Rose Moonwood

Rose Moonwood was a warrant officer and mother of a child, who worked on the U.C.S.S Andromeda. Rose and her crew were experience the Xenomorph event on the Andromeda. She was one of the four a sole survivors of the incident aboard the ship.

Early Life
Rose was born on Earth to a single mother and absent father. Later into her life, her mother passed away of cancer when she became an adult. During this time as well, Rose became romantically involved with a man named Cole Hamilton and eventually married. Shortly afterwards, they had a daughter and named her Daisy.

To make decent money for their new family, Rose delved into her favorite hobbies such as managing a space ship and looked into becoming a warrant officer. She eventually landed a job within Weyland Yutani and was assigned to the U.C.S.S. Andromeda under captain Bruce Woodward.

The Derelict on LV-117
When the Andromeda crew was sent to Dyosmos under company orders to help a colony, Rose, Bruce, and Collin were sent to search a lost transmission in a derelict alien ship in the mountains. During their search, Collin was attacked by a facehugger, which latched onto his face and impregnated with a Xenomorph. When they got Collin back to the Andromeda, the crew took off from the planet to return to Earth.

Alien's Birth
Collin's facehugger would eventually come off on it's own, allowing the crew to safely get Collin back on his feet. As Rose and Bruce tried to help him off the medical bed, he began to have a seizure and birth the Xenomorph out of his chest. The alien ran away out of the medical bay doors and hid. A small funeral was held for him in the cryo storage room next door.

Josh's Death
The crew was split up into groups to go looking for the alien. After hours of searching, Rose and Bruce heard Josh scream from the kitchens where he had last been. They ran to the kitchens as fast as they could, but were too late, only to find Josh's blood on the floor and leaks from the ceiling.

Airlock Trap
In the airlock on Deck 4. Mason and Tim led a mission to lead the alien into Airlock B to blow it out into space. Rose and the others watched them and gave orders via the surveillance cameras. The plan goes horribly wrong after Evan Harris betrays them and turns off the cameras showing the alien's whereabouts. They lose the alien, which causes it to sneak up in Tim and kill him in the vents. When they found out about Evan's betrayal, the crew voted to kill Evan, but didn't as they would cause too much noise for the alien to find them.

Using Guns
As a last plan to kill the alien, the crew decides to lead the alien into the ore refinery to kill the alien as it won't cause damage to the Andromeda ship. Rose goes with Bruce, Mason, and Baffour while Bryce and Michael wait to fire their rifles at the alien. Baffour is able to lead the alien to them, but is trapped in the cross fire when Michael and Bryce shoot at the Xenomorph. The acid blood kills Baffour in the process, and the alien scurries away to get safe. Rose and the others run back to deck 1, only to see that Evan overthrew Nathan and his programming to escape. Bruce goes off to chase Evan, only to come back with news that Evan was killed by alien as he ran.

Blowing the ship
As a final ditch effort to kill the alien, Bruce demands that they self destruct the ship. Rose and Bryce go to the bridge to start the sequence while Michael and Mason go get fuel tanks and Bruce and Nathan wait for them in Deck 5. Rose starts the self destruct sequence and leaves with Bryce to go to deck 5. As they go, Michael and Mason are

attacked by the alien and killed. Rose takes on the task of venturing to the fuel room to retrieve the tanks. She is successful after finding the two men's dead bodies near the cart. Rose hurries through the ship with the cart and meets up with the others at the hangar. The crew manages to escape the ship and leave the alien behind as they fly away from the explosion. Rose and the other survivors go into cryo sleep for their remaining journey to Earth.

Trivia
- Rose is the only female crew member of the Andromeda

- She is commonly referred to as the Ripley of the Lost World fan story

- Rose names her daughter Daisy to keep with the flower theme in her family

- Rose is the only other character in the story to use the flamethrower other than Timothy Knighten

- Rose is also the only character to have any kind of child and husband in the entire Andromeda crew

Alien Nest
Originally in the story, Rose would have stumbled upon the alien nest on her way to the fuel rooms. In the nest she would find Timothy and Josh's bodies cocooned in the walls and slowly dying as they begged her to kill them.

More Scenes During the Escape
In the book, there were going to be longer parts of Rose running through the halls with the fuel tanks, evading the Xenomorph as she went. It was ultimately cut after the author wanted to finish the book sooner after being off schedule.