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 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
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 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
