Vance Norris (Earth-7149)

"I'm sorry fellas, but I-I-I'm not up to it."

- - Vance Norris

Vance Norris was a geologist contracted by the Office of Naval Intelligence, stationed at the URNA Outpost 31, on Kamchatka. In 2557, Norris and his crew became involved in surviving a small-scale xenomorph outbreak at Outpost 31 alongside Ellen Ripley, as they were stalked and killed by a pair of xenomorphs one by one.

Norwegian incident
In Winter 2557, explorers Lars Bolen and Matias Weisser were chasing the Alaskan Malamute Edvin, eventually reaching the ONI Outpost 31, where they were killed by the camp's commander, Garry Moffatt, who attacked them in self-defense after thinking they had gone crazy. Afterwards, the crew adopted the dog for themselves, while Norris and others rushed to extinguish the blaze from the explosion of the Norwegian tractor and help carry the body of Lars Bolen to the rec room. Hours later, during the fall of the evening, Dr. Bartholomew Copper and pilot Ryan MacReady returned from their investigation to the nearby Thule Station with a woman, Ellen Ripley.

Skirmish on Kamchatka
During the night, Norris and the rest of the outpost's crew was awakened by Ripley, who turned on the alarm after witnessing a different type of xenomorph killing MacReady and assimilating the station's kennel dogs. She ordered Keith Childs to bring a M7057 flamethrower and incinerate the creature. Bennings was later killed by stowing Chestburster produced by the kennel xenomorph, while Dr. James Blair suffered a mental breakdown over the alien species' caoabilities of destruction, destroying all of the outpost's vehicles and killing the remaining dogs to contain a potential outbreak. As the crew prepared to dispose of the xenomorphs' remains, George Bennings was killed by the creature, who revealed itself as still living. Norris, alongside the survivors, were drawn to the outside of the outpost where they witnessed a dying Bennings and Ripley incinerating the body of the xenomorph, killing it once and for all.

Norris later assisted Ripley and the men in overpowering the crazed Blair, who had destroyed the outpost's LANDRAM-206 snowcat, radio, and who had killed all remaining sled dog to stop the xenomorphs from escaping or making new hosts. After Copper, Keith Childs, Joel Fuchs and Ripley locked Blair in the tool shed, Copper returned to the laboratory to locate the blood locker, only to find it had been opened by one of the xenomorphs and destroyed, preventing the survivors to perform a blood serum test to discover who could have been impregnated by the aliens. Norris and the others then started to feel paranoid, and a terrified Garry offered to hand his revolver and leadership to someone else, initially oferring it to Norris, who promptly refused it. After Ripley took command of the group, she ordered Norris to incarcerate Garry, Copper and Richard Clark in the rec room duo to suspicion of them having already been impregnated.