Lifeboat

Lifeboat
Lifeboat
Craft:	escape pod
Service:	U.S.M.
Crew:	0-16
Construction:	alloy polymer
Gravitational displacement:	7.55x103kg
Life support:	nitrogen, oxygen
Dimensions:
Length:	11m
Width:	11m
Height:	4m
Environment:
Conditions:	1 decks, - flight
Temperature:	20-40°C

Lifeboat

Name

Lifeboat is an escape pod on USM Auriga. They are emergency use jettisoned escape pods, for up to 16 crew and preprogrammed for in space pickup from their in-built transponders.

Characteristics

Reference stats table.

Appearance

Appearances in the following;
Alien Resurrection
Levels 1 - 3 aboard the USM Auriga.

Alien Resurrection (film)
Used by crew aboard the USM Auriga.

Other craft

Betty
USM Auriga

Interactions

Alien Resurrection
Just like in the film the crew escape using the Lifeboats leaving Ripley and the others to find another way off the USM Auriga.

Alien Resurrection (film)
Lifeboats are escape pods used as a means of escape from the USM Auriga used by the crew and military as they escaped the Aliens.

Continuity

Various
The Lifeboats in both Alien Resurrection (video game) and Alien Resurrection (film) are configured and used for the same purpose.

Alien Resurrection
In the game the Lifeboats appear up until level 3 were the final one is jettisoned.

Alien Resurrection (film)

Concept

Concept artists Bill Badalato, Nigel Phelps and Sylvain Despretz designed 20-30 different designs for the Auriga including designs for the Betty.

Production

VFI Effects 3D, LA created almost all CGI for the spacecrafts including the Auriga, the Betty and the Lifeboats using matte paintings and green screens. These were then filmed with the miniatures at 60 frames a second and when slowed in post production produced a feel of zero gravity. All shots of the Lifeboats from outside were CGI, including the Alien entering and subsequent death of personnel, launch and explosion. A small part was constructed as the crew entered and as a grenade dropped in, rolled by Perez.

Timeline

The film Alien Resurrection is set after the film Alien 3, some 200 years after Ellen Ripley dies at the Class C Work Correctional Unit on Fiorina 'Fury' 161.

See also

Aliens * Newborn * Queen * Elgyn * Vriess * Hillard * Johner * Call * Christie * DiStephano * Ripley * Gediman * Perez * Wren * Purvis * USM Auriga * Betty * Lifeboat * Pluto *

References

Citations

Alien Resurrection (video game)
Alien Resurrection (film)
Virtual Alien - Computer Generated Imagery
A Matter of Scale - Miniature Photgraphy