Second Lieutenant Katherine "Kat" Lara[1] was a member of the United States Colonial Marine Corps. She was a member of the Weyland-Yutani Berserker hunter/killer team dispatched to DS 949 in response to the Xenomorph outbreak there.
Lara was one of three people to survive the incident aboard DS 949, along with convict volunteer Martin Jess and Weyland-Yutani technician Brian Ellis.
Biography
DS 949
Katherine Lara is a crew member aboard the Hunter/Killer Nemesis, the crew docked with a space station on company orders only to find the station infested with Xenomorphs, with the direct cause being Weyland-Yutani themselves. Max, the operator of the "Bug-Suit" dies and Ellis takes it upon himself to use the suit, saving lives but damaging his own. The crew are betrayed by Eric "Pop" Izzard. who reluctantly tries to blow up his squad to cover up what Weyland-Yutani did. Pops tries to convince Lara to come with him, telling her he managed to convince the company man he spoke to spare her life. While opening a container to get champagne, Pops is attacked by a facehugger allowing Lara to escape.
Fighting Predators
Katherine Lara and her remaining crew set down on a planet only to once again run into Xenomorphs as well as the company, Lucas Briggs, a Weyland-Yutani representive attempt to force Lara and her crew to accept a deal only for them to refuse and escape with the aid of Machiko Noguchi.
Profile
Honorable discharge (USCM, Lieutenant)
B-Level training in Communications and Electronics
C-Level training in Astral-
Current Assignment
Security Clearance
C 2
Personality
Lara is a moral person who wants to do the right thing, however, she does have a ruthless side, such as leaving Eric "Pop" Izzard to his fate or even contributed to it depending on some accounts. Rather than help Lucas when he was infected, she had him put into the MAX berserker unit to be used as distraction so that they could get away.
Appearances
References
- ↑ S. D. Perry. Aliens: Berserker, p. 7 (1998), Bantam Spectra.