version 3 - The Alien Encyclopedia

Fortune 500: An annual ranking of the 500 most successful companies by Fortune magazine. In the
version of the list published on December 15, 2037, Fortune named Weyland Industries as one of
the Top 10 companies to work for. (PR:WIW)
Frank: A male human and one of the prisoners involved in the Fury 16 incident. Sentenced for life
at the Fiorina 161 penal colony. He discovered the Queen Facehugger that had impregnated Ripley
in the slaughterhouse of the facility. Unaware of the true nature of what he had found, he mistook
the Xenomorph for an indigenous lifeform. He later was killed by the Xenomorph during the preparations
for capturing the Alien. His death caused the quinitricetyline used in the attempt to be
triggered prematurely, killing several prisoners in the process and almost foiling the plan. (A3)
Frost, Ricco: A male human and a Colonial Marine. Ranked Private, Frost was trained in driving an
APC. He was a part of the fateful recon mission to LV-426 which would turn into the Hadley's Hope
incident. Frost was killed during the Xenomorph ambush inside the colony's hive when he was engulfed
by the flamethrower Dietrich had accidentally triggered during the frenzy. (A2)
FTL: Abbreviation for Faster-Than-Light, describing the ability of an object to move faster than the
speed of light. The term is also used in conjunction with technological devices that enable a spacecraft
to travel at such speeds, like an FTL drive. FTL technology was discovered by Weyland Industries
on May 20, 2032.
Fury 16: An abbreviated nickname for Fiorina 161. (A3)
Fury 16 incident: A Xenomorph infestation on the prison planet Fiorina 161, nicknamed “Fury
16”, in 2179. It was the third and final encounter between the two races involving Ellen Ripley and
also the third failed attempt by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation to secure a Xenomorph specimen
for its bio-weapons division.
The Fury 16 incident took place only several weeks after the Hadley's Hope incident. The three survivors
of that incident, Ripley, Rebecca “Newt” Jorden and Corporal Dwayne Hicks were in hypersleep
aboard the Sulaco on its journey back to Earth. By the time they entered hypersleep, they were
unaware that several Xenomorph eggs had been smuggled aboard the ship. Eventually, the eggs
hatched, and the Facehuggers set out to follow their purpose. When one of the creatures tried to get
access to Newt's cryosleep tube, the glass was ruptured and injured the Facehugger, spilling his acid
blood on the ground. The liquid found its way into a maintenance area beneath the hypersleep facilities
and ate through critical equipment, causing an electrical fire in the process. The ship integrity
was fatally compromised, and the mainframe ordered the hypersleep tubes to be transported into
one of the Sulaco's EEVs. Subsequently, the Sulaco went back to normal speed, arriving in orbit of
the Outer Rim planet Fiorina 161. All of the ship's ten EEVs were ejected, among them the only occupied
escape vehicle carrying the survivors of the Hadley's Hope incident. The EEV set course to
the near planet and, lacking a landing beacon to safely land, crashed into the ocean near the only human
settlement on the planet, a correctional work facility operated by Weyland-Yutani. During the
crash, Hicks and Newt were killed while still in hypersleep, leaving only Ripley to survive. Her unconscious
body was flushed out of her cryotube and was spilled onto the nearby beach.
Clemens, the medical officer of the facility, witnessed the crash and found Ripley's body on the
shore. He carried her back to the prison where he put her under medical care and ordered some prisoners
to retrieve the wreckage from the bay. Andrews, the administrator of the prison, was also notified,
who in turn sent a message to Weyland-Yutani, reporting what happened and requesting immediate
extraction of Ripley. The company at first merely acknowledged the reception of the message.
Meanwhile, one of the Facehuggers from the Sulaco, which had also survived the crash, attacked
and impregnated the dog of one of the prisoners who helped in transporting the EEV into the complex
without being seen. Later that day, Andrews formally informed the prisoners of the situation.
Ripley was brought to the facility's infirmary for recovery. Eventually, she woke up and was filled