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Prior to the Battle of Alta, Ivans was the flightleader for Cobb and Chaser's flight{{book ref|sky1|43}} and argued that Chaser should be allowed in the DDF despite having the defect.{{book ref|sky1|48}} As the Krell descended prior to the Battle of Alta, she was outspoken in urging the DDF to fight, despite the high number of incoming Krell.{{book ref|sky1|prologue}} In the battle, she gave Chaser permission to fly up to space after he promised that he could control the defect. When he returned and began attacking DDF pilots, she gave the order to shoot him down, though her name was redacted in the official report.{{book ref|sky1|39}} After the battle, to protect his family, she insured that the official report said Chaser turned coward and tried to fly away rather than that he was a traitor.{{book ref|sky1|54}}

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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 Afterref|sky1|11}}{{book seeing Chaser turn on her flight members, she is terrified of someone else with the defect joining the DDF.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 slipsenters pastthe battle, she isorders forcedher pilots to sendkeep ait scoutaway 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 destroyengage it. WhenThe scouts successfully shoot it down, but, when the bomb lands, it takes out some of the DDF AA guns.{{book ref|sky1|48}} At that juncture, a second Krell fleet, with another lifeburster, makesenters itand pastslips through the hole in the defenses, leading her to relaize that she has been outmanuvered and possibly "doomed all of humankind."{{book ref|sky1|49}} As the lifeburster nears the "death ringzone," past which its detonation will take out Alta Base, she accepts her death and authorizes Spensa and the other pilots to shoot it down regardless, in the hopes of saving Igneous.{{book ref|sky1|50}}{{book ref|sky1|52}}