A Vice Admiral in the People's Navy by 1912 PD, Ellen Shalus was assigned to command a task force in the then-recently established Twelfth Fleet under Admiral Javier Giscard, a force assembled by the People's Republic's Secretary of War, Admiral Esther McQueen, to launch an offensive against the Alliance called Operation Icarus. Her People's Commissioner during her stint in Twelfth Fleet was Randal.