President Barbara Avery

President Barbara Avery is the President of United Earth during the events of the Legacy Fleet trilogy. Tough as nails, loud, bombastic, willing to do anything to save Earth.

Avery started her career as a young intern at a publishing house. Her boss tries to force her to have oral sex, and she stabs him in the scrotum with a pencil. From then on she decides to go into politics and kick ass. She wins her first term 5 years before the events of Constitution, and secretly starts building an anti-matter weaponry program as a cold-war-esque style defense against anticipated Russian Confederation aggression. These same anti-matter bombs are later pivotal for destroying the meta-space link the black hole the Swarm uses to enter our universe.

She is constantly scheming to not only win the war against the Swarm, but win it in a way that United Earth comes out on top against the Russian Confederation. Or, at least, that’s what she wants everyone else—Swarm included—to believe. At the end of book 3 it is revealed that she’d been collaborating with Russian President Malakhov the entire time to destroy the Swarm.

She likes Granger—she thinks he has a spine, compared to most of the top brass that she hates. Considers herself as someone who has a spine, and takes pride in it. She is both loved and reviled by the citizens of United Earth, and is a polarizing figure.