January

"Hello Morgan. I'm January twenty thirty five. I'm an Operator. There are many Operators aboard Talos I, but none of them are like me."

- January introducing itself to Morgan.

January is a reprogrammed Operator that guides Morgan Yu through the Talos I and appears in Prey (2017).

Overview
January is a modified Operator created and modified by Morgan Yu to remember everything they forgot over the Neuromod extractions.

Background
When Morgan Yu discovered that they were being made to relive the same day of their life over and over again through the repeated injection and removal of their Neuromods by their brother Alex Yu, they took drastic actions to try and break free from the cycle, reprogramming an Operator that they would name January to act as a sort of back up of themselves in the event they were captured and their memories erased again.

When the latest Typhon Outbreak started January seized the opportunity it needed to try to rescue Morgan. As a start, it began hiding Neuromods around the station in such places as a display case in the lobby and guiding Morgan to them. It also uploaded a list of commercially available Neuromods to Morgan's Transcribe designed to augment their medical, engineering and security skills to superhuman levels.

Finally the rogue robot contacted Morgan and convinced them to break out of their simulated apartment, guiding them through the station via remote communication.

Prey (2017)
January serves as a guide for Morgan via transcribe, helping them navigate through their objectives and rendering valuable assistance. January gives Morgan advice for surviving the outbreak, provides useful items, and offers insight on individuals or topics Morgan has forgotten. Later it comes up with a way to help Morgan deal with the Nightmare through the objective Mixed Signals. January mostly remains in the relative safety of Morgan's office as it is only armed with a Disruptor Stun Gun for self-defense. Typhon generally ignore or stray away from January, but it can be destroyed by wandering enemies or certain AoE effects.

Having been programmed by one of Morgan's more empathetic and benevolent incarnations, January approves when the current Morgan helps survivors around Talos I even though their goal is to ultimately blow up the facility. It comments negatively when Morgan harms innocents, preferring instead to give those still alive hope in their final hours. January is curious about what drives Morgan to act as they do, asking Morgan what they believe their purpose in this life is.

At the end of the game, provided both parties are alive, January and Alex will have a confrontation on the bridge. If Morgan has chosen to destroy Talos I January will knock Alex unconscious, dooming him to die in the explosion. However, if Morgan decides to deploy the Nullwave Transmitter, January will deny Morgan access to the activation console, forcing Morgan to destroy it. If Morgan has both primed the self-destruct and set the nullwave transmitter then Alex will end his argument with January by shooting it.

January's primary directive is not to allow any typhon genetic material escape Talos I and endanger Earth. If Morgan has completed the mission Incapacitate Dahl and primes the station self-destruct January will applaud them for finding a way for the survivors (if any) to escape. If Morgan doesn't have any typhon-based neuromods it will permit them to catch the shuttle without incident. However, if Morgan has injected themselves with typhon genes then January will inform them they would pose a threat if they returned to Earth. January then contacts Dahl over transcribe and, masquerading as Morgan, tells him "I'm not going to make it" and to save himself. The time Morgan has to get down to the Shuttle Bay is reduced from seven minutes to three, making escape exceptionally difficult.

Trivia

 * Depending on the player's choice, January will speak in female or male Morgan voice.
 * January knows it is a machine with Morgan's voice, but states itself to be Morgan Yu at least once, while confronting Alex. This may be indication of growing sentience, or the fact that Morgan copied a good amount of themself into the Operator, thus making January a copy of past Morgan.
 * January is capable of disobeying and exceeding its directives, and even states being able to do so. This makes it unique among its kind, though it is still largely bound by its programming.
 * If the player chooses to destroy January early in the game, it will not respawn. When looted players will find a note from the previous Morgan and a neuromod. When destroyed later, you will find spare parts and a Psi Hypo, hinting that January may have been a science operator before Morgan Yu reprogrammed him.