The Colonial Marine Name Generator creates original USCM marines with registration numbers in the style of the Aliens roster, USS warships named after places and people from Joseph Conrad's public-domain novels, and full unit designations with nicknames and mottos for fan fiction, tabletop games, and roleplay.
By Janno Vares October 11, 2026 Colonial Marine Lore | Sci Fi Name Generators
The Dune Language Translator converts English words and short phrases into Chakobsa, the language of the Fremen of Arrakis. Each result is marked as a term from Frank Herbert's Dune novels or a word from the Chakobsa that David J. Peterson created for the Dune films.
By Janno Vares October 11, 2026 Sci Fi Language Translators | Dune Lore
The Blade Runner Name Generator creates original replicant designations in the style of Roy Batty's Nexus 6 data card, plus LAPD blade runner agent names built on K's KD6-3.7 serial and hard-boiled surnames, for fan fiction, tabletop games, and roleplay.
By Janno Vares October 11, 2026 Blade Runner Lore | Sci Fi Name Generators
Ron Johner was the scarred mercenary on the Betty in Alien: Resurrection, played by Ron Perlman. He lost a gym fight to Ripley 8, crossed the USM Auriga during the Xenomorph outbreak, saved Vriess on the ladder, and helped fly the Betty to Earth as one of four survivors.
By Janno Vares October 08, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors
Quinn McKenna was the Army Ranger sniper in The Predator, played by Boyd Holbrook. In Mexico he shot a drug lord, took a fugitive hunter's mask and gauntlet, and mailed them home to his son Rory. With the Loonies he fought the Upgrade in Georgia and lived.
By Janno Vares October 07, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Predator Hunt Survivors
Kenji Kawakami was a Japanese shinobi in Predator: Killer of Killers, voiced by Louis Ozawa. In 1609 he returned from exile, scarred his brother Kiyoshi in their father's castle, and helped kill the Oni Predator. The Grendel King later severed Kenji's right arm, and John Torres flew him away from that world.
By Janno Vares October 07, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Historical Predator Hunts | Predator Hunt Survivors
Elizabeth Shaw was the archaeologist who found the Engineer star maps and sailed on the Prometheus to LV-223, played by Noomi Rapace. She cut a Trilobite from her abdomen, left with David's head, and died on Planet 4 in 2094 after he kept her as a subject.
By Janno Vares October 06, 2026 Alien Universe Characters | Xenomorph Encounter Survivors | Prometheus Lore
Ursa was a Norse shieldmaiden in Predator: Killer of Killers, voiced by Lindsay LaVanchy. In 841 she led her son Anders against the Krivich chieftain Zoran at Lake Ladoga, killed the hunter Grendel under the ice, and stayed behind on the Grendel King's world so John Torres and Kenji could leave.
By Janno Vares October 06, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Historical Predator Hunts | Predator Hunt Survivors
Katherine Daniels was supercargo and chief terraformer on the USCSS Covenant in Alien: Covenant, played by Katherine Waterston. Captain Jacob Branson died in a 2104 neutrino burst. She protested the detour to Planet 4, survived the landing, and went into hypersleep after David took Walter's place for Origae-6.
By Janno Vares October 05, 2026 Alien Universe Characters
Shānmén, cataloged GJ1187.03, was a Union of Progressive Peoples rainforest world at the rim of the Weyland Isles. The Jùtóu Combine mined Eitr there until an Engineer Juggernaut dumped Black Goo on New Luhansk in 2186. The Jackals lifted a few survivors before the planet was quarantined.
By Janno Vares October 05, 2026 Alien Universe Planets | Alien Universe Colonies
John J. Torres was a U.S. Navy ensign in Predator: Killer of Killers, voiced by Rick Gonzalez. Grounded on the Ranger in 1942, he took a battered Wildcat against a Yautja fighter over North Africa, then was abducted after the war and escaped the Grendel King's arena with Kenji.
By Janno Vares October 05, 2026 Predator Universe Characters | Historical Predator Hunts | Predator Hunt Survivors
The Infected Predator was a Yautja hunter in Alien vs. Predator: Fire and Stone. Elden bit him aboard the Geryon, Black Goo grew a third arm and extra tusks, and he killed a clanmate before Elden and Francis Lane tore his arms off and Francis drove a pipe through his head.
By Janno Vares October 05, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators From The Comics | Avp Lore
Shorty was an undersized Yautja novice in Aliens vs. Predator: War, Machiko Noguchi's rival in Top-Knot's clan. He won a kehrite pit fight after a spectator grabbed her ankle, then died on Bunda when she cut his arm and killed him. In Hunter's Planet, as Lar'nix'va, she killed him on Blior.
By Janno Vares October 05, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators From The Comics | Predators From The Novels
The Jackals were Colonel Zula Hendricks' multinational brigade in Alien: Inferno's Fall and Alien: Seventh Circle. Three generals founded the unit in 2145 to hunt Xenomorphs. In 2186 they burned to Shānmén on the Righteous Fury, then raided Minos over Dimitar.
By Janno Vares October 04, 2026 Colonial Marine Lore
FAR/TH/UR 2600, called Father, was the United Systems Military mainframe on the USM Auriga in Alien: Resurrection. After the outbreak it locked an Earth return. Annalee Call overrode that course from the chapel, and Father finished the impact countdown in 2381.
By Janno Vares October 04, 2026 Alien Universe Computers
Walter One was the Weyland-Yutani synthetic produced in 2100 for the Covenant in Alien: Covenant, played by Michael Fassbender. In 2104 a neutrino burst woke the crew, a Neomorph took his left hand on Planet 4, and he fought David. David returned to the ship in his place, and Walter remained on the planet.
By Janno Vares October 04, 2026 Alien Universe Characters
Anchorpoint is the name of more than one station. The first, in the Neroid Sector, opened around 2140 and was destroyed by a reactor meltdown in 2179. A second station near Liberty Echo served the Outer Rim in the 2180s, and Pat Cadigan's Alien 3 novel destroyed a moon-sized Anchorpoint in a hybrid outbreak.
By Janno Vares October 03, 2026 Alien Universe Space Stations
Lefty is the one-eyed Predator who hunted an unnamed smuggler from world to world in Aliens vs. Predator: Lefty's Revenge. On the Outpost he killed the Xenomorph that had pinned her and fought the swarm beside her. She threw him the wrist nuke. He did not use it, and she decided he got away.
By Janno Vares October 03, 2026 Individual Predators | Predators Who Survived | Predators From The Comics
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
