- "The best place to get honey is from bees."
- ―Julie Lish (from Aliens: Harvest)
Julian "Julie" Lish was a master thief who specialized in corporate espionage.
Biography[]
Julian, who was inspired by reading Dr. Mayakovsky's book Cyberantics, recruits him into an illegal plan to try and secure a source of valuable secretions from Alien Queens, a substance commonly known on Earth as Royal Jelly, from a Grant-Corporation-held Alien hiveworld in space known as A6 454. Having been recently diagnosed with a deadly disease, Mayakovsky developed an addiction to the Illicit, transformative substance and agreed to go along with the plan.
At Julian's request, Mayakovsky created XL1, a synthetic Alien that she called Norbert, to infiltrate the Alien hive. At first, the plan appears successful, with the crew unexpectedly finding that a Grant Corp. vessel, with a ruthlessly protective crew, were already on the planet harvesting the Jelly. The Grant Corp. operatives protect themselves from Xenomorphs by using an infrasonic suppression system, similar to Stan's wearable inhibitor devices that run on Royal Jelly. Immune to the devices, Norbert disposes of the Grant crew, allowing Mayakovsky to secure a harvest of Royal Jelly.
Lish and Myakosky then suffer a series of reversals. When Norbert infiltrates the Xenomorph hive, he fails to fool the Xenomorphs as Ari had in an ant hive, and it appears that Norbert is destroyed. Turbulent atmospheric conditions cause Lish's ship, the Dolomite, to crash. Lish and Myakovsky survive the crash only to find themselves marooned on a planet infested with hostile aliens, and their only defense is a dwindling supply of Royal Jelly. In desperation, the survivors race to reach the Grant Corp. ship before they run out of Royal Jelly, forcing them to travel directly through a Xenomorph hive. Despite the timely intervention of Norbert, badly damaged, but still functioning, Mayakovsky finds himself trapped in the hive. Resigned to their fate, Mayakovsky and Lish take a dose of Royal Jelly, sending them into a state of bliss, even as Xenomorph erupt out of their bodies.
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