- "Amazing. The thing is charged with the jelly and they wouldn't be able to see anyone who was wearing one? Your were right about the magic of pheromones."
- ―Julian Lish (from Aliens: Harvest)
An inhibitor, also known as a suppressor, is a device that is charged with Royal Jelly and emits pheromones to mask humans from Xenomorph detection.
Background[]
Original prototype[]
Created in the late 22nd century by Dr. Stanislaw Mayakovsky, an inhibitor is a wearable device, charged with Royal Jelly, that masks humans from Xenomorph detection by creating a dampening field with its artificial pheromone secretors.
Worn around ones wrist, the inhibitor includes a digitized, numerical display to let its user know exactly how many hours, minutes, and seconds are left before its fuel source runs out, rendering the device inactive.
The original prototype was ultimately put to the test in a hive on A6 454, lasted roughly three hours, and had an effective dampening field of approximately three meters in all directions.
Later iterations[]
Years later, Caspar Nordling, inspired by Dr. Mayakovsky's prototypes, would explore pheromone secretion technology and build his own pheromone collars as well as a more advanced and substantially modified Synthetic Xenomorph called Jeri.
Trivia[]
- The inhibitor's aesthetic loosely resembles a piece of wrist-worn Yautja technology most commonly known as a wrist gauntlet.
Appearances[]
- Aliens: Harvest/novel
- Aliens: Stronghold (mentioned only)
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