EEV Unit 2650

Overview

EEV Unit 2650 was one of twenty EEVs attached to the USS Sulaco, and only one of a bay of ten to be occupied when they were all ejected during an emergency evacuation following an electrical fire in the subfloor.

Like all Type 337s, EEV Unit 2650 was equipped with a NcMary OV-122 Flight Recorder,^[3] serial no. A42769-7, and a built-in medical diagnostic device, similar to an Autodoc, known as a neuroscanner. Each escape vehicle was also capable of receiving up to five automated crytube injections in the event of an emergency evacuation.

History

Following the USS Sulaco's departure from LV-426, EEV Unit 2650 was ejected from the ship when the acid blood of a wounded facehugger created a hull breach that led to an emergency evacuation and an on-board explosion that damaged the EEV while in flight, causing it to crash land on Fury 161.^[4]

Passengers

• Lt. Ellen Ripley
• Cpl. Dwayne Hicks
• Rebecca "Newt" Jorden
• Bishop - synthetic

Behind the scenes

• While it was too dark to see in the film, the visual effects crew for Alien³ inserted a stowaway facehugger onto EEV Unit 2650's docking collar assembly which was later made available as an optional attachment to a 1/35 scale EEV model kit released in 2010 by Time Slip Creations.

Trivia

• It was never specifically depicted or stated in the 1992 film why the EEV crash landed on Fiorina "Fury" 161 even though EEVs would have been equipped with an automated landing system. However, the film was originally going to show how the Sulaco partially exploded while the EEV was being jettisoned, damaging many of the escape unit's vital systems in the process, including its guidance and landing capabilities.^[5] While cut from the film, this sequence was included in the film's novelization,^[4] and mentioned in the 2017 short story Deep Black.
• Stasis Interrupted, a DLC pack for the 2013 video game Aliens: Colonial Marines, depicted an alternate timeline of events that lead to the emergency evacuation of EEV Unit 2650. In it, Hicks had been woken from hypersleep aboard the USS Sulaco by two colonists who'd escaped from the tethered USS Legato, one of which had been pushed into Hicks' hypersleep chamber right before the EEV's departure, meaning the mangled corpse found in the crashed EEV on Fury 161 was actually a colonist named Turk.

Appearances

• Alien³/novel/comic
• Alien 3 (1993 SNES game)
• Alien 3 (1993 Game Boy game)
• Deep Black
• Aliens: What If...

Gallery

EEV Unit 2650 falling toward Fiorina 161.

EEV Unit 2650 being pulled back to the installation by Oxen as seen in the Special Edition of the film.

Interior of EEV Unit 2650.

Andrews referencing the EEV unit's registration number in his communication with Weyland-Yutani as seen in the Special Edition of the film.

EEV Unit 2650 as seen in the comic adaptation of Alien³.

A reference to the EEV unit's registration number in a communication with Weyland-Yutani as seen in the 1993 SNES video game Alien 3.

EEV Unit 2650 as seen in the 1993 SENS game Alien 3.

EEV Unit 2650 as seen in the 1993 Game Boy game Alien 3.

EEV Unit 2650 as seen in the 2024 comic book series Aliens: What If...

References