Michael Lopez

Michael Lopez was a crew member of the U.C.S.S. Andromeda and served as a security officer and specialized in other fields as well. Michael was apart of the Xenomorph incident in 2252 and was killed by the alien in the Andromeda's fuel chambers, alongside Mason. His body was destroyed with the Andromeda after it self destructed minutes later.

## Biography

### Landing on LV-117

The Andromeda crew was awakened by the company in 2252 to supply a nearby colony on LV-117 on their journey to Earth. When they landed, Bruce, Rose, and Collin ventured out into the mountains on the request of Evan Harris, to uncover a mysterious signal that wiped out a past colony. Michael stayed on the Andromeda to help with repairs to the ship. Bryce and Mason almost engaged in a fight, but Michael was able to break it up. When the three came back, as well as Evan, Collin was infested with an alien facehugger and taken to the medical bay, where the Andromeda crew took off from the planet.

### Alien Birth & Hunt

Collin was subsequently killed when he gave birth to a Xenomorph creature. The crew went on a search for the tiny alien in hopes to capture it, but it grew faster than they thought and killed Josh in the kitchens. Tim and Mason volunteered to try and lead the alien to Airlock B, while Michael and everyone else monitored the surveillance cameras. Evan sabotaged the cameras to keep the alien alive, killing Tim in the process. Michael suggested killing Evan right then and there with his rifle, but Bruce ordered to keep him alive. Bruce asked Michael if he could find more weapons to use on Deck 4, which Michael did and found one more pulse rifle with minimal ammo and flamethrowers.

The crew then attempted to lure the alien to the mining tug so they wouldn't damage the Andromeda, and kill the alien with their weapons. Baffour began to lure the alien and was caught in the cross fire of Michael and Bryce's gunfire. They ceased fire to try not to shoot Baffour, but a shot landed before and acid blood from the alien spilled on Baffour's face, killing him. They fired again, but the alien was too fast for them to handle. When they returned to the Andromeda, Evan tried to escape to the last shuttle, but died from the alien on his way there. Bruce gave the orders to self destruct the ship and the crew would leave on the shuttle. Michael and Mason went to stock up on fuel tanks for the shuttle, while Rose and Bryce began the self destruct sequence.

### Death

After the sequence began, Mason and Michael were ambushed by the alien. Michael shot at it with his last ammo and the alien retreated into the ceiling. As Michael tried to help Mason up, the alien came back and knocked Michael back into the shelves, where it head- bit Michael in the forehead, spilling his brain matter onto the floor, killing him instantly. Mason died after Michael. Rose heard their screams and found their bodies. She took the fuel tanks that they prepared and left with the other survivors to the shuttle, eventually escaping.

## Trivia

- Michael and Mason's death is written to be very similar to Parker and Lambert's death the Ridley Scott's original 1979 Alien classic.

- Michael is the only character to be actual friends with Mason, even though he let the facehugger on Collin come into the ship.

- Michael is the only other character, other than Bryce, to carry and fire the Pulse Rifle

- Michael was originally written to be survivor at the end of the story, but was changed to die as there would be too many survivors at the end of the story