Alien Revelations - WIP synopsis

I believe someone said that sending in the marines was really a suicide mission to further research the combat abilities of their soon to be new bio-weapon product. The Sulaco and everyone onboard, just like the HH colony, were all expendable/"all other priorities rescinded". Let's watch the amateurs (Colonial Marines) go in and face-plant, then the "real" team goes in to collect weapon (the bug).

Plenty of food for thought to collate there, but please do keep them coming. I'm still thinking of a name for the vessel, Magellan would be good but it may feature in Prometheus, so I'll ponder on that on, unless of course there are any suggestions. Heres some little leaks of the main story I promised... 1. Bishop II will be shown inside a pod withe the words "bio-synthetic", alongside other Bishop synthetics, infering that he was a synthetic. 2. Although the main atmosphere processor is destroyed, the other two are fully functional (Jim Cameron originally intended there to be three) 3. Although the Derelict is still intact, it is empty - all the eggs and the Space Jockeys remains have disappeared. Love to end on a cliffhanger... Keep the suggestions and comments coming guys.

Snorkelbottome, Why not name the ship the Costaguana or something else related to Nostromo or another of Conrad's literary works keeping more in line with Alien and Aliens?

I do have more suggestions for you on the name but Magellan is the one I like best, here are some more Snorkelbottom... Posted by some guy named savagedoc45 somewhere else... Victory Fearless Ironsides Invictus Dreadnought Felix Imperator Lightning Beserker Beowulf Gladiator Victrix Augustus Ferrata Fulminata Siegfried Yamato Yamamoto Hood Tripitz Bismarck Reagan Nimitz Washington Constitution Undying Glory Nelson Britania Columbia Nike Fenris Hammerhead Great White Orca Barracuda Serpent Kraken Chimera Wolverine Grizzly Executor Astoreth Shaitan Sammael Azrael Sabbaoth Lucifer …etc. Do go with; Battles, Leaders, mythological beasts, virtuous qualities, minor gods/spirits, ferocious animals, previous ship names from your chosen culture, especially "lucky" ones Do NOT go with; Major god/goddesses/spirits, anything too difficult to pronounce (for you), obscure references, anything complicated.

So he can't name the ship Hova? I hope Jay-Z is not a fan. LOL Wolverine is on there too, how about Cyclops or Magneto. haha

damn I like that name too man, I immediately thought of "Dire Straights" singing "Money For Nothing"... "Mova Mova" only "Hova Hova"

Hell, why not the Necronomicon? Talk about homage to the series.

If you are collating, then you are probably an Android...I don't trust freakin Androids.

where'd my post go?

[quote]where'd my post go?[/quote] which post?

where I named the ship

Never saw it, Just the last one where you mentioned Megellan, but maybe, and this is a real stab in the dark Snorky I do not think it came even close to happening...Last night at around 12:30 - 2a.m. a Spammer came in and left 6 at least posts in this thread, I deleted them one by one paying special attention not to mess up anything and was most successful...But maybe I deleted 1 too many and accidentally deleted yours, however like I said I can be quite certain that was NOT the case, I never saw ANY POST YOU MADE AFTER THE LAST ONE AS EARLY AS 2-2:30 AM THIS MORNING! By the way if you haven't seen cabin In The Woods yet please do so as a favor to me and then talk to me about it bro, you will understand why I asked you to see it once you do, Big Connection!

Will do sparky. the name of the ship is the USS Invictus, if you read the poem of the same name there are a lot of undertones that could be applied to W-Y's outlook of themselves and their quest to obtain the xenomorph.

Love it, was the 4th name on that post I posted from that "doc45" guy from some other forum I checked out yesterday.

Attention Snorklebottom! I have in my possession a gift form "the gods" as far as YOU in particular are concerned and all of us as a whole... It came to me from an anonymous source whom for various obvious reasons cannot post on these boards. ----------------------- Bonus #1->[b]"And I noticed another thing [in the post] about there being three AP stations on LV-426. Cameron originally scripted dialogue of there being “thirty or so” – not three."[/b] Bonus #2->Why was the USCSS Nostromo chosen for the mission to carry out Special Order 937? Answer; [b]"It was the next ship conveniently going near that area of space"[/b] Bonus #3->"The why and how of the Nostromo's science officer being replaced with Ash while the vessel is docked at Thedus." Answer; "[b]The Company intercepted and interpreted the Jockey transmission, organised the Nostromo to get re-routed and rotated off the science officer in order to ensure a specimen of whatever they might find was returned."[/b] Bonus #4->[b]The revelation in #2 is that the Company, not the Nostromo, first picked up the signal from the derelict. It then made sure Ash replaced their science officer at Thedus so as to protect anything that was gathered at the site of the distress signal. The Nostromo was the closest asset (their bad luck).[/b] Talk To Me Bro !!!

Well all of them answers are obvious, but on the screenplay I have on the two disc special edition of Aliens it states 3, not 30, atmosphere processors (30 processors would require a much bigger colony would it not)

They picked the Nostromo because of the inexperience of the crew. The captain is really incompetent making bad decisions. If you go by what is in the Aliens Quad. the first officer is an ex drug user who thinks before acting. The navigator does not want to be there. The engineers are useless as well. The only crew member who is anyway competent at their job is Ripley.

To start with,let's assume that only a handful of people know about the mission,which is proven by the briefing after hypersleep.So the prometheus mission is not even known by Weylands board of directors,so if Weyland and the prometheus never return no one will know anything.With the death of Weyland,his empire begins to fall apart and is eventually bought by the Yutani Corp.Let's assume Vickers' is his only family therefore all personal secrets are gone as well. Kind of cliche' but some type of clue is discovered, a clue he perhaps left in case they fail,similar to how the Jockeys left us clues.He would without a doubt admire and emulate them.Thus,the new journey begins.

there will be links to prometheus, so i obviously can't finalise anything yet til i see the film.

Well all of them answers are obvious, but on the screenplay I have on the two disc special edition of Aliens it states 3, not 30, atmosphere processors (30 processors would require a much bigger colony would it not) I think you missed the point maybe Snorky, This is More about comfirmation of fact than it is about any introduction of new material.

Damn Rick that pic of Joan Rivers is more horrifying than the aliens themselves lost my train of thought