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they could act, a Weyland-Yutani strike team led by Charles Braley raided the facility and capturedthe two spies. Braley revealed that Weyland-Yutani had been aware of the presence of spies forsome time and had been filtering out the staff until only two suspects remained. Braley torturedMarshall and the synth before he proceeded with the next phase of the master plan: Using roboticreplications of the Chestburster Alien, he killed Marshall and the new staff and reported to Planetusthat their research station had fallen victim to what seemed to be a Xenomorph infestation.Planetus quickly sent a team to investigate the incident together with Braley, who feigned honest interestto solve this case. This team consisted of a Sleeper called Anders Kramm, a former investigatorof Alien outbreaks for Weyland-Yutani, Frances Stauff, second-in-command for the local Planetussecurity forces, Bjorn and Jolena Heyward, a married couple working as a weapons team, and ateam of three technicians called Gavin, Duncan and Kelly. While the latter proceeded to analyze thesecurity cam footage of the research station, Kramm and Stauff went to the facility with Braley andthe Heywards to work on-site. Kramm quickly noticed that something didn't add up and, using adownload device provided by Planetus, retrieved the recordings from Marshall's eye. Back at thespaceport, Kramm and Stauff reviewed the material, discovering the truth behind the supposed infestation.However, Braley had already planted a real Alien inside their spaceship and, assuming that thiswould take care of the two Planetus investigators, reported their deaths to the authorities and themedia. The news caused Planetus stocks to plummet, and Weyland-Yutani acted on the opportunityby buying out the stocks and taking over Planetus. But Kramm and Stauff had in fact survived thetrap and narrowly escaped off-world after picking up the Heywards and the technicians, who werealso targeted for elimination. Using the computer facilities of Planetus that were now at his disposal,Braley redirected the ship to the planet of Soulages, a former colony world that had been overrunby the Aliens and had been quarantined for the last thirty years. Kramm knew the planet, as it wasthe place where he had lost his family, which had caused him to leave Weyland-Yutani and becomea Sleeper thirty years earlier.After landing near a settlement, Kramm and the other survivors proceeded to explore the compound.They soon discovered that the layout of the settlement had been vastly transformed to housean artificial Alien hive used by Weyland-Yutani to harvest the creatures. Eventually, they reachedthe old common building and decided to settle down there for a rest. During the night, the Xenomorphstook two of the technicians, Duncan and Kelly. Kramm and the others found them at a centralcrater, only to discover that both of them had been impregnated. Knowing what would happen tothem was inevitable, Kramm killed both of them. The remaining survivors managed to fight theirway through the hived cave systems spreading out from the crater, only to reach a locked elevator. Itwas at this time that Gavin, the remaining Planetus technician, revealed himself to be an androidand opened the elevator door by plugging into its keypad. The elevator led them directly to communications,where they were able to load a map of the compound at the expense of Gavin's life, whowas killed by a computer virus when he probed the system. The map showed Kramm and the restthe way to a nearby landing pad. After fighting many Xenomorph warriors and an Egg Harvester,only Kramm, Stauff and a badly-injured Bjorn remained to enter the short-range flyer parked on thelanding pad. Frances piloted the ship through the dome surrounding the compound and crash-landedit inside the Weyland-Yutani research installation on the nearby moon. There, they took over the facilityfrom the small staff of scientists, send out a distress call and prepared for the retaliatory strikeby Weyland-Yutani. The outcome is unknown. (A:NE)Calabrese: A male human and a USM soldier assigned to the security team aboard the Auriga. Hewas present on the ship during the breakthrough of the cloning project and at one point took downRipley 8 together with another USM soldier, DiStephano, to prevent her from killing Dr. Wren. Hisfinal fate is unknown. (A:RES)Call, Annalee: A “female type” second-generation android and member of the smuggling crew involvedin the Auriga incident. Call was manufactured by other androids, classifying her as an