Sulaco (fictional spacecraft) aliens. Gearbox Software meticulously created the entire spaceship room-by-room. The ship has also been built as a scale model by enthusiasts, toy company Aoshima Bunka Kyozai, and model maker Halcyon, with some more detailed versions also produced by small-series/individual commission modelling companies. Sulaco (fictional spacecraft) The U.S.S. "Sulaco" is a fictional spaceship and important setting in the film "Aliens". It also appears briefly in the opening scene of "Alien 3", in the "" and "" video games that takes place shortly after the events of "Alien 3". The "Sulaco" is named after a fictional town in Joseph Conrad's novel "Nostromo",
Sulaco (fictional spacecraft) of antennae enter[ing] the frame, followed by the enormous bulk of the SULACO". While some claim that the basic shape was based on a submarine, the design has most often been described as a "gun in space" due to the elongated form resembling the pulse rifles used in the movie—with Syd Mead agreeing that (in addition to Cameron's preferences) this was one of the reasons for the switch from the spherical form. Other film analysts have remarked on how the opening shot of the ship as something sinister and weaponlike presages Ripley's transformation during the movie into a warrior figure,