Feb 2, 2621. Weyland Yutani Reasearch Base/Colonial Marine Training Housing and Storage FacilityI stand on what was the most secret facility built by Weyland Yutani. It is a large laboratory with a Colonial Marine base built next to it. The scale of it is absolutely breath taking. Taking up 5 square miles of jungle and positioned 135 miles away from the closest colonial city it is absolutely massive. Having stored hundreds if not thousands of xenomorphs, along with a planetary army of marines, labrotory/combat supplies, and save for research training and overall housing it is not suprising that this is also the largest of Weyland's secret facilities on this planet. And given it history it is not surprising that it is the home of the two most important people in my interview.After I have checked in to the facilities newly installed reception area, with a beautiful new receptionist who I think I may be going on a date with after ward I am introduced to the new heads of the facility. KJ147 (whom is named after the planet itself) and Jennifer Weyland. KJ147 is the head of the Marine Base portion of the compound, and governs it with strict, yet controlled and even sometimes friendly managment. Jennifer is the head scientist and has just recently been titled as the new CEO of Weyland Yutani Industries. The two of them are a happily married couple, and with them lives a Predator (yautja) couple named Ch'ris- and Rachelle who are KJ's and Jennifer's good friends They to I will be interviewing in this story along with a few other important individuals.I first start off with KJ, who Jennifer takes to calling Jon, but everyone else just call Kj. He is a Predator Marine who was born, raised, and trained in this very facility. He greets me with a smile, and shakes my hand. He is over 7 feet tall and easily dwarfs my comparatively short 5,8 height. Although he himself is intimidating with his mandibled face and brood muscular stature he does not convey a sense of agrivation in my presence and is rather welcoming. He welcomes me into the barracks that he himself grew up in, evidenced by his name being carved onto the wall between two of the middle bunk beds. After some more friendly sputtering our interview begins.
KJ147, man oh man does this place have a history for itself. At least that's if you take into consideration how long humans have been here you know what I'm saying buddy, but even before then, this place and the Shadows go way back.
His accent isn't gurgled or clicky but sounds like a regular human's
"You mean this place had a history before the last thirty seven years? and what are 'Shadows'?" I ask him curiously as I do all the others I've interviewed.
That's right I forgot. Shadows are what I call Xenomorphs, and that's not because my clan calls them that they just call them "hard meats". The reason why I call them Shadows is because the like to hide in the shadows because that makes them less noticeable in a hunting situation, and because there's this one song I heard when I was a kid, I still listen to it now. It's by Terrence Mann, called 'Power of the Night' in it there's a continuing part where the guy sings "Its the Power of the Night, Streets are Calling, Stealing from the Light, Shadows crawling." And yeah that's what I call xenos.
As for the other question, yes Xenomorphs were here well before we were. In fact my specific clan used to own this planet as a breeding planet for the xenomorphs. You probably didn't hear about some of the more secretive elements of this operation.
"I have heard rumors about their being Predator civilizations that had been established here. But I've only heard rumors."
Well guess what buddy those rumors are true. I've seen those things with my own two eyes. Heck I've had to dig a few Shadow nests out in some of em.
"That just makes no sense though. Why would they be here if the atmosphere was to unstable to support life on them?"
You don't know much about xenos do you kid?
"I'm a journalist not a scientist."
Well guess what buddy get ready for some science to go with some history. See Shadows those things aren't like normal animals or bugs for that matter, they don't need to eat, breath sleep or take a morning dump, they don't even age. They have this thing called negligible senescence which basically means these things don't just die of old age. They're built for one thing and one thing only. To kill, destroy, and infest by adding our numbers to theirs that is it. And nothing stops them. Don't ask me why there able to I'm not a scientist either. And the reason for why the planet was so inhospitable in the first place was because my clan let the population of Shadows grow to unstable, they ended up wiping out all the ative wildlife and all the plants eventually went to. After my clan hunted the fers to near extinction they just kind of left it be, unknowing that there were still Shadows left on the planet hidden underground. Fastforward to 2584, Weyland Yutani finds this planet and spends the seven five years terriforming it for colonization. While returning oxygen to the atmosphere along with regrowing the jungles, reinstituting new wildlife from similar planets to this one, and finishing work on the colonies along with this place, they end up waking up some of the neighbours. After a few colonies go of the comms, and some guys get some sitings of Xenos, Who else but Weyland decides its a good idea to go get some specimens.
" the documents we have said he actually called the United States Colonial Marine Corps to do an entire planetary extermination on the planet?"
Well he did but he actually ordered that they take a few specimens while they were at it. The lousy son of a bh!
"But why he do this in the first place and I mean why did he even allow the marines to come in the first place for the sake of the colonists at all?"
Beaches everyone out there on that planet had a dollar with his name written all over it, sitting right in their pockets. Those were his consumers and if he wanted them to know he still cared about the money in their pockets he had to care about them, because they are what funds his little xeno pet projects. After an entire planetary army's worth of marines under the control of Weyland Yutani since the guy practically bought us out when earth fell to the xenos, he had them all sweep the landscape of the entire planet. If their was a cave everybody searched it if there was a abandoned colony it was searched to, heck I'm pretty sure we were even looking for these things underneath rocks and trees too. But they weren't the only ones interested in the action. during the sweep the marines came across part of my clans civilization which still had working sensory detection, which promptly sent a call to my clan telling them something was up.
"I understand that it is dishonorable for your species to allow their prey to take hold of your technology. Were they afraid that Weyland had discovered it in order to exploit what technology there may have been?"Well that's not true for my entire species, mostly only with honorable clans like mine, but yeah. Weyland Yutani had become something of an urban ledgend to my species as a whole and, how they would use the technology for their purposes. But no matter what the purpose was it is still considered dishonorable so yeah.
"Is there any way for them to know for sure if Weyland was, in anyway, exploiting the tech in the civilizations?"
Yes actually, the sensors would have told them so. But the only thing that was being broadcasted, was that something was going on around it and not being tampered with inside.
"So the beacon signal was likely xenomorph activity to them?"Well, no, not quite you see the sensors had detected heat signatures, and since Shadows don't give off body heat and can only be detected via chemical or pheromone detection, this meant new life was popping up on the planet. Although I wouldn't have been surprised if they had also detected the Shadows, since those are what my clan returned for.
"For the hunt, or to train the young bloods."You know quite a bit about my species culture.
"I did my home work on what info we had on your species before I came to interview.Well you're sort of right. See at the time my clan was having a shortage on hunting equipment. Some of the hunts that certain members of the clan had gone on didn't go to well, and ended up destroying and losing some valuable hunting supplies. My clan was also facing a lack of resources at the time, which they needed to create more of those weapons and supplies. To top it all off, there were new young bloods that had completed most of their training and were incredibly eager to prove themselves as adult members of the clan. But there was a way to solve this issue though. While my clan was facing a lack of resources, other clans were rich in those resources an were producing equipment like nothing. But you aren't just given the stuff for free, you've got to give something that's worth it.
"What would that be?"A number of things. You could exchange it for gold and silver, which is also valuable to us too, just not to the same degree, or you could exchange other more valuable things like, women, warriors, hunting territory, or game, but mostly just game and territory.
On that day though they were after the game. Not just any game, but the most valuable of game, a Queen Shadow, as those were the most valuable of game ever, since they could be used to produce more Shadows, and if my clan was smart, use it to spawn more queen eggs and make their price even more substantially valuable. They brought the young bloods with to blood them. It was basically a win-win situation, the young bloods get to prove themselves, the clan gains more honor, reclaims more territory to hunt on, and saves itself on a major lack of resources and equipment. They didn't just send the youngbloods to do this on their own though, they needed to take a queen shadow alive, and with an operation as dangerous as that, coupled with the presence of the colonial marines on the territory, this would require experience. Due to the urgency of the lack of equipment, and the danger of the operation itself, this was an all-hands-on-deck scenario. The entire clan was going out of its way to get this done, with the exception of the pups, and a few of the mothered females guarding those pups.
"Sounds like they had everything planned out."They kind of did.
"Then how come they lost the Three World's War?"It was originally called the Battle for Marlow, but I'll get to that in a second. So ten years after terriformation started, and only seven years after planteary extermination began, the marines were finally reaching the end of totally cleansing the planet. With the exception of the shadows that had been captured, and locked away in the research facilities. But there was still one nest left, and a very very big one at that. This is were it all began, where the xenos had been hibernating for so long. They'd established an absolutely massive last stand army against the marines.
"You mean they were strategizing this?"Well the queen was anyway. She's the entire brains of the hive. She does the thinking for the hive, while the workers and the warriors just do as they're told to. Without her the hive dies.
"Couldn't she have just laid another queen egg?"For all she knew the marines wern't taking prisoners anymore and were just out to finish what little opposition their was left. I mean she could have yes, but in a situation like this, no o don't think so.
During the first part of the Three World's War it was just the Oomans-
Kj has a speech impediment hampered partially by his mandibles, thus he can't pronounce human correctly.-and the Shadows. They were at a stalemate at first with both species having no advantage over the other. They both had large numbers, the xenos acid blood, persistence, and fearless nature keeping them from losing, while the marines had the equipment, and strategy to keep up with them. Upon what I read up on the battle myself, I found that the battle was originally named the Battle for Marlows Valley, as that's where th battle took place, and my clan wasn't present for most of the fight. The battle lasted for about five days with neither the xenos or the humans being able to gain an advantage. Once my clan did join the fight that changed everything. I can't tell you anything about how it went personally since I wasn't there yet when it happened. But from what I read I do know that all three species fought viciously against each other, and all three of them sustaining heavy casualties. The first to go were the Shadows, and although they were persistent, they'd suffered the worst in terms of casualties because of their lack of an effective strategy, and heavy weaponry, both of which the Yatja (Yautja) and Oomans had at their disposal. With the Shadows out of the game that left my clan and the marines. While my clan was physically stronger than the marines themselves they lacked the firepower and numbers necessary to take on the marines.
"Did they manage to capture, the queen xenomorph?"Yes they did. When the queen tried to make her escape my clan abandoned their pointless conflict with the Oomans and swooped in to captured the queen.
"So they accomplished their mission?"Yes, but when you take a look at the losses they faced, you'd find it questionable if the fight was even worth it. I didn't think it had been. Over half the clan members present in the fight, had been killed, or lost in action, not to mention an uncalculable amount of their technology. They tried destroying what was left behind remotely from their mother ship. Most of it was destroyed, but not all of it. And the worst part about it was that they didn't even know it was still there. Nor that they'd left behind a survivor.
"Your mother."