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CharacterLaura Osei Baako
Laura built Explorer 233 to answer the signals reaching Earth. Visionary, disciplined and impossible to categorise, she is both the institution’s public symbol and the keeper of a deeper mystery.
World Gallery
The Explorer 233 collection.
A growing gallery of characters, spacecraft, places and promotional artwork from the Explorer 233 universe.
Choose a card to reveal its story.
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CharacterMaximus Boateng
Maximus turns Laura’s ambitions into missions people can survive. Exacting and quietly loyal, he carries responsibility for every crew, every risk and every person who may not come home.
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CharacterMenaye Ama Mensah
Mam is an eighteen-year-old physics student in Accra. Her fascination with Explorer 233 draws her from the public celebration outside its gates into a conflict far larger than she imagined.
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CharacterFrancis Kwesi Mensah
Francis is Mam and Kojo’s father. His family experiences the Signal Age not as distant history, but as something entering their home and reshaping what their children believe is possible.
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CharacterEfua Mensah
Efua is Mam and Kojo’s mother. She watches her children embrace the promises of the Signal Age while understanding more clearly what exploration may demand from a family.
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CharacterDay Zero
They believe humanity crossed a boundary through technology and expansion beyond Earth. The white zero on black cloth belongs to those determined to stop Explorer 233 before it reaches the stars.
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AssetThe Baobab
Explorer 233’s headquarters in Accra: part workplace, part public landmark and the ground from which Ghana prepares to answer the stars.
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AssetNipa Nsa
Explorer 233’s first interstellar vessel. Assembled in orbit, its reinforced spine and rotating habitats were designed for a journey far beyond Earth.
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Promo artThe Grand Opening
Explorer 233 opens the Baobab to the world. Before the celebration is over, a warning turns humanity’s newest promise into a countdown.
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Promo artThe Silence Ends
At the Mars settlement, an ordinary night shift becomes the moment humanity discovers that the silence between the stars has ended.
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Promo artThe Warning
A private transmission interrupts the opening of the Baobab. Laura and Maximus are told that one of five scientists will be dead within twenty-four hours.