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 they put treated Black Goo into the egg. The staff named the adult Seven after Containment Room Seven. It led the other Xenomorphs because there was no Queen on the station, and it died in the shuttle-bay fire that also killed Dr. Mark Cruz.
Origin And Host
In January 2202, Pala Station received live eggs from the orbital mine Katanga. Twelve prisoners who had signed company contracts were then placed in the containment rooms. Commander Vincent Bellows ordered pathogen tests on every stage of the Xenomorph life cycle. The team treated the Black Goo with radiation and injected it into eggs, hosts, or both. Room One and Room Two produced ordinary dark drones. Monica Enright in Room Three became a striped adult that the staff called Three. Room Five produced an adult with an extra pair of arms.
Test Subject 7 was different from the others. A Facehugger attached itself to an unnamed prisoner, a Chestburster emerged, and the adult grew a smooth Drone head on a paler body that looked more human than the others. Dr. Cruz named it Seven and used the room's flame system whenever the other drones started attacking the glass. Bellows refused to let Cruz destroy it, because the lab had already lost Room Eleven.
Appearance
As an adult in Containment Room Seven, it had the usual oblong drone skull, with no eyes and no nose, but its body was closer to a human shape than a Warrior. The hide was translucent and almost white. Other staff later described it as albino. Dr. Cruz also recorded the adult as gray-skinned. The knees and torso were larger than a human's, but they bent and stood in the same way. Lab scans showed mixed human and Xenomorph tissue in the same body.
Its jaws snapped at empty air even when nothing stood in front of the glass. With no eyes, Seven tracked the room through its mouth, either by echo or by taste. Saliva and acid ran from its teeth the same way they did on the darker drones beside it. The pale hide later helped Hoenikker spot it in the swarm after the lab was breached.
Hive Control
The scientists kept watching Seven through the glass after it reached adult size. Dr. Cruz felt a buzz at the back of his skull when he watched it for too long. The drones in Room Six and Room Eight then spat acid at the same weak points in the glass, repeating the attack until Cruz hit Seven with fire and they stopped. After that, Seven's influence spread. Four, Five, Six, Nine, and Ten began the same glass attacks at random. The second chameleon, Leon-B, also flashed through colors at the same time.
Dr. Erin Kash believed Seven was a drone that could lead the others. Dr. Timothy Hoenikker thought a leader had formed because Pala Station had no Queen, and that the Black Goo had made Seven smarter and more in control than the first unaltered specimens. When Bellows ordered the synths to burn every Xenomorph in the lab, Five broke out first, stood at Seven's glass, and entered the button code it had watched the scientists use. Seven walked into the corridor, and the remaining drones gathered around the white adult while ignoring the staff.
The Mess Hall
After Seven left the lab, it took over the Pala Station mess hall and turned it into a breeding area. Other adults pushed tables and chairs against the walls, brought out hidden eggs the lab had stored in cryo, and forced surviving staff to face the openings until a Facehugger attached. The implanted people were then stacked on the far side of the hall. Comms chief Vivian Oshita was later found with her chest already empty. Former Marine Victor Rawlings watched from hiding, then returned to his room and started drinking.
Cruz's group took Engineering and cut power and doors, hoping to keep the Xenomorphs inside the mess hall. Seven's brood then destroyed solar nodes on the south roof. The security cameras went dark, and the hall was empty. Cruz believed Seven had disabled the cameras and was now hunting the people who had held it.
Death
The survivors later tried to reach the shuttle. In the bay corridor they found Seven standing in the middle of it, with acid dripping from its jaws and eleven juveniles crouched around it. When Seven turned toward them, the juveniles turned with it and attacked. Acid from a dying juvenile killed Rawlings and comms tech Buggy. The remaining juveniles fell back around Seven and guarded it. Hoenikker felt the same buzz he had felt in the lab.
Cruz charged with the flamethrower, called the names of the squad he had lost years earlier, and sprayed Seven and the juveniles with fuel before he lit it. Seven grabbed him and pulled him into the fire. Hoenikker took Kash's pulse rifle and shot the fuel tank on Cruz's back. The explosion destroyed Cruz, Seven, and the juveniles. Seven was already dead when Marines from the UAS Endeavor later pulled Hoenikker out of Katanga.
Similar Xenomorphs
Specimen 6 from Aliens vs. Predator (2010) is the closest comparison among numbered lab specimens. Weyland-Yutani bred her on BG-386, branded a 6 on her dome, and studied an unusually intelligent Warrior that later escaped, freed other Aliens, and molted into a Queen. Seven never became a Queen, and it remained the pale Alpha at Pala Station until the shuttle-bay fire. The Grid Alien also led other Warriors in Antarctica while the Queen was chained in the temple.
Conclusion
Subject Seven was the white Alpha born from Test Subject 7 after the Pala Station lab treated the egg with irradiated Black Goo. It led the other drones without a Queen, used the mess hall as a breeding area, and died when Cruz covered it in fuel and Hoenikker shot the tank. The striped Monica drone escaped on the San Lorenzo and later killed Kash, but Seven died at Pala Station.
Appearances
- Aliens: Infiltrator (novel, Titan Books, 2021)
- Aliens: Infiltrator (audiobook narration by Bronson Pinchot)
- The Complete Aliens Collection: Living Nightmares (omnibus, Titan Books, 2024)
External Sources
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