Robert Lefcourt
From The Babylon Project
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- "Unless we find a way to defeat the Minbari, the Human race ends with the current generation."
- – General Lefcourt, 2245
General Robert Lefcourt was a veteran Earthforce officer and one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at Earth Dome. He served in the Dilgar War, the Earth-Minbari War and the Earth Alliance Civil War. He was also an old friend of the Earth diplomat David Sheridan.
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In 2245 he and a Presidential Aide arranged a meeting with Londo Mollari, who at that time was on Earth as the liason to the Centauri deligation. He requested any information the Centauri Republic had on the Minbari, a race which at that time was largely unknown to Earth, to see if they posed a threat to Earth's new expansionist plans. Mollari advised Lefcourt that if they were serious about sending an expedition into Minbari space to send only a single ship, so as not to provoke them. Lefcourt ignored his advise, saying that Earth could handle the Minbari just as they handled the Dilgar. While putting the expedition together, Lefcourt offered Lieutenant Commander John Sheridan the post of first officer of the EAS Prometheus and was quite annoyed when Sheridan turned it down citing concerns over Captain Jankowski's reputation and his loyalty to Captain Sterns.
After the outbreak of the Earth-Minbari War war, shortly after the destruction of the Black Star, Lefcourt conceded to Sheridan that he was right to stay where he was. It was also during this meeting that Lefcourt would send Sheridan on a secret mission to the Epsilon System in Sector 919, to meet with a representative of the Minbari government, a meeting that had been arranged through Narn Ambassador G'Kar. [1]
In 2261 he took command of the EAS Apollo during the final battle of the Earth Alliance Civil War. He was chosen due to his uncompromising loyalty to the Earth Alliance and the fact that his current enemy was his old Academy star pupil John Sheridan. Knowing how he thinks and fights gave some insight into how Sheridan would conduct himself and his ships in battle. He dismissed ground attacks on Mars as a simple diversion and forbid his fleet to assist. He was unprepared however for the internal sabotage of his computer systems and that of the rest of his fleet.
He did prove a useful ally to Sheridan by arriving at earth in time to save the North American eastern seaboard from destruction from a orbital partical weapon, which Sheridan was about to ram with the EAS Agamemnon. [2]
