- "You're as quiet as ever, Wassy. What do you think?"
"You know what I think." - ―Park and Wascylewski (from Aliens: Dead Orbit)
Wascylewski, nicknamed Wassy by fellow crewmembers, was an Engineering Officer aboard the fuel depot Sphacteria orbiting the gas giant Pylos.
His life in the far reaches of space was soon livened when the crew noticed a mysterious vessel approaching the station, plunging it into chaos following a Xenomorph infestation. Wassy emerged the sole survivor of the subsequent outbreak, though it was likely he perished soon afterwards due to a lack of oxygen.
Biography[]
Encounter with the unmarked vessel[]
- "I count five different rigs shoehorned into one. Doubt if half this still has its original components."
- ―Wascylewski (from Aliens: Dead Orbit)
With an unknown vessel approaching the Sphacteria, Captain Hassan attempted to contact the ship to no success, despite Wassy stating that comms was perfectly functionable. Hassan suggested that he, Wassy, Park Medic Harrow and Security Officer Torrenson take a shuttle to the ship and investigate.
Wasyclewski witnesses the chambers overheating.
The crew boarded the ship and explored its interior. As the rest continue their exploration, Wascylewski noticed a massive hole in the wall, citing that something had melted through the bulkhead. He eventually caught up with the group, who were in a hypersleep room containing three humans. After Wassy tinkered with the system, Park flipped the switch to open the chambers, only for them to begin violently overheating due to the coolant tank being ruptured, burning those in the chambers alive. Wascylewski desperately searched for a fail safe as the crew bludgeon the chambers open and pull the now horribly burnt and disfigured members out onto the floor. He stared at one of the victims, as it began going into shock, staring back at him and gurgling the words "inside".
Wassy is caught by Hassan trying to retreat to his quarters with alcohol.
After the crew brought the passengers to the Sphacteria, Harrow and Park sedated the burnt passengers after a struggle. Wassy quickly left with a bottle of alcohol. Hassan stopped him, citing that he could "get drunk on [his] own time" but now, he needed him to decipher the ship's logs and see what he could find. Though Wassy was clearly annoyed at this, Hassan told him to stop pouting, as all of their careers were on the line now after Hassan broke protocol by letting three unlicensed passengers onto their depot.
Infestation[]
- "...If the crew initiated emergency procedures, then she'd automatically plot course for the nearest corporate harbor, unless told otherwise. The way their ship is stapled together, they may not have realized they were heading back coreside."
- ―Wascylewski (from Aliens: Dead Orbit)
Wassy deciphering the salvage ship's systems.
Wassy went on to recover data that revealed that the ship's last entry had them exchanging supplies for Chinese Yuan, with only frontier colonies in desolate space still using the currency. Wassy deduced to the others that if the crew initiated emergency procedures aboard the ship, then the vessel would have autopiloted them to the nearest corporate location - the Sphacteria. Additionally, he identified that the ship originally contained eight crewmembers, not three. Suddenly, Hassan was called to the medbay. The whole crew rushed to the medbay where they witnessed Park and Harrow attempting to hold down a seizing patient. The crew looked on in horror as two of the three passengers birthed Chestbursters that suddenly escaped into the depths of the Sphacteria.
After an unknown period of time of searching for the Xenomorphs, in which Rook was taken by the fully-grown creatures, Hassan was also suddenly snatched up into a ventilation shaft in front of Wassy, Park and Torrenson. The three started weighing up their odds of survival. A panicked Torrenson wanted to take a shuttle and retreat into the scavenger's vessel until rescue arrived, whilst Park was concerned about Rook and Hassan still being alive. Wassy angrily broke up their fight, and the group decided to check up on Harrow, still in the med-bay surveying the last remaining passenger.
The three suddenly heard a crash and rushed to the med-bay, where they were greeted with the fully awake passenger holding Harrow hostage with a scalpel by his neck. Park attempted to calm her down whilst Torrenson suddenly lunged at her with a Stun Baton. She dodged him, however, causing him to stumble onto one of the operating tables, revealing one of the other passenger's corpses to the female survivor. In a state of shock and rage, she brutally slit Harrow's throat and ran away. After Harrow bled out in Park's arms, the rest attempt to catch the female passenger. The group were too late, however, as they watch as she took the Sphacteria's shuttle. The shuttles' umbilical however, was still attached, causing it to be propelled back into the fuel depot. Wascylewski jumped to the floor for cover as the shuttle exploded into the station.
The three quickly recovered, and Wassy yelled at the two to rush to the cargo hold. The three do so, and Wassy eventually retrieved a case containing mining charges, the crew's last hope for survival. Wassy intended to lock everyone in life support and "blow the struts from the main deck"; since the station itself was modular, they'll be able to use the module like a psuedo-lifeboat and wait for rescue. Park suddenly heard a noise within the darkness of the cargo bay, and a Xenomorph suddenly lunges at the group. Torrenson, traumatized, fled the scene. Wassy and Park retreated towards the observation deck in hopes of solace, and Wassy began closing the bulkhead. Before Park could make it, however, a second Xenomorph emerged, and Wassy was forced to looked on in horror and despair as the two Aliens incapacitated and killed her as the bulkhead sealed him in.
Sole survivor[]
Wassy, alone in the observation deck.
Wascylewski spent a period of time in the observation deck with nothing but several packs of cigarettes. He later noticed a terminal warning him that a threshold has been reached and required immediate attention. Wassy put on a compression suit, brought the case with him and took a space walk across the station. After his walk, Wassy removed his space suit and anxiously scoured the corridors of the Sphacteria. As he turned a corner, he hallucinated a Xenomorph, only for it to turn out to be a mesh of pipes and machinery. As he recovers from his scare, a loose cord blasted steam into his direction, covering his field of view. As Wascylewski looked into the smoke-covered corridor, a real Xenomorph emerged from the mist. Wassy dropped the case and ran into the medbay to hide, sitting down next to the corpse of one of the burned salvagers. He checked the countdown on his wristwatch, reading 04:03:25.
Wassy is met by the two adult Xenomorphs.
Wassy notices he forgot the case.
After recovering from the shock, Wascylewski realized that he left the case in the hall. He returned to the hallway, with no signs of either creatures, suddenly a hull breach resulted in him being violently pinned against the wall by a box. After a tremendous effort, Wassy was able to activate an emergency fail-safe and seal the bulkhead, though a lack of oxygen resulted in him passing out.
After an unknown period of time, Wascylewski woke to see the two adult Xenomorphs right on top of him, one of them dragging him by his heel, before passing out again.
Wassy in the hive.
When Wassy came to, he found himself cocooned in the creature's nest, next to an unconscious Hassan while the two Aliens watched over them. Wassy checked his wristwatch, reading 02:02:58. One of the Aliens began approaching Wassy, but laughter in the distance suddenly lured both Aliens away, allowing Wassy to break free and escape the nest with the case he originally set out for. He looked back at Hasssan, still unconscious and cocooned and reluctantly left him. Wassy followed the sound of the laughter, ringing out like a beacon, until he found Torrenson in a drunken, delirious state, right before the two Aliens he lured out emerged from the darkness behind him.
Wassy struggles with the Xeno.
Wassy ran away from the two Xenomorphs who kill Torrenson. He reached life support, put on a compression suit from a locker and prepared the mining charges. Ready to take leave, he noticed a bag containing a spare box of cigarettes in the locker. Wascylewski gave into weakness and took them, before an Alien burst from a ventilation shaft above him and attacked him. In a fit of confusion, Wassy pulled at the bag, which accidentally brought the whole locker down onto the Xenomorph. This bought him enough time to detonate a charger and blow a wall into the ship, bringing him into the atmosphere of space.
Wassy's suit allowed him to stick to the surface of the station, but the pursuing Alien emerged. As the creature closed in, Wassy detonated another charge, separating the life support module from the station. As Wassy hooked himself onto the module to stop himself slipping away into space, the Alien emerged again from the smoke, this time missing an arm with acid blood dripping everywhere. Wassy realized this and unlocked a chamber containing several oxygen tanks. Wassy held one up in front of the approaching creature, its acid blood eventually causing the tank to explode, blowing Wassy away and the Alien into space.
Wassy embracing his last few hours of life.
Fate[]
Inside the module, now drifting aimlessly in desolate space, Wassy breathed a sigh of relief and took out his pack of cigarettes. His respite was immediately interrupted by a terminal nearby, that suddenly warned him that oxygen levels were critical, beginning a countdown, starting at 04:02:56. Wassy, alone, smoked his last pack as the timer slowly counted down.
Personality and Traits[]
Wascylewski was a drab and humorless individual, preferring to keep to himself rather than socialize with fellow crewmembers. He was far from diligent, and seemingly preferred drinking his problems away.
A heavy smoker and a presumed alcoholic, Wassy's dull lifestyle in desolate space complimented his personality. That being said, he was no amateur; regardless of his distaste for given tasks, whenever he performed his duties as Engineering Officer, he resolved them swiftly and with great efficiency.
Trivia[]
- Wascylewski's name implies that he is of Polish descent, similar to that of Colonial Marine Trevor Wierzbowski. This may have been an intentional homage.
