Wren Okafor

Wren Okafor is the person who went to find out. The model said the corridor was stable and said nothing about where it ended, and she had read the caveats, on page one hundred and ninety, and could quote them, and she was still going. That's the whole reason to go, Doctor. Somebody has to be the first person in a position to say either.

She was the boundary analyst of Patience First, under its captain, Fenwick, for whom she had worked four years. Six names were on the manifest instead of three, and Okafor had insisted on every one of them personally, because a boundary analyst who let someone else pick the crew for a first-of-its-kind terminus approach deserved whatever the crew turned out to be short of.

Known History

• Trained with Captain Beatrix Kilbride for four months before launch, and asked her once, in the instrument bay, whether the corridor got easier the second time.
• Asked to see Ysolde Pitch before departure, which was more than Kilbride had done two years earlier, and was told what the model did and did not claim. Her private assessment of the Military Space Command was that an institution which answered a first-of-its-kind question with the boilerplate it used for the second-of-its-kind one had stopped being an institution capable of answering anything at all.
• Departed Eden Space Habitat in Early Autumn 2714 UCSD, with a crew of six, on the same navigation model as the Constant Margin. She had spent four years wanting the first person at the far end to be her, and had never once needed to lie to herself about wanting it. There was no data past that point yet. There was only the going. Beyond MSC Liability (S00E01C02).
• Patience First did not return. The MSC opened an inquiry, assigned it to committee, and classified the expedition as unauthorised and therefore beyond its liability. Her sister Adaeze wrote ten letters and then took the transit to Mars. The families' sustained pressure is part of what forced the Consolidation Hearing of 2719. Unauthorised, Therefore (S00E02C01).
• The open questions of the disappearance were folded into the Survey Corps' founding research mandate in 2723 UCSD, as an ongoing commitment and not a resolved one.
• Patience First was found in 2732 UCSD. The crew were alive. What they encountered at the terminus is not part of this record.

Character Notes

The public record states the last line above and no more, and this page keeps to it. Where she is after 2732 UCSD is nowhere stated, and the Archive marks the absence rather than filling it.

Her captain, Fenwick, has no page and shares a surname with a novice of the Five Islands a century later; the record marks nothing between them.

See also

• Patience First Departs (2714 UCSD)
• The Founding of the Star Rangers