Ilsa Killiany was the Director of the Terran Confederacy Ghost Program, a position she felt that she was born to. Killiany could "bend the universe to her will" in order to acquire powerful telepaths for the Confederacy. She had the rank to order generals around and could give "advice" to the Confederacy Council. As far as she was concerned, ghosts were the last line of defense for the Confederacy against aliens and rebels.