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site, Janek ordered the team back to the ship. During the following night, Janek stayed at the bridgeto keep an eye on the sensors and to confer with Fifield and Millburn, two scientists who had gottenlost and therefore were forced to wait out the storm inside the pyramid. However, Janek was notpresent – possibly due to casual sexual intercourse with Vickers - when Millburn stumbled acrosstwo Hammerpedes, and was therefore oblivious to the grim fate of the scientists. Next morning,Fifield and Millburn were still missing, and after Janek's attempts to contact them were to no avail,he decided to lead a search party to the pyramid, taking Chance with him. They had just discoveredMillburn's corpse of the missing scientist when Dr. Holloway’s health rapidly deteriorated, forcingthe team to return to the Prometheus. When Vickers refused to let Holloway on board, Janek made afutile attempt to convince her to let him live. Hours later, Janek detected Fifield in front of the ship'scargo hold. When the mutant wreaked havoc inside the bay, Janek killed the creature together withChance and several other crew members. These events deeply troubled Janek and led him to believethat the pyramid was actually a secret weapon facility of the Engineers. Haunted by the tragedy atthe weapon laboratory, Janek warned Dr. Shaw as she was about to depart to see the last living Engineerwith Peter Weyland's team. Uninterested in any further scientific exploration, he swore toprotect Earth from the Black Goo chemical weapon, no matter the cost. After the failed first contactwith the Engineer, Janek made good on his promise, sacrificing himself together with Chance andRavel by crashing the Prometheus into the departing Juggernaut. (PR)January Outpost: A colony on the planet KOI-2020.01. Established in 2067, it would sport a populationof 1.2 million by 2071. January Outpost's industry consisted of sectors for mining andhealth. Key resources were water, helium-3 and hydrogen. (PR:WIW)JIMO: Abbreviation for Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, a NASA proposition for a probe which wouldexplore the moons of Jupiter. The craft was to be powered by propulsion technology from ProjectPrometheus. JIMO was canceled in 2005 before production could start. However, Weyland Industriesrevived the project and completed it with the discovery of simple life forms in Europa's oceanson December 19, 2017. (PR:WIW)Johner: A male human and one of the smugglers involved in the Auriga incident in 2381. Had a violenttemper and was fond of liquor. Carried a thermos flask with him that supposedly contained ahome-brew liquor, but was actually concealing a gun. Johner was among the few survivors of theincident. Johner stayed with the group, accepting Ripley 8 as the new captain and assisting her inher efforts to discover the master plan of the Loki organization. During the following years, Johnerhelped in raiding numerous trading outposts for data on Loki, usually using his unique talents as atroublemaker to create diversions in order to enable Ripley and Call to sneak into the mainframe.After this, Johner was also part of the Betty's first mission against Loki and the Xenomorphs on thespace station Domes Epsilon, assisting Ripley 8 with checking out the backup bay of the station as ameans of escape. Johner survived the evacuation of Domes Epsilon and offered Call his help infreeing the other androids under Loki's control. (A:RES)Jones: A ginger tom cat and the pet of the cargo hauler crew involved in the Nostromo incident in2122. Nicknamed “Jonesy”. Aside from Ripley, Jones was the only survivor of the incident.When Jones got scared away during the crew's attempt to locate the Xenomorph aboard the Nostromowith a makeshift motion tracker, Brett chased the cat through the bowels of the vessel in orderto catch it to avoid further misreadings by the motion tracker. Jones inadvertently lured Brettinto the clutches of the now fully-developed Xenomorph in the landing strut chamber, but whileBrett was killed by the creature, Jones managed to escape the encounter unharmed. Ripley latermanaged to pick up Jones and escape the Nostromo just before it self-destructed. The cat enteredhypersleep and spent the following 57 years in hibernation, drifting through the core system aboardthe Narcissus. The shuttle was eventually retrieved by a deep space salvage crew, and Ripley andJones were brought to Gateway Station orbiting Earth. When Ripley decided to join the recon mis-