Arthur Vogel is a renowned dwarven environmentalist and hotshot lawyer, who is famous for running for the Democratic Party in the UCAS Presidential Election of 2057. He owns a substantial amount of stock in Ares Macrotechnology and a board seat in that megacorporation. He was the former president of Sierra, Inc., a mainstream environmentalist group. It is rumored that he had links to various toxic ecoterrorist groups in the past.