User:Stephenfisher2001/sandbox/Aliens plot

Plot
In 2179, fifty-seven years after the destruction of the commercial starship Nostromo, Ellen Ripley's shuttle was founded by a deep space salvage team, Upon waking, she is devastated to learn she has been adrift in space for 57 years. At an inquest before a panel of executives, her testimony regarding the Alien and its role in the destruction of the Nostromo is met with extreme skepticism, as no physical evidence of the creature has been found. She loses her spaceflight license and learns that LV-426, the planetoid where her crew first encountered the alien eggs, is now home to a terraforming colony with also the aliens controlling Hadleys Hope.

After contact is lost with the colony, Weyland-Yutani representative Carter Burke and Colonial Marine Lieutenant Gorman ask Ripley to accompany them to investigate. Still traumatized from her alien encounter, she agrees on the condition that they exterminate the creatures. Aboard the warship Sulaco, Ripley is introduced to the Colonial Marine squad, including Sergeant Apone, Corporal Hicks, and Privates Vasquez and Hudson. She also meets the team's android, Bishop, toward whom she is openly hostile due to her experiences with the murderous Ash aboard the Nostromo.

A dropship delivers the expedition to the surface of LV-426, where they find the colony deserted. Inside, they find the colony damaged and seemingly abandoned. Two living Xenomorph Facehuggers are found in containment tanks in the medical lab, but the only colonist encountered is a traumatized young girl nicknamed Newt, the sole survivor. The crew locates the colonists grouped beneath the fusion-powered atmosphere processing station. They find a large nest filled with the bodies of the colonists, who have been cocooned to the walls and used as hosts for more Xenomorphs. The creatures attack, killing or capturing most of the unit. Ripley commandeers the group's APC and is able to rescue Hicks, Vasquez and Hudson. With Gorman knocked unconscious during the rescue, Hicks assumes command and orders the dropship to recover the survivors, intending to return to the Sulaco and destroy the colony site from orbit, but a stowaway Xenomorph kills the dropship crew in flight, causing the craft to crash into the atmosphere processor, destroying the ship, the APC and most of the Marines' equipment. The survivors were stranded and they barricade themselves inside the colony complex. Ripley discovers that Burke unintentionally triggered the destruction of the settlement when he ordered the colonists to investigate the derelict spaceship where the Nostromo crew first encountered the Xenomorph eggs, acting on the testimony she gave after being rescued.

Ripley and Newt fall asleep in the medical laboratory, awakening to find themselves locked in the room with the two facehuggers, which have been released from their tanks. Ripley is able to alert the Marines, who rescue them and kill the creatures. Ripley accuses Burke of being responsible, suggesting he was attempting to have her and Newt impregnated so that he could smuggle the implanted Xenomorph embryos past Earth's quarantine.