The Scout Ship was a short range Yautja spacecraft usually used to transport and deploy warriors on the hunt from orbit.
Overview[]
Usually connected to a Mother Ship, Scout Ships were equipped with three external thrusters, a large blade on their belly, and two front-mounted medium-range plasma cannons. Handed by a single pilot, scout ships possessed a fairly large Trophy Room used for displaying any Trophies obtained on the Hunt, a tactical room equipped with holographic devices capable of displaying holograms of nearby planets likely to be used as a site for a Hunt, a storage room for captive Facehuggers and up to six landing pods to perform dead drop re-entries. However, Scout Ships possessed a relatively weak armor as a single hit from a Plasmacaster was able to shred the hull and send the ship crashing down to Earth.
Different variations of scout ships existed, attributed to Clans who manufactured them as well as customization done by the Yautja who owned them. For example, the Feral Predator's ship had two thrusters which could be rotated for VTOL flight and lacked a compartment to launch at least one drop pod; its pilot had to land it somewhere in order to enter his chosen hunting ground. Upgrade Predator's scout ships were bulkier and even outfitted with force-field generator for defense as well as a portal generator for quickly travelling across vast distances. A Yautja who carried out aerial hunt during World War II on Earth modified his scout ship by outfitting it with weapons such as harpoon launchers and a net launcher.
History[]
In 841, the Brute Predator used a Scout Ship to go to Earth to partake in a Hunt in Scandinavia. After the Predator was dropped off on Earth, his ship flew away; while unconfirmed, it presumably went back and recovered a bio-helmet recording of his Hunt and eventual death at the hands of Ursa before returning to Yautja Prime.
As glimpsed by Naru in 1719, a scout ship arrived at Comanche territory under the cover of both its cloak and clouds over the area in order to drop the Feral Predator down to Earth; Naru assumed it was a Thunderbird.
In 1942, a Yautja fighter pilot carried out an aerial hunt during World War II with a modified Scout Ship, using it to hunt American (and presumably Vichy French) fighter pilots in North Africa. The ship was later destroyed by Torres after a dogfight that resulted in his entire squadron, the Texas Aces, being killed.
In 1987, a scout ship was used to drop the Jungle Hunter in Guatemala.
In 2004 a Scout Ship with a Facehugger cargo detached from the Isolated Clan's Mother Ship after it left Earth, however it was infiltrated by a Predalien born from the fallen Scar. Bull, attempting to blast the Predalien, accidentally pierced the hull with a shot from his plasmacaster, destabilizing the ship and causing it to crash-land towards Earth, where it crashed in the woods of Gunnison, Colorado, releasing its Xenomorph cargo into the wilderness before Bull was killed by the Predalien. The ship was later destroyed by Wolf when he activated Bull's Self-Destruct Device to conceal its existence from humans, and to prevent them from discovering and acquiring the alien technology onboard.
Trivia[]
- In AVP: Evolution a Mother Ship (clearly depicted in the loading screen to Predator Mission 2 - Predator Ship and also possessing a Trophy Room heavily based on the one seen in Predator 2) is incorrectly referred to as a Scout Ship.
Appearances[]
- Predator
- Alien vs. Predator
- Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
- The Predator
- Prey (film)
- Predator: Killer of Killers
- Predator: Badlands
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