Lector

The Lector, hauling a food processor plant, in route to Ryushi.

The Lector was a comercial freighter registered to Chigusa. It was a tug, a towing ship which hauled an enormous food processing plant, mostly meat and fish with a capacity of at least 15,000,000 tons.

Overview

The shape of the Lector resembled a scarab, with two giant intake vents on front, and two smaller retro-rockets under the fusselage for landing. A large dome was located over the ship and the cockpit was barely visible due to the size of the ship. Beneath the cockpit, there were three cargo hold gates, where shipments were loaded. Left to the cockpit, the Lector had nose art which consisted of a pig face and an inscription reading "I know I'm ugly, but mom loves me", encircled by a heart.

The food processing plant was eight modules shaped as a truncated pyramid, aranged by four (01-04) in normal position and four (05-08) upside down, each one with the Chigusa logo painted on it. The whole processing plant had a capacity of 15,000,000 tons of fish and meat products. Similar to the USCSS Nostromo, the plant remained in orbit as the ship landed. Shipments were loaded in the Lector's cargo hold and later transferred to the plant in orbit.

The Lector had a crew of fifteen.

History

The cargo ship Lector made a regular trip from Earth to Ryushi and back to Earth. Circa 2100s while in hyperspace bound for Ryushi, captain Tom Strandberg and copilot Scott Conover watched and detected a yautja ship, but as it traveled fast for a human ship, it was tagged as a meteor.

The Lector arrive at Ryushi at dusk, the ship left the orbital cargo -a food processor plant- stationed above the planet and land on Prosperity Wells's landing pad. The crew disembarks to attend a party hosted by colony's administrator Hiroki.

At the morning, loading operations begins, and inadvertively to everyone, the first rhynts to be loaded were infected, one of them with a Queen embryo. The xenomorphs born and quickly stablished a Hive inside the cargo hold, using  the rest of the rhynth as hosts and -presumably- killing the all crew but Strandberg and Conover, whom are cooconed after they return from the party.

The next day, After Strandberg and Conover escape from the hive, Machiko Noguchi and Broken Tusk crashes a truck into the cargo hold and MAchiko goes to the cockpit and put the nav instructions conover give her, which make the food procesing plant still in orbit to set course to the Lector, crashing as it not suited for atmosphere, destroying the Lector, Prosperity Wells, the xenomorphs and the yautja.

Crew

• Captain Tom Strandberg
• Co-pilot Scott Conover
• Thirteen other crew members.

Behind the Scenes

It was stated by Randy Stradley that he used the name "Lector" because it had similar onomatopoeic with "Lecter", Hannibal Lecter's (a character from Silence of the Lambs) last name.

Appearences

• Aliens vs. Predator (1990 comic series)
• Aliens vs. Predator: Prey