Aliens Are Fun
By Tiera Shrenn
Aliens are fun.
Killing aliens with guns is even more fun, just ask all those gamers who fork out for the latest Halo, Lost Planet or Gears of War. Now if you’re a Marine and your job is to ensure certain aliens don’t escape a research base and cause havoc across the universe, then having a few big guns at your disposal, and maybe even some disposable NPCs and a drop ship, is even more entertaining. And so we get to the crux of the storyline at Alien Hive.
The Aliens franchise has been going strong now since that very first, oft quoted slogan “In Space no one can hear you Scream” appeared in 1979. How many know it off by heart I wonder, probably quite a lot of us. How many of us cringed at that chest-bursting scene or jumped in shock when the alien uncurled in the escape pod? As far as sci-fi movies go, Alien and Aliens are two of the best in the opinion of the MOBs at Alien: Hive.
We were inspired to create our storyline more by the sequel, Aliens, that anything else. The Company is still involved, a sinister corporation with its fingers in a lot of pies who’ll send entire crews to their deaths if it’ll get them what they want. We have the Marines, and let’s face it, no Aliens novel would really be fun without the Marines to both be victors and victims in not so equal numbers. We have shady scientists and their equally mysterious research that may or may not already involve alien DNA, that’s something for us to find out as the story progresses. But what we really have in our novel is a sense of fun and real characters that you come to love or hate.
We drew inspiration from key scenes in Aliens when developing our plotline, we liked the remote location, the helpless survivors and sinister machinations of those in the background pulling the strings. We liked plot twists and story arcs and characters that could be passionate, stupid and heroic within a couple of posts. But above all we wanted a story that was fun to write and incorporated tense and chilling scenes from the movies themselves. We wanted an actual story to rival the films and to do justice to the franchise.
We don’t have any Canon characters, our storyline is set after the events in Aliens and, for the purpose of not being too tied down to what’s been recorded on film, we chose to ignore Aliens 3 & 4. We do have the Aliens, how could we not! But we have genetically altered strains so some are more cunning that others, some are deceptively nonthreatening in appearance and of course, there’s a Queen.
There’s always a Queen!
But we’re greedy. We have two.
Wanna come kick some alien butt? Get in line Marine!
