Apollo Vopordna

**Apollo Vopordna** was the male Aetherian that once served as the ambassador of Aethra to the United Cassiopeian Republic, representing his homeworld in the Galactic Embassy. He was a good friend to Jove Scorzalita, the Senator of Cascade in the Cassiopeian Senate.

## Biography

### Early Life

Apollo Vopordna was born on the planet Aethra. Later in his life, At some point during his adulthood, Vopordna pursued a career in politics, eventually becoming the ambassador of Aethra to the UCR. He had his own personal ambassadorial aide, an Aetherian named Kalli Avolifma.

### Trial of the Dawns

#### An Emissary From Praelior

In 5957 ASA, an ambassadorial hearing was conducted with the arrival of emissary Gris Véridémi, who came to the UCR capital of Cassiopeia Prime to represent Praelior. Granted an audience by Vice Paramount Rhamal Dheis, the emissary proceeded to relay the crimes he believed were directly committed by the Dawns—a group of freedom fighters which Gris Véridémi deemed terrorists—on several different worlds and polities throughout the Cassiopeia Galaxy, while also attempting to earn the trust of the Embassy. Some other Ambassadors present at the hearing were quick to show their support for the Praeliorian emissary, such as Ambassador Percival Hayes of Borealis, which to Apollo seemed conveniently suspicious.

During a recess for the hearing, Vopordna and his friend and political colleague, Jove Scorzalita, agreed that there was more to the speaker than he was willing to let the rest of the Embassy know about. Jove explained to Apollo how a list of Dawn member names included two people he fought alongside with during the Faceless Wars—Annesidora and Moon—and felt confident enough that they were not the terrorists the emissary claimed they were.

#### Assault at the Galactic Embassy

While Scorzalita began preparations for a private investigation, Vopordna returned to his office to make his own last minute preparations before the recess concluded. While left alone, he was attacked in his office by a Xanthan hitwoman disguised as one of his ambassadorial aides, stabbed in the back and left for Jove to eventually find him and alert the paramedics. While Vopordna lived and got the medical assistance he needed, Scorzalita realized the attack was simply a ploy to keep him and his friend away from the ambassadorial hearing. Unbeknownst to both of them at the time, the hitwoman was hired by none other than emissary Véridémi himself.

#### Visit from the Quaestorium

Vopordna continued to recover in the safety of his home on Cassiopeia Prime, but as a result, he was pulled away from being able to speak out against emissary Gris Véridémi and Borealan Ambassador Percival Hayes during the Dawn-related hearings that followed Apollo's assault. Jove Scorzalita decided to head an investigation on these recent ambassadorial developments, with the aid of the Cascadian Quaestorium.

Quaestors Solinity Ria, Brakis Marshalt, Phy Telma, Glase Toam, and Estua Astrapi paid a personal visit to Ambassador Vopordna's estate, which was protected by members of the Salusese Honor Guard. Apollo informed the Quaestors how he was only been able to view the embassy hearings through holographic broadcasts. Apollo was also able to recall roughly what happened when he was assaulted in his office, and the Quaestor were able to inform the ambassador that they believed a Xanthan spy disguised herself as one of Apollo's aides in order to get close to him.

Apollo suspected Ambassador Percival Hayes of hiring the Xanthan assailant, believing Hayes to have enough contacts to hire an assassin. Apollo also noted Hayes' recent "friendship" with the Oktarachians. The Aetherian ambassador reminisced on the times where Alden Lafayette still held the position of Borealan ambassador, and believed gathering proof against whatever schemes were being plotted within the embassy would've been simpler with Lafayette present.

While Apollo was already informed by Jove on the Quaestorium's recent secret investigation on Borealis, the Quaestors themselves showed Apollo footage collected during this investigation. In this footage were private talks between Sentinel Danton Stone of Borealis and representatives from the Praeliorian Empire, Kyalonis Amillís and emissary Gris. This answered Apollo's questions on why Percival Hayes was continously pushing for Praeliorian observer presence in the Galactic Embassy. Apollo believed Percival to be a snake, ever since he was an aide for Alden Lafayette.

The Quaestors wanted to look further into the mysterious transitional period that oversaw Alden's arrest and led up to the eventual appointment of Percival Hayes as ambassador in Alden's place. Apollo noted how both Paramounts Julian Garrison and Uproar would most likely know the most regarding this transitional period. It was then that the Quaestors split up, with Quaestor Glase Toam staying with Apollo while his other teammates went to visit the home of former-Paramount Uproar for questioning. Before the other Quaestors left, Quaestor Brakis Marshalt delivered to Apollo a gift from his friend Senator Jove Scorzalita: a bottle of Cascadian Merlot, which Apollo appreciated.

## Personality and Traits

Apollo was an Aetherian man and, as such, had ghastly white hair, white skin, and white eyes.

While his friend and political colleague Jove Scorzalita was clearly the more charismatic between the two of them, Vopordna excelled at using factual statements to get others to side with him as opposed to swaying them with charm. Similarly to many of his close friends and colleagues, Apollo truly believed in justice and righteousness.