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 | Alien Universe Androids | 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 | Alien Universe Factions | 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
Samuel Brett was the engineering technician on the USCSS Nostromo in Alien, played by Harry Dean Stanton. He worked with Parker to repair the ship after the landing. The adult Xenomorph killed him with a headbite under the chains while he was looking for Jones in the landing-leg bay.
By Janno Vares September 30, 2026 Alien Universe Characters
The Florida Hunter is the unnamed Yautja in James A. Moore's 2018 novel The Predator: Hunters and Hunted. The Reapers took him alive on a Florida cul-de-sac for the Stargazer dam in southern Georgia. He escaped, killed Roger Elliott, and died at the Hartshorn Carnival in Deer Water Springs.
By Janno Vares September 30, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators From The Novels
Yvaga III, designated Y-13, was the fully terraformed world in the Yvaga System that Rain Carradine tried to reach from Jackson's Star in 2142. The crossing from LV-410 took nine years, the colony took no synthetics, and she left with Andy on the damaged Corbelan IV without knowing if they would arrive.
By Janno Vares September 30, 2026 Alien Universe Planets | Alien Universe Colonies | Alien Romulus Lore
The Extrasolar Colonial Administration, also called the ECA, was the United Americas office for off-world colonists. It parented the Colonial Marshals and co-financed Hadley's Hope with Weyland-Yutani. In 2179 its representative was on the board that took Ellen Ripley's commercial license.
By Janno Vares September 30, 2026 Alien Universe Organizations | Alien Universe Factions
The Colonial Marshal Bureau policed United Americas colonies, from one sheriff to officers on a border frigate. They worked with the ICC and the FBI. In 2137 Jethro Waits's Sevastopol office collapsed, and later cases covered plague patrols, mine seizures, and undercover work.
By Janno Vares September 29, 2026 Alien Universe Organizations | Alien Universe Factions
Origae-6 was the distant colony world chosen for 2,000 colonists led by Jacob Branson. Surveys found land, oceans, near-Earth gravity, breathable air, and a lake where he and Daniels planned a cabin. The 2104 voyage diverted to Planet 4, and the mission was declared overdue by 2112.
By Janno Vares September 29, 2026 Alien Universe Planets
Sir Peter Weyland founded Weyland Corp and built the synthetic David in the prologue of Alien: Covenant. Born in Mumbai on 1 October 1990 and knighted in 2016, he gave the 2023 TED talk, hid aboard the USCSS Prometheus, and an Engineer killed him on LV-223 at Christmas 2093.
By Janno Vares September 29, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Weyland Yutani Executives
The Interstellar Commerce Commission licensed commercial crews and inspected cargo and biologicals for Earth and for colonies of 200,000 or more. In 2179 a board under Van Leuwen suspended Ellen Ripley's license after the Nostromo. The roleplaying game has Weyland-Yutani running it from Ruby Colony.
By Janno Vares September 29, 2026 Alien Universe Organizations | Alien Universe Factions
Smiley was the human nickname for the silver-armored Yautja who led a clan beside Shane Burroughs's stranded camp in the 2008 graphic novel Alien vs. Predator: Civilized Beasts. He let the armed colonists live, and came out of the temple Queen fight missing an eye.
By Janno Vares September 29, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators Who Survived | Predators From The Comics
Joan Lambert was navigator of the USCSS Nostromo in Alien, played by Veronica Cartwright. She plotted the detour to LV-426, walked to the derelict with Dallas and Kane, and tracked Dallas in the air shafts. The adult Xenomorph killed her while she and Parker gathered coolant for the shuttle.
By Janno Vares September 29, 2026 Alien Universe Characters
The Independent Core System Colonies grew out of the 2080s Central Space Consortium, a corporate tax haven inside the Three World Empire. The 2151 New Deal recognized the break. By the 2180s the capital was Alexandria in the New Eden Sector, and the colonies sold protection to any world that could pay.
By Janno Vares September 28, 2026 Alien Universe Governments | Alien Universe Factions
Ash Parnall, also called Caryn Delacroix, was the trophy wife Toy built for Lucien Delacroix on the skyliner Liberté. In Aliens vs. Predator: Deadliest of the Species her appearance, personality, and the realities around her changed. She killed Toy, and Big Mama left with the children.
By Janno Vares September 28, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Avp Lore | Predator Hunt Survivors
Captain Jim Hopper led six Green Berets into the Central American jungle in 1987 after guerrillas shot down a CIA helicopter. The Jungle Hunter skinned Hopper and two of his men and hung them from the trees. Dutch Schaefer's squad found the bodies later.
By Janno Vares September 28, 2026 Predator Universe Characters
The Union of Progressive Peoples formed in the early 2100s from Russia, Germany, and Spain, with China helping the union take shape. By the 2180s it was the resource-poor socialist rival of the United Americas, fielding the People's Army and the Space Operating Forces from its capital at Rodina Station.
By Janno Vares September 28, 2026 Alien Universe Governments | Alien Universe Factions | Colonial Marine Lore
In Predator, Major Alan Dutch Schaefer led Poncho, Hawkins, Billy, Blain, Mac, and Dillon into the Central American jungle, each with his own gun, from Poncho's six-shot launcher to Blain's minigun. The Jungle Hunter killed those six men, and Dutch was the only soldier who came back.
By Janno Vares September 28, 2026 Predator Universe Characters
The Three World Empire formed in the 2080s from the United Kingdom, Japan, India, and other states, and took its name from Earth, Mars, and Titan. By the 2180s it held the oldest extrasolar colonies on the Anglo-Japanese Arm, with a prime minister, a royal figurehead, and Weyland-Yutani seated in parliament.
By Janno Vares September 27, 2026 Alien Universe Governments | Alien Universe Factions | Colonial Marine Lore
Dennis Parker was chief engineer of the USCSS Nostromo in Alien. He fought the bonus clause with Brett, welded the wrecked intakes after the landing on LV-426, and fought Ash in the mess. The adult Xenomorph killed him with a headbite while he and Lambert gathered coolant for the shuttle.
By Janno Vares September 27, 2026 Alien Universe Characters
