I do not own AVP or events of any of the alien or predator films, I do however own OC characters aliens and the events that take place within Asclepheus along with the concepts presented in this story.
Ok dudes and dudettes this is Dakkaman777 and this is my first AVP fanfic so please keep an open mind and try and take in all the info I present in it.
Asclepheus: prelude
'I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.' – Edgar Allen Poe
it is the year 2200, and humanity has finally taken to the stars in the pursuit of many things; discovery, immortality and answers to the questions that have plagued us ever since that first human looked up and thought to himself "why am I here?"
Humanity has achieved so much within the course of 200 years, at that time we never would have thought it possible to expand our race throughout the cosmos and settle on different planets, at the time we never thought it possible to find alien life upon different worlds, at the time we never thought about the possibility that we were alone in the universe.
Since humanities ascent from the surface of the earth we have encountered many types of alien life, the majority of which were either snarling beasts or hybrids of plants and insects, many that resembled life on our home world, many that didn't. But no matter how many types of life we found there would always be memories of our first encounters with intelligent life, and by that I mean the Xenomorphs and the Yautja.
Both races were deadly and dangerous in their own rights but they were infinitely different in many strange ways, the Yautja were the first true sentient race that we officially came into contact with, strange how they had been aware of us for much longer than we were of them, they hunted us like sport for centuries taking our skulls and skins as trophies of their hunts, this was evident from one such encounter in south America where a team of highly trained commando's was killed off one by one by such a hunter, there were only two survivors who lived to tell the story. After many encounters with their race they came to see us differently every time our species crossed paths. Several battles with their race had been fought and thousands died on each side, human soldiers and yautja hunters alike shared many a battlefield as a graveyard until the yautja saw that we would not be treated like prey anymore, and from this came a sense of not respect but more like acceptance, the relations between our species is fragile at the moment as the hunters agreed to not slaughter us In droves as long as we never interfered with their hunts.
The Xenomorphs on the other hand were a completely different story; our first official encounter with them was in the year 2122 where a cargo ship designated the Nostromo set down on the planet LV-426 when a strange distress signal had been picked up by the crew, a creature got on board by impregnating one of the crew with an embryo, within 3 days the entire crew side from the warrant officer was slaughtered by the alien creature, the warrant officer known as Ellen Ripley had managed to escape the ship and kill the creature by jettisoning it out of the escape pods airlock. 50 years later she was recovered from the escape pod and taken back to gateway, she tried to warn us of the derelict ship that she claimed to have held thousands of the alien eggs aboard, but the idiots in charge didn't listen and were more interested in how much money they had lost, the colony of Hadley's hope was stationed on LV-426 and within a few days of discovering the derelict ship the entire colony went silent.
Ellen Ripley was sent with a contingent of USS colonial marines to investigate that happened within the colony, what they didn't expect was that an entire hive of Xenomorphs had taken over the colony, within the short span of a day the Xenomorphs proceeded to wipe out the contingent and it was discovered that the Xenomorphs were infinitely more intelligent than what we originally anticipated and shared a hive mind that was controlled by a matriarch…a Queen, the only survivors of the incident were corporal Dwayne hicks, Ellen Ripley, a child survivor named newt and a synthetic android/ artificial person designated Bishop.
Their experiences with the Xenomorphs lead to many different outcomes, one such outcome was that the nations of the world banded together and began the now famous project Ares, a project that took the greatest soldiers from around the world and trained them to become a special task force with the specific Aim of defending the human race and its colonies from the Xenomorph threat, the countries of the world all agreed to contribute their best soldiers, scientists and resources in order to make it possible. The result was the birth of the myrmidons, genetically enhanced super soldiers who were twice as fast, twice as strong and twice as agile as any normal human, with the best training in espionage, combat and stealth and the best equipment humanity had to offer the myrmidons became the human race's best weapon against the Xenomorphs. There are Myrmidon task force bases stationed on every human colony where they await their missions from superiors.
Another such outcome of the human race's new knowledge of the Xenomorphs was the company Weyland-Yutani, the respected creators of the bishop android and the most well-known conglomerate in earth history, the company seems to have a secret interest with the Xenomorphs especially the chairman Charles Bishop Weyland who seems to admire their "purity" and will stop at nothing to gain said purity for their own personal gains.
This is where our story begins with the birth of the Asclepheus project.
Asclepheus was the designation of an ancient alien ship found on the surface of a far-away world in the year 2187, the ship was of such grand design and massive scale that It was simply too amazing to ignore, the ship was salvaged and was to be reconstructed using state of the art human technology which was easier said than done, it took 10 years to finish the job of constructing the ships vital systems such as the life support and gravity conductors, one of the most strangest things about this ship however was the fact that it had a drive core 20 times the size of any human made ship and an energy core that was made a megaton nuclear reactor look like a triple a battery by comparison, no one knew why the ship had these and to be honest it was probably best unsaid.
In the year 2197 the Asclepheus project was created to accomplish the mission of researching all types of alien life in the universe, the ship's colossal size made it perfect for the task of housing the different species, the ship was outfitted with atmospheric conductors which would create specific artificial environments for the ship's inhabitants, regenerative food deposits which could sustain the crew for years on end and on-board gardens which would produce the vast amounts of oxygen that the crew would need on their long and arduous journey across space. The ship's crew where some of the human race's best engineers and scientists, the ship also had a great deal of ambassadors on board in the rare occasion that they make contact with a sentient species.
The Asclepheus was also assigned two human battleships in order to protect it in the event of an attack; the USS Quatermaine and the USS Newton which each carried an army of highly trained marines followed by the two captains of the respective ships; Captain Nathanial Grey of the USS Quatermaine and Captain Cynthia Azarov of the USS Newton, both were decorated Captains who were more than qualified for the mission, Nathanial was a veteran of the Yautja wars while Cynthia was famous for saving the colony of Nova Terra from an asteroid strike 3 years back.
For 3 years over 563 alien species were catalogued aboard the ship though none were even near the intelligence level worthy of being called sentient, signals that were coded in binary were sent out weekly aboard the Asclepheus in the hopes of contacting a sentient species that was more interested in peace and co-existence rather than hunting and hiving.
The habit of sending out weekly transmissions seemed to be wasted as nothing was sent back, many of the military personnel thought it was a waste of time to even hope of contact with something other than Yautja, this belief quickly spread to the crew and almost too the researchers until….something replied and it wasn't yautja or human.
So there's the prelude to my Fanfic in my world of AVP, don't worry the Yautja and Xenomorphs will play very large parts within the story and I will begin the next chapter with the introduction of my own OC alien race who will play a very pivotal part in the story.
In the next few chapters I will also begin introducing the characters whom you will follow throughout the story as it progresses and don't worry there will be a healthy mix of humans and aliens for that.
Please don't forget to leave a review on this prelude and I'll see you in the next chapter, I will also gladly take any constructive criticism you give me as long as you are civil about it.
Next Time - Chapter 1: The Kamads.