The Sulaco

[Shadow Raptor]

Now I'm just going to hope and tell u guys some ideas about what I feel should happen during the missions on the Sulaco.

First off, do we know where the Sulaco is? Is it still en route back to Earth? If so we presumably would need one of its sister ships (bieng we are Marines and this is a military operation) to intercept it to figure out its fate. We would probably board via the dropships the same way Ripley and the original survivors did.

Now to the best of my knowledge the Sulaco was making best speed for Gateway Station, had full power and was still fully functional. Now the facehugger did somehow screw around in its innards and cause the cyrotubes to be ejected and start a fire onboard. Now the Sulaco was probably programmed so that if anything went wrong it would do what is already was doing: going home.

Now we know there is at least one Alien on board, and that it has had time to "hive" up some of the Sulaco. Is our mission going to be to kill it or capture it? There is no way that Sulaco could be infested.... is there?

Another reason I started this thread is because I love this ship! It is absolutely a bad ass starship, and its got some BIG guns. I'm really hoping we get to access Sulacos weapons systems and maybe help it navigate an asteroid field by blowing away some rocks. Or perhaps during transfers between the Sulaco and our ship, the ship we arrive on becomes contaminated and we are forced to blow it away and continue our mission with Sulaco.

Comments and ideas more than welcome!

[Notbadforahuman]

I love the idea of getting access to the ship's hardware. Those were some of the coolest parts of Dead Space and Republic Commando (blast from the past, there xD). Kudos to that idea!

[Mustafuck]

Originally Posted by Shadow Raptor

First off, do we know where the Sulaco is?

If this is supposed to be happening shortly after alien3, then the ship should still be returning to earth, but I wouldn't be that sure about that because the "return to earth" thing about the human ships was known in A:R only, I mean, a joke film that never ever really happened in the mind of an aliens fan with a healthy mind.

Originally Posted by Shadow Raptor

Now we know there is at least one Alien on board, and that it has had time to "hive" up some of the Sulaco. Is our mission going to be to kill it or capture it? There is no way that Sulaco could be infested.... is there?

no man heheh, there were two eggs aboard only, one for Ripley and the other for the dog. Now GB will add a third (or even a fourth) egg for the making or something like that. But in any case, there was no single host remaining aboard, so I don't know what they are gonna invent here...

I still can't understand what we should be able to find aboard the Sulaco other than a couple of empty eggs. GB and Fox are about to mess It all up good, specially about the colony being still there, the crusher, etc.

But well since this is just a game, and considering how cool the mission aboard a similar ship to the Sulaco was in AVP'99, then I can imagine a nice creepy atmosphere on our first mission aboard It, everything in that legendary Cameron's dark blue, the ship vents, etc.

Maybe It is all about one single alien stalker when we are aboard. Something similar to an old idea I posted of the Giger alien as a final boss aboard our CM mother ship (after having stalked you and your squad the entire game). Nevertheless, I very much doubt GB is going for something like this.

[BooGNiSh]

I'm pretty certain they will feature the Sulaco. It's too iconic to be missed out.

[Guirec]

No asteroid defense. That was not cool in Dead Space at all.

[Mustafuck]

oh I liked the asteroids moment in dead space hehe, and also liked zero-jump way more than free flying in ds2

[Maphisto86]

According to previews you and the rest of the marines will find the Sulaco back at LV-426. When I first heard about this I was disappointed as it sounded like Gearbox didn't do their homework (whatever opinion you may have of Alien 3). According to the ending of Aliens the Sulaco was heading back to Earth but ended up derelict because of the fire onboard so it should have either continued towards Earth or be abandoned in the same system as Fiorina 161. I tend to think it was the latter. However in more recent previews, Gearbox has said part of the storyline is indeed the mystery of how the Sulaco returned to LV-426's orbit (and presumambly why their are alien survivors on the planet surface). I have a feeling the ship was moved there by a faction in Weyland-Yutani who are trying to salvage the destroyed colony of Hadley's Hope for research on the aliens that attacked it. Obviously things get worse.

I agree about learning more about the Sulaco as a warship because that is obviously what it is (nuke from orbit!). Gearbox said they have created areas of the ship we have already seen and some we have not. I would like to see a command area whether a bridge or somesuch as well as the Sulaco's engines or weaponry. I am sure we will go all over the vessel in the search for answers.

[DarkGuard]

i think they will be adding to much extra info that we dont need if they let us use the hardware of the sulaco. i am hoping they expand the universe. maybe stop a small rebellion on a planet or a dictator is getting to much power etc

[Guirec]

Originally Posted by Mustafuck

oh I liked the asteroids moment in dead space hehe, and also liked zero-jump way more than free flying in ds2

Agreed on the zero G jumping. It felt awesome and terrifying to point in a direction and totally lose control.

Nothing makes sense for the Sulaco...but it hasn't since '92, so I'm curious where they go with it.

[DarkGuard]

they might leave it for the end mission?