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
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
