The U.S.S. Sulaco is a fictional spaceship shown in the film Aliens and briefly seen in Alien3. Her name comes from a fictional port in Joseph Conrad's novel Nostromo, which was the name of the spaceship in the previous movie in the series. In Aliens, the Sulaco is used by the United States Colonial Marines, a fictional military force, as a transport to investigate the loss of communication on LV-426. The following information is from the film and the book "Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual".