Betsy Ross

"I am not your garden variety slag. On the ship we were known as the Kleesantzun. What you would call Overseers.  We bought and sold what you called slags."

- Betsy Ross, explaining what she is to organized crime leaders

Betsy Ross was a Tectonese villainess from the Alien Nation episode The First Cigar.

A Kleezantsun, the woman who would become Betsy Ross was an overseer on board the slave ship Gruza. After the Gruza crashed on Earth in 1991 Ross was able to avoid detection and integrated herself into the Newcomer community on Earth. As such she passed her self off as a small business woman, running a venue that catered to her fellow Tectonese.

In reality Ross had become a powerful crime lord in the years since the crash. In order to divert attention away from her operations she ingratiated herself with local police officials, and gave information on her competitors shipments of a Newcomer drug called Jack, enabling police to seize these shipments. She however, continued to supply drugs to various Newcomers, maintaining some of the control of Newcomers that she once had on the ship.

Ross attended a sit down with other area organized crime leaders to work out an agreement to allow her to continue this operation. At the meeting she identified herself as a Kleezantsun to the other crime lords. LAPD detectives George Francisco and Matthew Sikes had been spying on the sit down and realized that Ross was a powerful crime figure. Ross soon excused herself from the meeting, and assassinated the other crime leaders with explosives she left behind in her purse.

Francisco and Sikes soon tracked Ross down. She attempted to bribe Francisco into letting her go and letting her continue her operations without police interference. Francisco and Sikes would have none of that, and the two men placed her under arrest. When their Captain wanted to let Ross go, Francisco and Sikes threatend to expose the deal he had made with Ross to the press, at which point the Captain ordered her to be booked into jail.