Sulaco (fictional spacecraft) with this interpretation and pointed to the "Sulaco" with its "sterilized, white interior" as representing this element in the second film of the franchise. The video game "" features the Sulaco as one of its playable settings where the player is part of a marine unit sent to the ship to investigate what happened onboard after the events of "Aliens". The videogame "" begins by featuring the derelict "Sulaco" being investigated by a Colonial Marine search-and-rescue team set shortly after the events of "Alien 3". The investigating marines find that the ship has been boarded by scavengers and infested by
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