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that the order came from Planetus and contacted Darby, who informed the survivors that Weyland-Yutani had taken over Planetus and ordered the ship to land on the alien-infested world of Soulagesto dispose of the last people who knew the truth about the C-3 L/M incident. Together with Krammand the others, Stauff managed to fight her way through the infested settlement on Soulages to ashort-range flyer on the landing pad of the facility. Stauff flew the flyer through the dome surroundingthe settlement and crash-landed the craft into the Weyland-Yutani research station on the nearbymoon. There, they took over the installation, sent word out to the authorities and prepared forWeyland-Yutani's retaliatory strike. Stauff's final whereabouts are unknown. (A:NE)Stinger-class cruiser: A type of cruiser introduced in the middle of the 22 nd century. The strippedwreckage of a Stinger-class cruiser, the Climacus, was discovered on Soulages by the survivors ofthe C-3 L/M incident in 2232. (A:NE)Stinger XT-37: A small military vehicle used by the USCM Corps. Operated by two persons, adriver and a weapons officer, the four-wheeled vehicle had an open canopy and was equipped with agun turret manned by the weapons officer and a trapper snare. The turret featured two weapon systems,a machine gun and a missile flechette. (KAF)Stuart-Rose, Kathryn: A female human working as a Weyland Cybernetics spokesperson. Stuart-Roseformulated the corporation's public response to the malfunction of a limited number ofDavid 7 androids in 2071. (PR:WIW)Sulaco: The Conestoga-class military space transport that was used for the recon mission to LV-426in 2179 that would result in the Hadley's Hope incident. The 13 th ship of the series and fitted withthe “block 74” revision at the time of the incident. Prior to this fateful assignment, the Sulaco had acolorful history. During a combat situation in orbit of Linna 349, she was severely damaged byASAT missiles and was later involved in a fatal docking accident at Gateway Station that cost fivepeople their lives.In 2179, the Sulaco was used for transporting the team tasked with investigating the communicationbreakdown with the colony on LV-426. The ship was loaded at Gateway Station and departed fromthere to reach its destination in three week's time. The Sulaco carried two UD-4 Cheyenne utilitydropships for landing the team on the planet, of which one was used for initial deployment. Later,the Sulaco was remote-accessed and the second dropship was called down for evacuating the survivorsafter the first dropship had been destroyed. The ship received the dropship with the last survivorswho had barely escaped the colony's destruction, and its docking bay was the site of the finalbattle against the Xenomorph Queen that had been able to reach the Sulaco as a stowaway. After thecreature had been flushed out of the airlock, the passengers set the Sulaco on course back to Earthand entered hypersleep. Some time after, the Sulaco dropped out of lightspeed travel near Fiorina161 and ejected its EEVs due to an electrical fire caused by the acid blood of a Facehugger. The informationof this accident was transmitted to the Weyland-Yutani Corporation who then proceededto send an extraction team to the prison planet. The Sulaco was temporarily declared lost, but wassubsequently located by Space Command at O'Neill Station drifting near Gamma Leporis, and aUSCM team was sent to investigate aboard the sister ship Sephora. (A2, A3, A:CMTM, A:INF)Super Facehugger: An alternate term for the Queen Facehugger.Synapse Reestablisher: A device capable of reactivating brain and nervous activity of a deceasedor dying person for a limited amount of time through electric stimulation of dormant neurons in thepatient's brain cells. Weyland Industries patented the device under the file number 18,364,003 onAugust 16, 2071. Due to the risk and need for medical skill and accuracy involved in using thedevice, only nine Synapse Reestablishers were in use by the 2070s, restricted to top-level scientistsin medical schools and research centers. At that time, the device was still awaiting FDA approval.