Apollo Diomedes
- You have captain Dayomidis!
- Bruvah I'm pinned here!
- Bruvah I am hit!
- IT IS THE BEEEEEIIIINBLAAAAADE!
- - Diomedes being himself in a usual day.
Apollo Diomedes; also known as Day-o-MIDIs, Abaldo Diomedes, Boreale 2.0, and BRUVAIAMHITT, is the captain of the Blood Ravens honour guard and the main Space Marine protagonist of Dawn of War 2: Retribution. He also seems to be a close relative of Indrick Boreale due his unique intonation and highly elaborated ingame responses. Ohh, and he's also bald, as in Captain Boreale bald. He is also notable for constantly soliciting Eldar Farseers for sex on the battlefield with bellowing cries of; "FAHSEEYAH LET US TO IT!!". In essence, he is Boreale with a lesser level of win and more grimdark. Funnily, the portions of his dialogue that aren't deployed at maximum volume are actually decent, as seen in the final mission and the Blood Ravens ending. They are, unfortunately, nowhere near as hilarious.
The Captain's name is outstandingly greek for a fictive culture with so much focus on the roman - Apollo is of course the roman/greek god of light, music, sports, archery, but also fear, death and plague and a fuckload of other stuff, while Diomedes was a greek hero on the arkaian side in the Trojan war, a badass without equal in greek mythology - Not only did he beat several Trojan warriors and officers in single combat, he, literally, wounded the god of war Ares so badly that the god had to fall back and brood over his failure on the Olympian mountian. Within ten minutes of fighting. It's saying something about the ancient greeks that this guy was so unimportant that he's only mentioned as a token hero and not as a main character or something.
History
Dayomidis has served as part of the Blud Rehvens for quite some centuries, being the yes-man of Azariah Kyras, allowing him to reach the level of captain of the honour guard. In Chaos rising, he makes it his mission to obstruct the lives of Gabriel Angelos and FC Hairgel, but canonically survives to Retribution.
Unfortunately for him all his sycophancy was being dumped in a traitor chapter master allied to Chaos; how he deals with this and manages to redeem himself is dealt in Retribution, where he looks for hints of who is the Ascended, encouraging players to shout "oh come on Diomedes, just look at Kyras, do you really think he is one of the good guys?" Tellingly, neither of the Blood Ravens he encounters in the campaign show any respect for him. After finally realizing he had been serving a heretic all these centuries, he suffers a heroic BSOD which forces the Ancient to reveal his identity. After some brief but precise words about what truly makes a Spess Mehreen, as well as the threat of a meltagun being shoved in certain orifices, he is back on track and goes with Cyrus, the Ancient and Martellus to kick Kyras arse. In the resulting fight Gabe, who was already trying to kill Kyras, gets stomped by him, which finally makes Dayomidis show he actually seems to have got his rank due being a powerful warrior and proceeds to annihilate Kyras, finishing him with a nice orbital bombardment and delivering a kickass ending speech.
Diomedes is believed to have suffered from a unique Psyker mutation known as "Banebladeitism" since birth. This reputably gives him the ability to control any kind of Baneblade in existence. He is also believed to have been the spawn between an Ogryn and a Baneblade, making him half-Baneblade. It is rumored that instead of making his home on a Blood Ravens battle barge or strike cruiser, he instead contains himself to a Baneblade painted in Imperial Fists colors.
He was also in the Dark Knight as Detective Stephens, in Fallout as Joshua Graham, in Universe at War as the Xenos Underseer Kamal Re'x, in Asura's Wrath as Kalrow, in Halo 4 as the The Didact (Who surprisingly is almost bald). Ohh and he's also secretly the collective intelligence of Harbinger from the Mass Effect series. He was also recurring character in the oldfag crime series THE EQUALIZER. You can now hear him in Bioshock Infinite as Captain Cornelius Slate, who might as well be his (great)^20 great grand father, and is bald.
Diomedes' famous lines
- Bruva I am hit!
- CAP-TOR-ING!!
- Bruva I am pinned heer!
- IT IS THE BEEEEIIIIIINNNBBLLLLAAADE!!!
- I AVE TE EMUN LUSS ANK!!!
- Ah! A WAHP SPIDEAH!
- OGRYNS?! AGAINST ME?!
- That vehicle...is *Puts on his helmet* halted.
- FAHSEER LET US TO IT!
- That....noise.....CANNOT DEFEAT ME! (Hammers a Noise Marine)
- Dreadnought...thing! I shall ruin you!
- 'Tis nothing.
- These weapons shall bring us gloreh!
- DEATH TO HIS ENEMIES ALLL!
- TRAITORS! FAILURES! FOES! (While reducing Chaos Marines to bloody pulps)
- I DIE.....AS I SWORE I WOULD!
A most generous donation
The Deathwatch book Honour the Chapter has revealed some interesting information. It mentions that the Raptors chapter once had a Captain Diomedes who took the Apocryphon Oath and served a Long Watch with the Deathwatch. He was an expert at using the jump pack in jungle environments. He comissioned an upgraded jump pack to improve his effectiveness in said terrain, an artifact that still serves with the Deathwatch. Using a new method of transportation always takes training, and as such it is quite possible that Diomedes smashed head-first into a tree while getting accustomed to his new jump pack. Since captains do not wear helmets and Diomedes has no hair to cushon the impact his brain was scrambled a bit. If a particularly sneaky Blood Raven happened to be serving in the Deathwatch at his side that time, it is very possible that he... recruited the captain to the cause of the Blood Ravens. Why this did not include the jump pack is not certain: perhaps it detached upon impact and the Blood Raven had to choose which to acquire.
A list of Diomedes' Hijinks
- Diomedes' voicelines
- IT IS THE BEEEIIINBLADE! - Diomedes' first single.
- Diomedes attempts to use his Baneblade-itism.
- We all live in a Yellow Baneblade.
- The most devastating weapon employed by Captain Diomedes himself: The Banebladeapult.
- It seems he turned to chaos.
- The Bald Brothas: Boreale and Diomedes feat.
- Diomedes favorite Black Library book... BEEIIINNEHBLADE!!!
- All shall yield or fall before the BEHNBLAAAADE!