Anatomy of a Vessel: USCSS Nostromo - Registration 1809246(09)
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- An exploration of the USCSS Nostromo, the Weyland-Yutani-owned commercial towing vehicle that brought the company one step closer to attaining a Xenomorph specimen.
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Nostromo for the realism. Sulaco for the awesome.
Sulaco is pretty realistic too and from my memory is a lighter ship I'd love to see hell the carriers or battleships of uscm
@@basedsketch4133It would be great to see more ships of the universe :)
@@ptonpc maybe someone will edit an original design into Alien 3 for the Patna sometime.
@@thegreenmanofnorwich Yes, it felt weird seeing a 'Sulaco' landing in Alien 3 when I saw it in the cinema. Funnily enough it was one of the major gripes amongst fans at the time as well.
@@ptonpc oh I never knew it was something people particularly disliked! I get it as a cost cutting measure, but it's a pity we didn't get to see anything new
These videos are why I am certified obsessed with this channel! The work that went into making this is awesome! The movie clips and art images and subtle background music just suck you right into it.
This channel is life
mikefm4 he does a very good job with his videos
Thank you so much!!! Your comment made my day! :D
Alien Theory no problem. I wouldnt say it if i didnt mean it. I cant wait for the next movie to come out. Waiting to watch the space jockey get revenge on david
@@AlienTheory It's true, I've seen content here shown nowhere else- and I own ALIEN VAULT, ALIEN: THE ARCHIVE, ALIEN : The Weyland Yutani Report, ALIEN: The Movie in Pictures Magazine and recently THE MAKING OF ALIEN.
..a question that bugs me is why does the Nostromo have guns as if it were a combat vessel or a military ship? When it was supposedly a civilian commercial ship? And the setting's milieu ( at least in the original first movie or even from the 2nd one ), the movie's story setting seems to not have included warlike established alien civilisations like Star Trek or a galaxy in conflict like Star Wars, nor was there even a hint of the presence of such dangers as 'space pirates'.. It seemed to me that there's an atmosphere or an implied understanding from the first 2 movies that the 'space setting' of the Nostromo was similar to the seafaring setting of the late 70' and 80's of the 20th century when one Superpower had effective control of the world's seas. The xenomorph was apparently just the 'first contact' as of the 1st, 1979 movie and 2nd, 1986 movie @@AlienTheory
“Can I finish mah coffee?!? It’s the only thing good on this ship...”
" The food ain't THAT bad !"
Guess he didn't like the cornbread either.
" Don't worry Parker, YEAH, YOU"LL GET WHATEVER'S COMING TO YOU "😠😤👮
Right
My john is happening
Would love more ship and technology specific videos like this. Thanks!
I agree
Yea...The "Where the fuck did I go wrong with my life that I didn't go back to college and get a degree in engineering like I initially planned?" thoughts hit me whenever I see cool stuff like this!😉👍🏻(...seriously, PLEASE do more videos like this...and you can tell I'm being sincere. How? C'mon. You can hear it in my voice, I'm not messin with ya or anything...look into my eyes, and listen: Please do more ship/technology thingies as it'd be totally killer. If I'm lying, may all I typed disappear right...now! Well, there ya have it.😉👍🏻....again, awesome vids, whenever I talk to someone I remotely think they're into stuff like this, I send 'em your way, and don't think twice about it.😊)
One last thing: Sorry for the length of this comment, but I only ramble on the channels I truly enjoy, as they're the ones taking the time FOR. Now I'll shut up.👽👍🏻
This is great perspective that you put together. The nostromo. setpiece just exuded character of its own. Ron cobb is just a brilliant designer.
Another excellent addition to the channel.
Your work deserves to be part of extra content on Blu Ray etc I have watched the documentaries, listened to the audio books, read the novels & comic's.
But you're research is exhaustive, your channel is the only channel fans of the franchise need
Keep up the excellent work!
You are too kind, thank you so much. This video took the entire weekend to make and I'm glad you enjoyed it! :D
Agreed! I would MUCH rather have this as bonus content on a dvd than most of the cast and crew interviews I’ve ever seen.
When I got the Alien Isolation game, my Alien fanboy wet dreams were answered! Just to (virtually) walk through those iconic corridors! Especially on the Crew Expendable and Last Survivor DLC, which took place in the Nostromo. I've always loved the ungainly design of Nostromo, and those interiors are such an iconic feature. I only have to see a dunking bird toy to envision them. In SciFi, there are so many nods to the interior of Nostromo, in the 1984 series of V, it looks like they actually used ladders, doorways and walls from the Alien set, to create the bowels of the visitor mothership! I actually think they did
Joost van der Werf You ain't kidding! Utterly brilliant (and terrifying) game! Glad you got bitten by the (ahem) bug too!
I loved those DLC missions on the Nostromo more than the whole game with it's 19 missions on Sevastopol station. They were perfect, with last survivor being my favourite as it perfectly captured one of the best parts of the film where you are forced to run for your life towards the lifeboat, knowing the ship will self destruct while not knowing where the alien is lurking and you don't have the time to be careful or quiet. On top of that you have the exhaust fumes, strobes and cacophony of sirens just giving you this perfect tense headache of fear and anxiety while feeling utterly lost in the bowels of the Nostromo! God damn how I wish they had made the game more like that as a whole. Overall that and Dead Space are my favorite games and I'm crying for a sequel for isolation.
I could not agree more! My sentiments exactly when I interacted with the 'Torrens' and felt I was sitting with the 'Nostromo's crew with Kane ready to be first time/last time parent...
I agree. It's amazing. I stop and just look around a lot.
Such an awesome experience, I remember the day I bought it from GAME (during a lunch break from work on day of release.....my god the rest of that day dragged!), and rushing home (fast, but safe as possible), and playing it.....oh my god, I was transfixed! Thank christ the following week was a holiday! I played it nearly every night. The atmosphere, hissing gas jets, lights, and knowing just somewhere in some dark area, that xeno was waiting......
The only thing that was a letdown.....no Jones! I'd have LOVED to have seen a DLC, called something like "Jonesy's Tail" which had you playing as the famous ginger cat, hiding and running, jumping up high, sneaking, finding cubby holes, but obviously no weapons, but you could do distractions like knocking things over, accidentally pushing buttons for alarms, that sort of thing to keep you one step ahead of androids and the alien. The fun you could have with sneaking etc would have been awesome, with a sort of "cat sense" game mechanic, tricky mini games, that would have been brilliant
My favourite spaceships in the Alien franchise are
1. The Nostromo
2. The Sulaco / drop ships
3. The Betty
4. The Prometheus
5. The Space Jockey / Engineer ships
6. The Covenant
Awesome Alien Theory episode as always !
Stumbled across this channel after my renewed fascination with the franchises. Great work!
the detail! Holy cow man, you are my hero!
I love the Sulaco. But this video just made me appreciate the nostromo a lot more. Thank you again alientheory. Love your channel.
This is the video I've been waiting for: specifically the c- level or the garage level. In the movie, the landing struts suspended overhead when at rest, shows along the walls the counterbalances assembly allowing the viewer to at least speculate on the immense hydrolics power contained where controlling the huge struts are nessessary. And overall, it's a great video. And yeah, the Nostromo is my favourite ship.
Nostromo all the way! While Sulaco is popular too, but we never spend so much time on her board unlike the Nostromo's.
Can you do a video on why so many imitators of the classic Alien creature fail so miserably?
That is a good idea. I watched Life recently and was thinking the same thing.
I think because Alien had this sorta 'magic' too it. A concept that was unheard of at the time. The only other Sci-Fi alien/horror movie that I enjoy and sorta comes close is John Carpenter's The Thing. Whenever we see other sci-fi aliens acting like a hive, or bursting out of people, we always think of the original.
Thats a great idea! Cover films like Life, but also schlock like Inseminoid, Galaxy Of Terror, even the Italian knockoff Alien 2! It would be interesting to see the series influences too, comparing Alien to its filmic roots, with films like It! The Terror From Beyond Space, or Planet Of The Vampires
Europa H2O Alien agreed, I thought it sucked too, was just atrocious
My favorite review of Life from IMDB was one sentence. "An indestructible starfish from space kills everybody."
My favourite spacecraft is the Sulaco and the APC of it. I have a obsession, and the Alien movies are one of those who blown me away since 1979.Greetings from Germany (the weapons from Vasquez and Drake was a modified MG42)☺
Dude youre better than the official dvd extra content. Your voice has the exact tone to set the ambient mood for these series
can this man please record himself saying every word of the English language so even long after his time we can have voice overs like this?? Keep up the amazing work I love these!
I would love to live in this ship with a few others. Just having that isolation and huge space to play hide and seek would make life a bit more perfect!
To be honest, I would love to own these ships and to have them for all my personal allies and friends. The Sulaco and the Panatra and the USM Auriga. Perfect ships to have.
Thank you for making excellent videos. Your Alien videos help provide a therapeutic reality filter when I’m home that I’ve made into my aesthetic haven.
Explained with such detail..I could listen to you all day
The details of this piece are awesome! The background music really brings it together and there's no shortage of content. Would like to see more of these tech spec videos!
When you watch the movie Alien remember this , the most talented and imaginative people in
the business made this film happen.
My favourite spaceships in the Alien franchise are
1.The Nostromo
2. USCM Sulaco / drop ships
3. The Prometheus
4. The Covenant
5. The Betty
Awesome Alien Theory episode as always !
2.1TB oh my that is adorable, ah early scifi I love you.
When I was younger I worked at a few airports and had the privilege of driving a Airplane Pushback which was originally converted into the USCM's APC. That transport is a personal favorite! Choosing between the Sulaco and the Nostromo is a hard pic! The Nostromo is the scariest in my opinion :D
Wow! You really explain the blue print details of the ship perfectly! Good job!!
I like videos like this it goes deep into technical details
This is such an amazing lore, i can´t believe how much i love Alien and i always will no matter what.
The way you do these videos and how you narrate things is done to perfection, screw LuisDewitt, your channel is on another level.
Cheers!!!
Thank you for your kind words! I love Alien so much too and it's in my head every day and doing this channel has been one of the greatest experiences of my life!
You deserve it, you put a lot of effort and dedication to it.
I can´t wait for the next video!!
Please do the Sulaco. I would definitely like to know more about the Colonial Marines!
The Sulaco is what always stood out to me... That and just how catchy The Betty seemed to sound for whatever reason
Very nice. Hope you do more eps on the ships of the universe. Nostromo, Prometheus and Sulaco in that order. >)
No, please forget the betty boop, forget all of it!
The Nostromo just has that Eerie dark feeling to it just looking down the halls in the pictures you feel like there's something behind you even in your living room it's a beautiful beautiful ship and I don't think it'll ever really lose its place amongst the top tier alien signature items so to speak
Oh I'm a definite a fan of that "Flying Gun" type of ship like Sulaco was!My favourite kind of ship!The idea of a weapon so massive that you have to crew it in order to use it at all!Built for pure out whoop-ass without the intention of taking names!
Excelente trabajo como siempre. You are the best!
An absorbing and interesting clip, well thought out and concisely delivered. Well done and thank you!
Nostromo is a wonderful example of production design that combined a look and feel of lived in functionality. I prefer the Sulaco personally, but the Nostromo was almost a character in itself.
I love these videos. Thank you so much Alien Theory
I love the Nostromo and I like the design nods of the Prometheus in its three armed design towards the Nostromo.
Love these videos!
The Sulaco. It was armed, had a compliment of multi role drop ships (Bug Stomper and Smartass) and, as a sailor I have an affection for naval vessels. The Sulaco was basically an LHD in space.
This is remarkable video. Thank you!
I absolutely adore the Auriga on Alien Resurrection.
Even though we didn't get to see much of it, I have a fondness for the Marlowe from the 2010 Aliens vs Predator game. I love the opening for the first Predator mission where we see the Preds scanning the Marlowe, the distorted voice saying "Come on out, motherfucker!", then the Pred ship de-cloaking and blasting it in half. Awesome scene.
Love the Nostromo, but my favourite is definitely USS Sulaco - state of the bad-ass art, baby!
Right at this moment I realized that the action in the movie was confined to the 4 levels of the small spaceship and not including the refinery installation that is towed by the Nostromo...
I love this information. Thank you, for this.
Amazingly good video. Editing is great.
This is fantastic work mate! Yes I would love to see more ship specific videos and I would say the Nostromo is my favourite!
best channel ever!
Loved this video. It answered a lot of questions. And if you ask me. The first alien. Was best sci fi film of all time
Would love a video about how the FTL works in the Alien universe.
Alway love those Bison B Series like the NOSTROMO Myself!🇬🇧🇯🇵🚀
Very nice!!! I love you channel you perform a great job for alien fan... plz do the Sulaco's anatomy as well.
Absolute Quality Man 😎👍🏻
I would like to see a video on the covenant ship , it looks bad ass !
Great video! I would love to learn more about the refinery too. The Sulaco is my favorite ship, and of course the infamous dropship!
A couple of oblique observations I’ve made over time- one is that the names Nostromo and Sulaco come from the Joseph Conrad novel “Nostromo”, and the “Narcissus” was from another Conrad novel. The other is that, interestingly, the one special gas on the Narcissus that Ripley discharged and finally distressed the Alien was methyl bromide (CH3Br), a highly toxic compound used for fumigation of shipping containers at ports of entry. Btw, my profession as an entomologist led me down the track of the latter. It would be interesting to speculate what might’ve transpired in Aliens if Ripley had shared that bit of information with the colonial marines once an infestation had been determined-
Another great informative video!
It seems like we are living in the alien universe with your awesome videos. Do you have by the way the user manual of Nostromo? ;)
That I do not have but if I get my hands on it, I smell another video... :D
Love alien theory, thank you!!!!
My 3 favorite ships are the Torrens , the Anesidora (both from alien isolation) and the Nostromo
Favourite ship is the Nostromo. Classic
Hey Alien Theory, would you do a Documentary of HR Giger? I think you have a great potential for it! Love your work!
Now that....is an A+ idea.
Alien Theory Great, This channel will always be awesome!
There is already one here on TH-cam that Derek May have already seen.
That wouldn't be a decent idea because unfortunately (its true) HR Giger was into twisted sex perversions which is why the Xeno head looks like a ding dong and eggs originally designed to look like female parts and were forced to make eggs with 4-petal opening instead of the 2-lip vulva version 😆🍌
LSSG Broly
Not just sex, he also drawed and sculpted his own nightmares and night terrors when he was a child. And maybe they were all in the mix when he dreamed that
I love the Prometheus most. I have watched Prometheus probably 200 times and it never gets old. I love the cryosleep chambers and the spacesuits as well. Although each film has a special place in my heart.
Great vid!
Sulaco is my favorite.
Same here, the model guys really out did themselves with Sulaco.
xenowerks yes designing james camerons robo-assault rifle penis is very challenging...
A nice video. I watched this movie as a kid and always thought the Nostromo was the whole ship, rather than the towing vehicle. I'm actually more interested in the much larger refinery, than the crew ship. I'm trying to find out what the dimensions of the refinery are. I watched those really well done videos that show ship sizes in comparison to New York. One of them did have the towing vehicle, but not the Refinery. I made a very rough estimation that the refinery was probably about 5kms across and about 2kms tall. It could be a bit less than that, but the diameter of the largest Oil refinery on Earth is about 6 kms for a comparison. Thanks again for a great video.
Nice work. What I'd like to hear is that you have a similar video planned for the Sulaco, but I'll watch whatever you put next.
My favourite ship from the series is the "derelict" ship used by the engineers!.
3:17 deuterium (doo-teer-ee-uh m)
Chemical symbol D or ²H, is a stable isotope of hydrogen.
Excellent video as always!!
lol I'm so bad at pronunciations...but thank you! :D
Great work!
indeed
i remember when my dad bought me the vhs's of the first two films in the franchise, alien and aliens, i still remember what the paper cover looked like, blue and green. i was about 10-11. they scared me, but in a good way. these movies made me love films, shortley after i discovered the terminator series...
It's a fun channel! Thanks for making it!
It could be nice some videos speaking about Sevastopol the Torrans and the Anesidora :D
Well done
The Sulaco and Juggernaut are hands down my favorite ships of the franchise.
My favorite ship is the Torrens
My favourite vessel is the USCSS Sulaco, but Nostromo comes in at a close second.
What music is this in the background, its super immersive.
Okay, why the discrepancies in the registration number at 2:31. 180924609 right next to the badge showing 180286...?
The nostromo certainly surprised me with it's Rolls Royce engines
NOSTROMO is my #1 favorite, #2 is prometheus, all the rest that follows, not chronologically, are good in their own rights, but, the Nostromo stands out as the most elegant via its A deck.
So.. at just over 2 TB your saying a latest generation Xbox or PS4 has more processing power then a interstellar spaceship mainframe..
When I think of spacecraft in the series, nostromo comes third after the sulaco and the derelict. They're all such different designs with different purposes.
I wanted to see the Sulacco in action. They showed all those guns when the camera panned by in Aliens but they were ever used. We only know what they do due to the Colonial Marines technical manual.
So cool. Just think about it. If we play our cards right today. We could have this kind of technology within most of our lives.
how many cockpit has the nostromo. apparently the nostrmo is like a big wagon that is towed by a locomotive or like a huge barge towed by a tugboat
"Mother is a 1.2 Terabyte Intelligent main frame". Damn, the computer I'm watching this TH-cam video on has more power than that.
I'm mad as hell now! I use to work for Lockheed Martin! Damn I didn't we made the CM-88's! I would have loved to transfer to that division! LOL
Hey AT! Great video! I love vehicle disections. The one Alien spaceframe I absolutely love and has always stood out to me is the UD-4L Cheyenne Dropship. What about you?
Can you please do a video on the ore refinery that the Nostromo is towing? It's a thing of eerie beauty.
Are you an Alien ? From which planet do you come from! What a huge work you did to find information to draft your speech . A touch of imagination too maybe. You outdone yourself. I absolutely loved this video. You really are a master in your field. It must be a full Time job is''it ? When do you find the time, how did you come up with this channel. Amazing. My apologies for my English, I am French and even though I don't understand everything I can feel the atmosphere and I share your passion
I am a fan , short form of Fanatic
Thank you.
Even tho Aliens is my favorite film, the Nostromo would definitely be my favorite ship. It's by far the most memorable, and has the most character. The others are all a little generic.
Excellent video! What was the music in the background?
While I like the external look of the Conestoga-class Sulaco more than the Nostromo, the Nostromo has the advantage of being the main setting for the first film while the Sulaco is seen only for a few short scenes in the second. This gives us a much better idea of what the interior of the Nostromo is like so I think it is more memorable. Looking at the other ships of the franchise we get to see in great detail, the Auriga seems like a set of video game levels and the Prometheus is too polished. I'm indifferent to the Covenant's design.
I most like the ships Nostromo, Sulaco and Sevastopol stanion. By the way, why the station was called that way, you can release another video about Alien isolation, or about that station, more of its history and details.
Thank you.
Could you perhaps cover The Betty (A:Res) in future vid since Ripley comments that the class of ship is "Older than I am.
Also, just how commonplace is space travel in the Alien Universe? There are obviously military and commercial applications, and thanks to Weyland-Yutani this has an overlap, but can anyone just buy their own ship to use as they please?
My favorite vehicle is the Express Elevator from Hell. Going down!
Have to say I love the betty.
Prometheus was my favorite ship of the franchise. I am curious if you’ve enough material to make a video about the similarities and differences between the Sulaco and the Pillar of Autumn from Halo. I can see how the latter franchise drew a good bit of inspiration from the Alien series.