First Acheron xenomorph queen

"just like Nostromo. only this time, it's war."

Acheron's most famous quote.

first Acheron xenomorph queen is a major antagonist of the shanezilla series. he appears as the main antagonist of the Aliens franchise. he is the main antagonist of the 1986 sci-fi/action film aliens and the posthumous overarching antagonist of the rest of the series. he is the leader of the xenomorph empire and all the xenomorphs in it. and even though he is a xenomorph queen, all xenomorphs are male, making the first Acheron queen male (despite the "queen" part).

HISTORY

### Birth and Overrunning Hadley's Hope

This Queen came from a batch of eggs in the derelict ship that awakened due to being disturbed by Russ and Anne Jorden, who search the area beyond the colony on Company Orders from Burke on Earth. This results in Russ becoming impregnated by one of the released facehuggers. Anne brings Russ back to their vehicle with the facehugger attached, then sends a signal for help back to the Colony, much to their daughter Newt's horror. While their mistake in disturbing the eggs was similar with Ripley and her friends decades prior, the consequence was far catastrophic than the latter: Most of the eggs stored inside the derelict ship are awakened, and the released swarm of facehuggers immediately invade Hadley's hope. A significant amount of colonists are impregnated which results in an army of Xenomorphs and a quickly established hive. The new hive is built in the area around an Atmosphere Processor. All colonists are wiped out in the battle between the humans and the hive, except Newt who manages to escape and hide in the vents.

### Second Siege on Hadley's Hope

When a squad of Colonial Marines under the command of Lieutenant Gorman and accompanied by Ripley arrived at Hadley's Hope to investigate, they were almost wiped out by Xenomorph Warriors in an ambush inside the Hive, with the few survivors forced to retreat. The Queen himself remained unseen deep within the Hive, although Ripley and the other survivors later theorized as to her existence, reasoning that something had to have laid the Eggs they saw prior to the ambush.

Just as Burke exposed to planned on using Ripley and Newt as smuggling vessel for Xenomorphs Embryo, Xenomorphs cut the power supply of Hadley's Hope and captured Newt, resulting Ripley decided to infiltrate the Hive and took her back.

### First Encounter With Ripley

After saved Newt from a newly hatched facehugger, Ripley and Newt stumbles upon a chamber of Atmosphere Processor full of eggs and the Acheron Queen himself. Facing the Acheron Queen alone and surrounded by Warriors, Ripley 'reasoned' with the creature, threatening to destroy all of her Eggs if she and Newt were attacked. Apparently comprehending this, the Queen signaled his circling Warriors to ignore them. However, when one of the Eggs hatched, Ripley incinerated the nest with her flamethrower and destroyed the Queen's ovipositor with grenades from her Pulse Rifle's grenade launcher before fleeing, wounding her. Enraged, the Queen detached himself from his damaged Egg sac and pursued the fleeing humans.

The Queen utilized an elevator to follow Ripley and Newt to the top floor landing platform, where he cornered them on the landing pad. However, Ripley and Newt managed to escape in the Colonial Marines' dropship Smart Ass that Bishop previously sent to the planet via remote control, which arrived before the Queen could close in. During a hasty escape, the dropship collided with the landing pad and collected debris on one of its landing skids, allowing the Queen to hide somewhere in the ship's landing gear, unbeknownst to those on board. Moments after the dropship left, the Atmosphere Processor went critical, vaporizing the Hive and all but destroying Hadley's Hope.

### Demise and Posthumous

The Acheron Queen revealed his presence and impaled the android Bishop before he tore him into 2, before going for Newt (possibly to secure her as a host for the beginnings of a new hive or perhaps simply to kill her for revenge). Just then, Ripley showed up and fight her with a power loader. The battle ensued, in which the Queen unexpectedly turned the tide of battle by bringing Ripley to the airlock with him. As Acheron was stuck with the power loader that pinned him to the airlock's door, he tries to take his enemy with him as Ripley opened the airlock, expelled to the outer space and pulled by LV-426's gravity, where either re-entry or the fall killed him. But even then he was not entirely defeated, as before his final battle he had smuggled his last surviving egg that would hatch a Super Facehugger that would eventually cause Hick's (presumed) and Newt's death and infect Ripley with another Queen embryo as well as giving birth to more faster, deadly breed of Xenomorph.

### Aftermath

Though his hive was destroyed and the xenomorph empire was beginning to fall apart, some of the eggs that kept in derelict ship on the planet revealed to survive the blast, and one of them given birth to another Queen.

## Personality and Traits

Like all Xenomorph Queens, he values and protects his brethren like any good parent would, and had no qualm in killing any non-xenomorph lifeforms whether as enemy or merely host for his facehugger children. This, however, is not above "negotiate" with the Hive intruders had they held his brethren hostage. The instance was shown where he decided to let Ripley and Newt go threatened to burn the eggs by demonstrating how her flamethrower works. But unfortunately, they ended up deciding to destroy his eggs because one of eggs unexpectedly hatch, inciting his wrath and immediately give chase on Ripley and Newt.

As a fairly young specimen, the first Queen on Acheron was notably smaller than other examples that have been encountered, as his size appeared to be near half the size of his older Antarctica incarnation. Although, he still towered over the Warriors around his and was a formidable physical presence, standing some 15' high. While he spent most of his life attached to his enormous ovipositor and therefore immobile, when separated he was a terrifying aggressor with sufficient strength to prove more than a match against a Caterpillar P-5000 Work Loader.