The Necromorph was a diseased Xenomorph from Tim Waggoner's Alien: Prototype. Dr. Millard Gagnon gave it that name after leftover cellular necrosis passed from host Hassan Bagrov into the larva. The adult hunted through Venture's V-22 Lodge on Jericho 3 and spread the mutated illness through the air until Zula Hendricks and the synthetic Davis killed it.
Origin And Host
Venture got the leftover egg from the wrecked freighter Proximo. Corporate spy Tamar Prather stole the unmarked stasis pod and ran a twenty-three-day course to Jericho 3 so Weyland-Yutani could not follow the ion trail. Director Aleta Fuentes needed a win that would keep the board from shutting V-22, and Dr. Millard Gagnon confirmed the pod held a live egg.
Hassan Bagrov kept the Lodge heating plant running and sold his body to lab trials, putting the extra pay toward a trip back to Earth. Gagnon had already given him cellular necrosis during an earlier vaccine test. The treatment worked, but Hassan's mouth stayed dry and he still grew kidney stones. He walked into the chamber thinking it was another paid trial. The Facehugger came out of the egg and took him.
The Chestburster tore out of Hassan already marked with barnacle pustules and black lesions. Gagnon hoped the leftover illness would kill the larva, but the infant adapted, kept the growths, and folded the disease into its own body through the same host-trait rule that shapes other Xenomorphs. Minutes old, it slammed its head into a floor vent, tore the mesh with its teeth, and escaped into the Lodge ducts.
Appearance
The adult kept a Warrior size and shape: an eyeless oblong head, inner jaw, tail, and the same jointed frame. The hide made the difference, a mass of raised black lesions and pus-filled barnacles from neck to legs, and the shell looked yellow-green rather than clean black. It smelled like spoiled meat. Gagnon called it a Necromorph, a Xenomorph crossed with cellular necrosis.
Ordinary pistols and even pulse-rifle fire mostly dented that fused hide and burst the pustules. The black goo that jetted out ate skin, bone, EVA faceplates, and flooring the same way acid blood did. Lodge security learned that in the Mall, when a volley on the creature's back sprayed three guards and cooked a face down to bone. The growths also marked people the creature had only touched, and even corpses already on the floor.
The Cough
The Necromorph did not need a claw or a tail for every kill. Its inner jaw could stop short of the skull, make a dry cough, and throw a cloud of black particles into a face or a room. Guard Saul Caswell took that dose after the Mall fight and later coughed the same black cloud onto people around him before he died. The mutated necrosis moved faster than the strain Gagnon had once put in Hassan, and the old vaccine did nothing once the cloud went into skin and blood.
In the Med Center, Gagnon tried a vaccine sphere and a one-shot proton stunner, hoping the creature's fast metabolism would turn the dose into a shock he could use to recapture it. The sphere wet its mouth and slowed it for a moment. Then the lesions rose again, the Necromorph coughed the black cloud into him, and he pressed the stunner to his own neck before the disease could finish the job. Later it braced in a duct and coughed into the air system, so people who never saw it still died. More than a third of the Lodge died of cellular necrosis before the outbreak burned out.
The Necromorph could also hold the dose down when it wanted a host to live long enough for implant. That pull sat against the other drive in its body: the Alien wanted an egg, and the disease wanted every room filled. Those two instincts ran at the same time, and the creature could not settle on one.
Hunting The Lodge
The first kills came while it was still small. In the dock warehouse it locked onto worker Hugo Ramirez's neck, and the pustules on its back burst over Opal when she tried to pull it off. The black slime ate her hands to the bone. Hugo's face took on the same lesions before he fell.
As an adult it hunted through shops, wards, and ducts. In the Mall it killed a tattoo artist with the inner jaw, put a tail through guard Paolo Scoggins, and broke Oralia Bergqvist's neck with a claw under the jaw. Trainee Miriam Castro was still in a Med Center bed from a training accident when it came out of an air duct. She sent the nurse out, picked up an IV pole, and went at it anyway. The tail broke her shoulder, punched through her back, and the inner jaw finished her.
Nicholas Hauata took a dose of the mutated virus while the trainees hunted it through the buildings and shot himself so the disease would die with him. At an airlock, rifle fire still only burst pustules. Tamar knocked trainee Brenna Lister forward to draw the tail, then grabbed a knocked-out tooth that melted into her palm. The inner jaw killed Brenna, and Tamar opened the outer door and crawled onto Jericho 3 without a suit. Necrosis was already opening her hands when the creature tore her apart on the rocks.
Eggmorphing
There was no Queen on Jericho 3. Gagnon still saw the adult drag a lightly infected man toward a duct and guessed it was making an egg the old way, by eggmorphing a host. Before it went outside it hid that egg in a dark aisle of the warehouse, a greenish leathery egg covered in black lesions. Months later, after Venture shut the Lodge, inspectors Royce Leahy and Taneka McKinley found it in poor light. It opened as Royce reached for his comm.
Death
Jericho 3's air was mostly carbon dioxide, with dust that turned the sky a dirty yellow-brown. Gagnon had already judged that the species could live in vacuum. The storm and the thin air did not stop this one either. It reached the proto-colony first, ripped a colonist out of an EVA suit, killed another with a tail through the chest, and yanked trainee Virgil Townsend out of the firing line.
Zula Hendricks hung from a skimmer's drop cable and used herself as bait, leading it back to the Junkyard training ground. Friendly fire wrecked a plan to turn leftover training bots on it, and the creature killed trainee Angela there. Zula then lured it into the empty skimmer. Davis sealed the hull, climbed into the storm, and overloaded the engines. She dropped out on the emergency cable a moment before the blast. The Necromorph died with the craft.
A week later Venture closed V-22. Zula and Davis wiped Gagnon's isolated research, and a delayed fire in his lab burned the leftover egg, the Facehugger, and Hassan's corpse. The warehouse egg was already elsewhere. Zula refused a new company post and caught a supply ship toward Earth to pick up Amanda Ripley.
Similar Xenomorphs
The Inoculated Xenomorph from Dead by Daylight is a Fog cosmetic, not a second Prototype creature. The Hallowed Blight set put golden plague growths through the shell, listed as Bursting Carapace, Infected Mesoskeleton, and Contagious Claw. That blighted look is the closest licensed still to the Necromorph's necrosis-fused hide. Runner Aliens show the same host-trait rule that passed Hassan's illness into the larva. Eggmorphing Warriors cover the other habit: making an egg with no Queen on site.
Conclusion
The Necromorph was the necrosis-fused adult born from Hassan on Jericho 3. It spread mutated cellular necrosis through the Lodge air, hid one diseased egg in the warehouse, and died when Zula and Davis blew a skimmer in the carbon-dioxide storm. The leftover egg was still there months later, and it opened.
Appearances
- Alien: Prototype (2019)
External Sources
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