- "Apmad, refereeing the scrimmage, was another type altogether. Dumpy, on the high end of middle age, frizzy gray hair cut short, she might have been somebody's grandmother, but for her eyes. She made no attempt to dress for success. As if she already possessed so much power, she was beyond that game. So far from regulating tempers, her laconic comments had served to stir the pot, as if she was curious what might float to the top. Definitely not a grandmother's eyes."
- ―Leo Graf meets Apmad[src]
Vide President Apmad, a high-ranking person working in Ops for GalacTech, was a tough woman from a colonial world that had experienced enough troubles with mutations that it had strict rules about terminating pregnancies if genetic defects were present. She responded to the concept of quaddies with horror and was entirely in favor of ridding the Nexus of them before their genetic differences ended up "polluting" human genetics.