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",
Aliens (film) Kile M. Ortigo of Emory University, agree with this interpretation and point to the "Sulaco" with its "sterilized, white interior" as representing this element in the second film of the franchise. While some claim that the shape of the "Sulaco" was based on a submarine, the design has most often been described as a "gun in space" resembling the rifles used in the movie. Author Roz Kaveney called the opening shot of the ship traveling through space "fetishistic" and "shark-like", "an image of brutal strength and ingenious efficiency"—while the militarized interior of the "Sulaco" (designed by Ron Cobb) is contrasted