sentences: Michael Straczynski named the character after the science fiction writer Alfred Bester, since telepathy is a recurring theme in his work (most notably "The Demolished Man", which partly may have inspired the Psi corps and the "death of personality" legal punishment in the Babylon 5 universe).When Bester first appeared in the "Babylon 5" series, he was in pursuit of a powerful telepath named Jason Ironheart, who had been the victim of illegal genetic and drug experiments by the Psi Corps in an attempt to create a powerful supertelepath, a P20 or beyond.