alien: Data at 41374

16-byte lookup table indexed by a ROM-script nibble (0-15) inside LongGameInit (42276). Selects which 8-byte record slot at 29566 will be the **chestburster host** for this run — i.e. the crew member whose name will be substituted into the opening status-bar message #33 "Alien has hatched from {actor}" enqueued at 42362. The chosen slot has byte +1 and byte +7 overwritten with $FF (the HostMarker pattern); that tag is what every "skip this slot during normal corridor processing" check keys off (e.g. `CP 255` on byte +1 at 31739 inside SelectSlotByDrawIdx). Values are restricted to {1, 2, 5}, so the host is always Dallas, Kane or Lambert.

16-byte lookup table indexed by a ROM-script nibble (0-15) inside LongGameInit (42276). Selects which 8-byte record slot at 29566 will be the chestburster host for this run — i.e. the crew member whose name will be substituted into the opening status-bar message #33 "Alien has hatched from {actor}" enqueued at 42362. The chosen slot has byte +1 and byte +7 overwritten with $FF (the HostMarker pattern); that tag is what every "skip this slot during normal corridor processing" check keys off (e.g. `CP 255` on byte +1 at 31739 inside SelectSlotByDrawIdx). Values are restricted to {1, 2, 5}, so the host is always Dallas, Kane or Lambert.
41374	DEFB 1,2,5,1,2,5,1,2,5,1,2,5,1,2,5,2