Apollonia von Eichhorn

Apollonia von Eichhorn is a researcher at the Cawthorne National Research Center during the events of Shadow of the Union.

Background
Apollonia was born into the aristocratic Eichhorn family in 2639, who gave her a comfortable, but disciplined childhood in the tradition of their strong military history. She proved to be extremely bright from an early age and completed her secondary education at the age of fifteen. She enrolled in the University of Columbia that year and completed a PhD. in theoretical physics six years later.

Later that year, she disappeared. Although she didn't go unannounced, she left hurriedly and left her friends and family in the dark over a course of four years. She returned with big ideas, big plans, and big problems. Her blatant disregard for the people in her life who loved her worsened with the reclusiveness and drunkenness that she shuffled between during her first year back. With some time and a lot of help, she began to improve and repair her life, but still today has a long way to go.

She is left in a constant struggle between her love for the people around her and the obsessive nature of her work. A secret life of vice and adrenal misery oozes from the debris of this clash.

Despite this, Apollonia is professionally very successful as the head of a well-funded research division at the Cawthorne National Research Center. The nature of her work is enigmatic, and the paycheck she brings home is substantial for someone who supposedly works at a desk and writes theory.