USS Sulaco

The USS Sulaco is a fictional space vessel featured in the Aliens film series. It appeared in the 1986 sequel film Aliens, and also made a brief appearance in the beginning of Alien³ in 1992.

Service history
The USS Sulaco was a military transport vessel manufactured by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. It was utilized by members of the United States Colonial Marines. In the year 2179, the USS Sulaco took a contingent of marines, as well Weyland-Yutani representative Carter Burke, android operative Bishop, and special consultant Ellen Ripley to investigate a loss of communication from the Hadley's Hope colony on the planetoid designated LV-426.

Following a harrowing incident involving a race of predatory xenomorphs, Ripley, Corporal Dwayne Hicks, a partially disabled Bishop, and a young girl named Rebecca "Newt" Jordan escaped from the colony and made their way back to the Sulaco. It was here that Ripley had a final showdown with an alien queen, which she blasted out of the airlock of the ship. Ripley, Hicks and Newt entered the hyper-sleep chamber, but another alien specimen had managed to get on board, and its acidic blood started a fire, which forced the ship's automated functions to eject an E.E.V. containing the hyper-sleep pods. By the time the E.E.V. landed on the planet Fiorina 161, Ripley was the only survivor.

Passengers

 * Ellen Ripley - Special consultant
 * Carter Burke - Weyland-Yutani representative
 * Bishop - Robot
 * Scott Gorman - Lieutenant
 * Dwayne Hicks - Corporal
 * Al Apone - Sergeant
 * Tim Crow - Private
 * Cynthia Dietrich - Corporal
 * Mark Drake - Private
 * Jenette Vasquez - Private
 * Colette Ferro - Corporal
 * Ricco Frost - Private
 * Daniel Spunkmeyer Private
 * William Hudson - Private
 * Trevor Wierzbowski - Private