Elaine Doi
Names: Elaine Doithe Vice PresidentDoiElaineVice President Elaine DoiPresident Doithe PresidentMadam PresidentPresident Elaine Doi
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 4 (THREE)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 4Commonwealth Vice President and career politician of 180 years who has reshaped her appearance for political effect; she plans to seek the presidency in three years.
- Ch 13Vice President Doi backs Wilson's cautious approach and promises that another ship will be built if the Second Chance fails to return.
- Ch 16Doi is running in the presidential campaign and has not yet won backing from the Sheldons, Halgarths or Singhs.
- Ch 17Elaine Doi, Vice President, will enter the presidential pre-primaries that year and proposes a government agency to oversee Dyson exploration and contact.
- Ch 18Doi is the Vice President launching a presidential campaign, who first proposed the starflight agency in the ExoProtectorate Council; her team is mostly female.
- Ch 20President Doi only narrowly won office with a poor percentage and owes the Burnelli family.
- Ch 22As President, she announced executive decree 1081 turning the Starflight Agency into the Commonwealth Navy and promoted Wilson Kime to admiral to lead it.
- Ch 22After eleven months of a lackluster term, her speech to the Senate gave her presidency focus and a 72 percent approval rating.
- Ch 22She refuses to be evacuated on the proposed High Angel 'lifeboat' plan and orders that the idea never be leaked to media.
- Ch 23A broadcast by Johansson's Guardians accuses President Doi of being the Starflyer's most powerful puppet and urges people to challenge her.
- Ch 25Doi, the President, is reluctant to approve the mass evacuation but is pressed by Wilson and Nigel to sign the order.
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 3Surprises the cabinet by firmly ruling the refugee and displacement issue out of order in the War Cabinet.
- Ch 3Is horrified at the idea that the Seattle Project could mean genocide of the Primes.
- Ch 3Doi was forthright at the cabinet meeting, apparently securing support for the navy's ships because Dynasties would otherwise engineer her recall.
- Ch 8Doi, the President, was accused of being a Starflyer agent, which Justine says was disinformation to discredit the Guardians.
- Ch 12Doi is the President; she is petulant and presses Wilson on when quantumbusters will be used.
- Ch 13Doi demands Wilson's resignation, finding the navy's performance lacking, and chairs the War Cabinet vote.
- Ch 13Doi announces that the Prime wormholes are destroyed and the Second48 worlds must be evacuated.
- Ch 17Doi is President of the Commonwealth, angrily resentful of Michelangelo's leaked-information ambush and of being kept out of Sheldon's inner decisions.
- Ch 17Doi fears an election bloodbath and the stigma of rumours she was a Starflyer agent; she refuses Patricia's offer to resign.
Connections
- leadsCommonwealth ExoProtectorate CouncilChairs the meeting
- related toPatricia KantilChief of staff
- member ofCommonwealth ExoProtectorate Council
- has memberPatricia Kantilchief political advisor
- ally ofPatricia Kantilchief political advisor
- has memberDavid Kertespeechwriter on her staff
- leadsWar Cabinet
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 4ExoProtectorate Council convenes over the Dyson barriers
Powerful Council members gather in New York to assess the threat posed by the barriers around the Dyson Pair, discovered by Dudley Bose. They debate whether the barriers are defensive or imposed.
- Book 1 · Ch 4Council approves a starship
Nigel proposes building an FTL starship to investigate the Dyson Pair; the Council votes unanimously in favor and CST will partly fund it.
- Book 1 · Ch 13Farewell gala at the Regency Palace
On the eve of departure, Wilson, Anna and Oscar attend the First Speaker's gala, where Council members debate the mission, weapons, funding and defense, and the Second Chance is saluted with fireworks.
- Book 1 · Ch 17Council debates response to the Dyson aliens
After Second Chance's return, the Council concludes a third party removed the barrier, considers the Dyson aliens a threat, and discusses the risk that Bose and Verbeke are captured.
- Book 1 · Ch 17Council votes for a starflight agency
Nigel pushes for a covertly built navy within a new agency overseeing scoutship missions to Dyson Alpha. The Council votes unanimously to propose the agency to the Executive Office.
- Book 1 · Ch 18Crispin Goldreich agrees to back Doi
At breakfast Justine and Patricia win Crispin's conditional support for the agency, offering him continued Budget Commission leadership if Doi is elected, with oversight committee.
- Book 1 · Ch 20Thompson agrees to lobby the President
Paula asks Thompson to press President Doi for full examination of cargo to Far Away; he agrees despite likely Halgarth annoyance.
- Book 1 · Ch 22Doi announces the Commonwealth Navy
Doi addresses the Senate, honors Kime, Bose and Verbeke, signs decree 1081 creating the Commonwealth Navy, and promotes Kime to admiral. The speech is received with applause and high approval.
- Book 1 · Ch 22Thompson reveals blocked inspections
Thompson tells Paula his request to inspect all Far Away cargo has stalled in the executive office, suggesting someone is lobbying against it.
- Book 1 · Ch 22Cargo inspections ordered and Sheldon implicated
Burnelli tells Paula that Far Away cargo will be inspected at Boongate, and that lobbyists blocking her request work for Nigel Sheldon.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Primes launch invasion fleet
After bombardment, MorningLightMountain halts the projectiles and sends forty-eight thousand ships through toward the besieged worlds; Wilson's council plans evacuations.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Humans fall back
Wilson, Nigel and the President decide to evacuate all assaulted worlds as Prime wormholes stay open and gateway machinery is landed.
- Book 2 · Ch 3First War Cabinet meeting
Meeting in Washington's Senate Hall, the War Cabinet hears Kime's assessment of the Prime assault and unanimously approves his three-stage strategy, with the Seattle Project noted as stage four.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Dynasty leaders confer at Narrabri
Nigel, Alan and Heather watch Doi tour refugees, argue over refugee distribution, genocide of the Primes via the Seattle Project, and escape ships; Nigel agrees to sell wormhole generators.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Prime wormholes shut and reopen
Before the attack, 772 Prime wormholes shut down, then all reopened five hours later, showing the human strike on Hell's Gateway failed.
- Book 2 · Ch 9War Cabinet approves quantumbusters
After the failed strike, the War Cabinet decides to arm all starships with Seattle quantumbuster weapons against Prime attack.
- Book 2 · Ch 11War Cabinet debates striking the Primes
The War Cabinet discusses carrying the fight to the Primes with quantumbusters; Justine backs genocide, Kime opposes, and Doi institutes an ongoing review.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Wilson orders strike on Hell's Gateway
Wilson commits to acting and sends the Cairo and Baghdad toward Hell's Gateway while quantumbusters are used against flare bombs, irradiating Commonwealth worlds.
- Book 2 · Ch 13Wilson forced to resign
The War Cabinet demands Wilson Kime's resignation after the invasion and revokes his codes; he warns them the Starflyer is real before leaving.
- Book 2 · Ch 13Rafael made navy commander; Nigel's weapon plan
The War Cabinet votes Rafael Columbia in command of the navy, and Nigel offers his star-destroying weapon against the Primes' homeworld and firewall strategy.
- Book 2 · Ch 13War Cabinet votes to exterminate Primes
The War Cabinet unanimously approves using every means, up to extermination, against the Primes, and debates evacuating the New48 worlds.
- Book 2 · Ch 13Time-dilated wormhole evacuation announced
Doi and Nigel announce the New48 populations will walk through modified wormholes emerging on fresh planets years later, giving time to build cities.
- Book 2 · Ch 17Hanko evacuation begins
The Hanko wormhole opens to Anagaska; Hasimer Owram drives through first and millions of refugees begin to stream in as Doi and Nigel watch.
- Book 2 · Ch 17Michelangelo's hostile interview
Michelangelo grills Doi live about Kime, Baron's death, Boongate and Patricia; she deflects, then rages in the limousine and suspects the navy leaked information.