Isaac Netero

The late chairman, dead before the voyage — and still running it. His two posthumous DVDs frame the whole expedition: the public will that elected Cheadle, and the private contingency asking the Zodiacs to reach the Dark Continent before the son he never mentioned. In his youth he crossed to the Continent with Zigg Zoldyck and Linne Horsdoeuvre and came back humbled by the scale of what lives there.