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
Rain Carradine was a Jackson's Star colonist, played by Cailee Spaeny in Alien: Romulus. After Weyland-Yutani doubled her labor contract in 2142, she boarded the Corbelan IV with Andy to steal cryopods from Renaissance Station, then survived the Xenomorph outbreak and set course for Yvaga III.
By Janno Vares September 16, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Romulus Lore | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors
Ash was the Hyperdyne Systems 120-A/2 science officer planted on the USCSS Nostromo in Alien. Weyland-Yutani swapped him in at Thedus under Special Order 937, Parker wrecked his body in the mess, and his AI later ran the Narcissus in Alien: Out of the Shadows.
By Janno Vares September 15, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Universe Androids
Xenomorph cults were human groups that worshipped the Alien species as gods, angels, or the next step of evolution. Salvaje's church started the Earth infestation, the Darwin Era walked with the hive on Lethe, and the Church of Biotechnological Transcendence kept a Queen they called the Goddess.
By Janno Vares September 15, 2026 Xenomorph Behavior
Xenomorph civil wars began when rival Queens, altered strains, or engineered broods treated one another as enemies. These conflicts included the red and black hives in Aliens: Genocide, the Submorph war on LV-695, DNA War's rival colonies, and the K-Series in AvP: Extinction.
By Janno Vares September 14, 2026 Xenomorph Behavior
The Big Game Predator was a lone Yautja called Adilgashii, a Navajo word for witch. He hunted at Two-Witch Mesa in the early 1900s, then returned to New Mexico near Cole Army Base. Corporal Enoch Nakai tracked him into El Malpais after the chained saucer wrecked the post, and killed him there.
By Janno Vares September 14, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators From The Comics | Predators From The Novels
Naru was a Comanche hunter on the Great Plains in 1719 who killed the Feral Predator in Prey. She returned to her village with its head and Raphael Adolini's flintlock, then later appeared in Yautja stasis in Killer of Killers and as Earth's hologram on Kwei's ship in Predator: Badlands.
By Janno Vares September 14, 2026 Historical Predator Hunts | Predator Hunt Survivors
Viola Shipp was the custom synthetic twin Olivia Shipp grew up with after the biological sister died at three. In Mira Grant's Alien: Echo, the 2172 Zagreus hive treated her as non-prey. Olivia left the planet in While There's Hope with Kora Burton and Viola's severed head.
By Janno Vares September 13, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Universe Androids | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors
Mae Hendricks was Zula Hendricks and Davis's synthetic daughter. Davis had her built after a meeting on LV-222. She fought on Shānmén in Alien: Inferno's Fall in 2186, then lost her memory in Alien: Seventh Circle, crashed Minos, and left on the Righteous Fury.
By Janno Vares September 12, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Universe Androids | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors
Rebecca "Newt" Jorden was the first child born at Hadley's Hope on LV-426. She survived the hive in the colony ducts, left Acheron with Ripley and Hicks in Aliens, and drowned when the EEV hit Fiorina 161 in Alien 3. River of Pain and Newt's Tale give her the background before the Marines arrived.
By Janno Vares September 12, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors
LV-991 was a water world later renamed Hasanova after Iran's National Data Corporation bought it at a UPP auction. In 2184 Hasanova Data Solutions sat on an atoll around Lake Peacock over a 400-meter lava-tube shaft called Charybdis. A Colonial Marine raid and a Xenomorph outbreak wrecked the colony.
By Janno Vares September 11, 2026 Alien Universe Planets | LV Planets | Alien Universe Colonies
Lieutenant Mike Harrigan was the LAPD detective who hunted the City Hunter through 1997 Los Angeles in Predator 2, killed that Yautja aboard the Lost Tribe ship, and left with Greyback's Raphael Adolini 1715 pistol. Later stories put the retired captain in Rio, then in stasis beside Dutch Schaefer and Naru.
By Janno Vares September 11, 2026 Predator 2 Lore | Predator Killer Of Killers Lore | Predator Hunt Survivors
Project Stargazer studied Predators after OWLF from a Georgia dam lab under General Woodhurst. Will Traeger pushed for private control. The Reapers took a live hunter in Florida, and that hunter escaped. In 2018 the Fugitive broke out of the same site. The program collapsed after the Upgrade hunt.
By Janno Vares September 10, 2026 Predator Lore
LV-921 is the storm-hit colony world of Alien: Isolation 2. Weyland-Yutani ran the mining outpost Kurosaki Station there a few months after Isolation in 2137. Blake's survey team found the ejected Gemini Labs module in the forest and woke the Xenomorph sealed inside.
By Janno Vares September 09, 2026 Alien Universe Planets | LV Planets
The Bulwark was a Combat Automaton in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, a heavily armored ground crawler with hard-to-hit weak points. It lunged at Marines, knocked them down, and shut down under EMP and electrical hits. Spider and Huntsman crabs shared the same chassis family.
By Janno Vares September 09, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Aliens Fireteam 2 Enemies | Alien Universe Androids
Dr. Lily Pearce was Weyland-Yutani's head xenobiologist at Storr's Boon on LV-558 in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2. Acidium exposure left her in pain, she built Engineer hybrids to treat it, and she tried to run the hive. The Queen ran her through in 2207, then General Olivia Shipp shot her.
By Janno Vares September 09, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Alien Universe Scientists | Alien Universe Characters
Herk Mondo was the one-man Xenomorph exterminator behind Mondo Pest in Dark Horse's Aliens: Mondo Pest and Mondo Heat. He lost a hand on Colony Oryza, took a prosthetic to Gimeno, and returned in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 as Herk Mondo's Pest Pack.
By Janno Vares September 08, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors | Alien Comics
Acidium is a caustic gas Dr. Lily Pearce made from Xenomorph acid at Storr's Boon in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2. Weyland-Yutani developed it on LV-558 from 2204 to 2207 as a prototype weapon. Exposure left Pearce sick, and Fireteam Chimaera destroyed the known stores in 2207.
By Janno Vares September 08, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Xenomorph Appearance
LV-895 was the jungle world of Aliens: Fireteam Elite and Weston Ochse's Aliens: Infiltrator. Weyland-Yutani ran Pala Station on the surface and the old Seegson refinery Katanga in orbit. In 2202 the UAS Endeavor fought the Katanga hive, disabled Asset Zero, and killed the Pathogen Queen in the ruins.
By Janno Vares September 08, 2026 Alien Universe Planets | LV Planets | Space Jockey Lore
