Joe Powers

Joe Powers (power word: Joseph Kraft) is a geologist and the head of JSL.

Biography
Sometime around the early 2000s, Joe was a geologist hired by Rio's father to study the philosopher's stone. After years of studying the stone, they uncovered the stone's healing capabilities. That same night he shot both Rio and her father (and her mother as well, presumably). This doesn't accomplish much, though, as Rio's father hid the stone inside of Rio's chest cavity to both revive her and keep the stone away from Joe. Kraft then removes the brain of Rio's father and keeps it suspended as a brain in a jar.

Years later, Kraft creates and makes use of the JSL Space Station Hotel to manufacture several fake philosopher's stones with Allen Honda using the research Kraft stole. Kraft experiments with the stone on bugs and animals, creating the enemies Rio encounters over the course of the game. He also experiments on human beings, namely Naomi and presumably Manager Tanaka.

Later on, Kraft decides to call in a terrorist group (disguised as a rescue team) in order to blow up the station and kill any remaining survivors in order to utilize the fake philosopher's stones for nefarious purposes.

Rio eventually makes her way through the hotel and confronts Kraft, shooting him soon after he reveals that he was the person behind all of the game's events, including mutating Naomi and trapping The Operator in the monitor room. Kraft then uses the fake philosopher's stones to become some indescribable monster which is then melted by jet boosters thanks to Rio and The Operator.