- "Well, they're gonna nail you right to the wall for this."
- ―Ellen Ripley to Carter Burke (from Aliens)
The nail was a sharp-ended metal object used in the construction of miners' shacks and cabins. Weyland-Yutani Corporation employee Jacob Branson carefully salvaged several iron nails from a miners' shack in Wyoming; during his captaincy of the Weyland–Yutani colony ship USCSS Covenant, Branson took the nails with him as personal items. Following his death during a celestial accident in 2104, his widow Katherine Daniels wore one of the nails on a piece of string around her neck; she later employed it as a weapon against the rogue Weyland Corp synthetic David as he attacked her. Nails could also be used as ad hoc ammunition for early versions of the Rapid Responder automatic riot gun.
Appearances[]
- Aliens/novel (mentioned only)
- Alien: Covenant/novel
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite (mentioned only)