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== Appearance and Personality ==

Admiral Ivans is "a tall older woman" with silver hair that comes down about to her chin. As commander of the DDF, she wears a white admiral's uniform.{{book ref|sky1|5}}

 

After seeing Chaser turn on her flight members, she is terrified of someone else with the defect joining the DDF and, as a result, does everything in her power to prevent Spensa from becoming a pilot.{{book ref|sky1|i|2}} When Spensa attempts to take the pilot's test, Ivans specifically orders that she is not to be admitted,{{book ref|sky1|2}} personally supervises the administration of the test, and gives Spensa a test to be a sanitation worker, not a pilot.{{book ref|sky1|5}} Later, Cobb forces her to allow Spensa to be enrolled in his class, but she forbids Spensa from using any of the Flight School facilities in an effort to make Spensa's life so difficult that she drops out.{{book ref|sky1|11}}{{book ref|sky1|29}}

 

As her number of pilots and acclivity rings dwindles, she eventually decides to make a bold strike for a shipyard in a decaying orbit.{{book ref|sky1|i|3}} When a lifeburster enters the battle, she orders her pilots to keep it away from the shipyard, even if that sends it towards Alta. When it does, in fact, make for Alta Base, she decides to order a flight of just scouts, including [[Cloak]] and [[FM]], to engage it. The scouts successfully shoot it down, but, when the bomb lands, it takes out some of the DDF's AA guns.{{book ref|sky1|48}} At that juncture, a second Krell fleet, with another lifeburster, enters and slips through the hole in the defenses, leading her to realize that she has been outmaneuvered and possibly "doomed all of humankind."{{book ref|sky1|49}} As the lifeburster nears the "death zone," past which its detonation will take out Alta Base, she accepts her death and, hoping to save Igneous, authorizes Spensa and the other pilots to shoot it down regardless.{{book ref|sky1|50}}{{book ref|sky1|52}}

 

== Relationships ==

=== Spensa ===

Ivans is impressed with Spensa's dedication and ability as a pilot, but is too scared of the defect to want her in the DDF.{{book ref|sky1|i|3}} Spensa, in turn, is initially angry with Ivans for trying to keep her out of the DDF, but, after finding out the truth of the Battle of Alta, realizes how much Ivans has done for her{{book ref|sky1|40}} and comes to respect Ivans as a "warrior"{{book ref|sky1|30}}

 

=== Chaser ===

Ivans was a fierce defender of Chaser and always argued that he should be allowed to fly, despite the defect.{{book ref|sky1|48}} Even after the Battle of Alta, she insured that official record of the battle said that he turned coward and tried to flee, rather than that he started attacking his flightmates.{{book ref|sky1|40}} Prior to the Battle of Alta, as his flightleader, Ivans sometimes had to remind him to stick to his wingmate rather than break off to engage the Krell; their relationship reminds Spensa of that between herself and Jorgen.{{book ref|sky1|43}}{{book ref|sky1|44}}

 

=== Cobb ===

Prior to the Battle of Alta, Ivans was Cobb's flightleader, and the banter between the two of them reminded Spensa of her own relationship with Jorgen.{{book ref|sky1|43}} The two worked together to bring down Chaser after he started attacking their flight and are likely the only two who know the truth of what he did in the Battle of Alta.{{book ref|sky1|39}} Cobb is the only surviving pilot from Ivans' own time as a pilot, and they remain respectful towards each other, as evidenced by Cobb waiting for to finish a letter to the family of a dead pilot before starting an argument with her.{{book ref|sky1|i|1}} However, they also disagree sharply about Ivans' policies for the DDF, which she believes are necessary to defend Alta Base and Igneous, but he feels get pilots and cadets killed needlessly and likens to "firing on full auto while simultaneously stealing ammunition from the stores." She is also shocked that he is willing to let Spensa fly after seeing what the defect did to Chaser.{{book ref|sky1|i|1}}