Chapter 40, "Midnight, Forecastle," highlights, in its stage-play manner (in Shakespearean style), the striking variety in the sailors' origins. Ahab was a Yautja Elder[citation needed]. Queequeg. Foster replied "Yeah, until he kills us next. [citation needed] Following a lifelong obsession, Ahab searched for a creature more formidable than any Predator had ever faced before, an Engineer. Ahab finally gathers the crewmen together and, in a rousing speech, solicits their support in a single purpose for this voyage: hunting down and killing the White Whale — Moby Dick, a very large sperm whale with a snow-white head. The young chief mate. A former whaler who is a preacher in the New Bedford Whaleman's Chapel. Tashtego and the rest of the crew are furious; Stubb chides him "officially" and "unofficially," even raising the specter of slavery: "a whale would sell for thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama." Galgo commented that "Ahab finally got his whale", after Ahab collected the Engineer's skull and spinal column, referencing Melville's 1851 novel. By the time he is rescued, he has become (at least to the other sailors) "an idiot," "mad." Fedallah is referred to in the text as Ahab's "Dark Shadow." When Ishmael reacts with surprise, Elijah continues: Oh, perhaps you hav'n't got any," he said quickly. He is an extremely skillful harpooneer and a strong swimmer. Eventually, Galgo and Ahab reunite with the marines Cross and Freebody nearby the Engineer temples, with Ahab saving the two from a Xenomorph ambush. Although he initially used him just to track down the Engineer he was hunting, the two began to begrudgingly set aside their differences and work together. A study of the whaler's logbooks shows that the marine mammals rapidly learned new ways to avoid their harpoons. As an argument ensues between the two, Ahab did not wait to listen, he grabbed Galgo's right arm and placed a gauntlet on it, linking him to Ahab's gauntlet via a short range laser type device. Galgo suddenly flees the scene, much to Ahab's surprise and after a brief battle, the Engineer quickly overpowers him, breaking an arm and a leg. Moby Dick is a fascinating book, a book that’s filled with scenes of high drama and dramatic dialogue. After killing one of Galgo's team members and being indirectly responsible for the death of the other, the Yautja captured him and forced Galgo to help find an Engineer on LV-223. The Harry Harris Aliens Collection & Archive, Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls, four-armed, red-skinned, seemingly primitive species, https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Ahab?oldid=267450, Ahab only appears for a total of 4 panels in. No beacon, no ship...and we lost the Onager. He is the harpooneer on Flask's boat. Ahab is the captain of the Pequod, the whaler who is hunting for the white whale Moby-Dick in the book of same name by Herman Melville. The plot is straightforward. Galgo then looking at both of them said "Oh sure, laugh it up. As the two argue, Ahab is standing in the background observing both of them argue. The novel was a commercial failure and out of print at the time of … Galgo manages to strike a deal with Ahab, suggesting that if he takes Ahab to LV-223 to hunt the Engineer, the Predator will let Galgo go. Stubb. Though Galgo was still sure Ahab could kill him at any moment he wanted to, the two seemed to even be 'friends', as Ahab was usually paired with Galgo during tasks, and although he was mutually friendly with Chris, Jill and Angela, he preferred being by Galgo's side. At 2:54 AM, Earth Central Time on January 23, Galgo awakened the two other mercenaries â Piper and Higgins â from hypersleep and told them that Perses' systems detected a "stowaway". The pale, nervous steward of the ship. Male Ahab had later left the group for several months, leaving them to struggle with starvation. The Manxman. Galgo then told Angela that they could all be friends and that he did what had to be done when he abandoned her and the other survivors on LV-223, and that she would have done the same. Ahab took his leave, but not before giving Angela and Galgo one of the pigs for food and some weapons he had crafted from bone. The Ultimate Predator, also known as the Assassin Predator or the Upgraded Predator, is the main antagonist of the 2018 science-fiction action horror film The Predator, the fourth installment of the Predator franchise. Fleece. The second mate. Rank Whilst Foster, Roth and Singer deal with the other Engineer in the derelict, Ahab ambushes the second Engineer and a battle ensues. Ahab attempts to warn the leader of the dangers of the planet, but the clan leader refutes his warning, demanding that they have access to the Engineer temple, either to discover its riches or to exact revenge on the marines. The third mate. However, the pigs later notice and attack the two. Ahab formed something of a companionship with Galgo. As Angela is overstruck with joy, Ahab falls to his knees on the desert sand and begins laughing. "Moby Dick's Hidden Philosopher: A Second Look at Stubb" in, All quotes are taken from Chapter 93, "The Castaway. The first mate is the only man aboard the Pequod who resists Ahab's plan to devote the ship's mission to hunting and killing the White Whale. Predator: Fire and Stone. Status At some point, the group had noticed a squad of USCM that had become stranded like them after landing on the moon in an Engineer Juggernaut. Ahab finishes the job by setting a Self-Destruct Device, escaping the Perses and blowing up the ship. Oldest member of the crew. Angela interrupts the bickering and announces that they arrived. This could be due to Galgo's "understanding" of Ahab and the two's similar nature. Notable facts After Galgo and Higgins noticed their teammate had been slain, they planned a trap for Ahab, but Galgo had his own agenda, Galgo led Higgins to the airlock where they last detected Ahab's position, and as soon as he entered the airlock, Galgo locked him in with Ahab. Other Information [3] Since there were thirty states in the union at the time, it has been suggested that, in its diversity, the Pequod to be a metaphor for American ship of state.[4]. Ahab immediately shot the ground with his Plasmacaster creating a small fire. Later, Ishmael finds that he is also a member of the crew of the Pequod. Not wanting any further bloodshed and sensing the Queen inside of her, Chris grabs a grenade and walks out into the Xenomorph horde, and they cease their onslaught. He is "popularly invested with preternatural powers of discernment," has "studied signs," and is given to dark prophecies. Ahab was directly inspired by the character Captain Ahab from Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby Dick, in which Captain Ahab is hunting a great whale, much like Ahab hunts for the Engineer. Because he is physically slight, he is made a ship-keeper, (a sailor who stays aboard the ship while its whaleboats go out). He is married with a son. He's the main protagonist of the novel. Both have names taken from the Bible: Peleg, and Bildad. Like Ahab, he has replaced the missing limb with a prosthesis made of sperm whale bone, in his case a mallet. Fedallah. She subsequently detonates the grenade, killing her, the Queen and sending the horde into a retreat. Tashtego is the harpooneer on Stubb's boat. Bulkington is a handsome, popular mariner whom Ishmael encounters briefly at the Spouter Inn in New Bedford (Chapter 3), when he has just returned from a four year long voyage. Angela and Galgo introduce the cautious marines to Ahab and take them to their fortress. Ahab is familiar with the tribe, and confronts it as the rest look on from a temple. A very old, half-deaf African-American with bad knees, is presented in the chapter "Stubb's Supper" at some length in a dialogue where Stubb good-humoredly takes him to task over how to prepare a variety of dishes from the whale's carcass. A tall (6' 5") West African harpooneer with a noble, graceful bearing. Ahab seemed have a sense of humor as he is seen laughing at an argument between Galgo and Elden, and then later after escaping the mountain. Melville disparages the whaling prowess of both de Deer and Germans generally. He was a veteran hunter, having taken trophies from numerous worlds, gaining many scars in the process. Starbuck advocates continuing the more mundane pursuit of whales for their oil. He was an Associate Artist … Upon penetrating the side of the mountain, heaps of acid blood began gushing out, leading Elden to deduce that the mountain is actually alive. Ishmael, however, thought Pip had a mystical experience: "So man's insanity is heaven's sense." From Cape Cod, always seems to have a pipe in his mouth and a smile on his face. With the chaos over, the clan decide to take leave, with Ahab now accepted back among their ranks. In the aftermath of the battle, Ahab suddenly approaches Elden and grabs him by his neck. And he knows it too. After Piper located Ahab and attacked him with one of the devices, Ahab shot him with his Plasmacaster, instantly killing him. Both Ahabs also bear facial scars. Galgo and Ahab eventually find Angela and fellow crewmembers Chris and Jill Hanlock, still on the moon. In his prime, Ahab took deadly trophies from countless worlds, his scars a proud record of glorious battle. After defeating it, Ahab discovered a cave painting of Engineers seemingly being worshiped similar to the one discovered by doctors Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway on the Isle of Skye. The Engineer, however, is able to tear it out and prepares to finish Ahab off. Shortly after the airlock re-sealed, Ahab revealed himself to Galgo by leaping from the rafters. Ahab immediately quits the Enderby and is so hasty in his return to the Pequod that he cracks and splinters his whalebone leg, then further damages it in admonishing the helmsman. Angela and Galgo manage to escape but Ahab falls behind. While some characters only appear in the shore-based chapters at the beginning of the book, and others are captains and crewmembers of other ships, the majority of the characters are crew members of the Pequod. After the two witnessed the the Perses explode, Ahab returned to the wreckage and began searching through it as Galgo, confused, tried to tell him that the Engineer was dead. On his wrist gauntlet, a hologram showed Galgo pointing an Engineer rifle-like weapon at Francis and Ahab attempted to grab the Galgo hologram. Hair color Galgo pulls down his neck bandanna, revealing an old scar and recalls how he saved two families from a group of pirates on a cruise ship. During this transaction, whales are sighted and the crews of both boats pursue, de Deer trying (unsuccessfully) to hinder the rival crews. Ahab and the others walk out into a desert horizon with their lives. It is suddenly shot and killed. The after-oarsman on Stubb's boat is injured, however, so Pip is temporarily reassigned to Stubb's whaleboat crew. He later became an Elder of his tribe, leaving small game to the next generation as he looked to his final hunt. 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