On December 6th, 2547, eleven years following the exploration that led to the outbreak on Paraíso, the crew of the salvaging ship Anesidora detected the Derelict's beacon, landing on Acheron to investigate the source of the signal and salvage any scrap they could find. Something big - Charlie Smythe and Henry Marlow The Anesidora What the hell do you think we're going to find here, Marlow? Once they arrived on Paraíso to deliver their cargo to ONI on July 10th, 2536, the couple was attacked and impregnated by Facehuggers, leading to a massive outbreak that had to be put down on July 27th by the UNSC most of the colonists and UNSC Marines died during the assignment.
The couple was able to detect the beacon from the Derelict, which they explored, bringing many Ovomorphs with them aboard their ship with an Olifant. On June 28th, 2536, eight years after the incident, Russ and Anne Jorden, two explorers and salvagers from the Outer colony Paraíso were hired by ONI as expendable fodder to explore Acheron and bring Ovomorphs to one of their facilities on Paraíso. Russ Jorden after being impregnated by a Facehugger.ĭespite the tragedy and failure of the Nostromo expedition, the Office of Naval Intelligence continued on their attempt to capture xenomorphs from the moon. Rediscovery ONI got 'em to salvage what your crew discovered years ago. The ship left the system, and the subsequent xenomorph that was birthed from Kane started a massacre against the crew, leading its only survivor, Ellen Ripley, to destroy the ship in an attempt to kill the creature. Upon landing on Acheron, three of the ship's crew members - Arthur Dallas, Thomas Kane, and Joan Lambert - located the Derelict, and once they boarded, Kane was attacked and impregnated by a Facehugger while investigating the Ovomorphs. In an ironic twist of fate, the beacon was detected by the Office of Naval Intelligence on May 14th, 2528, and the crew of the Nostromo was intentionally rerouted to the Zeta Reticuli system, on June 2528, in order to investigate the signal and capture a living xenomorph, as ONI sought to use it as a bioweapon against the Covenant during the First Contact War. Before the death of the Traveler, the alien was able to send a message beacon to keep other potential sapient species from staying away from Acheron duo to the xenomorph cargo.Īrthur Dallas, Joan Lambert, and Thomas Kane discovering the Traveler's body. It is unknown how the ship crash-landed on Acheron, whether it was deliberately crashed by its custodian or unintentionally the only known information based on records by the Office of Naval Intelligence and the crew of the Nostromo is that the ship carried a cargo of xenomorph Ovomorphs for reasons unknown the fossilized remains of the Traveler seem to indicate the ship fell on the moon thousands of years in the past, not long after the activation of the Halo Array by the forerunners, indicating the species of the Traveler was able to quickly develop technology and space-flight following their reintroduction in accordance to the forerunners' Conservation Measure. The origins of the Derelict is shrouded in mystery, as it is of its pilot, the Traveler.