Arthur Vogel
The biggest mystery about Arthur Vogel, executive director of Ares Macrotechnology who ran for UCAS president in 2057, isn’t how he amassed enough wealth to buy a controlling interest in a triple-A megacorporation. It’s how he’s managed to stay alive this long, especially considering the other vipers on Ares’ board of directors (namely CEO Damien Knight). This sexagenarian has been targeted by several assassination attempts, but only one came close to nailing his coffin shut. Thankfully, you just can’t keep a good dwarf down. Many see Vogel as the patron saint of rational thought within Ares—although most of us will take literally anyone’s leadership over Knight’s—but it could very well be that he’s just another corporate stooge catering to the whims of whoever’s pulling his (purse) strings. Who is it, you ask? If I knew, then I probably wouldn’t be alive to write this.
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