John Pitchardson Rex

John Pitchardson Rex, also known as John P. Rex Jr., is a palaeontologist and geologist from Lhûmar. He is most well known for his former role as the CEO of the Gen II Corporation, and his role in the Macmar Island Incident as key to the escape of the survivors.

Early Life
John Pitchardson Rex was born in Lhûmar in 898 ACA. He was raised among the upper class Rex family and from early on pursued a life outside of the political empire that the Rex family had become. Instead he looked to pursue his passion of palaeontology, something that ultimately left him cast out from the family. After the Rex family was put in jeopardy during the War in Ryzan, Rex decided that he must part ways with the rest of the family for the sake of chasing his own goals and continuing his own safety. He instead decided to move back to Lhûmar, where he would pick up what remained of the Rex's legacy and use it to move forward. He would raise his brother Bjorn Rex in Aurlunoren culture, hoping to move him away from the politics of his predecessors and settle down to live a private life. However, once Bjorn Rex moved to Qamiya to reunite with his true family, the Khamen Clan, John moved to new projects. With recent funds from his promotion in the Rathnir Paleontological Society, he hoped to start his own genetics company to bring a childhood dream to life.

Gen II and Macmar Island Incident
With new investors backing John's promise of a fully functional prehistoric island resort by 947 ACA, the Gen II Corporation was founded, with the purpose of bringing the prehistoric attractions to life. With the assistance of Logistics Manager Garend Blue & Chief Geneticist Vitruvius Dil, Rex gathered the equivalent of $278,000 in raw dinosaur specimens for DNA extraction. This heavily increased their chances of success, and with yet another successful business venture, the Voyage Of The West, uncovering multiple islands for their new resort, work began on Macmar Island, codenamed 'Site A'. However, the sheer size of the production facilities meant that a second island had to be bought to accommodate the new laboratory facilities. An island of the Malkkengarun Archipelago was bought from the leftover Zashit for a hefty sum of money, despite their ancestors having left the islands 6,000 years earlier. This island was later conned 'Site B'. Despite this, however, things would go horribly wrong during the early access guest showcase, where a group of elite paleontologists & businessmen were put in jeopardy, as a storm caused an island-wide power shutdown. This left the group of untrained guests to survive until an emergency boat safely extracted them from Macmar Island 34 hours later. This would become known as the Macmar Island Incident. Shortly afterwards, the same storm would sweep southwards and hit the Malkkengarun Archipelago 2 days after the Macmar Island Incident, creating a similar effect which resulted in the deaths of 27 Site B workers before a rescue boat evacuated the remaining staff 945 ACA. This catastrophic chain of events caused a 34% loss of shares in the company, as they had to cover for over $16,000,000 in damages, liabilities and settlements. Finally, in 947 ACA, John resigned as CEO of the Gen II Corporation after successfully making Site A a restricted area. He handed off the company to Logistics Manager Garend Blue after the untimely death of Vitruvius Dil during the Macmar Incident. The wounds he had suffered during the Macmar Island Incident did not heal for a long time, and as a result the now-Minister of Demographics Bjorn Rex Shan Khamen al-Qamiya took care of him in Shui Manor until his wounds healed in 949 ACA.

Conflict with Gen II
John would ultimately make a full recovery by 949 ACA, however it was advised that he walk on a cane nonetheless. Shortly after this, he would return to the world of paleontology and continue his role as Chief Paleontologist of the Rathnir Palaeontological Society. He would use spare money to construct an official headquarters for the Society in Lhumar, where fossils will be gathered from across the world to be examined and potentially put on display in the Lhumar Museum next door. He would continue working with Tara Sauranis and Mal Kordonus despite the Macmar Incident.

Mal's associates at the Fislankif Institute of Natural Sciences (F.I.N.S.) would later enter a legal battle alongside Rex over actions committed by Gen II on Macmar Island after the Restricted Zone was put over the island, which included them as it specifically stated that "all parties involved with Macmar Island or not are now prohibited from going within 10 nautical miles of the island's shoreline." Despite this, Gen II would have the case dismissed. Legal battles would continue over the course of the year over many subjects, with Gen II either dismissing or winning the case the majority of the time.

In 956 ACA, a large group of confidential files from Gen II's library were leaked to the public. One of the Rex Family's affiliates, Carthya Djennik, reported on the matter, as well as the family-run TV networks RNBC. This led to suspicion on Rex's involvement in the leak, however he has since published a statement saying that he was not involved in the initial leak, he simply relayed the information to local news outlets.