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CHAPTER 11: TUNNELS

Date: January 6th, 2231. 6:55 PM

Locale: Road leading from Primary Operations Complex to the Forward Observation Pods.

Three APCs, two UACMC and one Weyland-Yutani were seen driving down the rocky canyon. Treading carefully so as to not slip and fall into the ravine. Buhlagh and the Chameleons flee from the military transport vehicles. The illusive Venoraptors watched from their mountain burrows. They reach the beginning of a tunnel next work. A blast door gate is built into the mountain. Jones attempts to open the gate but the blast door won’t budge.

“What the hell is going on?” McCain asked.

“No response, sir. The gate won’t open” Jones reports.

“I don’t think - open sesame - is gonna work, sir,” Morrison added.

“How about we use Duke as a battering ram?” Jones was getting really tired of Morrison’s shit.

“Just get that door open. We’re sitting ducks” McCain ordered.

“I’ll go,” Harrison volunteered.

Major McCain chuckled, “You got more balls than brains, son. Exactly what this assignment calls for” he hands Harrison a device, “I rigged up an IR lens for you, but it’ll drain your battery quickly. You’ll only be able to use it for short stretches. Don’t rely on it”

“Like this mission ain’t stupid enough without equipment problems” Morrison complains.

“Deal with it, Duke. Harrison, good luck,” said the Major.

“Looking good Frosty,” Jones compliments.

Harrison takes one last look around, he spots the vaguely dinosaurian venoraptors. They remind him of the acidspitter he encountered in the POC, these must be their host species. They stay clear of the APCs, they seem smarter than the rest of the wildlife. Harrison looked over the edge and saw a dark river flowing in the canyon ravine. He also sees a massive copper tunnel pipe and a rusty stairway leading to its entrance. Harrison moves into the massive pipe, He could see a door at the other end.

Harrison opens the door, “Were in business” he says over the radio. The door splits into four smaller pieces before being retracted into the door frame. The hallway is dark, power must be out but at least the door terminal works.

“All right, I got an update. MU/TH/UR can’t override the access codes as long as the tunnel security system remains online. So we’re gonna have to do this the hard way” McCain explained, “The tunnels are divided into sections by containment areas - short tunne;s gated on either end, similar to an airlock. With the security system active, only one gate in a section can be opened at a time. MU/TH/UR thinks a single marine on foot could allow..”

Harrison climbs up a ladder leading into another hallway. He opens the door, he is now in a large tunnel, he could see the guard post up ahead. “I’m in the first control station, sir” Harrison then pulls down the lever. The front gate pulls open. The APCs began to drive into the first section of the tunnel. Harrison spotted the dead body of one of the tunnel personnel.

“Harrison, I’m gonna need you to find the primary control terminal and shut it down. It should be just past tunnel section four” McCain ordered.

Harrison begins to leave the control station, “Harrison, you’re going to have to seal us in and then open the gate from the other side. Once we’re through, we’ll provide fire support,” McCain ordered, “all right, you should be right near the next control station”

Harrison spots a PDA, he picks it up and reads it, “Transportation handling Procedure 1011-C

Live specimens are not allowed within the tunnel network without secure, electrified containment systems.

Larval specimens must be transported with a class-4 stasis field. Convict Laborers must be accompanied by passive electronic restraints,” Harrison continues into one of the rusty doors. He is in the second control station, he sees the door terminal is busted, so no going back. 

The sounds of doors and gates closing and opening travels through the tunnels. The Warrior slowly awakens from her slumber. She looks over at the alpha in her pack. The alpha hisses for a fragment of her pack to investigate.

He pulls the lever to the control unit. The lever is stuck. The panel’s circuit board is exposed. Harrison runs a bypass on it. The doors behind the APC are sealed shut. “Good Job, Harrison” said Jones.

Something left a dent in the door, Harrison looked over, he heard xenomorphs hissing. Soon a lone warrior breaks through the door. Harrison unloads an entire clip into the warrior, it falls backwards..stunned. “Harrison, get that door open!” McCain ordered, Harrison quickly pulled down the lever before bolting out of the control station. The warrior slowly rises to her feet. Harrison quickly hides in an air vent to escape. The warrior passes by the vent as it patrols the hallway, the warrior soon leaves the vicinity. Harrison makes his way down the hall, Harrison sees the body of a dead inmate along the way. The APCs traverse into section 2, “We’re in section 2. Watch your back. It’s gonna get hot” McCain warns.

“Hey, Major, we got a contingency plan?” Morrison asked.

“You wanna take over for him, Duke?” Jones asked.

“I didn’t say nothing,” Morrison replied.

Harrison spots a hatch on the floor with dead bolts holding the hatch closed. He could see the three APCs from atop of the elevated platform. He moved across the platform to the next chamber but the door was locked. He moves down the stairs to station 3. He finds a note outside of station 3, the note said the tunnel access system was to be closed for maintenance, he glances back to the platform hoping the warrior wouldn’t find him. He taps the door console. It slid open as he gained access to station 3. There was a destroyed air vent and another dead inmate on the floor.

“All right, Harrison, open containment area two. Once we’re through, you’re on your own until you activate the gate on the other side,” Major McCain ordered. Harrison pulls down the lever, allowing the APCs to enter section 3. The sound of gunfire booms across the tunnels. A warrior that was stalking him was destroyed by the APC’s rear cannon. Harrison makes his way up to the platform, he runs across it to the door. He taps at the console, it finally opens. He spots a PDA on the floor, 

“To: Internal Security Protocol Chief

From: Dr. Eisenberg

Although I understand the need to discourage espionage, I think the latest measures go beyond prudent safeguards. By tying the security layer into the node protocol, you do prevent any unauthorized transmissions in the system. However, the data layer is by definition an open layer and vulnerable to attack.

The collapse of this could result in cascade failure of the entire node tree - we’re talking a cold reboot. Fifteen minutes down time. Given the hostility of this world, I would hate to be without protection for one minute, let alone fifteen,”

He puts the PDA down, he finds a blow torch in the hands of a dead maintenance engineer. He walks over to the hatch as he begins to cut through the hatch’s bolts to gain access to the contents inside. It's a maintenance tunnel. There is something down here. He traverses the maintenance tunnel. He briefly spots a xenomorph drone but fortunately it moves down the opposite tunnel. He slips into the adjacent where he spots a ladder. He eventually makes it back into the underground road system. 

“You’re gonna have to find another way in,” McCain suggests.

He briefly spots xenomorphs resting in the tunnels. He quickly makes it up to another leader into the air ducts where he crawls into gate station 4. Harrison pulls down the lever allowing the APC into section 4. The xenomorphs in the tunnels are immediately destroyed by the APCs. Harrison bolts to rejoin his comrades.

“Carter, Mulder, Quaid - You’re up. Head for section 4,” Major McCain ordered. Harrison joins up with them, all four of them enter the last gate station. Xenomorphs bolt around the corner, the marines fire on the runners and sentinels. An acid spitter vomits on Mulder, his armor melts then his flesh: skin, muscles, bones and all. Harrison guns down the acid spitter avenging Mulder’s death. Quaid is grabbed by a warrior and pulled into an air duct. Harrison and Carter are all that is left.

“Maher, Stone, rendezvous with Harrison,” McCain orders. Stone was lying dead outside the final gate station. Maher gets pulled underneath the console into a small air duct.

“Shit!” Harrison cursed. Harrison turns around to see the gate station control terminal was heavily damaged, the lever wouldn’t budge. He looks over and sees a ladder leading down into another service tunnel.

“Damn it, this station is trashed” Harrison jerked the unmoving lever.

“Luis, try to get it online,” McCain ordered. Luis arrives with a box of tools.

“It’s no use. We’ve got to get to the security control station” Luis reported.

“Looks like there’s a service tunnel that should take you to the main terminal,” McCain orders Harrison.

Harrison gestures to Carter and Luis to follow him. They take the ladder to the service tunnel.

“Head right,” Luis directed Harrison. Harrison heads right then opens a door, it splits into fours as it slides into the door frame. 

“That’s it you’re almost there. Okay, now straight up” Harrison takes the ladder back up. In the final section, a power loader was seen in the corner of the room. The Warrior reveals herself to Harrison. Carter gets startled and begins shooting at her, she bolts away as Cartner knicks the explosion barrels near the other last gate station. The Warrior flees inside an air duct.

“All right, marine. Now shut down that security console,” McCain orders.

Harrison pulls down the last lever, it wouldn’t budge. Luis gestures his head to the computer consoles behind him, “Console might be locked, Harrison, try one of those over there.” 

Harrison ran over to the security console and saw an extended console. Displaying LOCKED in bold red letters. He removed a panel off the device, exposing its circuit board, and ran a bypass. The Status changed from LOCKED to UNLOCK in green bold letters. The three marines returned back to the APCs.

“What’s going on, Major?” Jones asked.

“MU/TH/UR says the Weyland-Yutani schematics lacked pertinent data,” McCain explained.

“Which means?” asked Morrison.

“Put it this way, if there are survivors at the Pods, their situation just got a whole lot worse,” McCain explained.

Date: January 6th, 2231. 9:40 PM

Locale: Forward Observation Pods, ground level.

The Warrior along with her sisters abandon the access tunnels as they flood into the gorge leading to the Forward Observation Pods. The lead warrior arrives at the perimeter fence like she has for so many years. She stays away from the electrical fences, she senses the flow of electricity radiating from the fences, knowing their danger from experience. 

An engineer technician is fixing the power grid while an Iron Bear Merc stands guard, it is Dimitri, Dunya’s boyfriend and comrade in arms.

“We should hurry,” Dimitri warns the technician.

“I’m working as fast as I can, dimitri. If you don’t like being out here, why did you volunteer?” she, the engineer technician asked.

“It’s dangerous for you to be alone,” Dimitri replied.

“And I'm supposed to be safe with you? Does Dunya know you’re out here?” the technician asked curiously.

“You are losing focus on your work,” Dimitri comments

“Uh, huh. Listen, this is all double redundancy. We have two layers of hardware between zero current and us. Barring a total software meltdown, we’re as safe here as we are inside,” the Technician explained.

“What makes you think we are safe inside?” Dimitri asked.

“There, good for another thousand years,” declared the technician.

The power suddenly shuts off, the emergency low power light flickers on the sentry cannon. The electrical flow was no longer radiating to the xenomorphs. They grew curious. The xenomorphs hesitantly brushed themselves on the electrical fence. No pain..Nothing. The lead warrior leads most of her kin to the fences, while The Warrior leads her sisters on the suspension cage directly to the Pods themselves.

“What did you do?” Dimitri asked accusingly.

“That wasn’t me,” the technician replied with a hint of fear in her voice.

“Get inside! Now!” Dunya cried over the radio.

The xenomorphs no longer afraid of the fence, they began to climb over the fence. Every stage IV and stage V xenomorph caste documented on LV-1201 were now in the perimeter: Runners, Drones, Acid spitters, Sentinels, Warriors, and even a few Predaliens.

“Oh God,” screams the technician as Dimitri provides cover fire for her.

“Keep moving! Don’t look back,” Dimitri orders as two xenomorph warriors were gaining on them.

Eisenberg was standing on the elevator lift with a combat synthetic, he observed the chaos unfolding before his eyes. Several Iron Bears are killed and the technicians captured by the xenomorphs. On the radio, he hears the teams of scientists suddenly drop from contact. He looks towards his combat synthetic companion, “We should get inside” Eisenberg suggested.

“We are closer to ground shelter 1. I recommend that we proceed there immediately,” replied the combat synthetic.

“I’m not going underground,” Dr. Eisenberg felt insulted, also bad memories of being in dark claustrophobic conditions reminded him of the incident twelve years ago. 

Date: January 6th, 2231. 9:55 PM

Locale: Forward Observation Pods, ground level.

The three APCs make it out of the access tunnels to the ground level of the FOP. The massive suspended towers hang menacingly above the ground. The marines spotted survivors at its base, white body bags were laid near the elevator lift.

“Looks like the Pods are intact. I’m seeing survivors at the base,” McCain observed. The elevator lift descends down to the ground floor, a welcoming party? The APCs park near the elevator lift. Dr. Eisenberg, Rykov and his men approach the APC convoy.

“Gentlemen, welcome to the Forward Observation Pods,” Dr. Eisenberg’s welcome was a cold one, with a hint of sarcasm in his monotone voice.

“You took down our defense grid,” Rykov accused the marines.

“Your corporation decided we didn’t need the complete details of your security protocols,” McCain retorts.

“We made alterations. You can never be too safe,” Dr. Eisenberg added.

“Apparently you can. Regardless, my men are ready to deploy immediately, if necessary,” Major McCain replied.

“You are too late. We have repaired what can be repaired. Six of my men died today,” Rykov growled at the marines.

“I’m sorry to hear that,” McCain offers his condolences, then he asks, “But the situation is contained?”

“We’re still assessing the situation. The Pods are intact, but we have teams in the field for biological and archeological research,” Dr. Eisernberg added.

“Even after what happened to the POC?” McCain asked curiously.

“This facility is self-contained. With security running properly, we’re perfectly safe. Besides, we’ve wired the tunnels with charges. We can seal them remotely in case of contamination,” Dr. Eisenberg sounded confident.

“Three teams still haven’t reported. You may have killed more than we know,” Rykov said grimmly.

“We’ll do whatever we can to get them out,” McCain replied.

“We should move inside,” Eisenberg suggested.

“I would like to re-establish our communication link with the POC,” MCCain added.

“I’m afraid the landline was severed when the facility was overrun,” Eisenberg replied.

“We’ve set up a booster transmitter in the tunnels. With your permission, my marines can modify your software to utilize our transmitter,” McCain suggested.

“Of course,” Dr. Eisenberg complied.

“If you could lend us a terminal, Harrison here can perform work,” McCain added.

“Technician Stiles. Please take this gentleman to the control deck. Assist him in any way necessary,” Dr. Eisenberg ordered.

“Yes, doctor,” Stiles gestures to Harrison to come with him. Harrison is the only marine lifted into the Pods, the rest of his squad stayed outside on the ground, off to rescue the trapped scientists.

“Isolate the Marines’ communication channels. We don’t want them asking embarrassing questions of Pod personnel,” General Rkov asks his trusted lieutenant Ivan Hushvatov, then he asks Ivan for something else, “You’ve prepared the rosters?”

“Yes, General,” Ivan replied.

“Will it hold up to investigation?” Rykov asked.

“Without bodies, who can prove where they died, in the tunnels as we’ll claim or six weeks ago in the POC?” Ivan added.

“We do what we must. Go then,” Rykov ordered.

Date: January 6th, 2231. 10:05 PM

Locale: Forward Observation Pods, Pod 3, Stile’s office.

Harrison, now onboard one of the pods, Technician Stiles points towards the door on Harrison’s right, “Down that corridor on your right. Bear left at the function. It’s at the end of hall,” Harrison walks over to the door on the right. He passes through a couple of rooms and hallways before reaching his destination. He reaches the communications room, it's dark inside filled with several computing terminals and monitors arranged in the shape of a U. Harrison immediately sits down trying to establish contact with the POC.

System Access Console 672

“Access transmission protocols,” Harrison ordered the mainframe.

Access denied. General transmission protocols require Alpha 1 clearance.

“Access landline transmission protocols” Harrison ordered the mainframe, hoping it would accept his command.

Access granted.

“Reset primary transport route to V.290 booster protocol,” Harrison ordered.

Resetting… Override access authorized. Incoming message.

Rosters have been altered. Scientists already dead. Your team is in …

Fatal data fault. Terminal Failure. Shutting Down.

“What the hell? I’m having trouble accessing the transmission protocols,” Harrison reports to the Siles via intercom, as he grows frustrated. The door slides open as a shapely Iron Bear Mercenary walks with a feminine gait. It is Major Dunya, Harrison spins around in his chair to face the female Merc.

“Hey. You startled me,” Harrison examines the mercenary: Harrison thinks she looks very attractive, but the look in her eyes was as cold as a glacier. She had that Russian vibe to her, she carried herself proper and strict. 

“I believe we have a problem in the transmission line. You’ll need to interface with the root system. Please follow me,” Dunya gestures to Harrison to follow her. A series of cat walks stretch out to the adjacent pod in an enclosed shaft. They make it across one of the cat walks between the pods.

“It would take a cunning man to disable our security system,” Dunya began talking again. Harrison walks out from behind as he attempts to cut her off from the door. 

“Yeah, well, that was MU/TH/UR, not me. I was just following orders” Harrison sets her straight.

Dunya smiles, “I like brave men”

Harrison smiles too, taking it as a compliment, “Really?”

“Men like my fiance, Dimitri” Dunya brings up sharply.

“Your fiance? Man, my luck never changes,” Harrison sighs.

“Don’t worry. He is gone. He was outside the Pods when the system went down. A casualty,” Dunya explained.

“Oh,” Harrison pauses, “I’m sorry to hear that,” offers his condolences.

Dunya is contacted by her superiors over her comm unit, “yes. Of course, I understand. I will be there soon” Dunya then looks up over at Harrison, she gestures to him to proceed to the next pod’s door. Harrison feels a sharp pain in the back of his head before blacking out. Dunya glared down at Andrew Harrison with a look that could kill a xenomorph.

CHAPTER 12: PODS

Date: January 6th, 2231. 10:10 PM

Locale: Forward Observation Pods, Pod 4, level 12, ventilation.

The Warrior had been hiding in the ventilation unit for a good 15 minutes before making her move. She could sense her sisters outside had retreated, cut off from their link; she must be careful when traversing the human’s nest. 

“Warning, Xenomorph contaminants confirmed. Please remain in your quarters with doors locked until further notice. All deck officers have been issued Pulse Rifles. Report any problems immediately,” the security technicians sound the alarm, while announcing the situation in the pods.

The Warrior crawls and sneaks beneath the weyland-yutani security guards. She quickly arose from under the floor space, she stings him with her venom before dragging him under the floor. She headbites him, planning on using his body to start a nest; She must find more hosts. She leaves the crawl space once more, she is hit in the shoulder by a pulse rifle round, her blood splats on the floor melting a hole through it. She leapt on the wall, rapidly crawling towards the guard. He fires at her, she leapt to the other wall before pouncing on the guard, tearing out his innards for injuring her. She ends his misery with a headbite. The other guard came out from the hallway firing his weapon. The Warrior bolts as she squeezes beneath the floor panels. The guard stares in disbelief at the carnage she had wrought on poor Anderson. He was a dick though and probably deserved it, a negative thought crossed the guard’s mind. The floor panel started sizzling, a clawed hand burst from the floor, the guard stumbled as the alien surfaced from the floor like an armoured black shark, she pulled him closer to her as she dragged the guard into the crawlspace below.

Another guard fires upon The Warrior, she slices open the injured guard’s throat with her armored forearm blade that grows out from her wrist into her elbow, before sinking into the floor. The guard was too late, Anderson and Weadon were already dead. He carefully examines the damaged floor grates. He could see something moving underneath, he is then impaled through the foot. The sharp stinger worms its way out, the tail’s segmented vertebrate damage more surrounding tissue comprising his foot. The tail stabs the guard in the heart. The guard slumps over dying. The paralyzing venom spread throughout his body quickly. The Warrior Xenomorph dragged him underneath the floor. She spots a scientist covering underneath a death, she drops to all fours as she pulls the scientists from his hiding spot.

She extends her inner jaws ready to eat his brains. But she senses a mental link, two mental links. Her sisters. But they were dominant in the fluid filled cylindrical tank. She moves the scientist towards the tank containing a facehugger. She remembers inheriting the memories of this creature, almost like a past life. She plunges her claws into the glass tank, the fluid poured around her black armored forearm. The facehugger landed in the palm of her claws, she carefully removed her sister from the tank. The facehugger twitches to life, it senses a warm body, the facehugger leaps on to the scientist's face; sealing his fate.

Next was her other sister's tank. She was thankfully in her stage III form, a drone. The Warrior smashes her skull into the tank, a crack forms on the glass. She batters her thick skull against the class once more, fluid begins leaking out. The drone within the tank, quickly awakens to finish freeing herself on her own. The Warrior hisses euphorically, she was no longer alone again. She lifts the scientist onto her shoulder as they both flee outside of the cramped room before escaping into the rafters. The rest the body on its side before fleeing down the rafts to the other compartments of the pods.

“Major McCain. My condolences on the loss of Corporal Harrison. We try to control our convict laborers through the use of technology, but as you know, technology fail” Dr. Eisenberg reports.

“Have you caught the son of a bitch yet?” Mccain could barely contain his anger.

“It’s only a matter of time. We’ve identified the last known position of the missing team. I’m afraid the rescue is not without risk” Dr. Eisenberg comments.

“Where's Wheadon, Anderson, and Abrams?” asked a guard.

The Warrior and her companion fell upon the guards like hawks to mice. The Warrior chased one of the guards into one of the labs. She leapt into the guard, cracking the glass tank behind him. The glass shatters releasing the Runner trapped inside.

“Medical teams please report. Operation Saviors is now at yellow status. All marine personnel report to Major McCain for rescue briefings,” the announcer said over the intercom.

The Warrior destroys a computer unit inside a private room, it releases a Predalien from her stasis. She immediately began feeding on the scientists in the room.

Locale: Forward Observation Pods, Pod 4, Prison Quarters.

Harrison slowly awakens on a stiff bunk bed. He feels pain throbbing in the back of his head. He notices he was no longer in his colonial marine uniform. All of his equipment was taken from him. He was dressed in inmate attire. An inmate, possibly his bunkmate, was staring at him the whole time, the name tage says RIESER on it, “It's been a while since we’ve seen… new blood around here”

Harrison sits up, looking around confused, “What? Where am I?” Harrison asked him. He rubs the back of his head, it's still throbbing in pain. A security guard passes back and forth from a large window overlooking the inmates.

“You just come out of cold sleep? What are you in for?” The inmate asked.

“Huh?”

“What crime were you convicted of?” Rieser was losing his patience.

Harrison arose from his bunk, “I’m not a convict. I’m a Marine”

“Pssh, sure you are. And I’m innocent,” Rieser replied sarcastically. He then chuckles. 

“I’ve got to get out of here,” Harrison looks around the prison cell.

“Attention security. Please escort convict #16 to prep Room B” a lady’s voice booms over the intercom.

“That’s you. Boy, you must’ve really pissed somebody off. Out of the freezer and into the frying pan, It’s too bad we didn’t have more time to get acquainted,” Reiser commented, he chuckles again.

“Yeah, I’m heartbroken too,” Harrison snarked.

Dunya walks into the room overlooking the inmates, she casts a death glare at Harrison. “No sedative for this one,” she ordered the guard.

“Yeah. Okay. Want me to let you know when it's done?” The guard answers back nervously, the Iron Bear Mercs in general scare the shit of him; Major Dunya and General Rykov especially. 

“No need. I will be in the observation room,” she smiles like a venomous snake at Harrison before leaving.

“The guard’s alone. Idiots. They’re getting sloppy lately,” Rieser chuckles.

“Must have their minds on other things,” Harrison replied.

“Hmm, their mistake” Rieser begins to walk backwards, he slowly pulls out a shiv he made. The guard approaches Harrison, now seeing his chance Rieser lunges at the Guard with his shiv. The guard whips out his gun, he squeezed out a lucky shot. Reiser smiled, blood trickled down his forehead. He collapses to the floor as a corpse. The shiv slides over to Harrison, he quickly grabs it, his body moves on its own, years of combat training allowed to overpower the guard. He plunges the shiv into the guard’s neck. Harrison briefly spots an inmate cowering under his bunk, his tame tag says Jonas Richter.

He reaches the guard post, he shoots the next guard before leaving the guard post. He is now in a poorly lit chamber with gas canisters and a single service ladder.

“Containment team report to cell Block C” a voice commands the other guards. Harrison quickly hides in the service shaft. He reaches the elevator shaft, where an elevator containing two guards were sent looking for him.

“Pair off and search by twos. I want this guy found fast” said the head guard. Harrison sneaks under a small space underneath an elevator car floor. The service airlock shuts close. 

“Like we don’t have enough problems already. We still have a bug running around somewhere on level 12,” one of the guards sighed.

“God damn marines,” replied the other guard. After some time the elevator comes to a complete stop. Harrison slips into another service tunnel. He hears something scurrying in the adjacent room. He opens the service tunnel airlock. A janitor has just gotten facehugged by a facehugger. Harrison knew that the janitor was doomed and that there were xenomorphs onboard the pods.

 Harrison attempts to open the door but it was locked, there was a hatch but it had an old school dial lock on it. He was holding something in his hand, it was a welding torch. Harrison carefully removed the torch from the man’s grip. He looks up at the hatch, he closes his eyes as he melts the lock off the service hatch. He crawls into another duct.

“Do you have the results on the test group yet?” asked a scientist.

“Cybernetic rejection is down four percent” says a female scientist.

“Slow and steady wins the race, right? At least it’s improvement. That’s human ingenuity for you,” says the male scientist.

Harrison moves along the ducts to overhear another conversation, “Yes, coming along nicely. Testing pheromone sample four one five. Sample collected during specimen foray number forty. Introducing pheromone now,” the scientist was working on a new variant of xenoborg. Harrison had heard about rumors of failed weyland-yutani xenomorph projects of the 2180’s but to see the corporation making a second attempt, confirmed the old rumors.

“Specimen reacts with increased hostility and aggression, Reducing pheromone now”

Harrison was now out of the ducts. He was in a dark room, QUARANTINED AREA - DO NOT ENTER was in big bold red letters. Harrison used the blow torch to remove the deadbolts from the grate below the sign. The place was torn to pieces, Harrison knew it was the xenomorph’s handy work. The remains of the guards Anderson, Whedon, and Abrams were stuffed down in the damaged floor; their remains were being converted into ovomorphs. Acid burns and holes were everywhere. The xenomorphs could be anywhere, nowhere safe in this pod. The upper deck was too quiet.

Harrison climbed down the ladder into the lower levels, he heard crunching noise around the corner. A massive alien was huddled in the corner. It resembled a xenomorph but it was light green in color. She bit off big chunks of the guard with her mandibles, she slowly turned around, her segmented dreads flop over her shoulders. Harrison was horrified, what manner of creature birthed this thing? Harrison hid in one of the adjacent rooms as the Predalien began searching for more food. She swishes her tail along the white plated walls. Harrison hides under a bed, the predalien slowly walks into the living quarters; it was big, almost too big to fit in the room. It walks around the room growing closer to Harrison. Despite its gruesome appearance, the thing was just an ordinary xenomorph. She quickly lost interest when she couldn’t find him. Harrison waited for the creature to leave. Slowly we crawled out from beneath the bed. He needed a pulse rifle, even at close range a pistol is next to useless against a xenomorph. It would take an entire clip focused on one area to penetrate the  armor of a xenomorph warrior, even then you would have to shoot it point blank which is lethal to the gunman since that is acid blood effective range.

Harrison forced himself off the floor, he carefully walked over to the door. He swung the guard’s pistol down the hallway then spun around down the other. He briefly sees it entering another corridor before the automated door closes behind it. Harrison needs to find his gear quickly. He slowly treks down the right hallway where he finds a service grate with a bolt on it. He carefully uses the blow torch to melt the bolt off before slipping down the crawl space. He slips into the service tunnel, while closing the airlock behind him. He moves through the service shaft until he slips into the maintenance duct. Large pipes containing natural gas and steam align the duct.

“Attention all personnel, please be advised that Pod Two has been placed on Red Alert status. Xenomorph containment confirmed” the announcer’s voice boomed across Pod 2.

Dr. Eisenberg was sitting alone in his room, between this, Rykov’s yautja obsession, the colonial marines, the convicts revolting and the mysterious transmission being sent out from the Pods. Eisenberg was overloaded with stress, damn them he cursed in his head.

“Command, this is Dr. Eisenberg. What is the situation with the contaminants?” Eisenberged asked.

“We’re still tracking one creature, but we think it’s isolated in the maintenance system,” a female technician reported.

“You think it’s isolated?” Dr. Eisenberg growled.

“Shall I send security? General Rykov has a team nearby” a male technician asked.

“No of course, not…” Dr. Eisenberg was starting to have one of his panic episodes. He struggles to contain it but his body begins acting on its own accord, the shaking fits and the hallucinations. He began seeing xenomorphs manifest like ghosts in his room. The sounds of them breaking into his quarters, before an alpha warrior manifests on his desk. She extends her inner jaws at him. Eisenberg screams as the alpha lunges at him.

General Rykov, Dunya and Ivan escort the general into a room with a long rectangular table surrounded by eight triangular chairs. They finally reach Eisenberg’s office. Rykov knocks on the door, he hears a loud commotion originating from the office. Rykov bangs on the door harder.

Dr. Eisenberg had barricaded his office. A desk was blocking one of the entrances. Office chairs blocking the vents. A server unit was blocking the main entrance. Dr. Eisenberg was lying on the floor curled up in a ball shaking, near a fallen lamp, near his large U shaped desk.

The memories from all of those years ago came flooding back to him, back when he was completely human. Observation Post 3, 

“We got a survivor,” said Sgt. Steve Logan, The electronic door slides open, and several United American Colonial Marines enter the room. They spot Eisenberg lying on the floor, huddled in the fetal position.  “My God” he looked around the room to see the carnage, the bodies of the science team were all over the place. “What the hell DID this?” Logan cursed.

“Logan, what’s going on there? Did you locate the team?” asked his commanding officer.

“What’s left of it. One survivor… uh, looks like the others were…eaten,” Logan radioed to his superiors.

“I didn’t have a choice,” Eisenberg growled remorsefully. 

A loud bang echoed through the observation post, “Hey what the hell is that?” asked one of the marines. An all too familiar form of death stalked around the corner. “We got multiple contacts, quick get the survivor out of here” Logan ordered. The M41A pulse rifles scream as they spray in the general direction of the creatures.

The server unit was forcefully pushed away from the main door. General Rykov, Ivan and Dunya stomped into the room furious. General Rykov approached Dr. Eisenberg while the others stand back. Rykov glares down at the pathetic state Eisenberg was currently in, “What is wrong with you?” Rykov snarled, “Get up!”He orders. Eisenberg refuses, “Get up coward” he demands, Eisenberg still doesn’t comply and like a father to his disobedient child, Rykov grabs Eisenberg by the arm and pulls him to his feet. 

Eisenberg recomposed himself, “Are the teams in position? Is the marine rescue prepared?” he asked.

“Yes, the teams are ready… are you?” Rykov questioned Eisenberg’s current mental state.

“We have work to do,” Eisenberg spoke with renewed vigor. Remembering why he came back here to this place, it wasn’t to harvest the xenomorphs. It was to control them! He will make them pay for the suffering they caused him. He will not fail like Dr. Sora Matsuhita, Dr. Micheal Bishop, Dr. H.G. Groves, Dr. Waidslaw Orona, General Thomas Spears, Dr. Ernst Kleist, Dr. Paul Church, Dr. Samuel Kadinsky nor Dr. Lee Chaolan. He is no failure, he will make history, Dr. Arnaud Eisenberg will be the first in history to successfully and truly tame xenomorph XX121. He briefly thought of the old Weyland Corp’s Dr. Elizabeth Shaw, Dr. Charlie Holloway, Dr. Martin Holloway and Dr. Jocelyn Watts; without these four brave scientists the Company would have never been inspired to become something greater.

The Engineer's technology is the key to his plans.

CHAPTER 10: RESCUE

Locale: Lv-1201

Date: January 6, 2231. 5:10 AM

The tientsin-class UAS Verloc exited hyperspace. It slowly approaches the dark green planet LV-1201. The interior of the Verloc resembled the old conestoga interior. Colonial Marines equipping their gear and maintaining the other equipment onboard the ship.

A marine in his 30’s with dark hair, looked at his comrade annoyed. “Hurry up, Frosty. We ain’t got all day” Duke Morrison asked impatiently.

The marine in question was a late 20-something year old, he had a burly frame, rusty brown hair and a perpetual frown. “Don’t you have work to do?” Andrew “Frosty” Harrison asked while carrying the massive load with his P-5000 Powerloader. 

“Everybody‘s waiting on you. Heck, I even prepped your gear for ya. Wasn’t that nice of me?” Duke doesn’t even hide his patronizing tone.

“Thanks, Duke,” Harrison replied sarcastically. “I’ll remember whose ass to pull out of the fire first when everything goes to hell” The power loader drops the large container down.

An attractive biracial woman walks up from behind Duke, “Duke we have an operation to run here. Quit flirting and get back to work” she ordered.

She looks over and sees an elderly marine dressed in green. Commander McCain arrives, “Commander on the deck!” she shouts to get her fellow marine’s attention.

The marines all began to line up in formation. “Gather round and listen up” Commander McCain orders. “Six weeks ago, the Weyland-Yutani Corporation lost contact with a research facility on LV-1201. We’re here to find out why. Duke, what are we looking at?”

“A suicide mission. Hell, we’re still short eight soldiers and our synthetic after that last drop. Half our equipment’s out of commission, damn UPP bastards”

“There’s time pressure involved, and we won the distance lottery. Skip the commentary and tell us what we’re dealing with,” McCain grew annoyed.

“The basic layout is two heavily fortified installations: Primary Operations Complex and Forward Observation Pods. The sites are connected by a secured tunnel network” Duke explained.

“Johnson, flight path” McCain ordered,

An Irish redhead woman with short hair, she was formerly part of the Three World Empire’s Royal Marines before transfering to the United America Colonial Marines “Not much to work with, sir” she spoke with an irish accent.

“I vote for an air strike, sir,” Duke suggested.

“Negative. The higher ups want the site intact survivors or not. We’re cleared for light and medium munitions, but no heavy stuff. That means no air strikes and no Alice. Sorry, Harrison,” McCain explained.

“We’re supposed to evac survivors?” Jones asked curiously.

“Our orders are to put out fires, then dig in and wait for the 6th” McCain explains,

“Assuming we last that long,” Duke added.

“Beta Section will remain here until the ground position is secure” McCain finishes.

“All right, boys. Let’s roll” replies Hall.

Locale: LV-1201, Enroute to Primary Operations Complex

Date: January 6, 2231 5:25 AM

Two UD-24 heavy dropships break through LV-1201’s thick green clouds. “Reading 1500 meters to the landing beacon,” Johnson reports. The two dropships pass over the landing beacon nav point. “Hold on, boys. Where’s the damn facility? We should be right on top of it,” Johnson navigated her dropship in closer. Inside the dropship, contained an APC, with it a red light fills the cramped space as Harrison, Morrison, Blackwell, Jones and Shugi. “What the?” Johnson cried as she regained visuals, a massive spire rock formation suddenly appeared outside of her window. “Hang on!” she shouted. The underside of the dropship scrapes against the rock spire, causing the APC to shake back and forth. One of the dropship’s turbine engines catches fire as plumes of smoke follow it. The dropship folds in its wings moving towards a clearing, the dropship deploys its landing gears as it lands in the clearing. The landing ramp lowers allowing the APC to disembark from the transatmospheric spacecraft. Ichiro landed his dropship somewhere nearby, the second APC arrives at Johnson's dropship and APC.

“Johnson? Where the hell did you learn to fly?” McCain was mad.

“Flight school. The same place that taught me not to fly blind in hurricane wind,” Johnson retorted, feeling insulted.

“What’ll it take to get airborne?” McCain setted aside his feelings, he wanted his dropships in tip top shape.

“A landing beacon and wind shear data for a start. Plus, the ship’s a little beat up. Stabilizer’s jammed. I can fix it, but it’ll take me an hour or so. The antenna’s fried, though” Johnson explains.

“So much for calling down reinforcements,” Jones snarked.

“Once we control the Complex, we’ll control an entire subspace array. Hall, Red team, get the power online. White team, locate security control. Blackwell, you take Shugi and Harrison and make for the landing bay.

We need that wind shear radar up and the landing site clear and powered. Once you’ve done that, activate the beacon” McCain commands.

“You heard the man. Move it” Hall ordered.

“Harrison and Morrison, follow me” Sergeant Blackwell ordered. The three marines move across the clearing, disabled trucks and cars are seen littering the place. The marines quickly take cover behind several large crates as they near the facility’s doors. 

“Harrison, run a bypass,” Blackwell orders Harrison. 

Harrison carefully slides down the keypad interface as he gains access to the circuit board. He pulls out his bypass tool to rewire the circuitry to allow them entry into the facility.

“I got movement,” Morrison said as the doors slid open.

“Harrison, scout ahead. We’ll cover you” Blackwell ordered.

“Yes, sir” Harrison moves on ahead, then Blackwell and Morrison follow suit. The facility halls were trapezoid shaped. Red emergency lights poorly  illuminate the darkness. Harrison shined his flashlight across the room. He opened the door leading to the next corridor.

Xavier is startled by the door’s suddenly open, he briefly sees the marines behind the slowly sliding electronic door but glances over and sees a shimmer lunged at him. Xavier is impaled on something long and sharp. It throws him to the floor dead. The marines stare at the convict’s dead body unaware of who he was or the role he played leading up to this event. 

“Shit man, what killed him?” Duke asked.

“I don’t know… and I don’t want to find out,” Blackwell replied.

“I’ll take point,” Harrison said.

Harrison takes point as he approaches the open door ahead. The door shuts close. He activates the door terminal. The door opens again.

A black boot fell from the ceiling, piles of flesh were lying discarded in a corner. “Oh, no way. Someone tell me that’s just a boot. That better be aboot…” Duke hides behind Blackwell. “Hey, it's a boot” he sighs in relief after kicking it.

Harrison shines his light over at the other end of the room. Three skinned bodies were strung upside down. 

Harrison spots a PDA, “Diller, The lockbox code was AX72BY before the POC was overrun. Thank blaney for the codes (bg) then get the guns and get back here. We’ve made it this far, so whatever’s tripping the sensors isn’t all-powerful. Just another set of walls, man. We’re nearly out. A few more days it’s rescue time. Got it? 

-Xavier” Harrison finishes reading.

“Blackwell, just after you entered the facility. The door entrance suddenly collapsed. We were going to fall back to the LZ. Your team needs to head for the POC and get the power online or we’re in trouble” McCain ordered.

“Understood, sir” Blackwell complies, “Alright Morrison and Harrison, let’s go”

“Sir there is a service hatch here, it leads to a garage” Harrison reported.

“Good, let’s go,” Blackwell nods.

The marines now in the garage below, unknowingly escaped from a tridot laser. Harrison opens the garage tunnel door. He and the others moved into a clearing. Gilgore and Samson spot the marines, he bolts towards them desperate to be rescued. The last few days they witnessed their friends getting slaughtered by the xenomorphs, Xavier abandoning them and now some invisible killer is stalking them. They both run across the bridge waving their arms, screaming “Hey!” three red dots appear on Kilgore’s forehead. A blue energy ball blasts Kilgore into a red mist, Samson in shock turns around before he too is reduced to red mist.

“Shit!” Morrison cusses.

“We need to push forward,” Blackwell commands. The three marines trek across the bridge, three red dots dance across the bridge trying to gain a lock on the marines. The three red dots disappear. Then reappear, a blue ball of energy flies down from the sky as it destroys the bridge behind them. 

The body of a convict is cast down from a rock spire. Followed by the growl of what sounded like a very angry animal.

“Major McCain, we’ve reached the southeast entrance. Doesn’t look like anybody’s home… Security systems are offline” radeod Hall.

“We’re picking up some scattered energy sources… probably emergency backups” said Jones, “Still no response on the emergency channel, sir”

“Keep trying. Hall, proceed to the power core” McCain orders.

“All right, we’re airborne,” Ichiro radioed.

Blackwell’s team spots the outer wall of the Primary Operations Complex, when they get closer they spot two more hanging skinned bodies. Harrison attempts to open the door but the console is broken. Harrison runs another bypass to get White team to enter the POC, East Landing Bay.

“Major, we’re at power core,” Halls reported.

“How’s it look?” McCain asked.

“Okay. Ichiro is restarting the system” Hall reported.

“Looks like the whole system was shut off, so once the maind grid is online, we’ll still have to reset the local relays to get the lights back on in each sector” Ichiro explains.

“When you’re finished there, find a landing bay and get the systems online so we can land this bird” McCain orders.

Blackwell spots the system charge, “Morrison, go pull the system charge” he orders. Duke hesitates, “Harrison” Blkackwell turns to Andrew Harrison,  Harrison pulls the lever instead. The auxiliary power roars to life. The ceiling collapses as a long elongated silvery pipe comes down, it startles Duke believing it was something else.

“Major, looks like the generator has been reset in the east landing bay,” Ichiro reported.

“That’s gotta be white team,” Jones speculated.

“Frosty, get that landing beacon online” Johnson ordered Harrison by his callsign. White team arrives in the landing bay again. They enter the communications building and discover the comms room’s door was torn to shreds. The alarm systems were destroyed. The elevator was still functional. The elevator door slides open. White team boards the elevator going up. They are now in a small office room. The PDA in the desk reads ”Auditor’s report - Appended notes

I had a heated conversation with doctor Eisenberg today. He’s an arrogant one. His family is powerful - the founders of modern synthetics hold great sway on the Weyland-Yutani Corporation board, Still, he’s overestimating  his protection. His father’s foray into medical applications leaves the investors cold. Dubious profit and dubious technology. 

Yes, he’s had successes imprinting neural patterns onto synthetic adaptive networks, but costs are insane - a handful might afford such operations. And there are rumors of facility loss - emotional alterations and instability. Of coarse, given that his subjects are generally terminal beforehand, who’s to say its the procedure”

Morrison reads one of the computer monitors while Harrison taps at the Landing Beacon Control console. The blast doors slide down revealing the glass windows and the outside. 

“There’s the beacon. All right, hold onto something” Johnson demanded. Her dropship passes overhead before circling around to land at the landing bay. White team randevu with the Dropship 8’s crew.

“Good work, Marines. Harrison and Morrison, find the nearest security office and restore the defense grid for the bay” McCain ordered, “Shugi, Blackwell, this Dropship is our lifeline. Don’t let anything get near it. Am I understood?” Major McCain ordered.

“Yes, sir,” the marines replied.

“Okay, let's go Duke” Harrison takes point.

“Great,” Morrison follows.

The two marines enter one of the gatehouses, it houses a Weyland-Yutani APC. Harrison led Morrison up a flight of stairs into the adjacent corridor. They could see Level 1 in big bold letters with the 1 larger than the lettering.  The adjacent door was partially open. Harrison taps the door console, it opens completely. 

“Hey, Frosty, I think there is something behind those supply crates” Morrison runs over to the supply crates with his motion tracker, the floor caves into the sublevel. Harrison follows to check on Morrison.

“Junction of corridor 1-C and 1-D. All clear” Hall reports as she navigates the POC from her end.

“Entry clear. Signs of gunfire, though. Damage from explosives. Probably frag grenades. I’m not seeing bodies” Ichiro added.

Harrison and Morrison leap from frogs around the corridor until they enter another room filled with computers. 

“Corridor IF. Clear. Proceeding towards the core. Hey slow down there, Ichiro” Hall reported.

Harrison spots a massive hole in the floor. Duke’s eyes widen at the burns around the hole, Harrison crouches to confirm what they both are thinking. Harrison looks at Morrison, “Hey, Frosty, are you thinking of what I'm thinking?” Morrison asked.

“This is not good,” Harrison lowers himself down the hole. He carefully placed his feet on a filing cabinet bearing the Weyland Yutani logo. There appears to be another whole below the filing cabinet.

“Hey, what are you doing, Frosty?” asked Morrison.

“I think I see something… Nothing, just some scattered clothes and some ammo. It appears to be the security crew quarters” Harrison described. Morrison lowers himself down into the room. “Watch your step, there is another hole, beneath the cabinet”

Morrison slips and falls into the second hole, “Gakk!” He lands on his side, Morrison stands up, he angrily looks at Harrison. “Damn it, Frosty, you jinxed me” Harrison jumps down the hole, joining his friend.

“I told you to watch your step, didn’t I?” Harrison chuckles.

“Yeah, whatever,” Morrison huffs as he walks over to the door to open it. The two marines enter a corridor with two colored long pipes, one red and one blue, displaying the word steam on them. Hot steam fills the opposite end of the corridor, the marines trek past the steam.

“Heads up, team. This area’s seen definite heat” reports Hall, she spots the acid damage, she now knows what enemy they are going to face.

Harrison and Morrison reach the power nexus station. Morrison stands guard of the exit while Harrison marches over to the nexus control terminal. It was out of power, Harrison glanced over at the power unit on the wall. He walked over to the unit, he pressed a button for the unit to semi-eject its circuit board. “Running a bypass, Duke, so don’t get startled” Electricity starts flowing into the POC once again. Lights begin to turn on in the Primary Operations Complex, the Computers reboot themselves to restore the other central systems, sub systems, and auxiliary systems.

The xenomorphs are awakened by the humming of electrical activity. The hosts have returned. Several of the runners had molted into their warrior equivalent sentinels. The few acid spitters that were born, their hosts came from one of the planet’s more rarer wildlife, remained asleep.

“I got movement,” Jones announced over the radio.

Harrison and Morrison motion trackers begin to pick up several bleeps. They hear a banging sound from one of the maintenance hatches near a grate. The hatch bulges up. Morrison and Harrison took cover behind the server units.

“Hold your position, team! Give me a direction,” Hall commanded.

“All around, ma’am. Something woke up,” Jones reported. They begin opening fire on the xenos.

“What's that sound?” Morrison asked, a sentinel leaps into view. Harrison and Morrison open fire on the rusty brown alien. The sentinel collapses on to the floor dead after being riddled by pulse rifle rounds.

“Pull back, now!” Hall ordered as the xenomorphs began to swarm them.

Another sentinel darts from the server units into view, the pulse rifles rip it apart too. Harrison and Morrison quickly jettison their spent ammo clips for a new one, the bastard isn’t dead yet. They continue to fire on the xeno until it lies motionless. Harrison quickly peaked behind the corner to see the maintenance hatch was intact despite being dented upwards. The torn open grate near the hatch was where the xenos came from. Harrison and Morrison squeezed themselves into the ventilation.

“They’re everywhere. Form up. Forget the drop zone. Watch our six. The Ceiling! The Ceiling!” Hall commanded the Red Team. They continue to lay suppressing fire on the xenos until the xenomorphs in the ceilings burst through; they fall awkwardly out of the ceiling like drunks out of a bunk bed.

“Red Team, hull back to our position. Feeding new telemetry now” McCain ordered.

“Roger, sir. Watch out Jones!” Hall shoots at one of the warriors. It falls back but not dead.

“Harrison, Morrison, get back here. We’re pulling out,” Blackwell ordered.

“Roger, sir,” Harrison replied. Morrison watched the rear, making sure no xenomorphs tried to take them from behind. A sentinel leaps across from one wall to the other before getting blasted by Morrison. He ejects his clip and slaps in a new one. “Please don’t be anymore” he mutters to himself.

“Falling back in good order, sir. It’s really hot” Hall added.

“Prep for lift off. Harrison, Morrison, you’ve got two minutes, tops. Move!” Blackwell ordered.

“Roger, sir,” Harrison replied. Two runners break through the rear, Morrison deals with both of them. A single sentinel tries to corner Harrison but it's dealt with. Harrisona nd Morrison climb a ladder out of the ventilation ducts. He spotted a dead guard alone by a light. A sentinel was waiting for them, Harrison unloads his last clip into it. It falls from the ceiling dead. Harrison walks over to the dead security guard and picks up his dog tags, 

WEYLAND-YUTANI SECURITY

JOSS BLANEY

LEVEL 4

Harrison pocketed, he looked towards Morrison. Morrison looked away as they prepared to leave this room. A sentinel leaps onto Morrison. Morrison kicks the sentinel in the jaw, briefly stunning it as he crawls away. Harrison grabs one of Blaney's pulse rifle clips and uses it to kill the attacking sentinel.

“Man that was close” Morrison shouted.

““I told you I’d pull your ass out of the fire, Duke””

The two pass a sleeping acid spitter, huddled behind the lockers. The two marines opened the door, the door creaked loudly. The acid spitter awakens from the radio chatter, “Major, Hall here. We need assistance. We’re pinned down in Yard Four”

“Understood. Fall back to the LZ. We’ll meet in the open” McCain orders.

“Meet where? Pinned down. …copy?” Hall continues to fire on the enemy.

Harrison and Morrions climb up a flight of stares unaware of the acid spitter slowly following them. They traverse from Level 4 to Level 1. Two sentinels rush the marines out of the corridor back into the stairway. Morrison unloads his last remaining clips into the sentinels. The acid spitter vomits up a bolt of acid towards the marines but misses, the acid melts the wall a bit. Harrison fires a grenade down the stairwell, the acid spitter explodes. “Let’s go!” Harrison says to Morrison. They bold into the Level 1 corridor. No more signs of xenomorphs, they must have gone to Sergeant Hall’s team. Harrison and Morrison have reached the gatehouse. They could see the APC.

“Harrison, Morrison, we’re dusting off. Rendezvous with Hall’s team” ordered Blackwell. The two walked up to the Weyland-Yutani owned APC.

“I always wanted to drive one of these,” Harrison commented. After resupplying themselves with ammo, Harrison takes to the driver seat while Morrison buckles up. The APC began to drive out of the gatehouse. The APC rolls down a narrow street, a cat-walk looms over it. Three marines bolt towards the APC.

“Where the hell did y’all come from?” Ichiro asked.

“Where’s Hall?” Harrison asked.

“She’s gone, Frosty, and Decker’s badly burned,” Jones replied.

“They were everywhere,” Decker added.

“My motion tracker can read life signs, right?” Harrison asked.

“Sure,” Jones replied.

“Listen, we’ve dealt with these things before. These creatures are parasites. They need hosts. They’ll want her alive” Harrison reminded them.

“Hall’s toast. Let’s get the hell out of here,” Morrison added.

“He’s right, Frosty. She’s gone, man” Jones agreed.

“I’m not leaving without her. They’re taking her for incubation. That’s their weakness,” Harrison reminded them again.

“Not much of a weakness” Jones retorts.

“I’ll take what I can get,” Harrison replied.

“I’ll be monitoring you from the APC. Morrison, Ichiro, you're with Harrison. If we can save the sergeant, he’ll need extra man power. I’ll keep an eye on Decker”

“This is a bad idea Harrison,” Morrison complained.

“If we're quick enough, we can save her before they…implant her” Harrison replied.

“I don’t like the sound of that,” Ichiro commented.

The three marines make their way down an alley. They navigate past the massive gray buildings and the series of cat-walks hang over the marine’s heads. The cold wind blowing around makes the trek uncomfortable.

“You're heading toward the main personnel quarters” Jones radioed.

There were no xenomorphs in sight. But something was watching them. The air shimmers in the distance. The marines spot what was left of the animal storage. Dead personnel were glued to a makeshift nest. The ovomorphs have long since hatched. Facehuggers lie lifelessly belly up. The streets were empty of activity, the air carried a heavy silence outside of the electric humming. The marines pass through a gatehouse as they traverse to the next district. The road sloped between the two large buildings bending around the quarter, the alley was blocked by a thick wall of secreted resin.

Harrison and the two other marines activate their flashlights to illuminate the black alien wall, there was a passage big enough for a man to walk through.

“What is that?” Morrison comments.

“Its hive resin,” Harrison stated.

“A good reason to turn around. Come on, Harrison, give it up man” Morrison cried.

“I am not leaving her,” Harrison proceeds into the Hive along with Ichiro.

“Fuck it!” Morrison follows in after them.

Harrison and his team spots a woman glued to the hive wall, it was one of the technicians. It was too late, she had already birthed a chestburster days ago. 

“Frosty, this is crazy,” Morrison complains. They traverse deeper into the personnel quarters, spotting two more dead personnel glued to the wall. They trek across the resin corridors, it was more of the same dead personnel glued to the walls. The marines couldn’t shake the feeling of being watched. They passed through to a computer room before reaching the elevator. Harrison activates the elevator, it takes him to the lower levels. The xenomorphs in the upper levels slowly leave their hiding spots as they traverse into the lower hive.

“Are you sure you want to go down here?” Morrison questioned. Harrison ignored his friend Duke. Ichiro remained silent. They have reached the lower hive. It seemed empty, devoid of activity. They spot two ovomorphs.

“We're getting interference,” Jones radioed.

“Don’t get too close to those things,” Ichiro warned Harrison.

“Watch your step, man,” Morrison warned Ichiro after stepping on his foot.

The marines carefully avoid the xenomorph’s eggs. They aim their weapons at them in case they decide to hatch. Harrison spots Sergeant hall, she was glued to the wall like the others but she had a facehugger on her face.

“Harrison, they got her! I knew this was a bad idea, man!” Morrison started freaking out.

“Damn it, Duke! Just help me cut her down from here, we can probably get her to the autodoc back on the Verloc” Harrison ordered.

“What if one of those things burst out of her?” Morrison feared.

“Don’t be ridiculous, the facehugger is still on her,” Harrison pointed at the large spider-like xenomorph on the sergeant’s face. They remove the resin as they pull her body free. Harrison throws Hall over his shoulder as he directs his marines to head back. As they head back into the elevator, the ovomorphs stir with activity. Two Xenomorph Warriors bolt towards the elevator. The elevator door quickly shuts as it lifts the four marines to the upper levels. The marines double time it out of the hive.

“Frosty, Duke, Ken. get outta there” Blackwell ordered.

They were nearing the hive exit, where xenomorph runners and sentinels uncoiled themselves from their resin nests. The marines fire open the weaker xenomorphs, they explode into showers of acid. The marines squeeze themselves out of the passage back to the outside.

“Let’s haul ass, marines” Harrison shouts to Ichiro and Morrison. The marines double timed it up the sloping road until they reached the gatehouse. Ichiro quickly tapped the door console to shut the gates. The runners and sentinels collide into the powered gate door.

They entered the next district.

“There's still coming,” Morrison cried.

“Stay focus, Duke,” Harrison shouted.

Morrison and Ichiro open fire on the xenomorphs chasing them from the rear. The runners and sentinels' numbers were dwindling, the marines were halfway to the APCs, then came the drones and warriors. The APC swerved into the next street, the twin cannons made short work of the human-spawned xenomorphs.

“Come on, get in!” Jones hollered.

Sergeant Hall's body was taken aboard one of the dropships. Ichiro flew one of the refueled dropships back to the Verloc, where she could be placed in cryo hibernation. The cryopod should prolong the gestation period by a month. The marines hoped they could get her to a medical facility in time to extract the xenomorph that is growing inside of her.

Welp time for us to lower our expectations even lower from what I found out on reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LV426/comments/t18g56/new_alien_series_character_details/

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Alien the Series - Characters

Wendy - one of the main characters in the series. She is what is considered a hybrid, a metahuman who has the brain and consciousness of a child but the body of an adult. Because she was essentially created in a lab, she will eventually yield her almost superhuman powers. 

Boy Kavalier - a very young man who is the CEO of a company called The Prodigy Corporation. This company is at the heart of the series, with their experiments and creations becoming a new wave into metahuman territory.

JD Hermit - a soldier for the company’s security arm. He is essentially an orphan who lost his family at a young age. One of his losses was his sister Marcy who he believes died at the age of 10.

Kirsh - synth who acts as a mentor and trainer for Wendy. Slightly older and more highly developed, the character will train Wendy but might have other intentions.

Atom Ein - Boy Kavalier’s advisor. He is older but understands manipulation and the way to help achieve larger goals.

Anything here sound remotely "Alien"?"

Humans are boring, every story like ever is about the human journey. I really like ALIEN and ALIENS, they are my favorite alien movies but I would like if an ALIEN movie or rather an AVP movie (the previous AVP movies were massive heaps of disappointment, although I liked aspects of Requiem) focus on a Yautja or Engineer protagonist instead of a human one.

Xenotaris: It's not automatically wrong, but I'm interested in the human journey and what situations like the one in Alien tells us about being human. Androids might be interesting to some, but that's not why I watch Alien-movies. Leave the androids to spin-offs in the Alien franchise, they could have bigger roles there but not in the official material.

Maybe I'm wrong but the AVP’s were alternate things, right? If so they're not canon, and it's a bad head-line.

About ADF and his version of how the Xeno came to be. In the AVP-podcast number 51 they interviewed ADF, and he got the question about that. 45 minutes into the interview he gets the question in which he answers that the script wasn't clear about who made it, so he could make his own interpretation. According to ADF, David used material that was left by the Engineers and made his version. Maybe the Engineers made the Xeno or David made a more advanced version, which according to ADF could explain why the monster grows so fast in AC. This could be interpreted in different ways about who was responsible for the monster.

I prefer the Foster version, rather than Scott wanting David to be the one who made it. Even though I haven't read it, it seems to be better than the movie, judging from the way ADF described it.

"You have to take the novelisations with a pinch of salt. I'm pretty sure I read in one of the ADF novels that xenomorphs are telepathic!"

I haven't read that yet, might be in Alien 3 Novelization but might skip Alien 3 and jump to Earth Hive and mentaly changed Billie and Wilks back into Newt and Hicks or figure out how to edit my copy on kindle

AvP was _never_ "canon" in the official alien universe. It is a separate continuity. It cannot therefore be "erased" from alien canon.

You have to take the novelisations with a pinch of salt. I'm pretty sure I read in one of the ADF novels that xenomorphs are telepathic!

I don't really mind David being the creator, although I more for the engineers being the sole creator

I'm currently working on a campaign that draws heavily on the dark horse comics and video games, which shares the same universe as my fanfiction the AVPU

I haven't got to the Alien Covenant novelization yet so I didn't know the details. I am still on the ALIENS novelization

I have talked to TWO people i know about the TV Show and they seem Bummed Out about HOW we wont have any Connection to RIPLEY in it.....  One of them also thinking it should be a Opportunity to introduce the PREDATORS as the Creators of the Xenomorph.

This would just be another AVPR with some Fluff/Scenes like in AVP...... with also something like the "The Predator" Alternative Endings..... No Thank You!

Regarding the TV Show...

I think this will just go and DESTROY the Plot of David in the Prequels i think it would CAUSE so Many Conflicts.... i think that UNLESS the TV Show is a Alternative Take then it could have a Profound Effect on the Franchise.  And i WORRY this will be in a NEGATIVE way.

Regarding the ARC.... I think it makes Sense when looking at the Themes of the Prequels.....  HOWEVER.... they could have had David go and Create something ELSE that looks Different but YET similar and Proclaim he has PERFECTED the Engineers Creation etc.

For Example any of the ABOVE would have been more a Connection to the Xenomorph and via seeing HOW he Created them, then it could give us some IDEA of HOW the Xenomorph came about but also leave it UNEXPLORED so it has that Mystery about it still.

Such a Alternative Creation would TELL the David Story Arc, but it would NOT go and Effect the Xenomorph and any Conflicts about HOW OLD it seemed the Derelict was etc.

It seems that up UNTIL the Spring-Summer of 2015 that THIS is Exactly what they was going for... but then they Decided we NEED to SHOW the Original Xenomorph and its Origins and so they DID THIS... but added that David is the Creator!

THIS.... could have been FIXED via a Movie or a Novel or a Comic that would NOT even have to have David in it at all......

You have the Engineers Return and Discover Davids Workshop, and Xenomorph and they SEE the Potential and then you SHOW/INDICATE that they then take it to LV-223 to EVOLVE it to WHAT we have in ALIEN.

Then ANY kind of Movie/Novel or Comic that would FOLLOW where David is going would then NOT have to be about the Xenomorph or SHOE-HORN the Plot into ALIEN.

What we have then is this...

*Without the Engineers Pathogen and Knowledge David gained from what they was doing on LV-223, then David would NOT have the Material to Create his PROTOMORPH

*The Engineers then UPGRADE/EVOLVE his Protomorph to become the XENOMORPH.

So David in Effect becomes the MIDDLE-MAN this is a Compromise.  We STILL would have the TIME-FRAME Problem..... which is that there are NO EGGS on the Derelict by the Year 2105..... but there is a Solution to that ;) which also TAKES OUT the Engineers LV-223 Moon at the same Time.

"What are your thoughts on the ALIEN RPG?"

It seems Interesting, however i have NOT read it, and i have not really looked in Depth into it.  Maybe ONE DAY i may Purchase it for Source Material to Read what FLUFF etc they have.  But i doubt i will ever PLAY the game.

It seems that in 2018 then Andrew Gaska and Paul Elliot went about to Produce the Concept behind the RPG Game, by coming up with some Background to the ALIEN Franchise, to FLESH OUT a lot of things..... it seems the Source Material for their Ideas that they Created has been USED for Comics/Novels from 2019 to a Degree.

And so their WORK may be used as a Reference Point from NOW ON.. but this does-not mean that any TV Show or Movies will FOLLOW what they have Explored/Explained to the BOOK/LETTER.

And so Producers/Directors of such Project have FREEDOM to go and Change anything they want..... although the Executives at Disney or WHO they assign to WATCH OVER any Projects will have the Greatest Input/Say.  So IF they agree with what Gaska and Elliot have ADDED then thats what will go into a Project but if the Director/Producer has a IDEA that something is Explored in a Different at to Gaska and Elliots Ideas and the Executive for Disney prefers what the Producer/Director wants to do then thats WHAT we would get.

David Giler and Walter Hill used to have a LARGE Roll/Say in the ALIEN Franchise, but they seemed to ALSO have their OWN Idea on HOW to Expand and Go Forwards with the Franchise that looks to be DIFFERENT to what Ridley Scott had seen as the WAY to go.

Regarding ADF.....

Yes he had worked the Novel off a Script, but it seems the Additions about HOW it was that David Explained he had NOTHING to do with the EGG and he FOUND it as it was, and it was HIGHLY AGGRESSIVE so he had to DESTROY IT.  These seem to be additional STUFF that he added.

The last 2 Drafts (inc Shooting) have NOT been released but i would BET that the additions that ADF made are NOT in those Scripts too.  Prior to the Release and After we have Ridley Scott indicating then CONFIRM that the Xenomorphs Creation was STARTED by David.

I think the KEY thing to look at is to look at the Drafts, you will see Alien Covenant has made some Changes but for the MOST PART the Movie is the Drafts..... and when we look at the Drafts it is NOT indicated at all that the Engineers have KEPT/STORED anything related to LV-223/Xeno-Virus and Horrors on Planet 4.  The same goes with the Movie (there is Davids Lab but thats his OWN WORK).

So we have to Consider the Following........

IF the Egg was already in that Room and Highly Aggressive then....

*Would the Engineers be so STUPID to KEEP such a Danger within that VERY IMPORTANT building to their Species?

*IF David was the MAIN survivor on Planet 4 (Pathogen has no Effect on him) then WHY would the Face Hugger be Considered a Danger to him?  If its Aggressive then HOW would that Effect David?

*WHY would David go on to Create yet EVEN MORE of these Eggs?  His Xenomorph seems more Aggressive/Feral than the ones in ALIEN/ALIENS. So WHY would he go Destroy it to Create more Aggressive Ones?

*IF there already was a EGG then WHY would he waste his TIME with those Experiments?  And his NOTES etc, does he TRY and Create something NOT as Perfect and then SOME-HOW with the Dead Face Hugger and Dr Shaw he managed to THEN go and Create those Eggs.

It seems that IF we had it that David had Found the EGG then surely he would concentrate on Clone that with the Black Goo to Create the Eggs.... it seems Waste Time doing other stuff.....   What the Drafts, his Lab Notes/Drawings go on to Show is that he Painstakingly went through a Labor or Love to Finally Create the Xenomorph.

I have NOT read the RPG Material but it seems the IDEA is that the Black Goo contains Xeno-Dna and via Certain Events eventually the Xenomorph would EVOLVE from the Black Goo and Creations from it... at some point the Xenomorph will ALWAYS be the End Product/Evolution.

A BETTER Explanation could be USED.... which i will ADD in my Topic about the CREATOR.

BigDave

What are your thoughts on the ALIEN RPG?

Thoughts_Dreams

What's wrong with android protagonists or any non-human protagonist?

I think an android protagonist would be awesome if it was a coming of age story, just without the android going insane and making biomechanical horrors. So basically a good David, doesn't have to be a David model specifically. But I am one of the type of people who would have preferred a Yautja protagonist over a human one for an Alien vs Predator movie.

Oh and here I thought Alan Dean Foster based his book on a pre-shooting script version of Alien Covenant

David as the creator really annoys me. I sort of understand the idea about mankind doing something that could bring it down, but it makes the monster indirectly a result of human activity, it takes away the alien-ness of it. The more that this series can point the finger at that, the better, sort of F you. As far as discredit it, the more they do that, the better. David as the creator of the monster should be undone, and if that is being done in a blunt way, then alright.

If we get another alien-movie it could be a problem with the Alien-connection if it has David in a too much of a role, especially for those that don't like it being taken over by androids. I'm one of those people that don't like the big role being given to androids at the expense of the human journey.

“What would you LIKE to see as the Eventual Creation/Origin of the Xenomorph?"

Being done by the Engineers, or something that the Engineers found and developed. Something that we (mankind) has a difficult way of understanding, or maybe don't really understand at all. This could bring back the unknown factor into it, which is really needed with the fiasco of the David-obsessive part of the prequels this far.

“Finally do you Expect the TV Series and revealing the Xenomorph some 22+ Years prior to ALIEN to Damage the Origins or Uplift them?"

It depends on how it's done, I would like to be shown that its roots go back waay back before David, so it can get ancient and a mystery again. Whatever they do, I guess that it’ll be better than in the prequels anyways.

With the Latest News i have LOWERED my Expectations... but it will Please some Fans who were AGAINST the Prequels.

It seems that Writers NEVER have a Clue on HOW to Continue with anything that DOES-NOT go and Contradict what was Prior.... NOT a lot of Thought!

I just think the SHOW will make a MESS of whatever we have seen so FAR......

Unless its a Alternative Universe Take.....

SURPRISE!

What can we make of this a Surprise would mean that we would either see something we NEVER EXPECT, something from the Prior Movies (not inc the Xenomorph) or a Surprising Thing about the Xenomorph thats either New or something Planned but Unused.

As they claim Surprises this means more than ONE....

They Confirm that NONE of the Characters in ALIEN will appear and it WONT be a Ripley Story so NO like Relatives to her....

This does-not mean we wont see Characters (or other things) from the Prequels... i am NOT sure they would Budget for having Fassbender make a Appearance though....  But as for Guy Pearce?  Who knows...  this does-not mean the Actual Weyland on the Prometheus, we could have Flash Backs or just his Image used?

But this is Wild Speculation at Best.............

However.... the TV Show which will be set between 2092-2099 Ball Park would mean its LIKELY to take place after the Prometheus has Departed and maybe even AFTER the Prometheus Mission went to POT!

What state is Weyland Industries in after Prometheus?  so maybe dealing with this and introducing Yutani as well as other Corporations could be what to Expect.

Surprise could also be we see a Engineer Ship.... does some Company go to LV-223 between say 2094-2099 and bring something BACK to Earth?

What we have seen so FAR is a Structure that resembles the Engineers Architecture/Designs from the Juggernauts which appears to be Partially Flooded....  do they Discover a Ship thats been UNDERWATER for a LONG TIME?

I think the TV Show could Connect/Show some things Connected to the Prequels... well Prometheus rather than from ALIEN/ALIENS so No Colonial Marines etc.

We can only Speculate.... i am Concerned this would CONFLICT the Franchise though... unless its a ALTERNATIVE TAKE.

This is KIND OF some Interesting News but its also a BIT of a Confusion.  When it was announced the TV Show would be SET in the NOT too Distant Future and would be Centered around and MAINLY on Earth..... this seemed to me to mean we would be at least 50 Years before ALIEN but at least 25 Years from Now.... so i thought we would be looking at a 2047-2072 Ball Park.

We got the Impression the Action would be on Earth and eventually it would see the Xenomorph and it would also be a Action Heavy TV Show once we get DEEP into the Xenomorph Outbreak.  This would CONTRADICT the Original Movies and Prequels if its SET on Earth and Prior to those Movies.

Hence i was DRAWN to this being a Ret-Con....of sorts.

It seemed it would NOT Focus on W-Y but other Corporations and this was ANOTHER reason i thought we have a Reboot of Sorts on our Hands.

HOWEVER..... with this News about the Show being SET in 70 Years and so 2092 this PLACES it within the same Year that the PROMETHEUS Mission would have Occurred.. and so the Prometheus Mission would either had been Preparing (Employing Crew etc) or Began its Voyage during the Events of the SHOW!

I am sure we can see where some Conflicts are going to Happen (Example while the Prometheus is on its way to LV-223, then we somehow have Xenomorphs on Earth!).

If the TV Show is NOT a Reboot and so FITS as Canon to the Movies... so while there is a Xenomorph Outbreak on Earth the USCSS Prometheus is on its way to LV-223 then i cant see HOW this cant go and CONFLICT the Prequels..

Especially if the Xenomorph is Discovered away from EARTH.

Regarding DAVID......

The Original Idea behind the Xenomorph with RS when working on the Prequels was they was a ENGINEERED Weapon by the Engineers.... Prometheus decided to TONE this DOWN.. but show the Black Goo and other Clues to Draw us to Conclude that WHAT was going on with LV-223 has some Connection to LV-426 (RS even explained it in a Interview, something on LV-223 had EVOLVED in the Cargo Hold of the Derelict, the Pilot Infected then headed to LV-426 to Quarantine the Ship.

The Next Two Movies would STEER AWAY from LV-426 and would NOT go and give us the Xenomorph of Explanation... it would instead at some POINT show that David would become Fascinated with the Black Goo Bio-Weapon and its Potential to Create Horrific Life... that HE would Create his OWN MONSTER after he unleashes the Black Goo on the Engineers and sees the Results (another Type of Monster), he decides to CREATE/ENGINEER his OWN....

You would NOT need to know WHAT came First and How as FAR as the Chicken and the Egg.... if you say SHOWED what came First with the Snake and the Egg... if you Get what i mean?

But come Spring 2015 they had Decided to Change Plans... in what then during the Summer would become Alien Covenant, where we would GET the Xenomorph (seemed RS felt it was NOT needed, but ALAS) and so at some POINT it was Decided that NOT ONLY do we go and SHOW the Origins to the Xenomorph... the Curve-ball would be that David had Created it.

Confusion happened after the NOVEL had indicated otherwise, but this appears to be Alan Dean Foster putting his OWN SPIN on it in Disagreement/Disappointment that David would be the Creator.... but the 4 Drafts of Alien Covenant had NONE of the Additions he made.

The Fanbase was UP IN ARMS over the David Creator Arc..... when we get to some of the Later Comics (2018+) and the RPG Game its implied again the Xenomorph had Existed prior to David, but they did so in a WAY that made a BIT more sense than what ADF was implying in the Novel which makes NO SENSE!

Unless you take Commentary and Comments by RS as Not Canon and IF you pay NO attention to Davids Notes/Drawings (which are not Clearly Detailed in the Movie) then can not 100% Clarify that David created the Xenomorph and with NO MORE Prequels its LEFT as OPEN.

Regarding Davids Xenomorph in the TV Series, what i mean is it seems that Aesthetically it is more in Common with Davids Design than we see in ALIEN/ALIENS (more Organic and Gestates with all 4 Limbs) and so much like the Runner from Alien 3 too (Organic and born Fully Formed).

you forgot about this one

 However from what Big Dave revealed they are using David's xenomorph instead of the original Engineer xenomorph

well in some sources, David merely recreates the xenomorph that the engineers had already made. But this doesn't make any sense with covenant because everyone will be dead before the colonization project even began, FTL is slower in PROMETHEUS then it is in ALIENS

Hmmm. About the time that the Prometheus sets off on its journey, then. How does that work, when David allegedly creates the Alien, some years after that?

My expectations are low but I hope it turns out good. Yeah, Alien 3 and Covenant wasn't the best (even though I personally find Covenant pretty good), I'm mostly excited on seeing a xenomorph

It had been Teased thats for sure, even a Tease that Prometheus will have TWO Synthetics... but they may have been Alluding to the LV-223 Engineers.

However we have to maybe look at the GOAL of Peter Weyland, he wants to be Immortal or have Prolonged Life.  And so IF he had Successfully been able to Create a Synthetic in the Image of his Daughter and been ABLE to Upload her Consciousness/Soul into the Synthetic Body.  Then we would have to ask WHY would he NOT go and do the same with himself?

If Vickers was a TEST and he had to WAIT for Results... then surely he would COMMAND someone like David to Oversee this and WHEN its Confirmed this Experiment Works and shows NO SIGNS of Failure, then David could keep Weyland on ICE until the Results are in and then Weyland has the same Process done to himself.

THIS ^^^^ is what i was touching on with my Prometheus 2 idea, however Weyland could NOT Perfect the Soul Transfer.... this STORY did have a Robot Vickers though... but the Original Vickers was on the Prometheus and Died on LV-223.

Also IF she was a Robot, she would be ONE where it seems SHE is NOT aware of such, which would be ODD... unless she was a Replicant/Clone instead.

It seems that our Meredith was NOT a Synthetic.

Yeah kind of i think it  depends on HOW you look at the Origins/Connection which has been Quite Vague.  But to even IGNORE what other stuff the Engineers had Created with the Black Goo or its Origins etc.

Then the Xenomorph itself could be Evolved either Genetically by Experiments or via some kind of Natural Evolution of its Species itself.

We have seen Numerous Variants of Monster Concepts for the Movies some look FAR LESS like the Xenomorphs from ALIEN/ALIENS than others.

It seems maybe the Xenomorph in the TV Series may NOT be the Black/Grey color that we see from Alien and Aliens but more like the Runner from Alien 3

Maybe it will look a LITTLE DIFFERENT but i dont think it would be TOO FAR away from the Xenomorph like say the Newborn, Neomorph and Deacon are.

The differences could be SUBTLE like below.

They will LIKELY come from Eggs (or we will eventually see Eggs) but we may be given a DIFFERENT way of Procreation rather than be shown a Queen. The Face Hugger seems to be Nearly the Same as what we are USED too, but the Gestating Xenomorph is more like the Runner from Alien  3 and Protomorph from Alien Covenant.

HOWEVER...... Design could Change by the Time that Production is Finished (under way at the Moment).

I think Alien Resurrection had some Interesting things going on that are NOT quite so Obvious that could be Expanded upon... but OVERALL i would say Yeah the Execution and Characters are NOT that Good.

The Newborn could have been Better and it did make the QUEEN look Weak!

I highly doubt that Meredith was a synthetic since the tie websites and the movie prometheus made a big deal of David being the first advanced synthetic

"Thoughts_Dreams - As far as I know the only female android this far is Call"

I subscribe to the theory that Meredith Vickers was an android too, even if she did have sex with Idris Janek. Surely Weyland produced pleasure models like Tyrell Corporation made Pris in the Blade Runner Universe, so I think it would be hard to tell if she was human or not.

In addition, I saw a recent Alien Theory Video (https://youtu.be/EXbWmsd4CWo) in which it is explained that there was a MU/TH/UR 6000 A.I. on the Alien Covenant website which answered questions, and when someone asked "When did Meredith Vickers die?" it gave the answer "June 29th 2049" when you would expect the answer to be December of 2093 (when Prometheus takes place) or more precisely New Years Day of 2094.

Perhaps Vickers was an experiment which Weyland wanted to keep around to remind him of his deceased Daughter? a parallel to David, in which even she was not aware she was an artificial person? Certainly an interesting theory. 

Oh I thought he became the overseer of ALIEN canon

Xenomorph relatives and modified off shoots are by me, since they still are xenomorphs. Kind of like the different godzillas

I don't mind if they retcon away Alien Resurrection, that movie was terrible anyways

I think this Canon is the RPG Games own Canon where it draws in Various Canon from the Movies and Modifies it a Little. 

And so in Context to the RPG Game then YES all the Events of the Movies had Happened... but this is NOT to say that within the Movies Canon, that all the Events of the Board Game had Happened.

THEY did have Various People work on a BIBLE for the Franchise... One was supposed to be being WORKED ON before the Change to Alien Covenant (at the Time of and after the Dark Horse Fire and Stone Comics) and then another was being worked on AFTER the Events of Alien Covenant as a Source for Future Movies and Games, Comics to work with.   These BIBLES may had been Very Different in some cases to the Andrew E C Gaska works.

But it seems that Games/Movies made within the Last 3 Years do Reference from his BIBLE.

Regarding Fifield he was a Toxic Avenger lol

But indeed there was a Number of other Ideas/Concepts which included the Beluga-Head and if we look at the Earlier Drafts it was CLEAR that Fifield was being Mutated into a Xeno-Human Hybrid.

The Black Goo became Confusing though they NEVER gave it much thought in its Execution, were as the Earlier Drafts with the Scarabs was more CLEAR.

It will be interesting to see WHAT they do with the Xenomorph as i have always worried if you Continue to SHOW like Hordes of them over and over, then you can Dilute them down to being like Zombies... or well Starship Troopers Bugs!

So it would be Interesting to WHAT becomes of them by say Season 2 or Season 3, lets look at the Walking Dead... can a ALIEN TV Show really go on for 6+ Seasons with Xenomorphs being in the Seasons for like 40%+ of the Time if they will be Portrayed as we have seen them so FAR in the Franchise?

*Where did these Xenomorphs come from?

*Were they Created/Engineered and by Who and Why?

*Is there any Potential to Re-Engineering or trying to Utilize the Xenomorph with Experiments?

These are Questions that the Prequels had to Various Degrees attempted to Cover...

NOW with the TV Series likely being a Re-Boot i feel that for the Longevity they have to go and Tackle those 3 Questions in their OWN way... because if we NEVER had the Prequels then there is ONLY so much you can do with Oh! look a Egg, Face Hugger, Chest Buster and Xenomorph and then WOW a Queen!

Before you would maybe have to Cover those 3 Questions...... and i feel the same has to be said for the TV Show.