Earth Alliance Civil War - Aftermath and Political Fallout

Aftermath and Political Fallout

After Clark's suicide, Susanna Luchenko of the Russian Consortium was named President. Former ISN reporters were freed, and returned almost immediately to their jobs. ISN was no longer the new order's propaganda arm. President Luchenko announced that the justice department would prosecute those who had committed crimes during Clark's reign of terror. She forced Sheridan to resign, he agreed to do so after Luchenko offered amnesty to those who had followed Sheridan. Once Sheridan got her to agree to put the amnesty in writing, he resigned as an Earth Force officer, and was soon elected President of the newly formed Interstellar Alliance.

After the end of hostilities, in exchange for the Mars Resistance's aid, Sheridan secured Mars' independence. Earth did interfere with this however and even six years later it was hard for Mars born to find employment, while Earth tried to freeze out native Mars currency and documentation.

Sheridan was never very popular on Earth after this and six years later still found himself suffering from people "remembering the last time he brought a fleet to Earthspace". One hundred years later a group of researchers heavily criticized him and this may have been part of their issues with him. A few Clarkist officers escaped, one tried to murder Sheridan a few weeks later.

The question of what side officers were on and why they did it came up occasionally. Elizebeth Lockley remained loyal to the regime during the war (though it seems unlikely that she was involved in any atrocities given her later posting). Many officers felt that it was not the role of the military to dictate policy though many ships refused to obey illegal orders (only two ships fired on civilians at Proxima). Six years later Captain Anderson and his crew would lament that they had a chance to join Sheridian and did not take it, this was part of the reason they helped Sheridan steal the Victory class destroyers.

Though the Shadow-backed Psi Corps faction that had been aiding Clark fell, Sheridan expected Bester to go on moving his people into places of power, this led to the Telepath war a few years later.