Gaff was the LAPD officer who brought Rick Deckard back to Captain Bryant in Blade Runner, spoke Cityspeak, folded origami, and left the tin-foil unicorn. Edward James Olmos played him in the 1982 film, voiced him in Black Out 2022, and returned for a care-home cameo in Blade Runner 2049.
By Janno Vares October 28, 2026 Blade Runner Lore | Blade Runner Characters | Blade Runner Detectives
Cutter Vasquez, Jenette Vasquez's nephew, led Renegade XM in Marvel's Aliens: Aftermath, sabotaging Weyland-Yutani's Midland fuelling station live on air, raiding Hadley's Hope for her smartgun, refusing Ms. Yutani's buyout, and dying beside an irradiated Xenomorph.
By Janno Vares October 28, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Vasquez Family | Alien Comics
Tichinde was an unblooded Yautja on Dachande's Ryushi hunt in Aliens vs. Predator and the novel Prey. After the ship crash he seized the young bloods, slaughtered colonists including a ranch family, and died when Dachande drove a spear through his head.
By Janno Vares October 28, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators From The Comics | Predators From The Novels
Petrovich was the Weyland-Yutani chief engineer on the USCSS Maginot in Alien: Earth, played by Enzo Cilenti. He sabotaged the ship for Boy Kavalier, released Facehuggers during a containment fire, and was killed by Morrow before the Prodigy City crash.
By Janno Vares October 28, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Earth Characters | Alien Earth Lore
The irradiated Xenomorph was a unique bioluminescent adult from Marvel's Aliens: Aftermath. It survived the nuclear winter over Hadley's Hope on LV-426, bled cryogenic fluid, killed most of Renegade XM, and died with Cutter Vasquez in a mutual last stand.
By Janno Vares October 28, 2026 Individual Xenomorphs | Xenomorphs From The Comics | Xenomorph Appearance
Two-Stripes was an unblooded Yautja in Top-Knot's swamp hunt in Aliens vs. Predator: Blood Time. He knocked Light-Stepper aside for a find, stole a Xenomorph head after Light-Stepper's kill, faked acid wounds, and was stripped and tied to a tree when the cheat was exposed.
By Janno Vares October 28, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators From The Comics | Yautja Outcasts
The Raven was a unique armored Xenomorph from Gearbox's Aliens: Colonial Marines. It hunted Corporal Christopher Winter through the sewers under Hadley's Hope on LV-426, shrugged off small-arms fire, and died when Winter broke its neck with a P-5000 Power Loader.
By Janno Vares October 28, 2026 Individual Xenomorphs | Xenomorphs From The Games | Xenomorph Appearance
Teng was a Weyland-Yutani navigator on the USCSS Maginot in Alien: Earth, played by Andy Yu. He kept navigation through the fuel crisis and died when a Xenomorph killed him during Morrow's interview about the saboteur.
By Janno Vares October 28, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Earth Characters | Alien Earth Lore
The Captive Predator was the unnamed Yautja held in Tyler Stern's methane Nevada bio-dome in Predator: Captive. It lost an arm in capture, hunted demonstration prey, slaughtered crash teams, and ended Stern Industries with a self-destruct.
By Janno Vares October 28, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators From The Comics
Chibuzo was a Weyland-Yutani science officer on the USCSS Maginot in Alien: Earth, played by Karen Aldridge. She studied Species 19 and T. Ocellus in the ship zoo, and died with Rahim and Malachite when tick toxin hit during medbay surgery.
By Janno Vares October 27, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Earth Characters | Alien Earth Lore
The Ozarks Hunter was the unnamed Yautja that hunted Confederate and Union soldiers in the Ozark Mountains in 1863 in Predator: Hell Come a Walkin'. It killed Standing Bear and Nebediah, survived a cannon blast, and died on teenage Jesse James's spear and pistol.
By Janno Vares October 27, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators From The Comics
Malachite was a Weyland-Yutani engineering apprentice on the USCSS Maginot in Alien: Earth, played by Jamie Bisping. Mentored by Shmuel, he worked repairs through the fuel crisis and died when Species 19 blood ticks infected him from contaminated water.
By Janno Vares October 27, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Earth Characters | Alien Earth Lore
Mac Eliot was the M60 machine gunner on Dutch Schaefer's rescue team in Predator, played by Bill Duke. A Vietnam veteran and Blain Cooper's closest friend, he fought through Val Verde, emptied Old Painless after Blain died, and was killed when the Jungle Hunter shot him through the head.
By Janno Vares October 27, 2026 Predator Universe Characters
The Gollywomp was the unmasked Yautja that hunted Bayou Lafourche in Predator: Strange Roux. Mistaken for a Cajun swamp legend, it killed two trappers, matched LeBlanc's wound for a fair fight, then drowned in quicksand and was cooked into gumbo.
By Janno Vares October 27, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators From The Comics
Captain Vandenberg, called Vandy, was the U.S. Navy commander in Predator: Killer of Killers, voiced by Michael Biehn. In 1942 he grounded John Torres on the Ranger, led the Texas Aces against a Yautja fighter over North Africa, and died buying Torres time to finish the hunt.
By Janno Vares October 27, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Historical Predator Hunts | Predator Killer Of Killers Lore
Shmuel was a Weyland-Yutani engineer on the USCSS Maginot in Alien: Earth, played by Michael Smiley. He joked about dumping the specimens, mentored apprentice Malachite, and was possessed by T. Ocellus before a Xenomorph killed his body.
By Janno Vares October 26, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Earth Characters | Alien Earth Lore
The Four-Armed Predator was the giant Yautja beamed onto the Game Preserve Planet in Predators: Surviving Life. After the hunters staged Royce with human-sized armor, it cloaked, drove the pair off a cliff, and died under Isabelle's sniper fire at the waterfall.
By Janno Vares October 26, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators From The Comics
Kelly O'Brien was a U.S. Army soldier who returned to Gunnison the day of the October 2004 outbreak in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. She fled with Molly after Tim died, refused the Gilliam Circle airlift, flew the hospital helicopter clear of the nuke, and survived with Dallas, Ricky, and Molly.
By Janno Vares October 26, 2026 Avp Lore | Alien Universe Characters | Predator Universe Characters
Harry Bryant was the LAPD captain who forced Rick Deckard back onto the Nexus-6 case in Blade Runner. Played by M. Emmet Walsh, he briefed Deckard on the escaped replicants, added Rachael to the list, and was shot dead by Sarah Tyrell in K. W. Jeter's Edge of Human.
By Janno Vares October 26, 2026 Blade Runner Lore | Blade Runner Characters | Blade Runner Detectives
The Voight-Kampff machine measures empathic response under pressure. This quiz puts you through classic Blade Runner scenarios from the film and Philip K. Dick novel. High-empathy answers lean human. Flat or cold ones lean replicant.
By Janno Vares October 25, 2026 Blade Runner Lore | Sci Fi Quizzes
Detective Leona Cantrell was an LAPD Metro officer in Predator 2, played by María Conchita Alonso. She fought the 1997 gang war with Mike Harrigan, lost partner Jerry Lambert on the subway, and survived when the City Hunter scanned her pregnancy and let her live.
By Janno Vares October 25, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator 2 Lore | Predator Hunt Survivors
Rory McKenna was Quinn McKenna's autistic son in The Predator, played by Jacob Tremblay. He decoded a mailed hunter gauntlet, wore the gear on Halloween, and was taken by the Upgrade because Predators valued that mind. Quinn and the Loonies got him back.
By Janno Vares October 25, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Springheeled Jack was the Yautja the London papers called Spring-Heeled Jack in Predator: Nemesis. He ambushed a colonial tiger hunt in India, hid his ship and trophy wall under Victorian London, and died in the final duel with Captain Edward Soames.
By Janno Vares October 24, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators From The Comics
Sabra Hillard was the pilot of the Betty in Alien: Resurrection, played by Kim Flowers. She flew Elgyn's smuggling ship to the Auriga, mourned him when a Xenomorph killed him, refused to leave anyone behind, and died when a swimming Xenomorph dragged her under in the flooded galley.
By Janno Vares October 24, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Universe Mercenaries
Mercerism was the empathy religion of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, built around Wilbur Mercer, the empathy box, and a climb under thrown stones. Buster Friendly branded it a Hollywood fraud, yet the novel left faith intact. It returned in Dust to Dust and Blade Runner 2099 trailer imagery.
By Janno Vares October 24, 2026 Blade Runner Lore
Zoya Zaveri was the Weyland-Yutani executive officer of the USCSS Maginot in Alien: Earth, played by Richa Moorjani. After Captain Dinsdale died she took command, fought Morrow over crew versus cargo, and was killed by a Xenomorph when Morrow sealed her out of Mother.
By Janno Vares October 24, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Earth Characters | Alien Earth Lore
Dave Holden was the LAPD blade runner shot by Leon Kowalski during a Voight-Kampff test in Blade Runner. He survived on life support, became a captain in Revelations and the RPG's Deputy Chief, and was shot again by a Leon replicant in K.W. Jeter's sequel novels.
By Janno Vares October 23, 2026 Blade Runner Lore | Blade Runner Characters | Blade Runner Detectives
Buddy Wilcox was the mechanic and Vietnam veteran of Predator: Kindred, the 1996 Dark Horse series. As a boy he watched a Predator kill his father in 1958, and when it returned to Fleener Creek, Oregon, he fought it in homemade armor and killed Jimmy McCutcheon.
By Janno Vares October 23, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Elle was the replicant heroine of Blade Runner: Black Lotus, built by Niander Wallace Jr. with false memories and a lotus tattoo and hunted in the Doll Hunt. She killed the hunters, faced her maker, then rode into the desert in the Titan comics Leaving L.A. and Las Vegas.
By Janno Vares October 23, 2026 Blade Runner Lore | Blade Runner Characters | Replicant Characters
Rick Hawkins was the radio operator on Dutch Schaefer's rescue team in Predator, played by Shane Black. He carried the radio into Val Verde, told crude jokes to Billy and caught the escaped Anna before the Jungle Hunter killed him and hung his body in the trees.
By Janno Vares October 23, 2026 Predator Universe Characters
Light-Stepper was the Yautja who killed a Xenomorph in Aliens vs. Predator: Blood Time and lost his right hand to its acid. On Ryushi he speared a Colonial Marine, killed a Predalien beside Captain Glass, and later wore a Marine banner on his stump on the Bunda hunt.
By Janno Vares October 22, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators Who Survived | Predators From The Comics
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
Gideon Suhn Lee was the Tokyo techno-baron of Aliens vs. Predator: Eternal. Born as the swindler Li Yat Sen, he built a fortune on a crashed Predator ship and lived seven centuries on Yautja hearts until a Predator tore out his heart and took his skull in a subway.
By Janno Vares October 22, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Alien Universe Characters | Avp Lore
The Forest Devil, or Dudu ya Porini, is the Predator that came to colonial East Africa as a hunting star. It butchered railway workers and villagers near Nghasa, killed Sir James and let Johnny Copeland run, then lost its left arm in a crocodile river and still escaped.
By Janno Vares October 22, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators Who Survived | Predators From The Comics
The Betty carried six smugglers to the USM Auriga in Alien: Resurrection: Elgyn, Hillard, Christie, Johner, Vriess, and Call. Only three came home with Ripley 8, and Aliens: Original Sin added Bolero, Rama, Krakke, the stowaway Simoni, and Angie to her crew.
By Janno Vares October 22, 2026 Alien Universe Characters
Juta Tanaka was the blind sensei and inventor in Predator: Blood Feud, the 1992 Dark Horse serial. After a Predator slaughtered his students in Tokyo, visions of a past life under the shogun led him to ruins near Nikko, where he beheaded the hunter avenging its brother.
By Janno Vares October 22, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Frank Elgyn was captain of the Betty in Alien: Resurrection, played by Michael Wincott. He sold kidnapped sleepers to General Perez for cash, gave the signal for the mess hall shootout, and died when a Xenomorph dragged him through a floor grate on the Auriga.
By Janno Vares October 19, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Universe Mercenaries
Mandy Graves was a former CIA killer who deserted with her husband and came back to help John Pulnick fight a rogue Predator in the Pine Barrens. The only survivor of her team, she killed it and later joined Jaya Soames's hunters on Kehua, in Afghanistan and in Belize.
By Janno Vares October 19, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
John Schaefer was the NYPD detective and older brother of Dutch Schaefer who fought Predators in a New York heat wave, in Siberia and in South America. Years later he guided hunters in Belize, and in 2068 he led stranded captives on the planet Mabou.
By Janno Vares October 19, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Enoch Nakai was the Navajo corporal who survived the destruction of Cole Army Base, tracked the Big Game Predator to the lava fields of El Malpais and took its head. Discharged and sworn to silence, he later joined Jaya Soames's team of Predator hunters on Kehua, in Afghanistan and in Belize.
By Janno Vares October 18, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Gary Christie was Frank Elgyn's right-hand man and gunman on the Betty in Alien: Resurrection, played by Gary Dourdan. He won the mess hall shootout with pistols rigged to his forearms, took charge of the survivors after Elgyn died, and cut himself loose on the ladder shaft so Vriess could live.
By Janno Vares October 18, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Universe Mercenaries
Jaya Soames was the heir to a family that had hunted Predators since Captain Edward Soames. She led a privately funded team from her ship, the Durga, against the Exiles of Kehua, the Djinn Predator in Afghanistan and two Predators in Belize, vowing to keep their technology out of the wrong hands.
By Janno Vares October 18, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
David was Peter Weyland's android, played by Michael Fassbender in Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. He spiked Holloway's drink on LV-223, survived as a severed head, flew Elizabeth Shaw to Planet 4, released the black pathogen on the Engineers, and took Walter's place aboard the Covenant in 2104.
By Janno Vares October 18, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Universe Androids | Prometheus Lore
Tyler Swain was the private contractor who survived the Djinn Predator's attack on his convoy in Afghanistan by hiding, then joined Jaya Soames's hunters. He froze on Kehua and confessed, saved Enoch Nakai from the Exiles, befriended Atal and died luring the Djinn onto a land mine.
By Janno Vares October 17, 2026 Predator Universe Characters
The Djinn was the lone Yautja of eastern Afghanistan in Chris Warner's Predator: Hunters and Predator: Hunters II. It wiped out Tyler Swain's convoy, hunted insurgents and Stargazer soldiers from a trophy-filled cave in the Hindu Kush, and died when Swain lured it onto an old Russian land mine.
By Janno Vares October 17, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators From The Comics
Anne Jorden was the wildcat prospector at Hadley's Hope who entered the derelict on LV-426 with her husband Russ in 2179 and dragged him back with a Facehugger on his face. Newt's Tale and River of Pain followed her through the outbreak until she died getting her children into the air ducts.
By Janno Vares October 17, 2026 Alien Universe Characters
Millicent, called Millie, narrated Bloodwood in Marvel's Predator: Black, White & Blood. After her parents died on an 1850 New South Wales goldfield, she freed the chained Yautja Lucky Boy, trained under him for three seasons, killed the camp boss Big Jim and left Earth with three Yautja hunters.
By Janno Vares October 17, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Theta Berwick was the human hunter of Marvel's Predator comics. After a Predator killed her parents in 2041, she spent decades hunting its kind in Predator armor aboard the Sandpiper, killed her parents' murderer and later beat a Super Predator to free captives held in stasis.
By Janno Vares October 17, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Blain Cooper was the tobacco-chewing minigunner on Dutch Schaefer's rescue team in Predator. He fought through the guerrilla camp with a wound he ignored, then died to the Jungle Hunter's plasma caster in Val Verde before the creature took his body in the night.
By Janno Vares October 16, 2026 Predator Universe Characters
Hishinde was the Yautja of A Place of No Honor, Sarah Gailey and Fran Galán's story in Predator: Black, White & Blood #1. Cloaked at the Bay-O-Net weaponry conference, it was exposed by a tracking drone, killed the salesman and the armed guests, and left with only a few badges as evidence.
By Janno Vares October 16, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators Who Survived | Predators From The Comics
Russ Jorden was the wildcat prospector at Hadley's Hope who followed Weyland-Yutani coordinates to the derelict on LV-426 in 2179. A Facehugger took him inside the ship, and the Chestburster that killed him in the medlab began the outbreak that destroyed the colony before Aliens.
By Janno Vares October 16, 2026 Alien Universe Characters
Lucky Boy was the one-armed young Yautja of Bloodwood, the Joe Kelly serial in Predator: Black, White & Blood. Chained in a goldfield saloon in 1850, he escaped with Millie, trained her for three seasons, then came back to save her and died on Big Jim's throne.
By Janno Vares October 15, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators From The Comics | Marvel Predators
Hannibal Chew was the genetic designer who made replicant eyes for the Tyrell Corporation in Blade Runner, played by James Hong. In November 2019, Roy Batty and Leon broke into his freezing lab, took his coat, and forced him to send them to J. F. Sebastian.
By Janno Vares October 15, 2026 Blade Runner Lore | Blade Runner Characters | Replicant Designers
Adam Garber was Peter Keyes's second-in-command in Predator 2, played by Adam Baldwin. He questioned Dutch Schaefer in 1987, froze at the monitors when the Los Angeles trap failed, later recruited Scott Devlin for the OWLF, and was killed by a hunter in Rio de Janeiro.
By Janno Vares October 15, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator 2 Lore | Predator Hunt Survivors
Shoko Kawakami was the onna-oyabun of the Kawakami-gumi in Kejime, from Marvel's Predator: Black, White & Blood #2. After giving up her arm to stay in the clan, she was put in a Yautja Prime arena, killed the Young Blood hunters, learned it was their initiation, and was sent home.
By Janno Vares October 15, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth is Annapurna Interactive's narrative adventure about a former blade runner in Los Angeles after the Blackout, between the 1982 film and 2049. Its team resigned in 2024, Steam pulled the listing in December 2025, and no cancellation was announced.
By Janno Vares October 15, 2026 Blade Runner Games | Blade Runner Lore | News
Isabelle was the Israel Defense Forces sniper in Predators, played by Alice Braga. Tie-ins added black operations in Afghanistan and a Guatemala mission where her spotter died. On the Game Preserve Planet she survived Edwin's neurotoxin and the Berserker, then flew a Predator ship home alone.
By Janno Vares October 14, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Tennessee (Tee) Faris was a pilot on the USCSS Covenant in Alien: Covenant, played by Danny McBride. He picked up the rogue transmission that led the crew to Planet 4, lost his wife Faris there, rescued Daniels, Lope, and Walter, and went back into hypersleep unaware David was posing as Walter.
By Janno Vares October 14, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors
Sean Keyes was the son of OWLF leader Peter Keyes, played by Jake Busey in The Predator. A xenobiologist who joined the OWLF in 1996 and moved to Project Stargazer in 2016, he greeted Casey Brackett, found human DNA in the captive hunter, and survived its escape with a gunshot wound.
By Janno Vares October 13, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Anna Gonsalves was the guerrilla fighter taken prisoner by Dutch Schaefer's team in Predator, played by Elpidia Carrillo. She saw the Jungle Hunter kill Hawkins, told the team of the demon who makes trophies of men, helped them fight it, guided the rescue helicopter to Dutch, and later gave her account to the OWLF.
By Janno Vares October 13, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Royce was the American mercenary in Predators, played by Adrien Brody. Taken after a contract in Africa, he woke in freefall over the Game Preserve Planet, led a group of hunted killers, freed a captive Predator, killed the Berserker, and later flew off alone in a Predator ship.
By Janno Vares October 12, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Dr. Casey Brackett was the evolutionary biologist in The Predator, played by Olivia Munn. Project Stargazer brought her in to study a captive hunter. After it escaped she joined Quinn McKenna and the Loonies, worked out the hybrid plan, and survived the Upgrade.
By Janno Vares October 12, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Dom Vriess was the paralyzed chief mechanic of the Betty in Alien: Resurrection, played by Dominique Pinon. He fought off a Xenomorph alone in the Auriga's stores, survived the ladder shaft when Christie died for him, and flew the Betty to Earth with Johner as one of four survivors.
By Janno Vares October 11, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors | Alien Universe Mercenaries
The Colonial Marine Name Generator creates original USCM marines with registration numbers in the style of the Aliens roster, USS warships named after places and people from Joseph Conrad's public-domain novels, and full unit designations with nicknames and mottos for fan fiction, tabletop games, and roleplay.
By Janno Vares October 11, 2026 Colonial Marine Lore | Alien RPG Name Generators | Sci Fi Name Generators
The Dune Language Translator converts English words and short phrases into Chakobsa, the language of the Fremen of Arrakis. Each result is marked as a term from Frank Herbert's Dune novels or a word from the Chakobsa that David J. Peterson created for the Dune films.
By Janno Vares October 11, 2026 Sci Fi Language Translators | Dune Lore
The Blade Runner Name Generator creates original replicant designations in the style of Roy Batty's Nexus 6 data card, plus LAPD blade runner agent names built on K's KD6-3.7 serial and hard-boiled surnames, for fan fiction, tabletop games, and roleplay.
By Janno Vares October 11, 2026 Blade Runner Lore | Sci Fi Name Generators
Ron Johner was the scarred mercenary on the Betty in Alien: Resurrection, played by Ron Perlman. He lost a gym fight to Ripley 8, crossed the USM Auriga during the Xenomorph outbreak, saved Vriess on the ladder, and helped fly the Betty to Earth as one of four survivors.
By Janno Vares October 08, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors | Alien Universe Mercenaries
Quinn McKenna was the Army Ranger sniper in The Predator, played by Boyd Holbrook. In Mexico he shot a drug lord, took a fugitive hunter's mask and gauntlet, and mailed them home to his son Rory. With the Loonies he fought the Upgrade in Georgia and lived.
By Janno Vares October 07, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Kenji Kawakami was a Japanese shinobi in Predator: Killer of Killers, voiced by Louis Ozawa. In 1609 he returned from exile, scarred his brother Kiyoshi in their father's castle, and helped kill the Oni Predator. The Grendel King later severed Kenji's right arm, and John Torres flew him away from that world.
By Janno Vares October 07, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Historical Predator Hunts | Predator Hunt Survivors
Elizabeth Shaw was the archaeologist who found the Engineer star maps and sailed on the Prometheus to LV-223, played by Noomi Rapace. She cut a Trilobite from her abdomen, left with David's head, and died on Planet 4 in 2094 after he kept her as a subject.
By Janno Vares October 06, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors | Prometheus Lore
Ursa was a Norse shieldmaiden in Predator: Killer of Killers, voiced by Lindsay LaVanchy. In 841 she led her son Anders against the Krivich chieftain Zoran at Lake Ladoga, killed the hunter Grendel under the ice, and stayed behind on the Grendel King's world so John Torres and Kenji could leave.
By Janno Vares October 06, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Historical Predator Hunts | Predator Hunt Survivors
Katherine Daniels was supercargo and chief terraformer on the USCSS Covenant in Alien: Covenant, played by Katherine Waterston. Captain Jacob Branson died in a 2104 neutrino burst. She protested the detour to Planet 4, survived the landing, and went into hypersleep after David took Walter's place for Origae-6.
By Janno Vares October 05, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors
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
John J. Torres was a U.S. Navy ensign in Predator: Killer of Killers, voiced by Rick Gonzalez. Grounded on the Ranger in 1942, he took a battered Wildcat against a Yautja fighter over North Africa, then was abducted after the war and escaped the Grendel King's arena with Kenji.
By Janno Vares October 05, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Historical Predator Hunts | Predator Hunt Survivors
The Infected Predator was a Yautja hunter in Alien vs. Predator: Fire and Stone. Elden bit him aboard the Geryon, Black Goo grew a third arm and extra tusks, and he killed a clanmate before Elden and Francis Lane tore his arms off and Francis drove a pipe through his head.
By Janno Vares October 05, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators From The Comics | Avp Lore
Shorty was an undersized Yautja novice in Aliens vs. Predator: War, Machiko Noguchi's rival in Top-Knot's clan. He won a kehrite pit fight after a spectator grabbed her ankle, then died on Bunda when she cut his arm and killed him. In Hunter's Planet, as Lar'nix'va, she killed him on Blior.
By Janno Vares October 05, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators From The Comics | Predators From The Novels
The Jackals were Colonel Zula Hendricks' multinational brigade in Alien: Inferno's Fall and Alien: Seventh Circle. Three generals founded the unit in 2145 to hunt Xenomorphs. In 2186 they burned to Shānmén on the Righteous Fury, then raided Minos over Dimitar.
By Janno Vares October 04, 2026 Colonial Marine Lore
FAR/TH/UR 2600, called Father, was the United Systems Military mainframe on the USM Auriga in Alien: Resurrection. After the outbreak it locked an Earth return. Annalee Call overrode that course from the chapel, and Father finished the impact countdown in 2381.
By Janno Vares October 04, 2026 Alien Universe Computers
Walter One was the Weyland-Yutani synthetic produced in 2100 for the Covenant in Alien: Covenant, played by Michael Fassbender. In 2104 a neutrino burst woke the crew, a Neomorph took his left hand on Planet 4, and he fought David. David returned to the ship in his place, and Walter remained on the planet.
By Janno Vares October 04, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Universe Androids
Anchorpoint is the name of more than one station. The first, in the Neroid Sector, opened around 2140 and was destroyed by a reactor meltdown in 2179. A second station near Liberty Echo served the Outer Rim in the 2180s, and Pat Cadigan's Alien 3 novel destroyed a moon-sized Anchorpoint in a hybrid outbreak.
By Janno Vares October 03, 2026 Alien Universe Space Stations
Lefty is the one-eyed Predator who hunted an unnamed smuggler from world to world in Aliens vs. Predator: Lefty's Revenge. On the Outpost he killed the Xenomorph that had pinned her and fought the swarm beside her. She threw him the wrist nuke. He did not use it, and she decided he got away.
By Janno Vares October 03, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators Who Survived | Predators From The Comics
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
The Three World War was the late 22nd century fight on Caparis VII, with Colonial Marines and Hunter Yautja against a Killer clan that fielded tusked adult Xenomorphs. Machiko Noguchi carried the truce, a Queen from Ryushi broke the Killers' hold, and the beachhead destroyed their position.
By Janno Vares October 02, 2026 Alien Universe Wars | Colonial Marine Lore | Avp Lore
Rook was the Weyland-Yutani science officer on Renaissance Station in Alien: Romulus, using Ian Holm's face. He harvested the Nostromo Xenomorph for compound Z-01 until Big Chap tore him in half. He tried to send the sample to Jackson's Star, and the station broke up in the rings of LV-410.
By Janno Vares October 02, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Universe Androids | Alien Romulus Lore
The Rage War was the 2692 invasion of the Human Sphere by the Rage, Founders who returned with Xenomorph armies under android generals. Yautja ships fled ahead of that army, Isa Palant sealed a ceasefire with Kalakta, and Liliya burned the generals on Macbeth before Gerard Marshall shut the human dropholes.
By Janno Vares October 02, 2026 Alien Universe Wars | Avp Lore
Leonard Dillon was the Fiorina 161 inmate preacher in Alien 3, played by Charles S. Dutton. He told Ellen Ripley he was a murderer and rapist of women, then stopped an assault on her and led the remaining prisoners against the Dragon. He died in the lead mold in 2179.
By Janno Vares October 02, 2026 Alien Universe Characters
The Frontier War was the United Americas fight with the Union of Progressive Peoples that opened in 2183 and 2184. The Union annexed 61 Cygni, unknown parties destroyed border colonies with a black biochemical agent, and the Colonial Marines evacuated 70 Ophiuchi after Fort Nebraska fell.
By Janno Vares October 01, 2026 Alien Universe Wars | Colonial Marine Lore
Dr. Sora Matsushita was the Weyland-Yutani surgeon who landed on Fury 161 with Michael Bishop in Alien 3, credited only as the Company Man. He offered Ellen Ripley a short surgery for the Queen embryo. In 2184 Captain Kylie Duncan shot him and had him burned in the Hasanova nest on LV-991.
By Janno Vares October 01, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Universe Scientists
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
