Planet-4: 'Xenomorph Diary'

A Story by Abishai100

A Weyland space-exploration mission involving 'ice-guns' yields a media-rich engagement with a hostile 'red-dragon' alien and distancing stories.

Another sci-fi horror vignette inspired by the iconic Alien franchise. Enjoy (and Happy Christmas!),

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A prominent science-firm tied to Weyland space-exploration company was developing mechanical programs/diagrams for characterizing free-range motion in mobility-structural adaptations perhaps relevant to A.I. studies or modeling of alien-lifeform physical motions. Weyland was using this research to model forms of 'hypothetical' being-motions to characterize the possible dynamics-behaviors of an 'uncategorized' alien-intelligence/life-form not yet encountered in outer-space. This science-firm was one of the first institutions/groups to receive the prestigious Weyland Award ("WA").

WEYLAND: We're integration social understandings of behavior-idealization with advanced model of 'liberty-heroics' in media.

The end-result of all this 'social-dynamics' and motion-mechanics imagination/modeling was to derive a potential 'animalia-correlate' of an uncategorized alien-motion/behavior hypothesis, to further 'Earthly understandings' of lifeform-coloring! The model that came out was a 'mechanical red ant' by Weyland (and the science-firm which won the award) which re-presented an organics-understanding of a potential lifeform that exhibited scurrying/trekking motions while possessing innate hostile/destructive defense-mechanisms (i.e., stinging behaviors).

WEYLAND: We're sending two company space-soldiers (Amlan/Marcus) to an uncharted planet where's signs of life itself.

The two space-soldiers (Amlan/Marcus) are told they're to fly off the Weyland Space-Station (WSS) in the shuttle Nostradamus and fly to this uncharted/organic 'Planet 4' where they'll explore/trek with a human crew of pilots, scientists, and other soldiers.

AMLAN: We're excited to be part of this seminal space-mission to 'Planet 4' and engage with possible lifeforms!
MARCUS: Weyland Company's suited us with proper/imaginative machinery/weaponry and a hell of a cool space-suit.

This mission requires absolute discretion and firepower, and Amlan/Marcus inform their crew of 10 individuals that they'll be armed with science-firm developed 'Liquid-Nitrogen Guns' (LNGs) called 'ice-guns' which have the capability of instantly freezing any hostile alien-lifeform which exhibits speedy chasing/tracking behaviors and must be stopped with defense. The LNGs create a devastating instant-freeze mist of liquid-nitrogen which would certainly freeze any chasing hostile alien and convert the beast/dragon into a frozen ice-statue!

AMLAN: Do you think they're paying us enough for this strange mission to Planet 4, man?
MARCUS: At least these so-called 'ice-guns' will give us the psyche-confidence we need to engage with a dragon.

AMLAN: So, we're to leave on the shuttle Nostradamus from the Earth space-station?

MARCUS: Yep; we'll get to the planet after we launch off this space-station!

WEYLAND: Make no mistake, folks; this will be pure definition of swift discovery and triumph for our ambitious Earth-race.

The Nostradamus lands on 'Planet 4' (uncharted/organic) and transmits some early digital-imagery back to Weyland on Earth for broadcast-media, and the images of the planet's terrain nearly mimic those recorded by Weyland's space-telescopes taken earlier for media presentations! The Nostradamus is a handsome shuttle and arrives on uncharted 'Planet 4' on-time and the crew has been quite excited if not completely brave about this machinery-mission.

DISTRESS MESSAGE: "A bizarre 'infant-alien' face-hugger latches onto a human crew-member and plants eggs which burst out of the victim's chest, and the 'born' alien, looking like a miniature insect-dragon like 'thing' with elongated head and reptilian tale scurries/vanishes and starts growing in size rapidly; this face-hugger which creates this egg originally is the first 'alien lifeform' we've encountered and are certain the developing alien which is now growing in size will reflect the hostility of this egg-laying program; we're proceeding with armed fear."

When the Nostradamus crew discovered a field of 'alien eggs' on uncharted/organic 'Planet 4' after trekking on the terrain of the uncharted/organic planet, one of the poor-soul human space-explorers poked at the egg with his foot and the egg burst open and this 'face-hugger' latched onto his poor face and laid an egg/seed of some kind which grew rapidly and burst out of the human's chest/cavity and the 'born' miniature 'insect-dragon' alien-lifeform (red in color) scurried away too fast for the Nostradamus crew to capture but immediately began to grow in size. Amlan/Marcus sent the distress signal/message back to Weyland after this Planet 4 'egg-incident' and claims they're now being 'stalked' by the scurrying/growing 'red-alien' which was born from this 'egg experience' on Planet 4.

AMLAN: We're certain this is the same alien we saw as an infant growing quicky into toddler-size, man!

MARCUS: The insect-dragon creature has ravenous claws, metallic teeth, elongated head, tale, and acidic/explosive saliva.

AMLAN: What the hell do we do now, man?

MARCUS: We'll just fire it with our ice-guns when we see it, Amlan.

AMLAN: The 'thing' is a scary dragon!

This 'red alien' was nicknamed the Red Xenomorph ('RX') by the Nostradamus crew and Weyland because of its quick development and trekking adaptations and malicious appearance. It exhibited strong evasion-intelligence as well as stalking ability and began to track/chase the Nostradamus crew-members on Planet 4, having killed 3 of the 10-member crew already. The RX-alien either eats you, punctures you, lays an egg in you (face-hugger), or spews acidic/explosive saliva that simply bursts your body into fleshy oblivion!

WEYLAND: We're sure the Nostradamus crew, captained by valiant Amlan/Marcus, will deliver us the human experience.

WEYLAND: We're pleased to report 4 of the 10 members returned safely and we've made an 'RX-alien' ice-sculpture as trophy!

AMLAN: We made it, brother; we're home safe, and we froze that 'red dragon' (RX-alien) before fleeing Planet 4!

MARCUS: They're making these new 'alien replica toy models' for Christmas-shoppers' kids on Earth now.

AMLAN: I know!

After Amlan/Marcus attended a Weyland media-event in which they showcased the new space-company's endorsement of an 'exciting' multiplayer-online Xenomorph-alien fighting combat game, they told the media, "All this space-curiosity/alien media boasted by the Company will remind us of the sheer scope of human curiosity and hopefully destiny."

Amlan/Marcus received the first-ever space-exploration awards for their ability to neutralize the Red Xenomorph ('RX') alien with their 'ice-guns' and bring back photos of the conquest and 4 of the 10 crew-members alive! They'd remember this achievement as a monument to the raw fascination with lifeform-cataloging...and hopefully survival.