Katherine Daniels was supercargo and chief terraformer on the USCSS Covenant in Alien: Covenant, played by Katherine Waterston. Captain Jacob Branson died in a 2104 neutrino burst. She protested the detour to Planet 4, survived the landing, and went into hypersleep after David took Walter's place for Origae-6.
By Janno Vares October 05, 2026
Alien Universe Characters
Shānmén, cataloged GJ1187.03, was a Union of Progressive Peoples rainforest world at the rim of the Weyland Isles. The Jùtóu Combine mined Eitr there until an Engineer Juggernaut dumped Black Goo on New Luhansk in 2186. The Jackals lifted a few survivors before the planet was quarantined.
By Janno Vares October 05, 2026
Alien Universe Planets
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Alien Universe Colonies
John J. Torres was a U.S. Navy ensign in Predator: Killer of Killers, voiced by Rick Gonzalez. Grounded on the Ranger in 1942, he took a battered Wildcat against a Yautja fighter over North Africa, then was abducted after the war and escaped the Grendel King's arena with Kenji.
By Janno Vares October 05, 2026
Predator Universe Characters
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Historical Predator Hunts
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Predator Hunt Survivors
The Infected Predator was a Yautja hunter in Alien vs. Predator: Fire and Stone. Elden bit him aboard the Geryon, Black Goo grew a third arm and extra tusks, and he killed a clanmate before Elden and Francis Lane tore his arms off and Francis drove a pipe through his head.
By Janno Vares October 05, 2026
Individual Predators
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Predators From The Comics
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Avp Lore
Shorty was an undersized Yautja novice in Aliens vs. Predator: War, Machiko Noguchi's rival in Top-Knot's clan. He won a kehrite pit fight after a spectator grabbed her ankle, then died on Bunda when she cut his arm and killed him. In Hunter's Planet, as Lar'nix'va, she killed him on Blior.
By Janno Vares October 05, 2026
Individual Predators
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Predators From The Comics
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Predators From The Novels
The Jackals were Colonel Zula Hendricks' multinational brigade in Alien: Inferno's Fall and Alien: Seventh Circle. Three generals founded the unit in 2145 to hunt Xenomorphs. In 2186 they burned to Shānmén on the Righteous Fury, then raided Minos over Dimitar.
By Janno Vares October 04, 2026
Colonial Marine Lore
FAR/TH/UR 2600, called Father, was the United Systems Military mainframe on the USM Auriga in Alien: Resurrection. After the outbreak it locked an Earth return. Annalee Call overrode that course from the chapel, and Father finished the impact countdown in 2381.
By Janno Vares October 04, 2026
Alien Universe Computers
Walter One was the Weyland-Yutani synthetic produced in 2100 for the Covenant in Alien: Covenant, played by Michael Fassbender. In 2104 a neutrino burst woke the crew, a Neomorph took his left hand on Planet 4, and he fought David. David returned to the ship in his place, and Walter remained on the planet.
By Janno Vares October 04, 2026
Alien Universe Characters
Anchorpoint is the name of more than one station. The first, in the Neroid Sector, opened around 2140 and was destroyed by a reactor meltdown in 2179. A second station near Liberty Echo served the Outer Rim in the 2180s, and Pat Cadigan's Alien 3 novel destroyed a moon-sized Anchorpoint in a hybrid outbreak.
By Janno Vares October 03, 2026
Alien Universe Space Stations
Lefty is the one-eyed Predator who hunted an unnamed smuggler from world to world in Aliens vs. Predator: Lefty's Revenge. On the Outpost he killed the Xenomorph that had pinned her and fought the swarm beside her. She threw him the wrist nuke. He did not use it, and she decided he got away.
By Janno Vares October 03, 2026
Individual Predators
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Predators Who Survived
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Predators From The Comics
Planet 4, marked 16EG14 on the Covenant navigation screen, was the fourth world of an uncharted system in Sector 87. Engineers farmed wheat there until David released the black pathogen over their city in 2094. In 2104 the colony ship diverted from Origae-6 and lost most of its crew on the ground.
By Janno Vares October 02, 2026
Alien Universe Planets
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Space Jockey Lore
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Prometheus Lore
The Three World War was the late 22nd century fight on Caparis VII, with Colonial Marines and Hunter Yautja against a Killer clan that fielded tusked adult Xenomorphs. Machiko Noguchi carried the truce, a Queen from Ryushi broke the Killers' hold, and the beachhead destroyed their position.
By Janno Vares October 02, 2026
Alien Universe Wars
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Colonial Marine Lore
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Avp Lore
Rook was the Weyland-Yutani science officer on Renaissance Station in Alien: Romulus, using Ian Holm's face. He harvested the Nostromo Xenomorph for compound Z-01 until Big Chap tore him in half. He tried to send the sample to Jackson's Star, and the station broke up in the rings of LV-410.
By Janno Vares October 02, 2026
Alien Universe Characters
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Alien Universe Androids
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Alien Romulus Lore
The Rage War was the 2692 invasion of the Human Sphere by the Rage, Founders who returned with Xenomorph armies under android generals. Yautja ships fled ahead of that army, Isa Palant sealed a ceasefire with Kalakta, and Liliya burned the generals on Macbeth before Gerard Marshall shut the human dropholes.
By Janno Vares October 02, 2026
Alien Universe Wars
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Avp Lore
Leonard Dillon was the Fiorina 161 inmate preacher in Alien 3, played by Charles S. Dutton. He told Ellen Ripley he was a murderer and rapist of women, then stopped an assault on her and led the remaining prisoners against the Dragon. He died in the lead mold in 2179.
By Janno Vares October 02, 2026
Alien Universe Characters
The Frontier War was the United Americas fight with the Union of Progressive Peoples that opened in 2183 and 2184. The Union annexed 61 Cygni, unknown parties destroyed border colonies with a black biochemical agent, and the Colonial Marines evacuated 70 Ophiuchi after Fort Nebraska fell.
By Janno Vares October 01, 2026
Alien Universe Wars
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Colonial Marine Lore
Dr. Sora Matsushita was the Weyland-Yutani surgeon who landed on Fury 161 with Michael Bishop in Alien 3, credited only as the Company Man. He offered Ellen Ripley a short surgery for the Queen embryo. In 2184 Captain Kylie Duncan shot him and had him burned in the Hasanova nest on LV-991.
By Janno Vares October 01, 2026
Alien Universe Characters
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Alien Universe Scientists
Andy was an ND-255 synthetic on Jackson's Star, played by David Jonsson in Alien: Romulus. Rain's father salvaged him and set his directive to do what was best for Rain. Rook's chip rewrote that order on Renaissance. Rain pulled it out, and they left for Yvaga III in cryosleep.
By Janno Vares October 01, 2026
Alien Universe Characters
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Alien Universe Androids
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Alien Romulus Lore
The United Systems Military was formed in 2226 from the armed branches of the 2202 union of the United Americas and the Three World Empire. It fielded the U.S. Army and USSOC, outlawed the mega-corporations in 2349, and cloned Xenomorphs on the USM Auriga until that ship crashed on Earth in 2381.
By Janno Vares October 01, 2026
Alien Universe Governments
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Alien Universe Factions
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Alien Universe Organizations
Calpamos was the ringed gas giant in Zeta 2 Reticuli, the fourth planet from the star. Its moons were LV-426, LV-223, and an unidentified third. Alien shows the giant in 2122 and does not name it. The Colonial Marines Technical Manual calls it a brown-dwarf Jovian.
By Janno Vares October 01, 2026
Alien Universe Planets