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ship of the Planetus survivors to the colony world of Soulages where they were to face certain deathat the hands of an actual Alien infestation. After landing on Soulages, the group explored the nearbysettlement-turned-artificial-hive in order to find a possibility to escape the planet. When the groupsettled down for the night, Duncan and Kelly were taken by the Aliens and got impregnated. Theothers later found Duncan at the central crater, the Facehugger still attached to his face, and AndersKramm, who had led the investigation of the incident, was forced to shoot him. (A:NE)Dylan City: A colony on the planet KOI-784.01. Founded in 2062 after a terraforming delay of sevenyears. Maintained an industry focused on mining. Key resources of the colony were gold, titaniumand hematite. (PR:WIW)*** E ***Echo Outpost: A colony on the planet KOI-899.03. Founded it 2057, Echo Outpost would sport apopulation of 3.25 million by 2071. Its industry focused on mining and refining KOI-899.03's vastresources of the rare earth element yttrium, making the colony the leading provider of the metal inthe latter half of the 21 st century. Another key resource was nobium. (PR:WIW)EEV: Abbreviation for Emergency Escape Vehicle. Describing a class of small modular vehicles installedaboard larger ships to eject and evacuate personnel in case of an emergency. EEVs are notfull-fledged ships, often only provided with a very limited range and control capacities, its sole purposebeing to safely transport personnel away from the crisis zone and home in towards the nearestship, station or inhabited world.An example of an EEV is the Bodenwerke-Gemeinschaft Type 337 used by the USASF and USCMfor their Valley Forge and Conestoga-class starships. A set of ten 337s were also installed aboard theSulaco, which were ejected during the electrical fire shortly after the Hadley's Hope incident. (A3,A:CMTM)Egg: An egg-like spore containing the Facehugger stage of the Xenomorph life-cycle. Sporting aleathery skin, a Xenomorph egg is quite durable and equipped to sustain a Facehugger over an indefiniteamount of time. Furthermore, the egg is equipped with sensory organs that allows it tosense when a suitable host is nearby. If that is the case, the four lids on top of the egg open, releasingthe Facehugger.A Xenomorph egg is created by a Queen and laid using a large ovipositor attached to her. An eggcan be fed with a substance called Royal Jelly, altering the Facehugger inside to carry a Queen embryo.Unconfirmed reports suggest that an alternate form of creating a Xenomorph egg may exist,where a living organism can be used by an adult Xenomorph to transform it into an egg.Egg Harvester: A remote-controlled robot drone used by Weyland-Yutani scientists to harvestXenomorph eggs from the artificial hive on the planet Soulages. The Egg Harvester moved onthreads, and its setup consisted of a large holding chamber and four appendages, of which two wereequipped with guns while the other two sported grabbing pincers. Anders Kramm, Frances Stauffand Bjorn Heyward fought an Egg Harvester on the landing pad of the hive during the C-3 L/M incidentin 2232. (A:NE)Elgyn, Frank: A male human and the leader of the band of smugglers involved in the Auriga incident.Captain of the Betty and the romantic partner of Hillard. Had been acquainted with GeneralPerez, the commander of the Auriga, before the incident.When the cloning project aboard the Auriga proved to be successful, Elgyn struck a deal with Perez:In exchange for hard cash, he would deliver a special cargo to the research vessel: humans. Elgynand the crew of the Betty hijacked a passenger liner bound for Xarem and transferred the occupiedcryotubes to the Betty. Shortly before the incident, the Betty docked with the Auriga and loaded off