Anchorpoint Station

"Where the hell is Anchorpoint?"

―Slogan on Newt's T-shirt (from Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay)

Anchorpoint Station
Overview
Type	Science and refueling station (Anchorpoint I) Refueling station, transit hub (Anchorpoint II)
Manufacturer	Independent Core System Colonies
Affiliation	Independent Core System Colonies
Location	Neroid Sector, near UPP space (Anchorpoint I) GJ2066 (Anchorpoint II)
Status	Destroyed as of 2179 (Anchorpoint I) Active as of 2183 (Anchorpoint II)
Technical specifications
Passengers	3000
Counterpart(s)	Refinery module
Chronological information
First appearance	Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay
Last appearance	Alien: The Roleplaying Game
Anchorpoint as it appears in Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay.

Anchorpoint Station was the name of two separate space stations, mainly used as transit and refueling hubs. The first station was destroyed in 2179 while a second was established in 2180.

Overview

Anchorpoint Station II

Anchorpoint II was a massive station, that can hold over 3,000 inhabitants but it maintains a very small permanent resident population.

It is composed of four refinery modules situated around a central core hub. Three of the modules have been converted to habitable space similar to the Seegson company’s former Sevastopol Station, while the fourth is a functioning refinery for processing ores and gases bound for the Frontier colonies. With concourses laid out similar to a terrestrial spaceport, the station is known for its dive bars, open mall areas, service androids, and inexpensive entertainment. The United Americas operates a Colonial Marshal bureau aboard and a small contingent of Colonial Marines is stationed in the garrison office in tower four. Seegson also possess one of its headquarters in the station.

History

Anchorpoint Station I

The first Anchorpoint Station was established in 2138 in the Neroid Sector, in response of the disappearance of Seegson Station LV-44-40 and the Wright-Aberra Waystation, as a science station and refueling hub to allow safe passage to and from the Frontier, in 2179 the station suffers a catastrophic reactor meltdown from unknown cause and was destroyed.

Anchorpoint Station II

After the destruction of the first station, Colonial Administration and ICC commissioned the Independent Core System Colonies to build a new one, placing it further out on the Frontier to facilitate the colonization boom. The second Anchorpoint Station is then established in 2180 governed by the ICSC, it served as a neutral staging ground for expeditions into deep space especially since Hadley's Hope incident that raised tensions between the main factions. Sometimes the ICC and Colonial Administration send representatives to negotiate intercolonial disputes. Much of the material exported from the far Frontier is routed through either Thedus or Anchorpoint Station before heading to the Outer Veil and Core Systems. After the ICC executive Van Leuwen launched an inquiry on the Hadley Hope incident, he was seen coming and going as his investigation proceeds. Michael Bishop's ship, the Patna, can frequently be found docked at the Weyland-Yutani's corporate berth.

On 2183, both commercial ships USCSS Montero and USCSS Miranda were last seen departing Anchorpoint Station, the first was originally making a delivery run to Sutter's World before being redirected to a long disappeared Weyland-Yutani science ship before being destroyed. The second was convoying a YX-3 refinery module to the Solomons before suffering a Xenomorph infestation and disappeared without a trace.

Trivia

• A station called Anchorpoint first appeared in William Gibson's unproduced script for Alien³, which was later adapted as both a comic series and an audio drama. In fact, the fate of the original station given in Alien: The Roleplaying Game — that it was destroyed by a reactor meltdown — is a direct reference to this, as Gibson's story ends with Bishop overloading Anchorpoint's reactor to destroy the station and all the Xenomorphs on board.
• In Alien: The Roleplaying Game, the first Anchorpoint Station is said to have been established following the disappearance of Seegson Station LV-44-40 and the Wright-Aberra Waystation three years after the Sevastopol incident - the two stations are destroyed in Aliens: Defiance which occurs in 2137-2138.

Appearances

• William Gibson's Alien 3 (comic)
• Alien III (audio drama)
• Alien 3: The Unproduced First-Draft Screenplay (novel)
• Alien: The Roleplaying Game