Okay, so based on this original post, here’s my thoughts on the Nostromo Crew characters that I think about a lot!
⚠️ CW/TW: mentions of addiction, mentions of alcohol, mentions of being a POW, mentions of implied violent childhood/abuse, as well mentions as mental health. ⚠️
Note: If y’all are wondering about the colored heart emojis—-those are usually just the colors I associate with them! :)
Note 2: Some of these pieces of lore that I get also come from their pages on the Alien wiki, not just the dossiers I linked. I wanted various different sources to look at than just one. In fact, the post I linked mentions some of the differences between the Legacy and Anthology sets. I wanted to let y’all know! :)
•His birthday is February 27th, 2076!
•When he was thirty years old (June 1st, 2106) he was commissioned into the United Americas Outer Rim Defense Fleet. He was a lieutenant!
•He fought in the Torin Prime Civil War from when he was thirty to when he was thirty-two as a pilot.
•After liberating Torin Prime he gained a promotion to captain and received the Sunburst Medal of Honor.
•He lost the UAS Archangel in an enemy attack in 2109.
•It ended terribly, ultimately leading to him getting a dishonorable discharge in January of 2110.
•Dallas went missing in action for three years after that (2110-2113)…like no one knows what happened to him. I really want to know where he went during this time period honestly
•Then he casually smuggles weapons and medical supplies into The Solomons in 2113.
•He buys his own ship (Tremolino) in 2114 and owns it until 2118, when it gets decommissioned. His crew also got disbanded.
•Dallas worked for the Tyrell Company at one point! (Blade Runner mention ‼️)
•It’s noted in his psych evaluation towards the bottom of the page that he had some effects of mild psychosis while doing work as an executive officer. He had hostility towards authority figures and it was subliminated.
•Unrelated to his file, but according to the Alien: Isolation novelization, Dallas meets Ripley and Amanda at some point in the 2110s. Ripley and Dallas end up being really good friends! He offered her a position on his crew. She didn’t take it at the time, but she did end up working with him later on The Nostromo upon his request.
•His birthday is April 20th, 2083 according to the dossiers I linked; but in another set it’s March 28th, 2081. I’m going to stick with April 20th as his birthday.
•He graduated with honors both from private school and military school.
•He was in medical school from 2104-2108 until he got expelled due to dealing with issues of substance/drug abuse. He got treated for it. He would’ve been around twenty-one to twenty-four.
•He later got a Masters degree in Engineering in 2112.
•He served as a Mission Analyst at one point from 2115-2117.
•It’s noted in his psych evaluation that he’s a very idealistic overachiever and due to being under pressure in school caused him to have addiction issues.
•There’s a warning in his psych evaluation about his high levels of idealism and impulsiveness made him a poor candidate for work.
•Ripley’s birthday is on January 7th, 2092!
•Ripley wasn’t born on Earth, she was born on Olympia, a colony on the moon!
•She had to quarantine from the time she was two years old until she was eighteen years old due to a virus outbreak.
•Ripley was very good at law, ethics, and corporate while in school. She also graduated at the top of her class. I like to imagine she probably would’ve wanted to be a lawyer at some point.
•Unrelated to her file, but I did the math in my free time because Amanda Ripley was born in 2112. Ripley would’ve been twenty years old when she had Amanda.
•According to her file, Ripley negotiated an end to a hostage crisis. 49 lives were saved and 8 terrorists were convicted. That was on October 16th, 2115. If you do the math, Ripley would’ve been twenty-three years old.
•She requested for maternity leave and Weyland-Yutani denied her the maternity leave in 2118. She sued them and got her flight license and salary suspended. I hate Weyland-Yutani.
•At least she got it back and got maternity leave before her trip on the Sotillo.
•If you scroll further down the page, it’ll show some of the crew’s psych evaluations. Under Ripley’s, before she had to leave on the Nostromo trip, it’s noted she wanted to stay with her daughter due to experiencing severe feelings of guilt over her lack of contact with Amanda.
(^ That really got me. I think that actually haunts me.)
•Her birthday is November 7th, 2093 (she’s the youngest crew member…)
•She has a masters degree in Astro-Cartography, so I think it has something to do with reading maps related to space (considering her role as a navigator), she graduated in 2112.
•She was an intern at Ridton Corp. from June-September 2112.
•She got married in October of 2112 (she would’ve been 18), then divorces Xander Chapman in February of 2114 (she would’ve been 20).
•Lambert got married again in September of 2118 and divorced Lordan Hessutt in January of 2120 (She would’ve been 24 the second time she got married; then 26 when she divorced him…if I did the math wrong please correct me).
•It’s mentioned in her dossier that she’s transgender! :)
•Also, not shown in her dossier in the post I linked, but in the background of Aliens (1986), it’s mentioned on her dossier when it’s shown on the background (if you look closely), it states “slight hyperactivity and nervousness diagnosed” so I think she’s neurodivergent too. :)
•Parker is from California!
•His birthday is February 4th, 2080
•Parker was originally a pit mechanic at one point from 2100-2104. He quit his job over a salary dispute.
•Parker, like Dallas, was also in the United Americas Outer Rim Defense Fleet during the Torin Prime Civil War. He was in Skyfire Down and his rank was Private (January 9th, 2105-June 14th, 2107…he would’ve been around twenty-five to twenty-eight years old.)
•It makes me wonder if they’ve heard of each other or even if they knew each other at any point while in the Outer Rim Defense Fleet.
•He later gets promoted to corporal and is a chief mechanic from June to August of 2107.
•Unfortunately on August 1st, 2107, Parker was captured by J’har Rebels and ended up becoming a prisoner of war from August 2107-February 2108. :(
•He manages to escape his imprisonment on February 21st, 2108 by building an emergency escape vehicle out of scrap!
•He later gets honorably discharged in October of 2108.
•He becomes besties with Brett on the USCSS Nonnabo in 2117.
•On his Xenopedia page, it’s mentioned that he dislikes authority figures. (According to the Anthology set)
•His birthday is July 13th, 2069
•He worked as a hardware specialist at a solar energy plant from 2094-2095, but it later got terminated.
•He worked at Ridton Corp. in 2096 (same place Lambert worked at!!)
•He piloted cargo ships through a war zone at high speed, causing his to be suspended from work…yikes.
•He has troubles with alcoholism
•While going through detox in 2112, he unfortunately suffered from brain damage.
•It’s implied in his psych evaluation that he had a troubled family life and violent childhood memories :(
•Parker helped him out tremendously, so I really love the both of them a lot.
•There’s not really much on his dossier other than the fact he was with the crew two days before leaving Thedus.
•Apparently Ridley Scott explained in a interview at one point that he gave Ian Holm information about Ash (ie. place of birth, education, etc,) however that information was never really made fully known to everyone and it’s likely a cover-up for the fact he’s an android.
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