The Nostromo

Classification: USCSS Nostromo

Creator: The Company

User/Possessors: A.J. Dallas (Captain), J.M. Lambert (navigator), Ellen Ripley (warrant officer), Ash (science officer), J.T. Parker (chief engineer), G.W.Kane (engineer), S.E.Brett (engineering technician),

First Appearance: Alien (1979)

Powers/Abilities/Functions: A commercial towing vessel, the Nostromo was mainly used for transporting automated ore and oil refineries from Earth to the colonies in Beta II Reticuli.

The ship's systems are run by a Mother, an extremely powerful computer. Mother handles routine flight between systems while the crew members travel in cryo-sleep.

History: The mining ship Nostromo was on a deep space mission with most of it's crew in cryo-sleep, when sensors detected a crashed alien vessel on Acheron, a world they were passing. Automatic systems revived the crew, who investigated the wreck, discovering it to be full of bizarre pods. As they discovered to their cost, these pods proved to be the eggs of a deadly alien species, and one of the crew was attacked by a creature that emerged from a pod, becoming the host for a larval alien. It ripped free from it's host, killing him, escaped into the dank recesses of the Nostromo, and swiftly grew into a full sized killing machine. All but one of the crew was slain by the Alien, with Ellen Ripley becoming the sole human survivor (she also rescued the ship's cat). Ripley set the Nostromo's self destruct, then fled to the escape capsule. It ejected with seconds to spare, only for Ripley to realise with horror that the Alien was in the capsule with her. Slowly moving into

Comments: One of the first movie spaceships to break the cliched mold of being all bright and pretty inside. Nostromo set the trend for spaceships to be like real-world vessels - lived in and messy.

Clarifications: None.

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