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
The United Americas formed in the early 2100s when North, Central, and South America signed the Washington Treaty. By the 2180s it was the strongest colonizing power in charted space, holding the American Arm through Allied Command, the Colonial Marines, and the Colonial Marshal Bureau.
By Janno Vares September 27, 2026 Alien Universe Governments | Alien Universe Factions | Colonial Marine Lore
Olwen is the main replicant Michelle Yeoh plays in Blade Runner 2099. She is a blade runner with only days left to live, and the official premise pairs her with Hunter Schafer's Cora in a Los Angeles held by replicants. The teaser shows her questioning Cora after a prison beating.
By Janno Vares September 27, 2026 Blade Runner Lore | Blade Runner Characters | Blade Runner Detectives
Carter J. Burke was Weyland-Yutani's Special Projects Director in Aliens. He met Ellen Ripley on Gateway, sent Hadley's Hope to the derelict, and tried to smuggle Facehugger hosts off LV-426. The hive took him. Dark Mother and Aliens: What If give two different endings for that night.
By Janno Vares September 26, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Colonial Marine Lore | Weyland Yutani Executives
The Blade Runner timeline runs from Cal Moreaux and the first blade runner unit in 2009 Los Angeles to a replicant-held city in 2099. It follows Deckard's November 2019 hunt, Blade Runner 2049, three short films, Titan's comics, Black Lotus, and Blade Runner 2099.
By Janno Vares September 26, 2026 Blade Runner Lore | Sci Fi Movie Timelines
Cora is the main human Hunter Schafer plays in Blade Runner 2099. She starts as a fugitive in replicant-held Los Angeles, then takes a blade runner identity beside Michelle Yeoh's dying replicant Olwen. The teaser shows her beaten in a prison, then strapped to a chair while Olwen questions her.
By Janno Vares September 26, 2026 Blade Runner Lore | Blade Runner Characters
The HNT-1 El Alamein Revolver Rifle is Sentinel Group's single-shot DMR in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2. The three-star version has Combat Rating 100, accuracy 88, an 8-round cylinder, and 64 damage, making it a precision option for heavier targets.
By Janno Vares September 25, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Colonial Marine Lore | Alien Universe Weapons
Jones, called Jonesy, was the large yellow tom who served as ship's cat aboard the USCSS Nostromo. He lived through the Xenomorph outbreak with Ellen Ripley, shared her Narcissus hypersleep for 57 years, and stayed in a Gateway Station cabin when she left for LV-426.
By Janno Vares September 25, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors
The Yautja Codex is a collection of Yautja hunting rules and teachings, with two numbered entries revealed in Predator: Killer of Killers and Predator: Badlands. Codex 0522/74 tells hunters to seek the strongest prey, while Codex 0422/25 describes the Yautja as prey to none, friend to none, and predator to all.
By Janno Vares September 25, 2026 Yautja Society | Yautja Behaviour | Yautja Mythology
The Prowler is a reddish Runner-scale Xenomorph in Aliens: Fireteam Elite and Fireteam Elite 2. It hides on LV-895 in 2202 and returns on LV-558 in 2207, then leaps onto a Colonial Marine and pins that Marine until a teammate breaks the hold. A spiked tail and a larger head set it apart from a Runner.
By Janno Vares September 25, 2026 Xenomorphs From The Games | Xenomorph Appearance | Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore
The BD-48 Daittyo Heavy Rifle is Pranali's machine gun in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2. At max rank it has Combat Rating 100, stability 86, a 200-round magazine, and a fire rate of 400. Duelist uses it for sustained fire, with Grey-Market Rounds and the Nagpur Shroud.
By Janno Vares September 24, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Colonial Marine Lore | Alien Universe Weapons
Hyperdyne Systems built the 120-A/2 synthetics, including Ash, and the 341-B androids the Colonial Marines put on every platoon, including Bishop. It went on working the Hyades mines past the twenty-parsec limit, left a Weyland-Yutani buyout, and later fielded the Zvezda plasma rifle and the Volcan.
By Janno Vares September 24, 2026 Alien Universe Companies | Alien Universe Factions | Colonial Marine Lore
A Fireteam Elite 2 loadout combines a ranked Colonial Marine kit, a 42-slot perk board, three guns, and attachments. Recommended guns include the BD-48 Daittyo, the L56A3 Smartgun, and the M41A Classic. Rank the home classes first. Specialist mixes those kits later.
By Janno Vares September 23, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Colonial Marine Lore
Armat Battlefield Systems made the M41A Pulse Rifle that Colonial Marines and the US Army carried into the 2179 fight at Hadley's Hope. The Technical Manual, Operations Manual, and Alien RPG also name Armat on the M41AE2, the Model 37A2 shotgun, the U1 launcher, and the Type 4 and M20 charges.
By Janno Vares September 23, 2026 Alien Universe Companies | Alien Universe Factions | Colonial Marine Lore
Charles Bishop Weyland founded Weyland Industries and led the October 2004 Bouvetoya expedition in Alien vs. Predator. Lung cancer drove him under the Antarctic ice to a buried pyramid. He burned Scar with an oxygen tank on the stairs, and the hunter stabbed him with wrist blades.
By Janno Vares September 23, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Avp Lore | Alien Universe Characters
Blade Runner 2099 is Amazon's eight-episode Prime Video limited series, set fifty years after Blade Runner 2049. Hunter Schafer's Cora partners with Michelle Yeoh's dying replicant Olwen in a Los Angeles run by replicants. All eight episodes premiere worldwide on 25 November 2026.
By Janno Vares September 22, 2026 Blade Runner Tv Series | Blade Runner Lore | News
Annalee Call was a Second Generation Auton who joined the Betty to stop the United Systems Military from cloning Xenomorphs aboard the USM Auriga. Played by Winona Ryder in Alien: Resurrection, she survived with Ripley 8, then later appeared in Aliens: Original Sin.
By Janno Vares September 22, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Universe Androids | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 attachments are grouped as Magazine, Optics, Underbarrel, Muzzle, Barrel, Armature, Traits, and Augments. Small, Medium, and Large magazines share names across sizes, and heatsinks, internals, and tubular mags are on the Magazine tab.
By Janno Vares September 22, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Colonial Marine Lore
Robert Morse was a Fiorina 161 inmate in Alien 3, played by Danny Webb. He stayed after Weyland-Yutani closed the prison and was the only survivor of the 2179 Dragon outbreak. Company troops under Michael Bishop took him into custody, and Morse wrote Space Beast, the banned account later treated as scripture.
By Janno Vares September 21, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors
Arthur Dallas was captain of the USCSS Nostromo in Alien. He led Kane and Lambert onto LV-426, brought Kane back after the Facehugger, then crawled the air shafts with a flamethrower. The adult Xenomorph took him there, and Ripley later found him cocooned in the Director's Cut.
By Janno Vares September 21, 2026 Alien Universe Characters
Peter Jacob Keyes was the CIA officer who ran the Other Worldly Life Forms Program under a DEA cover. He interrogated Dutch Schaefer after Val Verde, tracked the City Hunter through 1997 Los Angeles, and died in a slaughterhouse when a smart disc cut him in half.
By Janno Vares September 21, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator 2 Lore
Alexa Woods was the ice guide on Charles Bishop Weyland's 2004 Bouvetoya expedition in Alien vs. Predator. She fought beside Scar Predator, killed two adult Xenomorphs, helped sink the Queen, and left the ice Blooded with the Elder's spear.
By Janno Vares September 20, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Avp Lore | Predator Hunt Survivors
Kane was the executive officer of the USCSS Nostromo in Alien. He volunteered for the landing party on LV-426, a Facehugger locked onto him in the derelict egg chamber, and a Chestburster killed him at the mess table. Later comics named his daughter Tsula Kane.
By Janno Vares September 18, 2026 Alien Universe Characters
Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 sells Challenge Cards in the Armory for requisition credits. Each card sets a mission rule, a reward multiplier, and a polarity, from Form an Attachment to No HUD. Ranked copies show up in the mission picker, and Ammo Hoarder is not in the store.
By Janno Vares September 18, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Colonial Marine Lore
The Other Worldly Life Forms Program was a CIA capture unit under a DEA cover. Peter Keyes tracked hunters from Val Verde to Los Angeles in 1997, where the City Hunter cut him in half with a smart disc. The work later passed to Project Stargazer and Sean Keyes, then Hunting Grounds put OWLF back with Dutch.
By Janno Vares September 18, 2026 Predator Lore
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 Universe Computers | 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 | Weyland Yutani Executives
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 Alien Universe Factions | 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 Predator Universe Characters | 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 Universe Characters | Predator 2 Lore | Predator Killer Of Killers Lore
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
The Pathogen Queen was a white, infected Xenomorph Queen under LV-895 in Aliens: Fireteam Elite. In 2202, Promise of the Flower sent UAS Endeavor Marines into Engineer ruins and a hive grown wild by Black Goo. She climbed the nest walls, spilled white fluid from her mouth, and died in a direct fight.
By Janno Vares September 07, 2026 Individual Xenomorphs | Xenomorph Leaders | Pathogen Creatures
The Working Joe was Seegson's cheap labor android, a rubber-skinned mannequin tied to the APOLLO mainframe. On Sevastopol Station in 2137 the Joes strangled civilians after Special Order 939, including Working Joe 937 Chuck. In 2207 packs of Joes guarded Dr. Pearce on LV-558.
By Janno Vares September 07, 2026 Alien Universe Androids
Private Tim Crowe was a Colonial Marine rifleman on the USS Sulaco in Aliens, service number A46/TQ1.0.98712E6. He took an M41A into the Hadley's Hope hive and died in Frost's magazine cook-off. Foster's novelization had a Warrior take him as a host.
By Janno Vares September 06, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Colonial Marine Characters | Colonial Marine Lore
Esther 1089-12/A7 was the battalion synthetic aboard the UAS Endeavor in Aliens: Fireteam Elite. Weyland-Yutani built her in 2172 at Eko Atlantic. She decrypted LV-895 logs, then joined Fireteam Banshee on LV-558 in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2.
By Janno Vares September 06, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Alien Universe Androids | Colonial Marine Lore
Private Trevor Wierzbowski was a Colonial Marine rifleman on the USS Sulaco in Aliens, service number A14/TQ8.0.20034E7. He took an M240 flamethrower into the Hadley's Hope hive, survived Frost's magazine cook-off, and was taken off camera. Foster's novelization gave him lines Frost spoke on film.
By Janno Vares September 04, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Colonial Marine Characters | Colonial Marine Lore
The Engineer hybrids in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 were human-Engineer creatures Dr. Lily Pearce built at Storr's Boon to treat Acidium exposure. She used a dead Engineer and more than a hundred colonists, then kept the survivors frozen. Fireteam Banshee killed about a dozen on LV-558 in 2207.
By Janno Vares September 04, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Aliens Fireteam 2 Enemies | Space Jockey Lore
The Seegson Corporation was a European conglomerate that sold cheap alternatives to Weyland-Yutani, from Working Joe androids to the APOLLO mainframe. It bought Sevastopol Station, sold that freeport in 2137, then kept fighting through the Cold Forge raid and a Seegson botanist on BG-791 in 2187.
By Janno Vares September 04, 2026 Alien Universe Companies | Alien Universe Factions
The Biodrone, tagged XX121B, was an engineered drone from Weyland-Yutani's Project Life Force. Dr. N.L. Babak meant the type to stay at drone stage, live about six days, and kill without starting a hive. In Alien: Enemy of My Enemy, biodrones overran the LV-846 summit in 2187.
By Janno Vares September 04, 2026 Xenomorphs From The Novels | Xenomorph Appearance
Dr. Timothy Hoenikker was a Weyland-Yutani theoretical archaeologist from Brooklyn who survived Pala Station in Weston Ochse's Aliens: Infiltrator. After Monica killed Kash on the San Lorenzo, Endeavor Marines pulled him off Katanga in Aliens: Fireteam Elite.
By Janno Vares September 03, 2026 Alien Universe Scientists | Alien Universe Characters | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors
The United States Colonial Marine Corps was the United Americas force-in-readiness, founded by the National Security Act of 2101. It peaked at 240,000 Marines after Tientsin, dropped to 165,000 by the Aliens year, and fielded small rifle platoons from Marine Space Forces Sol, Eridani, and Herculis.
By Janno Vares September 03, 2026 Alien Universe Organizations | Alien Universe Factions | Colonial Marine Lore
Private First Class Daniel Spunkmeyer was the Colonial Marine crew chief from Aliens who loaded Bug Stomper, rode shotgun with Ferro to LV-426, and died when a stowaway Warrior hit him in the cargo bay. The crash wrecked the APC and stranded the survivors at Hadley's Hope.
By Janno Vares September 02, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Colonial Marine Characters | Colonial Marine Lore
Storr's Boon was the Weyland-Yutani mining colony on LV-558 that Fireteam Chimaera entered in 2207 after Dr. Pearce's distress call reached the UAS Endeavor. The company hid Xenomorph work behind the mine and the atmosphere processor.
By Janno Vares September 02, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Alien Universe Colonies
Corporal Colette Ferro was the Colonial Marine dropship pilot from Aliens who flew Bug Stomper on the Sulaco drop to LV-426 and died when a stowaway Warrior hit the cockpit. The crash wrecked the APC and stranded the survivors at Hadley's Hope.
By Janno Vares September 01, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Colonial Marine Characters | Colonial Marine Lore
Olivia Shipp was a United Americas Colonial Marine who survived the 2172 Zagreus outbreak in Alien: Echo as a teenager, then fought at Katanga as a corporal, served with the Jackals, commanded the UAS Endeavor as colonel in 2202, and closed the 2207 LV-558 campaign as a general.
By Janno Vares September 01, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Alien Universe Characters | Colonial Marine Characters
The M3 Pattern Personal Armor is the Colonial Marine fighting vest from Aliens. This article covers the Tech Manual layer stack, the M10 helmet comms suite, Hadley's Hope use, and later plate from Fireteam Elite and Fireteam Elite 2.
By Janno Vares August 31, 2026 Colonial Marine Lore
Corporal Cynthia Dietrich was the Sulaco corpsman from Aliens who checked Newt after the colony sweep and was the first Marine taken in the hive. Her flamethrower lit Frost and the confiscated magazines. Aliens: Bug Hunt put her on leave with Frost at Sullivan 9 and on Clytemnestra with Apone's squad.
By Janno Vares August 30, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Colonial Marine Characters | Colonial Marine Lore
The M577 Armored Personnel Carrier is the Colonial Marine drop-transport APC from Aliens. This article covers the Tech Manual build, crew and command center, weapons variants, the LV-426 extraction, and later comics, games, and toys.
By Janno Vares August 30, 2026 Alien Universe Vehicles | Colonial Marine Lore
The Crusher is a heavily armored quadruped Xenomorph caste. Aliens: Colonial Marines introduced it on LV-426, Dark Descent used it as a rare charger on Lethe, and Fireteam Elite kept the plated-skull charge that soaks hits from the front.
By Janno Vares August 29, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Aliens Fireteam 2 Enemies | Xenomorphs From The Games
Private First Class Ricco Frost was a Colonial Marine rifleman from Aliens who hauled confiscated magazines in the hive and died when Dietrich's flamethrower lit him and the bag. Aliens: Bug Hunt put him on leave with Dietrich at Sullivan 9 and on Clytemnestra with Apone's squad.
By Janno Vares August 29, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Colonial Marine Characters | Colonial Marine Lore
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 Exploder is a Volatile Runner Xenomorph in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2. Cold Iron Studios lists it as a suicide pressure unit with a Medium (situational) threat. A pustule-covered sac on its back detonates at close range, and a burning Exploder dies with a larger blast.
By Janno Vares August 28, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Aliens Fireteam 2 Enemies | Xenomorphs From The Games
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
Cold Iron Studios and Daybreak Game Company have shipped Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, the four-player co-op sequel to Aliens: Fireteam Elite. This article covers the launch trailer, day-one platforms, Standard and 40th Anniversary Premium Edition prices, and the separate Alien: Romulus pack.
By Janno Vares August 26, 2026 Alien Games | News
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 Striker is a pale pathogen brute in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2. Cold Iron first fielded it as the Pathogen Brute in the Promise of the Flower expansion. Club arms, a relentless chase, and no clean weak point make it a High-threat melee pursuer.
By Janno Vares August 24, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Aliens Fireteam 2 Enemies | Pathogen Creatures
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
The Harbinger is a pathogen-mutated Hunter in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2. Cold Iron Studios lists it as a Pursuit and Lockdown threat with a High rating. A multi-armed body built around an oversized maw chases a squad and pins Marines with a grapple.
By Janno Vares August 24, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Aliens Fireteam 2 Enemies | Pathogen Creatures
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 | Xenomorphs From The Novels | Xenomorph Appearance
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 Siren is a Support / Caller Xenomorph in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2. Cold Iron Studios lists it as a reinforcement beacon with low direct threat and high indirect threat. Vibrating dorsal-tube flaps carry the scream that calls more Xenomorphs into the fight.
By Janno Vares August 20, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Aliens Fireteam 2 Enemies | Xenomorphs From The Games
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
The Marauder is a remade Colonial Marine class in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, built around a rifle plus a heavy weapon, shoulder-mounted Blast Cannon and Titan Rockets kits, and perks that reward kill streaks and melee knockback.
By Janno Vares August 19, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Colonial Marine Lore | News
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 groups the Colonial Marine locker into Rifle, Precision, CQW, Handgun, and Heavy tabs. The Collection lists returning Armat pulse rifles and smartguns beside Pranali heavies, Sentinel Group revolvers, and class signatures such as the Type 111 and X1 Fireball.
By Janno Vares August 18, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | 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 | Xenomorphs From The Novels | Xenomorph Appearance
The Warden is a Heavy Bruiser Xenomorph in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2. Cold Iron Studios lists it as stockier than a Praetorian, with speed bursts, melee knockdowns, and ranged acid that locks a squad in place. It is not a Xenomorph King.
By Janno Vares August 18, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Aliens Fireteam 2 Enemies | Xenomorphs From The Games
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 Specialist is the new endgame Colonial Marine class in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, built around unlocked abilities, perks, and signature weapons from Marauder, Duelist, Machinist, Hunter, and Medic, mixed into one custom loadout.
By Janno Vares August 17, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Colonial Marine Lore | News
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
The Medic is a remade Colonial Marine class in Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, built around Combat Stims, a returning Advanced Trauma Station that can buff or poison, close-range signature weapons, and revive perks that keep a fireteam standing.
By Janno Vares August 12, 2026 Aliens Fireteam 2 Lore | Colonial Marine Lore | News
