Susanna Luchenko

From The Great Machine

Susanna Luchenko became Earth Alliance President in 2261 after the suicide of President Clark.

A member of the Russian Consortium, Luchenko succeeded Clark in 2261 after serving in the Earth Senate; her first task was to clean up the aftermath of the civil war:

We realize that many of you want revenge against those who caused such great pain and suffering. We ask that you listen to the better angels of your nature. Give the courts and the legal system time to locate and prosecute those responsible. Only a sane and careful study of the facts will allow us to separate those who were willing partners in President Clark's reign of terror from those who cooperated only in fear of their lives. -- (S4E21, Rising Star)

Also in 2261, Luchenko pardoned Sheridan for his actions during the civil war, oversaw Earth joining the new Interstellar Alliance, and signed the order granting Mars independence for the first time.

She approved joint Human-Minbari program to build a destroyer-class Whitestar vessel, culminating in the Victory and the Excalibur. In 2266, she ordered a defensive fleet to confront the Drakh attack on Earth, and she used the Excalibur to search for a cure to the Drakh Plague (MoW4 A Call to Arms).

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