Colonial Marines Operations Manual is the first "Campaign Module" for Alien: The Roleplaying Game. Published by Free League Publishing, it is written by Andrew E. C. Gaska.
Publisher's summary[]
Armor piercing rounds sizzle through raw flesh as plasma beams sear swollen retinas. Acrid smoke chokes down your throat before you realize what’s burning is you. Chemical attacks melt your armor, simmer your eyeballs, and fuse your helmet to your skull, while bioweapons turn your insides out and pulp you into a quivering mound of black jelly.
Welcome to war on the razor edge of space, marine—where nukes are yesterday’s news, pulse rounds are cheap and a human life is only worth its weight in stock options. It’s a living hell—but none of that’s as bad as the flashes of gnashing metal teeth that terrorize you every time you try to close your eyes—like some monster just split your head open and crawled inside your dreams.
Sometimes you’ve gotta wonder what the hell it’s all for.
But no one pays you to ask why, only to follow orders. You’re just a grunt—no offense. So lock and load your pulse rifle, marine—you’ve got a job to do. Protect and serve the citizens and colonies of the Outer Rim colonies—no matter what the cost.
ALIEN RPG: Colonial Marines Operations Manual is a complete campaign module for the award-winning official ALIEN roleplaying game, written by sci-fi novelist Andrew E.C. Gaska and Paul Elliott. This massive 352-page book gives you all the tools you need to run a full open-world campaign as the iconic Colonial Marines.
Characters[]
United Americas[]
- Almirante de la Flota Joëlle de la Cruz - Secretary of Defense, United Americas Allied Command
- USS Tamb'Itam
- Lieutenant Maria Casados - Commander 2nd Platoon Kilo Company
- Staff Sergeant Adam Szymborski - Platoon Sergeant
- Sergeant David Arthur Wilks - Marine Section Sergeant
- Lance Corporal Neenah Yazzie - AFV Marine
- Corporal Pilar Carvalho - Comtech Marine
- Private Gerald Wayne "Rat" Finks - Marine Rifleman
- Roy - Hyperdyne Systems Model 341R - Command Adjutant Synthetic
Deep Void[]
- General Delyla S. Vaughn - Assistant Commandant of the USCMC (Operation Octopus Garden)
- Colonel Thomas A.W. "Tommy" Spears - USCMC 3rd Battalion Commander, Liberty Echo
- Major Arnold A.W. Kiliij - AW Blackguard Soldier (Operation Octopus Garden)
- Captain Gabriel A.W. Karambit - AW Blackguard Soldier (Operation Deep Shaft)
- Sergeant Armitage A.W. Seax - AW Blackguard Soldier (Operation Go Fish)
- Sergeant Jeremy A.W. Lance - AW Blackguard Soldier, Bravo Team (Operation Arcturian Apocalypse)
- Doctor N.L. Babak - Lead Xenomorphologist of Project Life Force, WY Bioweapons Division (Operation Quiet Catch)
- Doctor Tejal Ahluwalia - Geholgod Institute Xenoarcheologist (Operation Arcturian Apocalypse)
- Spencer Lyndon - Hyperdyne Corporate Exec (Operation Octopus Garden)
- Petra DeRosa - WY Artifact Appraiser (Operation Octopus Garden)
- Doctor Deol Chalwa - Geholgod Institute Codebreaker (Operation Go Fish)
- Doctor Velma Liu - Geholgod Institute Codebreaker (Operation Go Fish)
Union of Progressive Peoples[]
- Colonel Doctor Béla Balázs - UPP Associate Minister of Space Security, Darkstar Program, Borderline Region (Operation Quiet Catch)
- Commandant Võ/Vũ - Space Operating Forces Commando Platoon Leader (Operation Dreamcatcher)
- Major Arietta Pichilemu - People's Army Security Advisor (Operation Quiet Catch)
- Praporshchik Maciej Komaszyło - Space Operating Forces Commando (Operation Blaze of Glory)
- Fausto Acosta - Ministry of Space Security Controller (Operation Dreamcatcher)
- Dr. Olien Savina - Ministry of Space Security Doctor of Xeno-Psychology (Operation Dreamcatcher)
- Tanya Lebedev - Molecular and Cellular Xenobiological Technician (Operation Quiet Catch)
- Maksim Maslov - Talos Station Chief Engineer (Operation Dreamcatcher)
Children of the Two Divines[]
- Grand Seer Jannes Ruedi Fields - Doomsday Evangelist (Operation Arcturian Apocalypse)
- Mother Mishka - WY Ava 8 Series Synthetic - Bioterrorist Leader (Operation Arcturian Apocalypse)
- Maitland - Hyperdyne Systems Model 120A/3 series Synthetic - Xenolinguistics and Xenoethnomuscological Expert (Operation Go Fish)
- Kirke Tanner - Firstborn, Sonderdatch Mine Hand
Weyland-Yutani Corporation[]
- Kent Ganon - Insurance Investigator (Operation Blaze of Glory)
- Ken Ishigara - Rescue Specialist (Operation Deep Shaft)
Civilians/Unaffiliated[]
- Dinh Ngoc Ha - Last Chance Settler (Operation Blaze of Glory)
- Anders Kewkwaxa'we - Arcturian Roughneck (Operation Arcturian Apocalypse)
- Alanya Williams - Morgan's Bluff Spaceport Medical Examiner (Operation Go Fish)
- Carrie-Louise Wu - Morgan's Bluff Spaceport Traffic Controller (Operation Go Fish)
- Mo Tembe - Morgan's Bluff Spaceport Chief Security Officer
- Annita and Salv - aspiring thieves (Operation Go Fish)
- Cassandra Mistry - Sonderdatch Mine General Manager (Operation Deep Shaft)
- Gibson - Hyperdyne Systems Model 340G - Sonderdatch Mine Android Mine Controller (Operation Deep Shaft)
- Stefan Sokolov - Sonderdatch Mine Union Boss (Operation Deep Shaft)