New Paper Craft: Alien - USCSS Nostromo Starfreighter Free Paper Model Download

This paper model is the USCSS Nostromo, a Lockmart CM-88B Bison M-Class starfreighter registered to the Weyland-Yutani Corporation out of Panama, based on the Alien series, the papercraft was created by RocketmanTan, and the scale is in 1:500.

The Nostromo operated as a tug, connecting to and pulling loads like a tractor truck rather than carrying those loads on board like a traditional freighter.

The ship was destroyed in 2122 when its engines were set to self destruct by Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley in an attempt to kill the lone Xenomorph that had gotten loose aboard the vessel. The ship and its cargo were completely destroyed in the resulting explosion.

The Nostromo had three pressurized decks and four internal cargo holds, totalling around 1.1 million cubic meters of pressurized volume. Most of the spare space on board was filled with fuel for the ship's fusion reactor and reaction mass for the thrust engines. The upper deck contained the main living areas, including the bridge, crew quarters, mess hall, science station and medical bay, while the lower decks comprised of extensive engineering and storage areas. The ship was sturdy enough to withstand atmospheric re-entries and had three main landing legs to allow surface landings. Particulate shielding helped to protect the vessel from airborne debris in even the roughest planetary atmospheres.

In-flight systems were governed by the ship's central artificial intelligence computer, MU-TH-UR 6000 (known by the crew as "Mother"). A backup 2.0 terabyte mainframe would come online should Mother fail, while a third tier of automation could sustain vital systems in the rare event of a failure in the backup CPU as well. Despite the extensive computer automation aboard the Nostromo, a human crew was still required for more complicated docking manoeuvres at each end of a transit.

The ship was equipped with a light shuttle, the Narcissus, located in an external docking bay on the underside of the hull. This shuttle also doubled as a lifeboat in the event of an emergency, although it could only support two long-term passengers. [Source: wikia]

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