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11/08/08
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GuardianOfChaos
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Arachnophilia
Congrats! Each will receive the latest Aliens and latest Predator novels, along with a Predator chop figurine.
(We've sent a private message to all four, giving the email addy to send your snail mail to so we can do the shipping.)
11/06/08
It seemed another unnamed, uninhabited world, rich in the natural resources that would make plutocrats of the first colonial charter-bearers with the guts to stake and perfect a wildcat claim. So when their instruments indicated the presence of another craft in orbit above the largest continent, the crew of the Fleming cut their orbital survey short and made a hasty landfall. In a high desert valley, they found the unexpected tracks of various migratory animals and the lupine megafauna that hunt them, but the real surprise arrived with the beginning of the seasonal migration as the crew set up their extraction and processing works. Along with the animals came a band of non-human hunters -- "obviously intelligent and advanced enough to have come from the wrecked craft that we saw in orbit," observes one character, "so what are they doing down here wearing wolfskins and throwing flint spears?"
"Killing us and taking my ship home," the captain replies.
11/06/08
10/31/08
Predator is landed on the island from Lost. Hilarity ensues. At least for the Predator.
-Carrie
10/31/08
10/31/08
"We're gonna need a bigger spaceship."
10/31/08
Alien vs. Jaws would be cool, b/c we saw them swim in Aliens4, and I wonder what a Xenomorph Great White would look like.
10/31/08
10/31/08
10/31/08
There needs be no explanation, as it rights itself.
For my real entry (unless of course you like the first one better):
A Predator Scout/Seed Ship stumbles upon Asimov's Robot City from the book series of the same name. It is some time after Derec and Ariel have left, and there are now more humans living there, but it is essentially a 95% Robot populated city. A few humans are impregnated by aliens, and conflict arises in the robots on multiple levels.
1) What does a robot do with the impregnated human if they cannot harm a human or allow humans to come to harm by inaction? Kill the person to save more? Attempt surgery knowing it will likely cause death?
2) How do the robots treat the Predators, who are obviously a threat to humans, but also the most likely salvation of the humans?
3) How do the robots treat the birthed aliens, who now share DNA with mankind?
10/31/08
Weyland Yutani thought a deserted island would be a perfect place to continue their sinister weapons experiments. Their work on revitalizing dead tissue was going swimmingly. But what they didn't realize was this island was home to an eternal struggle between Alien and Predator. And when the dead start to rise after a "mysterious" accident all Hell brakes loose. Now a rag tag group of scientists and soldiers have to survive against Aliens, Predators, Zombies, Zombie Aliens, Zombie Predators, Zombie Predaliens and more. Will anyone survive the island?
10/31/08