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Alien and Predator Name Generator
Yautja Hunter Clan, Colonial Marine, Ship and Synthetic Names
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How the Alien / Predator-style Name Generator (Yautja) works
An Alien and Predator name generator for Yautja hunters and their clans, ship crews, Colonial Marines, ships and synthetics. Yautja names use hard consonants and apostrophes, while human crews have blue-collar names that fit a hauler or a dropship. Pick a kind and prepare for the hunt.
How the Alien and Predator name generator works
The Yautja, the hunters of Predator, rarely say their names in the films, but the novels, comics and games give them names like Scar, Wolf and Dachande, and ranks like Unblooded, Blooded, Elite and Elder. The generator builds Yautja names from harsh syllables and apostrophes and can add a rank or a clan, the extended family that hunts together. Bad Bloods are outcasts who broke the hunting code.
Crews, marines and synthetics
The Alien films focus on working people: space truckers, miners, marines. Names are ordinary surnames, often used alone: Ripley, Dallas, Hicks, Vasquez. Marines come with ranks and nicknames, ships have USCSS or USS prefixes, and synthetics carry model names such as David and Bishop with serial numbers, from Weyland-Yutani or Hyperdyne.
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Alien and Predator are owned by 20th Century Studios. This site is not affiliated with them. The names are for fan fiction, tabletop games and your own sci-fi horror.
FAQ
What are Yautja?
Yautja is the species name of the Predators, the alien hunters who travel to other worlds to hunt dangerous prey for honour. The name comes from the expanded universe books and comics. They are ruled by elders and organised in clans.
What does Blooded mean for a Predator?
A Blooded Yautja has completed their first successful hunt, usually of a xenomorph, and been marked with its acid blood. Before that they are Unblooded or Young Bloods. Ranks rise to Elite and Elder with further hunts. The generator can add one of these ranks.
How are Alien ships named?
Ships in the Alien films have the USCSS prefix, for commercial ships, or USS for military ones, and usually take names from literature, history or myth: Nostromo from Joseph Conrad, Sulaco from the same novel, Prometheus and Covenant from myth and scripture.
Can I use these names in the Alien RPG?
Yes. They suit the Alien Role-Playing Game, Predator fan fiction and any sci-fi horror game. Generate a crew, a ship and a synthetic who may be hiding secret orders, and the tension builds itself.
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