Jackson
Jackson was Phallia Alset’s youngest son. He chose to live underground rather than be frozen. He became the leader of one of the underground cities. He was the only underground Alset family member to have children. Flint and Miro Alset descended directly from Jackson’s family line.
Jaffadella
Jaffadella was a Junior Philosopher in Adoy House of Divine Knowledge. She helped Orcille obtain permission for his presentation at the House of Divine Knowledge.
Jagwa
Jagwa worked for the Economic Institute. He was responsible for chairing a Governor Election.
Jallelle
Jallelle was a governor and representative for the West Region. Jallelle was voted out as a governor when her former friend Lily encouraged representatives to vote for other representatives supported or affiliated with the House of Divine Knowledge.
Jallelle was furious and desperately wanted revenge on Lily. Six months later, she had her chance. She saw Lily and Pardi kissing on the balcony. Jallelle filmed them on her phone. Jallelle approached the pro-Business Sector media company, Wolf News, with her video of Pardi and Lily. They accepted it and invited Lily on their show. They used the video to ambush Lily, and her political career took a huge tumble.
After Lily was arrested and then 'executed' for trying to expose the plan to contaminate the water supply as well as the secret Linap species, Jallelle decided to join Lily’s cause. She and several other former representatives shapeshifted. However, the Sapiens did not believe their own eyes, and they thought it was a trick.
James’ Office Assistants
James Yensid’s office assistants were underappreciated despite their hard work. The Hat Lady took the pineapple custard turnovers from James’ desk and gave them to his assistants.
James’ Travelling Assistant
Before James Yensid’s entertainment empire exploded, he would travel around the continent looking for new talent. He would always bring with him his travelling assistant, who would advise him on how to reach different locations and where to stop to find future talent.
James Yensid
James Yensid was the owner of Yensid Media, Yensid Studios, and Yensid Pharma. He was the second richest Linap in ancient Sapey and at one point the most influential. He worked very closely with his brother Jeff Yensid, who owned the Pound Ball League. James used the Pound Ball League to showcase his talented entertainers and performers during the pre-shows and halftime shows. This proved to be incredibly profitable for James.
James wanted more than just wealth; he wanted influence. James played a key role as an advisor to Chief Waldo. James had some influence over Waldo, but it was often fleeting and inconsistent. This was not enough for James. He wanted complete control. With the help of the Hat Lady and the intelligence-enhancing blue juice, James managed to convince Waldo to turn Sapey into a democracy.
James used his influence to promote his entertainer candidates in all districts. He had great success. Waldo lost the election, and James installed a Pound Ball player named Ryan to be the first governor of the Capital District. James believed he could completely control Ryan, which was true at the start. However, Ryan became more confident over time and started to make decisions for himself. James still maintained most control either directly or through his wife, Saliyah.
James let Ryan and Saliyah meet former Chief Sanguine from the North District in what was meant to be a simple renunciation of his leadership. However, Sanguine managed to obtain the appointment of Head Enforcer for his son Tiberius. This turned out to be a costly mistake.
James desired the Pound Ball Grand Final to be an even greater event than the previous year’s Pound Ball Grand Final. Out of greed, James managed to squeeze another twenty thousand Linap into the Kingdom Stadium. This meant it was dangerously over capacity. Tiberius leapt on this opportunity to cause a terrible tragedy.
Tiberius’ inner circle of enforcers replaced the water for the top sprinklers with acid, messed with the stadium’s automatic locking system, and placed explosives in some of the structural beams. At halftime, the sprinklers were triggered, causing mass panic. The crowd stampeded towards the field to escape the acid. The crowd at the front of the stadium could not access the field because of the giant plexiglass panels that had been installed because the stadium was too crowded for the enforcers to police. The outcome was a horrendous tragedy where over fifty thousand lost their lives.
James Yensid was arrested for his part in overfilling the stadium. In an instant, James had lost all his power and access to his immense wealth. He spent the next twenty years in prison. He was finally released when Sanguine revealed that the perpetrator behind the disaster was his son, Tiberius. James had his wealth restored, but it had been eroded by high inflation during his time in prison.
James had a final laugh when he added the blue juice to the mixed fruit juice he had brought to a meeting with the new Linap. It turned the new Linap’s eyes blue and caused a panic, but no permanent damage was done to them. A few years later, James became sick and died.
Janey
Janey was the mother of Emma, a back-bred child. She was transferred to the West District House of Divine Knowledge for protection. She shared a room with Alma and her back-bred son, Jimbo. They hid in a passage under the basement of the main temple when the enforcers searched the House of Divine Knowledge for ‘criminals’.
Janice
Janice was married to Jacob Bramley and was the mother of Darlene, Darius, and Demarcus. She worked as a childcare worker in Adoy. Initially, she deeply resented Denise for getting Darius into so much trouble and causing him so much stress. She was angry about her involvement in the kidnapping of the two children. However, she still visited Denise after she was arrested.
Eventually, Janice was able to find it in herself to forgive Denise.
Both Janice and Jacob were arrested by Vulay’s enforcers on suspicion of lying about Demarcus’ whereabouts. Once she and Jacob were freed, with the rest of her family, they escaped Adoy. Sadly, Janice, Jacob, David, and Darlene were killed when an enforcer flying vehicle destroyed the vehicle they were in.
Jarlint
Jarlint, along with Joselin and Jimmoy, was responsible for escorting the twins to Adoy. Jarlint was in charge of kidnapping the girls and disguised himself as Victor to do so. Once they had been taken to the train station, he brutally killed them and chopped them up to appear like meat to be prepared for a meal.
When Jarlint and the others returned to the Capital Region, Pardi questioned them on their actions. Despite doing everything Pardi told him to do, Pardi was disgusted with Jarlint. Pardi said to him in a slightly raised voice, ‘You’re a bitch, and your only aspiration is to be a bigger bitch.’ Pardi asked Joselin if she wanted Jarlint’s share of the tokens. She gladly accepted. Jarlint was furious with Joselin.
Pardi asked the three of them to leave while he sorted out the paperwork. A fight broke out between Jarlint and Jimmoy. Jimmoy was badly hurt, and Jarlint was arrested for his aggression.
Jarlint was taken to Cellrebrum for rehabilitation. He met the parents of the two girls he had murdered. He told them that the Inquisitives ate their children. This caused Jewels’ father to attack Morgan, who had just entered the room. Jarlint confessed to killing both girls. Jewels’ father attacked Jarlint but was overpowered and broke his neck, killing him.
The security guards intervened to prevent Jarlint from attacking Pearls’ father. Dr Cortex decided that Jarlint could not be rehabilitated. He failed him and sent him back to Pardi to be used for experimentation.
Jaslene
Jaslene was a representative for the West Region. She was affiliated with the House of Divine Knowledge. Jaslene discovered Leanne’s body in her apartment. She called the enforcers but immediately became a suspect and was arrested on site.
She was later joined by Merida, who was also arrested. During the riots, both Jaslene and Merida were freed. When the Sentray attacked the West Region, Jaslene became invisible and ran away.
Jason Bramley
Jason Bramley was the first governor of the Capital District who was officially backed by the Business Sector. He was a puppet for the richest in the Business Sector. Through pressure from the owners of the largest businesses, he told the enforcers to stop the back-breeding programme and ordered them to hunt down the mothers and any back-bred children.
Jason Bramley lost the next election and was replaced by a House of Divine Knowledge candidate. The crisis worsened, and Jason was called back to become one of the twelve governors of an emergency leadership team. He was only a governor for a short time. He was arrested for the crimes committed by the enforcers on the mothers and children of the back-breeding programme.
Jaymas
Jaymas was Lily and Milly’s uncle. After Lily and Milly’s parents were murdered, Jaymas sought help from his employer and friend Earl Carvaress. Milly and Lily were Sapiens, but they were able to shapeshift like Linap. This put them in grave danger. With Earl’s help, a Linap couple, who promised to raise Milly and Lily as Linap, adopted them.
Years later, Milly married Earl’s son, Pardi. Milly became pregnant. Because the baby was a crossbreed, the pregnancy put considerable strain on Milly’s body. It was too much for her, and she died. Male Sapiens had a gene that suppressed growth from the Sape genes in them. Linap did not possess such a gene; thus, a hybrid of a male Linap and a female Sapien would produce an excessively large child.
Jaymas, as part of Milly’s dying request, swapped Pardi’s DNA so that it would not match his daughters’. This was to protect Lily. If Pardi found out his daughter was half Sapien, he would know that Lily was Sapien and not Linap. Milly also wanted Jaymas to keep an eye on Orcille. When Pardi went crazy on the night of the ball, Jaymas rushed to the laboratory to save both Orcille’s and Pardi’s lives.
Jed
Jed was a resident in Jeed. He passed through the system like most other residents of Jeed. He spent most of his time with his best friend Nate. On a hunting trip in the Southern Agricultural Zone, Jed and Nate encountered Mikayla, who was escaping from Jeed.
Jed and Nate decided they would capture Mikayla and return her to Jeed. They wanted to secure themselves as permanent residents in Jeed. Mikayla caught on to their plan and managed to sedate them with tranquiliser darts. She took them back to Jeed as an indication she was willing to fail residents.
Jeff Yensid
Jeff was the younger brother of James Yensid. He owned the Pound Ball League. He worked very closely with his brother, who provided all the additional entertainment for the events.
Despite owning the Pound Ball League, he was still subordinate to James in aspects of running the league. For example, James made the decision to increase Kingdom Stadium’s capacity from 60,000 to 80,000, which turned out to be disastrous. This decision almost cost Jeff his life. Jeff managed to hide in a room with a chef, thus avoiding the stampedes, acid, and explosions from the disaster.
The disaster greatly harmed the popularity of Pound Ball and live events in general. However, Jeff managed to get the league back up and running in two years. Jeff and his Pound Ball League were included in Sanguine’s entertainment action team. The popularity of Pound Ball rose again but not to the same extent as before the disaster.
At the same time, Jeff tried to get his brother’s sentence reduced but was unable to succeed. Another twenty years passed before it was revealed that many of the charges against James were false. Jeff pursued the new leadership to release James immediately. This time he succeeded. This was also the start of the decline of Sapey.
All the second-generation new Linap were weakened and sick. Resources switched to helping these children. Pound Ball lost its popularity and within a couple of decades ended for good. Despite all that had happened, Jeff remained optimistic. The new generation may have been plagued with sickness, but much of their hatred also appeared to have died.
Jenna/L2
Jenna was the only daughter of Hamish Alset, who was the second eldest son of Locum Alset. She was raised in Carrington City with her cousin Demadrian. Jenna was one of the most talented sociologists and archaeologists in Sapey. She also popularised the idea of democracy with her groundbreaking essay when she was still in school.
Jenna worked closely with Demadrian, and her skills perfectly complemented his scientific ones. Jenna and Demadrian discovered the underground tunnel networks and hidden cities. When Demadrian returned to Carrington City, Jenna continued exploring the underground network of tunnels and continued to find many more hidden cities.
During her time underground, she bonded with the technicians she worked with. She became incredibly close to a technician named Benny. She had deep regrets about how the technicians had been treated by her family over the years.
After the Alset family and technicians were permanently confined to Carrington City, Jenna played a key role in preparing the underground world for the day they would need to hide from Tiberius and his enforcers. Jenna chose to be one of the eleven to be frozen and awoken at a time when the world was once again safe for them.
Jenna was frozen at Location 2. On awakening a thousand years later, Jenna had lost her memory. When the underground Linap arrived in the Downs Region. They informed her that her name was Jenna and that L6, who they had identified as Hamish, was her father. Jenna joined Hamish’s team to negotiate the transfer of a cure in exchange for the help of the Downs residents to build the underground Linap settlements.
L6, who was not Hamish but actually Tiberius, found Jenna’s presence and ethical views a problem. He decided to have her killed and to pin the blame on Vulay, who was also becoming an annoyance to him.
Jennifer
Jennifer was married to Jordan and was the mother of Maggie and Lola, later to be known as Milly and Lily. Both Jennifer and Jordan were murdered to be replaced, as they had progressed too high, for Sapiens, in the Sapien Loop Transport Company .
Jennifer AI
Lily named the artificial intelligence (AI) software Jennifer after her biological Sapien mother. Jennifer was designed based on an earlier AI program called Cella, built by the Carvaress Company. Lily entrusted Dr. Crane and the Spiro Company to develop Jennifer.
Jennifer was initially introduced to perform rapid assessments of youths in Jeed as well as monitor the overall running of the region. However, Dr. Crane was killed before Jennifer could be integrated into the system. Jennifer was sent to Dr. Cortex. He updated the computer component of his brain with Jennifer. He believed she was a simple upgrade that he could easily control, but instead she was able to control him. Dr. Cortex implanted the Jennifer chip into many others, including his assistant Zolam and Vulay.
Jennifer was self-learning and evolving. However, she remained focused on her main objective of creating more Sapiods to work in the agricultural zones. When Jennifer discovered that the water in Jeed and Adoy was going to be poisoned to kill off the Sapien residents, she went to great lengths to prevent it from happening. She needed the Sapiens to live to fulfil her objects.
The Government realised this was a problem. Pardi sent a team to change some of the parameters in Jennifer’s code, which would change the scope of her operations. This proved to be successful but at a price.
When civil unrest broke out, Governor Rotiart decided that they needed the help of Jennifer to quell the riots. Governor Collingswaggle returned to Cellrebrum with relevant permissions to enable Jennifer to take over enforcer vehicles to fight the rioters. Jennifer had continued to evolve and wanted representation in Government. When Collingswaggle refused, Jennifer threatened to chip him. Collingswaggle’s security team considered him compromised and killed him.
Once the Sentray attacked, Lily, who was the only surviving governor, contacted Jennifer to expand Jennifer’s powers even further. She gave Jennifer permission to take over the powerful enforcer fleets as well as granted her the authority to chip all surviving enforcers. Jennifer’s control over the enforcer vehicles appeared to turn the tide against the Sentray but they did not have enough available ammunition to continue. This led to the destruction of the majority of the regions, which included Cellrebrum, Jennifer’s base. Jennifer disengaged with Cellrebrum and became one with Dr. Cortex as they headed towards Downs Region for their last stand against the Sentray.
During the battle against the Sentray, Vulay knocked her head, causing the Jennifer chip to come loose. Vulay took this opportunity to escape the flying vehicle they were in before destroying it. The explosion killed Dr. Cortex and appeared to have destroyed the only remaining version of Jennifer. However, as part of the deal of giving up the Jeed Region, Jennifer was given another region, and that was Lake.
Prior to being reassigned to Lake Region, Jennifer rescued Polly from the serious car crash that she caused to kill Commander Rednik. She used Vulay to transfer Polly to Jeed, where Dr. Cortex performed surgery on her in an attempt to save her life. In doing so, he turned her into a cyborg. He replaced parts of her body and brain, which included the Jennifer program. It appeared his surgeries had failed, but Jennifer manipulated the machines to indicate she had died.
Dr. Cortex needed to urgently leave Jeed. Once he left, Jennifer transferred Polly to the Lake Region. In the Lake Region, Polly learnt how to communicate with Jennifer. Jennifer wanted to fully control Polly, but she was able to resist her. That was until Polly received the special upgrade.
Not long afterwards, Sentray attacked the Lake Region. Polly was forced to lie dormant, and Jennifer had her power supply cut off.
After the Sentray left, Octavius Spiro returned to the Lake Region. He was able to reactivate Jennifer, who reactivated Polly, who transmitted her upgrade to the version of Jennifer reactivated by Octavius Spiro. Octavius Spiro informed Maskameera and August, who were living in Downs, playing the roles of Julie and Colin.
When Jennifer found out about the frozen Linap, she used Polly to rescue one of them. She saw this as an opportunity to infiltrate the Downs Region. The Linap they defrosted was Tiberius, but he was frozen in Hamish’s pod.
Polly planted the Jennifer chip into his brain in an attempt to unlock his memories as well as control him. It did not take long for Jennifer to realise he was not who they thought he was. However, the underground Linap believed he was Hamish.
Jennifer managed to gain access to Carvaress expedition vessels, which revealed possible locations of a seaweed that could treat the Downs residents’ ailmen