The Caterpillar P-5000 Powered Work Loader is the Colonial Marine cargo exo-suit from Aliens. This article covers the Tech Manual build, how operators run it, Ripley's fight with the Queen on the Sulaco, and later loaders in comics and games.
By Janno Vares August 28, 2026 Alien Universe Vehicles | Colonial Marine Lore
Lieutenant Scott Gorman was the green Colonial Marine officer from Aliens who ran the Sulaco drop from the APC, froze in the hive ambush, then died with Vasquez in the Hadley's Hope vents. Expanded lore gives him no earlier past beyond drop counts and a company-placed command.
By Janno Vares August 28, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Colonial Marine Characters | Colonial Marine Lore
The M240 Flamethrower is the Colonial Marine carbine incinerator from Aliens. This article covers the Tech Manual build, fuel and tactics, the Hadley's Hope last stand, and later flame weapons from Alien, Resurrection, and Fireteam.
By Janno Vares August 27, 2026 Alien Universe Weapons | Colonial Marine Lore
A chronological account of the Aliens: Fireteam Elite story, from the later Colonial Marine Corps and the commissioning of the UAS Endeavor through Pala Station, the 2202 LV-895 campaign, Promise of the Flower, and the 2207 distress call at LV-558.
By Janno Vares August 25, 2026 Alien And Predator Timelines | Sci Fi Movie Timelines
Sergeant Alexander Apone was the Colonial Marine platoon sergeant from Aliens who ran the Sulaco squad, burned the first Chestburster on LV-426, and was taken in the hive. Aliens: Bishop later brought in his younger brother, Captain Marcel Apone.
By Janno Vares August 25, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Colonial Marine Characters | Colonial Marine Lore
The UA 571-C Automated Sentry Gun is the Colonial Marine remote perimeter weapon from Aliens. This article covers the Tech Manual build, IFF and sensor suite, the Hadley's Hope last stand from the novelization, and how the film props were made.
By Janno Vares August 24, 2026 Alien Universe Weapons | Colonial Marine Lore
Private First Class Mark Drake was a Colonial Marine smartgunner from Aliens who died covering the hive retreat when Warrior acid hit him. Aliens: Vasquez gave him a prison gym start with Jenette Vasquez and the same Corps contract.
By Janno Vares August 23, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Colonial Marine Characters | Colonial Marine Lore
Monica Enright became Subject Three, the striped Pathogen Drone from Weston Ochse's Aliens: Infiltrator. After Pala Station fell she rode the shuttle to the San Lorenzo, killed Dr. Erin Kash, and spent two weeks hunting Dr. Timothy Hoenikker on Katanga until a UAS Endeavor fireteam dropped her.
By Janno Vares August 22, 2026 Individual Xenomorphs | Xenomorph Appearance | Pathogen Creatures
Bishop was the Hyperdyne Systems 341-B android from Aliens, science officer on the USS Sulaco. He crawled the colony conduit, was torn apart by the Queen, asked Ripley to disconnect him on Fury 161, and later woke in a new body in Aliens: Bishop.
By Janno Vares August 22, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Colonial Marine Lore | Alien Universe Androids
Subject Seven was the white Alpha Xenomorph from Weston Ochse's Aliens: Infiltrator. Weyland-Yutani scientists at Pala Station on LV-895 created it from an unnamed prisoner after treating the egg with irradiated Black Goo. It led the other drones without a Queen.
By Janno Vares August 22, 2026 Individual Xenomorphs | Xenomorph Appearance | Xenomorph Leaders
Private First Class William Hudson was the Sulaco combat technician in Aliens who had four weeks left, panicked after the dropship crash, then held Operations until a Warrior dragged him under the floor, later found cocooned with a chestburster wound.
By Janno Vares August 21, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Colonial Marine Characters | Colonial Marine Lore
The M314 Motion Tracker is the Colonial Marine ultrasound Doppler scanner from Aliens. Hudson and Hicks carried it at Hadley's Hope. The Tech Manual gives its range and limits. The film prop was a Kango 426 hammer drill dressed with photo-shop parts.
By Janno Vares August 20, 2026 Colonial Marine Lore
Private First Class Jenette Vasquez was a Colonial Marine smartgunner from Aliens who died with Gorman in the Hadley's Hope vents. Aliens: Vasquez gave her a Los Angeles family, prison time with Mark Drake, and twins raised by her sister Roseanna.
By Janno Vares August 19, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Colonial Marine Characters | Colonial Marine Lore
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 rebuilds Colonial Marine loadouts around a primary weapon plus a signature weapon. Cold Iron's 2026 class showcases have already named the Daittyo, Alamein, Zephyr, Type 111, X1 Fireball, Type 21, L56A3 Smartgun, and other class guns.
By Janno Vares August 18, 2026 Colonial Marine Lore | Alien Universe Weapons
The failed Ripley clones were the first seven attempts to rebuild Ellen Ripley aboard the USM Auriga. This article covers each numbered clone, Ripley 8, Wren's plan to grow hundreds more, and how the lab appears in the Resurrection comic and PlayStation game.
By Janno Vares August 18, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Xenomorphs From The Movies
The Necromorph was a diseased Xenomorph from Tim Waggoner's Alien: Prototype. Dr. Millard Gagnon named it after leftover cellular necrosis passed from host Hassan Bagrov into the larva. The adult hunted through Venture's V-22 Lodge on Jericho 3, coughed mutated necrosis into rooms and vents.
By Janno Vares August 18, 2026 Individual Xenomorphs | Xenomorph Appearance
Yaquita was a Wounded Clan Yautja in Tim Lebbon's Alien vs. Predator: Armageddon. Both of her legs were gone, and she moved on a wheeled platform. She pulled the Drukathi name from the Rage android Oscar, then flew a cloaked ship into Macbeth's hangar, where Xenomorphs killed her.
By Janno Vares August 18, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators From The Novels
A three-man deep-space salvage crew recovered Ellen Ripley and Jones from the Narcissus on 16 May 2179. The ranging vessel carried the registration GM28223. Alien: River of Pain names the boarders Jernigan, Landers, and Fleet.
By Janno Vares August 18, 2026 Alien Universe Ships | Alien Universe Characters
Hashori was a nine-foot Widow Clan Yautja in Tim Lebbon's Rage War novels. She tortured the Rage android Liliya on the Zeere Za, fled Alexander into the Human Sphere, survived Macbeth, and left with Isa Palant toward the homeworld pilgrimage.
By Janno Vares August 17, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators From The Novels | Predators Who Survived
The Ripley family is best known through Ellen Ripley and her daughter Amanda, but expanded stories also name the husbands and fathers around them, a 1950s ancestor named Daniel Ripley, and the clone Ripley 8. This article lists every known relative to Ellen Ripley.
By Janno Vares August 13, 2026 Alien Universe Characters
