Aurelio Sequoia Figueroa was a prominent member of the Global Community. He took over the role of Director after David Hassid disappeared and was presumed dead. He was Chang Wong's superior and remained in New Babylon during the plague of darkness that blanketed the city during the fifth Bowl Judgment.
Biography[]
After the Rapture[]
When Global Community Director of Security and Intelligence Suhail Akbar suspected that there was a mole in the computer department of the Global Community Palace, the administration conducted a thorough investigation to uncover the mole. In a conversation about the death of Supreme Commander Walter Moon on the Phoenix 216 and the palace mole, Figueroa got news that the Global Community suspected that the Indian stewards murdered Moon. Chang Wong played dumb with Figueroa and went along with the conversation since Wong knew what happened to Moon as he had heard Nicolae Carpathia murder him through the bugs on the plane. During that conversation, Chang Wong randomly mentioned that he wasn't naive enough not to know Figueroa's middle name even though Figueroa never mentioned his name. While Chang wanted to change the subject, Figueroa insisted that Wong could not have known it unless Wong had seen his personnel file. Figueroa offered to leave Chang off the interrogation list if he was able to guess his middle name in ten tries. Wong guessed "Sequoia" correctly on his first guess, and Figueroa was stunned because "Sequoia" is not even a Spanish or Mexican name, but a Native American name. Despite his correct answer, Wong was still interrogated, but at Wong's apartment, with Figueroa asking the questions with Wong's responses being assessed by a lie detector.
Chang correct guess of his middle name intrigued Figueroa that it motivated him to look into his own personnel file to find out whether he had even gave his middle name to the Global Community. To Figueroa's astonishment, his middle name is not in his personnel file, and that it seemed that Chang preternaturally guessed the correct answer.
Figueroa is loyal to the Global Community. In Attack on Petra, he led his employees to a room that had a huge television screen to watch the broadcast of a live feed from Uri's plane to watch the airstrike on Petra. As Figueroa ushered them in, he was eager to see that in a few moments they would witness the destruction of his enemies. He chuckled when he saw the ostensible incineration of Petra from the airstrike. He also supported Director Akbar's order of a nuclear strike on Chicago after Akbar discovered that someone planted false radiation readings in the computer archives to give the impression that Chicago was uninhabitable in the aftermath of World War III. This subterfuge discouraged Global Community from conducting reconnaissance in the Chicago area and prevented the Global Community from detecting Tribulation Force activity in Chicago. Figueroa applauded the irony that if they wanted Chicago to appear radioactive, then Akbar would make it radioactive.
During the onset of the heat plague, Figueroa assertively yelled to his employees to stay away from the windows. They did not heed Figueroa's advice until a window shattered, impaling Lars Rahlmost and Rasha. Figueroa discouraged others to aid their fallen comrades because they were already lost and told them to evacuate to the basement of the building. He used Chang's phone to report the news to Director Akbar that the Chicago River now had radioactive boiling water, meaning that the third Bowl Plague had ended.
After high ranking Global Community officials evacuated New Babylon due to the plague of darkness to continue the administration elsewhere in Iraq, Leon Fortunato told Carpathia that Figueroa had not been seen since they left New Babylon.
Personality[]
He was tall and bony. He treated his superiors like royalty, and was overbearing and patronizing towards his subordinates. He said that he was married, and he smoked a cigar in his office, even though he was in a smoke-free building, saying that "a director's office is his domain". It is presumed that he was killed along with the remaining citizens of New Babylon when it was destroyed.
When Chang suggested to Figueroa that he was coming on to Chang, Figueroa exclaimed that he is a married man. Chang bashfully replied, "Thank goodness."
Appearances[]
Trivia[]
- Aurelio is a male given name of Italian origin, which translates as "golden boy".
- Sequoia is Native American female name which means "sparrow".
- Figueroa is a Spanish habitational surname, which means "fig tree".
- All parts of his name has all five vowels.
- He suggested to Chang Wong that his middle initial "S" stands for nothing, like the "S" in Harry S Truman.