Hostile: Alien - The Ship


Introduction

I'm doing a solo Hostile RPG campaign based on Alien. We made the crew, so the last thing we need to do before starting is plan out the ship. The Hostile setting book gives details of the USCS O'Bannon, a light towship which seems to be based on the Nostromo (Note the reference to Alien co-writer Dan O'Bannon).

USCSS Nostromo

I don't think the ship's stats are going to come into play much but let's list them here anyway.

It's a 400 ton ship with a streamlined hull meaning it can enter a planet's atmosphere. It has 8 hull points and 8 structure points which are what it loses when it takes damage. The other stats are related to its travel speed and other factors that won't be needed in our game. Interestingly the Nostromo was built by Lockheed Martin, a rather infamous real life company.

I managed to track down some deck plans for the ship on Imgur which were in turn taken from what looks like a defunct Swedish fan website. Maybe they came from a book about the film production originally?

We'll use these for keeping track of where characters are during the game, and where the alien builds its nest etc.





Here are a couple of side views of the ship. The second one with the air vents could be useful for tracking where the alien is, if we decide to do that.




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