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In the television series Charlie Jade, Brion Boxer is the dying founder of Vexcor Technologies.

Brion Boxer is played by Graham Clarke.

Character Bio

In 1953, a young scientist in a parallel and more technologically advanced universe than our own, presented a theory about the existence of the multiverse. Byran Boxer believed that in a realm that transcends ordinary space and time, an infinite number of parallel universes exist, stacked up like loose leaf paper. And furthermore, the differences between these parallel universes - one from its immediate neighbor - are incremental, like the colors of the spectrum. Starting with his own universe, Boxer labeled the universes in his system Alphaverse, Betaverse, Gammaverse, and so on, and when he finally finished his lengthy presentation, he was laughed out of the scientific community.

Determined to prove that he was right, Boxer worked relentlessly for ten years designing and building a machine that he believed would enable him to tear through the universal barrier. And in 1963, he did it. Using a modified particle accelerator, he opened a small hole in the fabric of his universe and transported himself into Betaverse, our universe, our world, and it was everything he predicted it to be. Geographically identical, with cities and towns in all the same places, it was a world populated by people just like his own people, who had evolved in much the same way. But our world was less developed than Boxer's, technologically 20 or 30 years behind, and in this Boxer saw great opportunity.

It took Boxer five years to secretly build a machine that would take him home again. It was an exact duplicate of the one he'd made in his world, but when he arrived back in Alphaverse, it was not to a hero's welcome. Boxer was still a figure of fun in the scientific community - the self-proclaimed genius who had scurried off in shame with his ridiculous theories, disappearing into obscurity. And now he was back, trying to tell them he had succeeded in the impossible. No one would even listen to him.

Enraged, Brion vowed never to reveal the truth to his world, but instead to use his technology to make him the richest, most powerful man in his world. So began Vexcor Technologies, founded on a brilliant discovery and a giant lie, for even as Boxer went about forming his company and developing the technology that would give him exclusive access to a market larger than any on his planet, so he also began to spread the Big Lie that the notion of parallel universes and trans-universal travel was utter nonsense.

By 1972 the first Vexcor Generator was up and running, which could move a small payload of people or goods one way, from Alphaverse into our universe, known as Betaverse. A modest beginning, but in our world, it was the start of the computer age and the technological explosion that followed, with many ideas from our neighboring universe leading the way.

At the start of the series, Vexcor Technologies is the most powerful corporation in a world where corporations have taken the place of government. Though fabulously rich, Boxer is now in failing physical and mental health and living under a nurse's care. His ever-expanding corporate empire is run by his power-hungry mistress, and a greedy board of directors. And the Big Lie is alive and well - publicly still no one believes in parallel universes or trans-universal travel.