Alpha

Alpha's History

Specimen R5823-26A, more commonly referred to as the Alpha, was a unique Xenomorph Drone birthed aboard Epsilon Station. It was extracted as a Chestburster from Weyland-Yutani defence agent Gabriel Cruz after he and his squad were apprehended by Xenomorphs, the latter subsequently being impregnated.

In the year 2200, after Weyland-Yutani Defence Agent Gabriel Cruz and his squad boarded the livestock and freight ship Hadley for investigation, the crew were met with a herd bloodied and disfigured Corcoran Highland Goat. They were subsequently attacked by hordes of Xenomorphs born from the goats, and impregnated within their hive. Cruz emerged the sole survivor, returning to Epsilon Station to have his Chestburster surgically removed mere minutes before his birthing. The resultant specimen was the Alpha, the Company's first acquired Xenomorph.

Following Gabriel Cruz' encounter with the Xenomorph species, the company established a bio-lab within Epsilon Station to grow and study several specimens, amongst them the Alpha. Cruz was lauded a hero for his efforts, and was assigned as chief of security aboard the station. Eventually, however, he was forced into retirement following the revelation that Cruz was suffering from an illness.

Several days following Gabriel Cruz' retirement, his son, Danny, alongside members of the extremist Minute Hand Movement managed to access the complex's biolabs, causing the station to plunge into chaos and culminating in a Xenomorph infestation. To avoid prosecution, Cruz was assigned by the Company to return to the station and retrieve the Alpha embryo, alongside defence agents Hamilton and Lewandowski. Upon arriving at the station, they found it in a dilapidated state and the Alpha missing.

Lewandowski is killed relatively quickly by a drone and the group, escorted by Cruz' Synthetic counsellor Bishop, entered the hive. There they encountered Danny with a Facehugger attached to him. Alongside Iris Humphries, they took Danny with them and attempted to escape the station. Hamilton was killed in the chaos, and the fully-grown Alpha was now hunting them down, intent on retrieving Danny. Hearing the sound of it tailing them, Cruz had Bishop and Iris go to one of the station's exec quarters that was outfitted with a life-raft. Knowing that the Alpha was bent on retrieving Danny for the embryo he carried, Cruz opted to take the "long way around" and fled with his son as the creature chased after him.

The Alpha pursued Cruz closely, wounding him in the shoulder with its tail, though Cruz was eventually able to access the life-raft, alongside Bishop and Iris. Leaving behind a belt of grenades in the Alpha and its brood's wake.

Unbeknownst to Cruz, the Alpha had managed to climb aboard the life-raft, and emerged before Cruz when he was forced to sever the raft from the station after Ted Reynolds initiated a deliberate fall from orbit in an attempt to kill Cruz. The Alpha charged Cruz, the latter stabbing it with a Maintenance Jack. Upon releasing the tool from the creature, acid blood eventually reached one of the station's air tanks, causing an explosion that propelled both the Alpha and Cruz into space. Fire from the explosion would eventually engulf the two as they drifted into space, killing them both.