Steatite Ampule

Steatite Ampules,^[1] also known as ampoules, Urns or Vases,^[2] were cylindrical enclosures designed by the Engineers to establish and maintain the controlled environment necessary to store Chemical A0-3959X.91 – 15, due to its highly unstable nature at standard room temperature.^[1] The exterior surface of a Steatite Ampule was engraved with an informational placard.^[1]

Overview

Within a Steatite Ampule, the A0-3959X.91 – 15 was contained by four conical-shaped glass vials, in a slime. This was to ensure the agent's ability to retain infectivity and virulence after a prolonged period of storage. All Ampules were to be aligned in rows, kept at a distance of 0.9652 meters apart from one another. Errors in temperature stability seemed to be amplified with an increase or decrease in this distance.^[1] As was the nature of the weapons, they were designed to release the AO-35959X.91-15 due to sensing sudden environmental changes, and deploy the chemical when sensing viable lifeforms nearby, or exploded when deployed from a Juggernaut.

Appearances

• Prometheus
• Weyland Industries Testimonial
• Fire and Stone
• The Crossing
• Alien: Covenant/novel
• Alien: Into Charybdis
• Aliens: Fireteam Elite
• Alien: Bloodlines
• Alien: The Roleplaying Game — Colonial Marines Operations Manual
• Alien: Icarus

Gallery

Ampule props on display at the Prop Store's booth at SDCC 2013.^[3]

The Ampule prop given away by the Prop Store at San Diego Comic-Con 2013.^[4] Also note the image of a prop Drone head from {{AVP1}} in the background.

Ampule props on display at SDCC 2013.^[5]

Ditto.^[6] Also note the Motion Tracker prop in the cabinet.

The Ampule props as the Prop Store is setting up their booth at SDCC 2013.^[7]

Ditto from another angle.^[8]

The Prop Store's SDCC 2013 booth.^[9] Ampule props can be seen on top of the cabinet, The Ampule prop given away can be seen on the top shelf inside the cabinet, the Motion Tracker prop is on the shelf below that and Sigourney Weaver's flamethrower from Alien can be seen in the cabinet at the back.

Ditto from another angle during the final day of SDCC.^[10] Note that the Ampule prop given away has been removed from the cabinet.

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