Alien Universe Planets: Guides To Moons And Planetoids
The Alien franchise spans harsh moons, prison worlds, Engineer research sites, and rumored Xenomorph homeworlds - each location shaping how outbreaks begin and how survivors escape. This category collects guides to the planets, moons, asteroids, and planetoids that appear in the films, comics, novels, and games, from classic horror settings such as LV-426 and Fury 161 to newer colonies in expanded canon. Worlds marked with an LV survey code also sit on their own list. Many of these worlds tie into the Alien timeline, the mysteries of the Space Jockeys, and the prequel era covered in Prometheus Movies. When an outbreak spreads beyond a single landing zone, the results are covered in broader lore articles and in related categories such as Alien Universe Ships and Alien Lore.
Bunda: The Jungle Hunting Planet Of Top-Knot's Clan
Bunda was the jungle planet of Aliens vs. Predator: War. A Weyland-Yutani survey station called Big Archey floated above its trees until Top-Knot's Yautja clan turned a Xenomorph hunt on the humans and Machiko Noguchi freed a Queen and fled with the survivors.
By Janno Vares October 22, 2026 Predator Universe Planets | Alien Universe Planets | Avp Lore
Jericho 3: Venture Planet Of The V-22 Lodge Outbreak
Jericho 3 was the cold, carbon-dioxide world in Tim Waggoner's Alien: Prototype where Venture built the V-22 facility known as the Lodge. A Necromorph outbreak killed over a third of the staff there, and Venture closed the site before a diseased egg turned up.
By Janno Vares October 19, 2026 Alien Universe Planets | Alien Universe Colonies
LV-187: The Storm-Lashed Oil World Of Colony War
LV-187 was a storm-lashed ICSC oil world run by TotalEnergies, New Albion's nearest neighbor. In July 2186 Colonial Marines in Weyland-Yutani pay seeded its French colony with Xenomorph eggs. New Albion claimed the site, and the Royal Marines left with over 150 eggs.
By Janno Vares October 19, 2026 Alien Universe Planets | LV Planets | Alien Universe Colonies
Rosamond 6: The DNA War Planet
Rosamond 6 was the habitable PlanCom planet in Diane Carey's 2006 novel Aliens: DNA War, with two oceans, a green moon, and red glass pillars. Xenomorphs killed its first settlers and most of Jocasta Malvaux's research team before two rival hives fought over the planet.
By Janno Vares October 14, 2026 Alien Universe Planets
Torin Prime: The J'Har's Rebel Colony World
Torin Prime was a Paraguayan colony in the Outer Rim that rejected the United Americas. Its J'Har revolt of 2106 to 2108 drew in Arthur Dallas and Dennis Parker, and decades later it hosted a Weyland-Yutani Special Operations Center.
By Janno Vares October 13, 2026 Alien Universe Planets | Alien Universe Colonies
Blior: Evanston's Private Hunt World
Blior was an Earth-type world in the Norn system that Livermore Evanston settled as a private safari. In David Bischoff's 1994 novel, Machiko Noguchi fought the Yautja and the Xenomorphs there, and a hunter took Evanston's skull.
By Janno Vares October 08, 2026 Alien Universe Planets | Alien Universe Colonies
Zagreus: Independent Colony World
Zagreus was an independent Earth-like colony with twin suns and an orange sky, almost five thousand people under Governor Delia Burton in one domed settlement. In 2172 a stolen survey ship brought a hive, and Olivia Shipp left orbit with Kora Burton and Viola's head.
By Janno Vares October 07, 2026 Alien Universe Planets | Alien Universe Colonies
LV-593: New Albion And The 2186 Secession
LV-593, called New Albion, was a British colony in the Weyland Isles, about a tenth the size of Earth. On 17 July 2186 Prime Minister Maurice Pepper declared it independent of the Three World Empire and claimed the oil world LV-187. That break became the New Albion Protectorate.
By Janno Vares October 06, 2026 Alien Universe Planets | LV Planets | Alien Universe Colonies
Midsummer: Artificial Moon From The Rage War
Midsummer was an artificial moon named by the Founders, dissident humans who left known space in Tim Lebbon's Rage War novels. They found a five-million-year habitat that grew new chambers under its crust. Beatrix Maloney killed Wordsworth there, loaded sleeping Xenomorphs onto Macbeth, and left orbit.
By Janno Vares October 05, 2026 Alien Universe Planets | Predator Universe Planets | Avp Lore
Shānmén: The UPP Eitr Mining & Jungle World
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 | Alien Universe Colonies
Planet 4: The Engineer World From Alien: Covenant
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 | Space Jockey Lore | Prometheus Lore
Calpamos: The Ringed Giant In Zeta 2 Reticuli System
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
Yvaga III: Rain Carradine's Destination Planet
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
Origae-6: The Covenant Colony Destination Planet
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
Thedus: Mining Planet And Nostromo Last Port
Thedus was the Frontier mining planet in Epsilon Reticuli and the last port of the USCSS Nostromo before the 2122 landing on LV-426. Weyland-Yutani strip-mined it for ore. The UAS Archangel wrecked an atmospheric processor there in 2109, and Ash replaced Umbulu two days before the tug left.
By Janno Vares September 21, 2026 Alien Universe Planets | Alien Universe Colonies
Ataegina: Lost Colony World Of Phalanx
Ataegina was the lost colony world of Scott Sigler's Aliens: Phalanx and the short sequel Another Mother. After the Nan-Shan wrecked, survivors hid in King Paul's mountain holds around Lake Lanee and Lake Mip, then marched on Black Smoke Mountain. Twenty years later Yeh'kull hunted a new Queen under Pendaran.
By Janno Vares September 15, 2026 Alien Universe Planets | Alien Universe Colonies | Avp Lore
LV-991: Hasanova Data Colony On Charybdis
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
LV-921: Gemini Lab Crash & Kurosaki Station
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
LV-895: Pala Station And The Katanga Jungle World
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
LV-363: Rift World And Khatura Harvest Planet
LV-363 was the rift world of Weston Ochse and Yvonne Navarro's 2022 novel Aliens vs. Predators: Rift War. A cartel harvested Khatura pollen on the rim while a Yautja party blooded its young in the gashes. Facehuggers on local riftwings produced Xenowings that Ca'toll left on the planet.
By Janno Vares September 06, 2026 Alien Universe Planets | LV Planets | Predator Universe Planets
LV-178: New Galveston And The Kelland Mine
LV-178 was the Outer Rim mining planet of Alien: Out of the Shadows, later terraformed and settled as New Galveston in Alien: Sea of Sorrows. The same rock held the Kelland trimonite dig, a buried non-terrestrial ship, and the black-sand Sea of Sorrows.
By Janno Vares August 16, 2026 Alien Universe Planets | LV Planets | Alien Universe Colonies
LV-223: Full Travel Guide To The Prometheus Planet
LV-223 from Prometheus is a planetoid in the Zeta Two Reticuli system connected to the broader history of the Engineer race. It is known for its barren landscape, violent weather systems, and dangerous bioengineering constructs.
By Janno Vares December 04, 2025 Alien Universe Planets | LV Planets | Space Jockey Lore
Genna: A Guide To The Badlands Death Planet
Genna, also known as the Death Planet, is a central location in the 2025 film Predator: Badlands. The planet is a harsh and dangerous world where a young Yautja named Dek and a Weyland-Yutani synthetic named Thia find themselves.
By Janno Vares April 30, 2025 Predator Universe Planets | Predator Badlands Lore | Yautja Society
Fiorina (Fury) 161: Prison History, Locations & Fate
Fiorina Fury 161 from Alien 3 was a barren, windswept planetoid located in the Neroid Sector Fiori 16 System, situated within the Outer Veil. The planet, known for its harsh environment and bleak terrain, served as a penal colony for Weyland-Yutani Class C Work Correctional Unit.
By Janno Vares March 03, 2025 Alien Universe Colonies | Alien Universe Planets
Engineer Homeworld: The Space Jockey Origin Planet
The Engineers are ancient extraterrestrials who are pivotal in the lore surrounding humanity origins and the Xenomorph species. By piecing together the clues from films and extended universe materials, we try to find out which planet is the Engineer homeworld and where it is located.
By Janno Vares January 04, 2025 Alien Universe Planets | Space Jockey Lore | Prometheus Lore
Xenomorph Prime: History, Expeditions & Canon Status
Xenomorph Prime is the Expanded Universe hiveworld later cataloged as G-435. Wilks landed there in Outbreak, Female War took the Queen Mother from a wet nest, and Genocide found red and black hives at war. Harvest's AR-32 and the SNES Orion planet look alike, but those sources never name them as one world.
By Janno Vares November 24, 2024 Alien Universe Planets
Xenomorphs On Earth: History Of Alien Infestations
Xenomorphs reaching Earth was always Ellen Ripley biggest fear. Little did she know, Aliens had already infested Earth many times during the long Alien timeline, both in the Alien vs. Predator movies and the Expanded Universe. Here is the list of such occasions.
By Janno Vares November 19, 2024 Alien Universe Planets | Space Jockey Lore | Prometheus Lore
Jackson's Star: Guide To The Alien Romulus Colony
Alien Romulus will begin its story at a shake and bake Weyland-Yutani colony similar to Hadley's Hope from Aliens, named Jackson Star. In this article, find out everything we know about this dystopian colony, its location, and its inhabitants.
By Janno Vares June 12, 2024 Alien Universe Colonies | Alien Universe Planets | Alien Romulus Lore
LV-426 (Acheron): History, Locations & Final Fate
LV-426, also known as Acheron, is one of three moons orbiting the gas giant Calpamos in the Zeta Reticuli system. Despite its inhospitable conditions, LV-426 has become a significant location due to its connection with the Xenomorph species and the events surrounding the ill-fated Weyland-Yutani expeditions.
By Janno Vares May 20, 2024 Alien Universe Planets | LV Planets
