The HNT-1 El Alamein Revolver Rifle is Sentinel Group's single-shot DMR in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2. The three-star version has Combat Rating 100, accuracy 88, an 8-round cylinder, and 64 damage, making it a precision option for heavier targets.
By Janno Vares September 25, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Colonial Marine Lore | Alien Universe Weapons
Jones, called Jonesy, was the large yellow tom who served as ship's cat aboard the USCSS Nostromo. He lived through the Xenomorph outbreak with Ellen Ripley, shared her Narcissus hypersleep for 57 years, and stayed in a Gateway Station cabin when she left for LV-426.
By Janno Vares September 25, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors
The Yautja Codex is a collection of Yautja hunting rules and teachings, with two numbered entries revealed in Predator: Killer of Killers and Predator: Badlands. Codex 0522/74 tells hunters to seek the strongest prey, while Codex 0422/25 describes the Yautja as prey to none, friend to none, and predator to all.
By Janno Vares September 25, 2026 Yautja Society | Yautja Behaviour | Yautja Mythology
The Prowler is a reddish Runner-scale Xenomorph in Aliens: Fireteam Elite and Fireteam Elite 2. It hides on LV-895 in 2202 and returns on LV-558 in 2207, then leaps onto a Colonial Marine and pins that Marine until a teammate breaks the hold. A spiked tail and a larger head set it apart from a Runner.
By Janno Vares September 25, 2026 Xenomorphs From The Games | Xenomorph Appearance | Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore
The BD-48 Daittyo Heavy Rifle is Pranali's machine gun in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2. At max rank it has Combat Rating 100, stability 86, a 200-round magazine, and a fire rate of 400. Duelist uses it for sustained fire, with Grey-Market Rounds and the Nagpur Shroud.
By Janno Vares September 24, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Colonial Marine Lore | Alien Universe Weapons
Hyperdyne Systems built the 120-A/2 synthetics, including Ash, and the 341-B androids the Colonial Marines put on every platoon, including Bishop. It went on working the Hyades mines past the twenty-parsec limit, left a Weyland-Yutani buyout, and later fielded the Zvezda plasma rifle and the Volcan.
By Janno Vares September 24, 2026 Alien Universe Companies | Colonial Marine Lore
A Fireteam Elite 2 loadout combines a ranked Colonial Marine kit, a 42-slot perk board, three guns, and attachments. Recommended guns include the BD-48 Daittyo, the L56A3 Smartgun, and the M41A Classic. Rank the home classes first. Specialist mixes those kits later.
By Janno Vares September 23, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Colonial Marine Lore
Armat Battlefield Systems made the M41A Pulse Rifle that Colonial Marines and the US Army carried into the 2179 fight at Hadley's Hope. The Technical Manual, Operations Manual, and Alien RPG also name Armat on the M41AE2, the Model 37A2 shotgun, the U1 launcher, and the Type 4 and M20 charges.
By Janno Vares September 23, 2026 Alien Universe Companies | Colonial Marine Lore
Charles Bishop Weyland founded Weyland Industries and led the October 2004 Bouvetoya expedition in Alien vs. Predator. Lung cancer drove him under the Antarctic ice to a buried pyramid. He burned Scar with an oxygen tank on the stairs, and the hunter stabbed him with wrist blades.
By Janno Vares September 23, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Avp Lore | Alien Universe Characters
Annalee Call was a Second Generation Auton who joined the Betty to stop the United Systems Military from cloning Xenomorphs aboard the USM Auriga. Played by Winona Ryder in Alien: Resurrection, she survived with Ripley 8, then later appeared in Aliens: Original Sin.
By Janno Vares September 22, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Universe Androids | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 attachments are grouped as Magazine, Optics, Underbarrel, Muzzle, Barrel, Armature, Traits, and Augments. Small, Medium, and Large magazines share names across sizes, and heatsinks, internals, and tubular mags are on the Magazine tab.
By Janno Vares September 22, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Colonial Marine Lore
Robert Morse was a Fiorina 161 inmate in Alien 3, played by Danny Webb. He stayed after Weyland-Yutani closed the prison and was the only survivor of the 2179 Dragon outbreak. Company troops under Michael Bishop took him into custody, and Morse wrote Space Beast, the banned account later treated as scripture.
By Janno Vares September 21, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors
Arthur Dallas was captain of the USCSS Nostromo in Alien. He led Kane and Lambert onto LV-426, brought Kane back after the Facehugger, then crawled the air shafts with a flamethrower. The adult Xenomorph took him there, and Ripley later found him cocooned in the Director's Cut.
By Janno Vares September 21, 2026 Alien Universe Characters
Peter Jacob Keyes was the CIA officer who ran the Other Worldly Life Forms Program under a DEA cover. He interrogated Dutch Schaefer after Val Verde, tracked the City Hunter through 1997 Los Angeles, and died in a slaughterhouse when a smart disc cut him in half.
By Janno Vares September 21, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator 2 Lore
Alexa Woods was the ice guide on Charles Bishop Weyland's 2004 Bouvetoya expedition in Alien vs. Predator. She fought beside Scar Predator, killed two adult Xenomorphs, helped sink the Queen, and left the ice Blooded with the Elder's spear.
By Janno Vares September 20, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Avp Lore | Predator Hunt Survivors
Kane was the executive officer of the USCSS Nostromo in Alien. He volunteered for the landing party on LV-426, a Facehugger locked onto him in the derelict egg chamber, and a Chestburster killed him at the mess table. Later comics named his daughter Tsula Kane.
By Janno Vares September 18, 2026 Alien Universe Characters
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 sells Challenge Cards in the Armory for requisition credits. Each card sets a mission rule, a reward multiplier, and a polarity, from Form an Attachment to No HUD. Ranked copies show up in the mission picker, and Ammo Hoarder is not in the store.
By Janno Vares September 18, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Colonial Marine Lore
The Other Worldly Life Forms Program was a CIA capture unit under a DEA cover. Peter Keyes tracked hunters from Val Verde to Los Angeles in 1997, where the City Hunter cut him in half with a smart disc. The work later passed to Project Stargazer and Sean Keyes, then Hunting Grounds put OWLF back with Dutch.
By Janno Vares September 18, 2026 Predator Lore
MU/TH/UR 6000, called Mother, was the Weyland-Yutani mainframe on the USCSS Nostromo in Alien. It woke the crew for the LV-426 signal, hid Special Order 937 with Ash, and refused to stop the self-destruct after Ripley turned the cooling back on. The core was destroyed with the tug in 2122.
By Janno Vares September 17, 2026 Alien Earth Lore
Michael Bishop, credited as Bishop II, was the human designer of the Bishop android line. He landed on Fury 161 in Alien 3 to take the Queen embryo from Ellen Ripley, then rebuilt the 341-B in Aliens: Bishop. His body was left in the Xinjiang hive, and a later company log used his name.
By Janno Vares September 17, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Universe Scientists
