Jhalil

Jhalil was a member of the United States Colonial Marine Corps. He was part of a 31-Marine platoon under the command of Captain Paget, aboard the combat ship Hasdrubal that landed on the planet LV-797, kick-starting a massive series of events that led to an all out battle for survival against a clan of Yautja, the Xenomorph species and the godlike Engineers.

Biography

Before the drop

Jhalil was part of the combat ship Hasdrubal on a mission to prosecute any potential illegal prospectors on the planet, LV-797, nicknamed Tartarus. The Hasdrubal was serving the interests of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, which had scheduled the planet for terraforming.

During briefing, Captain Paget introduced her men to Wey-Yu representative, Lorimer, and told them to be on their best behavior, specifically warning Jhalil on his frequent use of foul language.

Exploring the planet

Upon landing on the planet, the platoon was split into two squads by Paget, with Jhalil accompanying Sergeant Roth's squad. After coming across a large ruin of a tractor unit, they encountered Seegson asset-stripper Laurence Goode, who warned the Marines that they shouldn't have come to the planet.

After the squad regrouped at a recently discovered Seegson excavation site, Goode explained that his crew were slaughtered by unknown assailants. Captain Paget ordered Roth and his squad to search for any remnants of Goode's crew. Roth split the squad up, sending Delaria to sweep the right, and Rucker, Stefopoulos, Lee and Bonito, the left.

Later, after hearing gunfire, Jhalil and his squad find Rucker completely surrounded by a clan of Predators. They opened fire and sent the hunters into a retreat.

Plan to secure the derelict

With Roth's squad reuniting with Paget, recovered survivor Melville explained to the Marines that the hunters seemed to be treating the ship as an artefact, and that they were protecting it from invaders, wishing to uncover its secrets for themselves.

Paget decided to send Roth and his team, consisting of Jhalil, Wearing, Freebody, Rucker, Singer and others into one of their drophships to fly over to the Juggernaut and secure the interior, whilst Paget's team approached the vessel by foot, attempting to sweep the forest using M314 Motion Trackers to flush out the hunters.

After being ambushed by the Cracked Tusk Predator, Roth's squad eventually patrolled the Juggernaut interior by foot, and found the cockpit. Singer suggested that he would be able to get the ship operational and have the ship leave Tartarus, and managed to lift the vessel. The Cracked Tusk Predator suddenly ambushed the squad a second time, but it was finally killed by Captain Humble after gunning it down with a Pulse rifle. With the vessel lifted, Singer planned to send it to the nearest USCM facility, Ganymede station.

Awakening the Engineer

As Singer was attempting to contact the Hasdrubal, fellow Marine Indelicato inspected a sarcophagus that was previously hit during the fight with the Predator. The sarcophagus opened, and an Engineer emerged from stasis. It was immediately hostile and killed Indelicato, sending Jhalil and the others into a retreat. The Marines were forced to hide from the Engineer as it began taking control of the ship and directing it elsewhere.

Landing on LV-223

Six days later, the derelict landed on the moon LV-223. The Engineer walked out of the vehicle and the Marines quickly followed once out of sight. During their exploration of the planet, searching for food, water and shelter, Freebody noticed movement with her tracker within a thicket, and the Marines were suddenly ambushed by a horde of Xenomorphs, resulting in Rucker being taken. Jhalil opened fire, but was splashed in the arm by the creatures' acid blood. As the group were close to being overrun, they were saved by Geryon survivors Angela Foster and Galgo Helder. As Angela treated Jhalil's wound and neutralized the acid burn, the Predator Ahab later revealed himself to the group too.

The Marines regrouped, alongside an unconscious Jhalil, at Foster's base, where they also met fellow Geryon survivors Chris and Jill.

Later, after Galgo reported to the group that the Engineer had visited a temple to reawaken a second Engineer from stasis to kill them, the team formulated a plan to leave the moon. Galgo was adamant that they would have to abandon Jhalil, though Freebody angrily shut him down.

In a plan to seize the Juggernaut, Angela had Ahab and Galgo to distract the second Engineer whilst Angela, Roth, Singer and Humble go to the derelict to deal with the first Engineer. The rest of the team, Freebody, Wearing, Chris, Jill, and Melville were to carry the supplies, as well as Jhalil. Whilst escorting Jhalil to the ship, Freebody and the others were suddenly ambushed by Xenomorphs. Meanwhile, Angela, Singer and Humble had managed to board the ship, before the Engineer lifted it and left the planet. During the skirmish with the Xenomorphs, Freebody and Jill noticed the Juggernaut had already lifted off, with Jill assuming that the others had deliberately abandoned them.

Back at the Hasdrubal and Fate

Freebody and the others were slowly becoming overwhelmed by the horde, with Wearing being killed and Chris taken by the creatures. Freebody and Melville (dragging Jill and Jhalil with him) retreated to a safe spot and managed to contact Roth, revealing that he did not make it onto the Juggernaut.

Roth later managed to regroup with the group, and they were rescued by Paget and Ancane in a APC arrived at their junction. The Marines subsequently returned to the Hasdrubal.

It can be presumed that Jhalil was taken to the ship's med-center for treatment. It was highly likely that he either succumbed to his wounds aboard the ship, or was killed by the Tartarus Clan, which managed to covertly board the ship whilst Paget launched the rescue mission for Chris, slaughtering all remaining crewmembers on-board.

Personality and Traits

Jhalil was a typical joker and possessed a plucky personality. He was also foul-mouthed and had a penchant for cursing, something his superiors did not take kindly to.

Trivia

• Jhalil's fate is unexplained following Roth's squads extraction in Aliens: Life and Death, as no subsequent mention of him is made throughout the rest of the series.

Appearances

• Predator: Life and Death
• Prometheus: Life and Death
• Aliens: Life and Death