Red Queen (Earth-9471)

"To help managing the company's resources, I created a sophisticated A.I. program. I used little Newt's voice and appearance for the interface."

- - Dr. Charles Ashford

The Red Queen, commonly referred to simply as Red or "RQ", was a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence supercomputer of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, which operated under multiple sub-programs, such as aboard the freighter USCSS Nostromo, where she was responsible for operating the ship's mainframe and background systems automatically, as well the Hive, Weyland-Yutani's underground research facility on Aegis VII.

Massacre on the USCSS Nostromo
"Red Queen? I've turned the cooling unit back on. Red?! The ship will automatically destruct in five minutes. You bitch!"

- - Ellen Ripley and the Red Queen

"You're all going to die down here."

- - Red Queen to the survivors of the USCSS Nostromo's crew

Implemented aboard the USCSS Nostromo with its retrofitting in 2494, the Red Queen was responsible for handling the operations and inner workings of the freighter.

On June 16th, 2525, the Red Queen worked alongside the Nostromo's science officer Ash, secretly a covert synthetic operative for the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, to carry on Special Order 937 and ensure the survival of the Alien xenomorph from LV-426, in the Zeta Reticuli system. Unlike Ash, it never explicitly acted against the crew, but helped to hide information.

The Nostromo's Red Queen was eventually destroyed when Ellen Ripley activated the Nostromo's self-destruct system in an attempt to kill the Alien.

Trivia

 * In the works of Lewis Carroll, the Queen of Hearts, often confused and referred to as the Red Queen, is the bad-meaning sister of the White Queen, first appearing in his fantasy novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.