Blog:Yautja Clan Hierarchy and Comprehensive Clan/Faction Listing - JEOC

(Updated as of 24/10/2020)

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'Predator is a live-action film, print media and video game franchise, featuring a technologically advanced extraterrestrial species known as the Yautja (ya-OOT-ja), who hunt and kill other dangerous lifeforms, including humans, for sport and honour, which began with the 1987 science fiction action film Predator'', starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. It also often appears in crossover media with the Alien franchise.'''

This blog post lists every Yautja rank and clan/hunting party etc., that has ever appeared in any sort of official media from the Predator and Alien vs. Predator franchises, as well as any other Predator franchise crossovers.

Abridged contents 1 :


 * Notes
 * Intraclan hierarchy
 * Clan ranks
 * Hunting party ranks
 * Young Blood pack ranks
 * Un-blooded pack ranks


 * Yautja clans etc. by reputation — 129
 * Honourable — 101
 * Honourable without an influencing factor — 5
 * Unknown — 4
 * Exile/outcast — 5
 * Fugitive — 1
 * Presumably Bad Blood — 4
 * Bad Blood — 9

Abridged contents 2 :


 * Notes
 * Noncanonical attempt at trashy lore hybridisation in Predator: Hunting Grounds
 * Upstart attempt at creating a noncanonical leader of all Yautja/Hish
 * More noncanonical nonsense with the 'Unknown Female Predator' of Predator: Hunting Grounds
 * Intraclan hierarchy
 * Clan ranks
 * Weapon proficiency titles
 * Hunting party ranks
 * Young Blood pack ranks
 * Un-blooded pack ranks


 * Yautja clans etc. by reputation — 129
 * Honourable — 101
 * Ruling hierarchy — 7
 * Clans — 24
 * Subspecies — 1
 * Hunting parties — 8
 * Young Blood packs — 1
 * Unspecified organisational level — 8
 * Individuals — 53
 * Action figure only — 6
 * Mutants/altered/subspecies — 3
 * Honourable without an influencing factor — 5
 * Cybernetic mind control — 3
 * Infectoid — 1
 * Volatile mutagen — 1
 * Unknown — 4
 * Clans — 3
 * Hunting parties — 1
 * Mutants/altered — 2
 * Clans — 1
 * Individuals — 1
 * Exile/outcast — 5
 * Clans — 1
 * Individuals — 2
 * Subspecies — 2
 * Clans — 1
 * Individuals — 1
 * Fugitive — 1
 * Presumably Bad Blood — 4
 * Clans — 1
 * Individuals — 3
 * Bad Blood — 9
 * Clans — 1
 * Individuals — 8

Notes :


 * A recent possible attempt at (re)writing Yautja species origin lore from Predator: Hunting Grounds has come to my attention, they have tried to splice in the aberrant Hish/Amengi lore from the short-lived DH Press, which only published two books using the Hish/Amengi nonsense. Predator: Hunting Grounds lore has decided to not only include the Hish/Amengi lore (which was better left discarded as it is just useless nonsense), but has also said that the Hish were originally the slaves of the Amengi who genetically altered them to fight as gladiators, but an uprising led the Hish to conquer the Amengi and use them as slaves instead. As you should be able to tell, this is just nonsense and does not add anything interesting or solid to the Predator franchise lore, they are clearly incapable of coming up with anything new or even just being sensible and sticking to small but canonical additions/improvements, and so had a look in the franchise garbage can and found a couple of books, the pages of which had since been used as toilet paper and then discarded... The origins of the Yautja; like that of the Mala'kak; need not be explored, the mystique of these two extraterrestrial species is an important part of their depiction in media, and carelessly trying to write lore for something that does not need exploring can only damage the franchise. If you were to ask me about my personal speculation on the origin of the Yautja, I would say that they evolved from a large arboreal (or at least scansorial) amphibian/reptilian tetrapod in a temperate jungle or swamp type environment, reached a technological stage (obviously they would just trim or file their nails so that they could perform fine manipulations or small components etc.) several millenia or more before Earth humans did, and then the rest is more or less self-explanatory history. So there is no reason to try and invent a silly Moses of Egypt-style origin story or some other kind of unintuitive nonsense, just because they're an ancient extraterrestrial culture, such things are better left unexplored and especially when the mystique of the Yautja is an integral part of their portrayal and lore.
 * In light of this, the new entry for an individual Yautja from Predator: Hunting Grounds in the classification system below; Alpha Predator (Hish); has a note after it referencing this note section here, as that newly created individual is integral to the altered and adapted Hish/Amengi lore that they're trying to push as canon using Predator: Hunting Grounds, because they are touting that individual as the leader of all Yautja or Hish or whatever they're calling them, when obviously there is already a supreme leader of the Yautja and that is the Grand Elder.
 * On the 'Unknown Female Predator' from Predator: Hunting Grounds, the article says that the Unknown Female Predator was more serious and did not play around with the human prey like male Yautja do, this doesnt mean she is more skillful, this just means that she is less confident and does not have the surplus of aptitude required to enjoy The Hunt as a sport, instead of as a cold mechanical assassination, this could possibly even be interpreted as Bad Blood-like behaviour.Some may say that the Unknown Female Predator is simply more efficient than other encountered male Yautja, well efficiency is not the purpose of The Hunt, any individual Yautja if they wanted to could quickly and easily slaughter any group of modern day soldiers, Yautja have the weapons, equipment, skill and physical strength and toughness to do so easily and at little risk to their own life, this reality is really quite obvious and is why Yautja hone subtle skills when stalking and hunting human prey over a prolonged period of time, they want to see how their gunned up tough guy human prey reacts to an unseen predator who has every advantage, they know humans can be clever so they hunt humans for leisurely entertainment and may perhaps encounter a rare challenge and even learn a new trick or two, which is why it appears as if they are toying with their prey, which is in some ways true. The Unknown Female Predator is basically described as anathema to this, completely different from how Yautja operate during a hunt, and I am offended that it is being wrongly portrayed as superior or even as honourable Yautja conduct at all. Others might say that other male Yautja have been overconfident and then died because of it, but that is simply because they know what they are doing and have a very comfortable buffer to fall back on if something unexpected happens, as I said before Yautja actively seek out challenging humans knowing full well that they may be putting their lives at risk, so you would be looking at that the wrong way, this is simply a part of The Hunt, Yautja culture and their life cycle, and besides just think of how many humans they end up killing in between encountering a challenging individual. So that Unknown Female Predator is not simply avoiding a mistake made by previous Yautja, because those previous Yautja did not actually make a mistake there as they were knowingly pursuing dangerous human prey at the risk of their own life which is a greater attraction to them, and if one would say otherwise then they are basically saying that the Unknown Female Predator is afraid to die in battle and will forsake the art of The Hunt to ensure she does not die, and that this is some kind of virtuous behaviour for a Yautja! Truly a grave insult to any honourable hunter.

= Intraclan hierarchy =

Un-Blooded
= Yautja clans etc. by reputation=

First Predator (Arcadia)
==== Alpha Predator (Hish) — Predator: Hunting Grounds (Hish, see note section above) ====

Samurai predator — Predator: Hunting Grounds
==== Unknown Female Predator — Predator: Hunting Grounds (see note section above) ====

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(half Super Predator, direct descendant of Nightstorm) =====