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Beneath Cobb's blueprint elevations of a late ''Nostromo'' rendering, he specified: ::::::BASIC LOCKHEED CM 88B BISON TRANSPORTER FRAME ::::::MODIFIED AND FITTED WITH A YUTANI T7A NLS STELLAR DRIVE ::::::THE ORIGINAL SATURN J3000 ENGINES HAVE BEEN REPLACED ::::::BY 2 ROLLS ROYCE NGG CYCLONE THRUST TUNNELS WITH ::::::BI-POLAR VECTORING FOR MID LINE LIFE FUNCTION ::::::EACH POWER PLANT DEVELOPING 7,250,000 TONS THRUST ::::::(14,500,000,000 POUNDS) GIVING A HIGH IMPULSE TOTAL ::::::OF 14,460,000 TONS. (''The Book of Alien'', Titan Books 1979) It is interesting to note that some of this information has filtered into the official Canon , as appears below. The canon itself no doubt issues from "ALIENS COLONIAL MARINES TECHNICAL MANUAL" (Lee Brimmicombe-Wood), a highly detailed large format paperback originally published in 1996, now generally regarded as a primary source of information on vessels and equipment appearing in the ''Alien'' universe, specifically ''Aliens'' (though craft from Alien, Aliens, and Alien3 are mentioned). Commercial Towing Vessel ''Nostromo'', an M-Class starfreighter property of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, is a Tug , a towing vessel, hauling an enormous Ore Refinery and 20 Million Ton s of raw ore, weighing many times the mass of the ''Nostromo''. The ship itself is still substantial, over 60,000 metric tons and almost 245 Metre s long, including three Deck s, four holds, stores, Engine s, and lots of pipes and ducts; its Escape Ship is called ''Narcissus''. (On a side note, many moviegoers have often mistaken the four-towered refinery as being the Nostromo itself and the Nostromo, when it detached itself from the refinery, as the shuttle Narcissus.) The crew is seven. In the order credited, they include Captain Dallas ( Tom Skerritt ), Warrant Officer Ripley ( Sigourney Weaver ), Navigator Lambert ( Veronica Cartwright ), Engineering Technician Brett ( Harry Dean Stanton ), Executive Officer Kane ( John Hurt ), Science Officer Ash ( Ian Holm ), and Chief Engineer Parker ( Yaphet Kotto ). There is also a tiger-striped orange tabby Cat named Jones. The ship's computer is called "Mother" (occasionally spelled MU-TH-UR). In the year 2122, the ship is on a course returning to Earth from Thedus , using a form of FTL drive that requires the crew to spend most of the journey in "hypersleep," a form of Suspended Animation . While on the return voyage back to Earth, Mother intercepts an unknown Transmission from a Moon ( LV-426 ) orbiting a gas giant, causing her to interrupt the course of the journey and wake the crew. This leads directly to what was assumed to be the first encounter between Humans and the Aliens , although the movie Alien Vs. Predator shows an earlier encounter with the aliens in the 21st Century (the true validity of which is debated among fans, based mainly on whether the movie is considered a crossover or a genunine part of the Alien canon). After accidentally bringing the alien aboard, the crew is killed by the xenomorph one by one. Ripley learns from Ash (actually a robot planted aboard by Weyland-Yutani) that their mission was a ploy to bring the alien back to the Company for study and possible commercial exploitation. The rest of the crew is killed and Ripley activates the ''Nostromo'''s Self-destruct system. Ripley and Jones manage to escape in the ''Narcissus'', along with the alien, whom Ripley finally ejects into space. The whereabouts of the ''Nostromo'' and her crew remained unknown for the next 57 years; it simply never returned, and was listed as missing and presumed destroyed. The final fate of ''Nostromo'' was learned in 2179, when the off-course ''Narcissus'' escape ship returned Ripley, Jones the cat, and the ''Nostromo'''s logs to civilization. SPECIFICATIONS Specifications USCSS Nostromo (Lockmart CM-88B "Juggernaut-class" Starfreighter)
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