Narcissus (Earth-5875)

"I say that we abandon this ship! We take the shuttle and just get the hell out of here!"

- - Joan Lambert

The Narcissus was a Lockmart Starcub light shuttle attached to the Weyland-Yutani Corporation's commercial freighter Nostromo. It was notably used by Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley to escape from the self-destruction of the Nostromo in 2528 alongside her cat, Jones.

History
After Ellen Ripley activated the Nostromo's self-destruct system by detonating the freighter's fusion drives in order to kill the Alien, she rushed to the Narcissus, using it to eject herself from the ship and escape from the incoming blast radius.

Unknown to her, the Alien had stowed away from the Nostromo onboard the Narcissus, forcing her to confront the alien creature before entering cryosleep. She was then able to kill the xenomorph by opening the airlock, sucking it to space, shooting it with her harpoon gun and later incinerating the Alien with the rear engine outlet of the Narcissus. Following the Alien's death, Ripley placed her cat, Jones, in cryosleep, before going to a cryo chamber herself, hopefully setting a course to human space.

The Narcissus remained stranded in deep space for the next eight years until it was found by a salvaging crew. Ripley and Jones were then sent to Gateway Station, in the Troisi system, to recover from their long period in cryosleep, while the Narcissus remained in control of the Office of Naval Intelligence, in the hopes of uncovering what happened to the Nostromo. When no evidence was found aboard the shuttle, it was later used against Ripley during her tribunal by the ICC.