JOSEPH GARDNER, President of the United States
KEN T. PHOENIX, Vice President
CONRAD F. CARLYLE, President’s National Security Adviser
MILLER H. TURNER, Secretary of Defense
GERALD VISTA, Director of National Intelligence
WALTER KORDUS, White House Chief of Staff
STACY ANNE BARBEAU, senior U.S. senator from Louisiana, Senate majority leader; Colleen Morna, her aide
GENERAL TAYLOR J. BAIN, USMC, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
GENERAL CHARLES A. HUFFMAN, Air Force chief of staff
AIR FORCE GENERAL BRADFORD CANNON, commander of U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM)
ARMY GENERAL KENNETH LEPERS, commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)
MAJOR GENERAL HAROLD BACKMAN, commander of the Fourteenth Air Force; also commander of Joint Functional Component Command-Space (JFCC-S) of U.S. Strategic Command
LIEUTENANT GENERAL PATRICK MCLANAHAN, commander of the High-Technology Aerospace Weapons Center (HAWC), Elliott AFB, Nevada
BRIGADIER GENERAL DAVID LUGER, deputy commander of HAWC
COLONEL MARTIN TEHAMA, incoming commander of HAWC
MAJOR GENERAL REBECCA FURNESS, commander of the First Air Battle Force (air operations), Battle Mountain Air Reserve Base (ARB), Nevada
BRIGADIER GENERAL DAREN MACE, Air Battle Force operations officer, 111th Bomb Wing commander, and EB-1C mission commander
MAJOR WAYNE MACOMBER, deputy commander (ground operations) of the First Air Battle Force, Battle Mountain Air Reserve Base, Nevada
MARINE CORPS MASTER SERGEANT CHRIS WOHL, NCOIC, First Air Battle Force
U.S. ARMY NATIONAL GUARD CAPTAIN CHARLIE TURLOCK, CID pilot
CAPTAIN Hunter “Boomer” NOBLE, XR-A9 Black Stallion spacecraft commander, Elliott Air Force Base, Groom Lake
U.S. NAVY LIEUTENANT COMMANDER LISETTE “FRENCHY” MOULAIN, XR-A9 spacecraft commander
U.S. MARINE CORPS MAJOR JIM TERRANOVA, XR-A9 mission commander
ANN PAGE, PH.D., former U.S. senator, astronaut, and space weapon engineer
AIR FORCE MASTER SERGEANT VALERIE “SEEKER” LUKAS, Armstrong Space Station sensor operator
GENERAL HESARAK AL-KAN BUZHAZI, leader of the Persian military coup
AZAR ASSIYEH QAGEV, heir presumptive of the Peacock Throne of Persia
LIEUTENANT COLONEL PARVIZ NAJAR AND MAJOR MARA SAIDI, Azar Qagev’s aides-de-camp
COLONEL MOSTAFA RAHMATI, commander of the Fourth Infantry Brigade, Tehran-Mehrabad Airport
MAJOR QOLOM HADDAD, leader of Buzhazi’s personal security team
MASOUD NOSHAHR, Lord High Chancellor of the Qagev royal court and marshal of the court’s council of war
AYATOLLAH HASSAN MOHTAZ, supreme leader in exile of the Islamic Republic of Iran
LEONID ZEVITIN, president of the Russian Federation
PETER ORLEV, president’s chief of staff
ALEXANDRA HEDROV, minister of foreign affairs
IGOR TRUZNYEV, chief of the Federal Security Bureau
ANATOLI VLASOV, secretary of the Russian security council
MIKHAIL OSTENKOV, minister of national defense
GENERAL KUZMA FURZYENKO, Russian chief of the general staff
GENERAL NIKOLAI OSTANKO, chief of staff of the Russian army
GENERAL ANDREI DARZOV, chief of staff of the Russian air force
WOLFGANG ZYPRIES, German laser engineer working with the Russian air force