why are we studying Constitutional Law? Because these are the legal underpinnings that allow normals to murder telepaths - and get away with it.
This is also an in-depth look at how constitutional interpretations that were adopted in the 20th century to protect the "little guy" from abuse of government power themselves became vehicles for exactly that, in the "bizarro world" of Earth Alliance law.
Part 1 is here.
Part 2 is here.
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- Part 21 of Behind the Gloves
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We now take a break from history and law and bring you to Mars, the hotbed of never-ending war, terrorism, and stuff blowing up!
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- Part 24 of Behind the Gloves
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Morgan Clark As Tragic Hero? by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5, Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms
04 Apr 2017
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The prologue of Behind the Gloves is here - please read!
Behind the Gloves' main focus is of course on telepaths, though to tell the telepath "story" with completeness, one must also tell other stories that intersect with this central narrative. One such story is the rise - and fall - of Morgan Clark. Behind the Gloves' position is that rather than the straight-up villain he is presented as in canon, he was actually a more nuanced character, a bit like Macbeth.
A very powerful figure in EarthGov, Clark's obsession, after the Earth-Minbari War, with defending humanity from the Minbari at all costs, led him to make a "deal with the devil" (the Shadows). Though his initial motivations were just, the Shadows exploited his fatal flaw (his lust for personal power), convincing him to assassinate Santiago and take over the Presidency - a choice that led Earth down a catastrophic path, and eventually, brought about Clark's own destruction.
We cover this story because many of the victims of his despotic regime were telepaths.
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- Part 26 of Behind the Gloves
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Department Sigma - The Invisible Heroes of Psi Corps by pallasite
Fandoms: Babylon 5, Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms
06 Apr 2017
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The prologue of Behind the Gloves is here - please read!
The elusive "Department Sigma" is mentioned many times in the canon books, and the results of their work (and mishaps) are mentioned several times in the show (e.g. Dust, and the Ironheart debacle). Indeed, when it comes to "secret projects" in the Corps, it seems they're behind everything. But who was "Department Sigma," and what were they really up to?
Perhaps surprisingly, they weren't the "evil" outfit the show leads you to believe. Rather, the inspiration for their work came directly from the Vorlons themselves, who took Psi Corps director Kevin Vacit, and his aide Natasha Alexander (Lyta's grandmother) onto their ship - and showed them the long, difficult path necessary for humanity to defeat the Shadows. Telepaths were at the center of the plan.
Director Johnston assassinated Natasha Alexander.
Under subterfuge, Department Sigma plowed ahead anyway, knowing nothing less was at stake than humanity itself.
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- Part 27 of Behind the Gloves
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We now take a short break from the re-writing of "Eyes" from Gray's POV to bring you a two-part Birthday story!
It's April 12, the day the Corps was founded, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EVERYONE!
An unlikely hero saves the day on Birthday. ^_^
The prologue of Behind the Gloves is here - please read!
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- Part 33 of Behind the Gloves
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In the years before the Dexter Raid of 2189, rogue telepath violence and chaos seemed to increase month by month, week by week, day by day. Bombings all over the world. Prison breaks. Telepath youth sold into slavery - both by normals and by other telepaths. And kidnappings - oh, so many kidnappings.
This is the story of thirteen-year-old Remy Ligeau, an autistic telepath boy from rural Canada - his kidnapping by rogue telepath leaders, and the hunt to find him.
This story is canon. I filled in what they didn't tell you.
The prologue of Behind the Gloves is here - please read!
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- Part 48 of Behind the Gloves
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The Corps uncovers an international plot to sell telepath youth into slavery, and a brave young Psi Cop must go undercover to stop it.
This is all in canon - I'm just retelling the story from the Psi Cop's point of view.
The prologue of Behind the Gloves is here - please read!
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- Part 50 of Behind the Gloves
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