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Derelict
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One Derelict spacecraft was encountered on LV-426 in 2122 by the crew of the Nostromo, and again later, now lava damaged, by the Jorden family in 2179 just east of the Ilium range, on a high plateau. It is theorized that this ship was was either a war-ship designed to carry biological weapons like Ovomorphs or a science vessel carrying the Ovomorphs for scientific study.
It is a large, asymetrical wishbone-shaped craft. It has a thickened central section between two horns. The prongs bend upwards. One one side, near ground level, the ship has 3 openings (which Kane believed were airlocks).
A tunnel goes straight from the 18 feet high ingress holes and raises 6 feet to reach the Space Jockey room, as the exterior designs the aft end of the ship has a large circular shape. There is at least 60 feet of the Derelict buried.
The interior remembles more a living organism, with vaulted ceilings seemingly made of bone, and many organic shapes and structures in its passageways. Kane theorized that it may have been a biological construct, "grown" rather than built.
The ship contains a cockpit and a cavernous cargo hold beneath, as well as numerous large internal compartments and other cargo bays. The cargo hold Kane explored contained thousands of Ovomorphs covered in a thin, flat layer of blue mist.
Its crew content for the LV-426 Derelict is unknown, save the pilot, who was fused and fossilized inside the command chair suit.
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Derelict History
When the Derelict crashed on LV-426 is unknown, but the pilot was already fossilized by 2122. The exact circumstances of the crash are also unknown. The Derelict was carrying a large amount of kiande amedha Ovomorphs at the time. Plus, the pilot had been impregnated by a Facehugger. This may have led to ship crashing. A holographic recording from the Derelict's data banks retrieved after the Origin facility was constructed depicted a battle between the Derelict and a disc-shaped ship of unknown configuration. Nonetheless, a beacon was activated that began sending an acoustic signal repeating every 12 seconds.
One Derelict ship had been to LV-1201, where the Engineers were apparently breading kiande amedha. Before the last of the derelict's crew were killed, they set up a warning beacon to keep others from stumbling upon the kiande amedha.
In 2122, the Space Jockeys were aware of the Derelict and its deadly cargo and traded its location with a black ops division inside human government called Loki who had established contact with the race some time ago. Loki in turn passed the Derelict's coordinates along to one of their allies, Weyland-Yutani, who altered the course of one of their ships, the Nostromo, so that it would pass LV-426 close enough to pick up the Derelict's signal. Following protocol that commands investigation of such signals, the ship's mainframe woke up the crew from hypersleep, which subsequently landed the ship on the planetoid's surface. Most of the crew thought that the signal was a distress beacon, although Ripley suggested it may have been a warning signal. A hazard team left the Nostromo and eventually discovered the source of the signal, the Derelict. The crew members discovered the fossilized pilot and also took note of its chest burst open. Kane entered the Derelict's cargo hold to discover a vast amount of Ovomorphs and became impregnated when approaching one. The crew carried Kane back to the Nostromo, and soon after, the ship left LV-426.
In 2137, the Andesidora detected the same beacon and went to investigate. Henry Marlow, the captain, disabled the beacon to prevent any other salvage vessel discovering the vessel. As they investigated the ship, Catherine Foster was attacked by a Facehugger in the cargo hold. The Andesidora then left for Sevastopol Station for help.
During the following decades, volcanic activity on LV-426 damaged the Derelict and buried parts of it. Because the beacon was deactivated, it went undiscovered during the establishment of Hadley's Hope due to the shielding from the Illium mountain range and the moon's thick debris-laden atmosphere. Due to Ripley's report of the events in 2122, a representative of Weyland-Yutani, Carter J Burke, provided the administration of the Hadley's Hope colony in 2179 with the coordinates of the Derelict for investigation. The administration assigned the task to the Jorden family, who went to invesigate the Derelict. Russ and Ann Jorden proceeded to explore the ship during which Russ stumbled upon the cargo hold and became impregnated by a Facehugger, eventually causing the kiande amedha infestation of Hadley's Hope. The Derelict was seemingly destroyed after Hadley's Hope was obliterated after the detonation of the Atmospheric Processing Plant. However, as the wreckage was located behind the Ilium range, the ship escaped the destruction unharmed.
Shortly after, a USCM squad attached to the Sephora fled a kiande amedha onslaught aboard an APC during an operation to take down UPP forces on LV-426. In desperate need for extraction, the group reached the Derelict and crashed into its bridge. There, the group was confronted with a huge Engineer-bred kiande amedha. Combat footage from the fight revealed that the pilot chamber was also filled with Ovomorphs that hadn't been there during the Nostromo incident, though it remains unknown when they were placed there. After the group had killed the creature, it left the Derelict and departed from LV-426.
In the weeks after, the region in which Hadley's Hope and the Derelict was located became geographically unstable due to the explosion of the Atmosphere Processor. This also took its toll on the ship when one of the arms was detached by an erupting magma flow. Eventually, Weyland-Yutani found most of the Derelict intact and began to construct a research facility around the vessel's remains in order to investigate the artifact with the primary focus on securing the Ovomorphs and harvest and cultivate the creatures on-site. The interior of the Derelict was being mapped out, and harvesting stations were set up in the vessel's cargo hold. Both the ship and the facility were given the code name Origin. On December 14, 2179, two USCM marines, Colonel Christopher Winter and Private Peter O'Neal, passed through the Derelict on their way to rescue a marine captured by Weyland-Yutani. Shortly before, the two marines had shut down the security grid of the Origin facility, and after Winter and O'Neal had left the Derelict, it quickly fell victim to a kiande amedha infestation. The personnel was killed or cocooned and impregnated. During the final assault on the facility, a group of four marines traversed the Derelict a second time. By then, the Derelict was completely controlled by the kiande amedha.
The Derelict presumably survived the Origin incident, but at an unknown point of time prior to 2381, the ship was destroyed, forcing the USM Auriga team of scientists to resort to cloning Ellen Ripley in order to obtain the kiande amedha organism.
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This Engineer ship that visited Earth during its primordial state. The ship was leaving Earth's atmosphere as a lone Engineer prepared to sacrifice himself by ingesting a black substance, causing his entire body structure to dissolve and seeding the planet with his DNA, and hastening evolution.
After shooting the Pilot's head inside the derelict ship, a holographic battle was activated, displaying a ship similar to the Derelict and the Juggernaut and the Disc Ship.
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Juggernaut
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Similar in design to the Derelict, the Juggernaut is a massive, asymmetrical wishbone-shaped Engineer spacecraft with a thicker core part and two upward-bending horns. It features multiple tunnels that lead to various locations. Between two horns, there are three enormous holes that lead into the ship's interior. With skeletal walls, circular gangways, and steep corridors, the interior of the Juggernaut resembled a living organism rather than a spaceship. The ship appears to have something akin to an FTL drive..
The Juggernaut bridge normally consists of four Engineer-built Sarchophagi (hypersleep chambers), a control mechanism consisting of biological-like material that is actuated via an Engineer flute, and the pilot's seat in the centre of the bridge.
The Juggernaut's port prong is 161.6 metres long and the starboard prong is 174.3 metres long. Between the starboard and port prongs, the ship is 116.6 metres broad and 61.0 metres wide.
History
Around 1 BC, the Juggernaut was stationed in an underground hangar near one of the planet's chemical weapons stores, with a 1-kilometer-long passage connecting it to the subterranean portion of the real Pyramid construction. This was one of many similar installations on the LV-223, which included a large number of sister ships. When a catastrophic accident released the weapon in the facility, the Engineers had just loaded the Juggernaut with vast amounts of the Black Goo chemical weapon designed for her mission to wipe out humanity. Only one Engineer made it back to the ship and entered Stasis in the pilot compartment.
The Juggernaut sat in the launch bay for over two millennia until it was discovered on January 1, 2094 by the android David8, who was a member of the research vessel Prometheus' trip to LV-223. The crew initially mistook the Juggernaut for a part of the broader structure while navigating the facility until Janek, the commander of the Prometheus, discovered its actual shape. After reawakening the Engineer inside the pilot chamber, he launched the Juggernaut to complete its intended goal. The vessel, however, was crippled when the Prometheus slammed it on a suicide run inside the planet's atmosphere, causing it to fall back onto the surface of LV-223. The ship, on the other hand, was mostly undamaged.
Elizabeth Shaw and David8 utilised a second Juggernaut to go to the Engineer homeworld, which was eventually discovered by the Covenant crew.
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A code name given by Weyland-Yutani to the Derelict on LV-426 during the Company's attempt to exploit the wreckage and its cargo of Ovomorphs in late 2179.