Vice President Eamon Isaacson

Vice President Eamon Isaacson is Avery’s shifty Vice President during the events of the Legacy Fleet trilogy. As a Federalist party member, he was her main political opposition as the leader of the Senate during her first term, and he was so successful that she named him as her running mate during her second election. He only accepted because he planned on killing her and taking her place.

Vain, self-absorbed, with thoughts only for power and popularity, he arranges the initial Swarm invasion of the Solar system by the Swarm through his friend Russian Ambassador Volodin, giving him the algorithms for the smart-steel armor of the IDF ships. The plan was for the Swarm to come in, rough up a few supply depot stations on the moons of Jupiter, then withdraw—Volodin claiming that the Russians knew how to control the Swarm. The intent was to stir up public opinion against Avery, get her impeached for dereliction of duty, and be made president himself.

The Swarm didn’t stop at Jupiter, of course. He spends all of book 2 as Avery’s loyal lapdog, feeling rare guilt over the destruction caused by the Swarm. But he manages to convince himself that the true culprit is Avery, and by the end of the book is working to undermine her again. Is responsible for all the anti-matter bombs meant to ravage the Swarm homeworld being duds. In the brig aboard General Norton’s ship, the Lincoln, he confesses to Avery that he was behind the attack, thinking that they’re both about to be executed by Norton.

As punishment, Avery injects him with 30 silvery implants that tap into his nervous system, and monitors everything he does or thinks, and can deliver mind-numbing pain directly into his brain. She uses him as a tool, ultimately trying to use him as a way to disrupt Swarm control of the Russian facility that produces the singularity weapons. He ultimately is blown up when his implants sense that he’s been infected by Swarm matter aboard the production facility, and self-destruct.