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the escape. The dropship's pilot, Warrant Officer Ferro, was ordered to pick up the survivors; however,the plan was foiled when a Xenomorph stowaway killed Ferro, and the dropship crashed intoLV-426's surface, crippling the APC and leaving the remaining members of the mission stranded inthe process.Knowing that a rescue party would not arrive for another 17 days, Hicks ordered a retreat to thecommand center and set up a perimeter defense with Ripley's assistance, using the sentry gunssalvaged from the APC. The sentries had managed to fight off an initial attack when Bishop foundout that during the ambush inside the hive and the ensuing firefight, the cooling systems of the AtmosphereProcessor had been critically damaged and the reactor would explode in about 4 hours,taking the entire colony with it. The survivors developed a plan to remote-access the second dropshipaboard the Sulaco and pilot it down for evacuation. As all equipment necessary for doing thisfrom the command center had been damaged, Bishop volunteered to go out to the colony's transmitterand use a mobile terminal in order to directly tap into the transmitter and call down the dropshipfrom there. A second onslaught was barely stopped by the sentries, but the survivors knew that theXenomorphs would have no difficulties in entering the headquarters in their next assault. WhileRipley and Newt were asleep inside the medical facilities, Burke released the Facehuggers in thestasis tubes in order to impregnate Ripley and Newt and smuggle the Xenomorph specimens insidethem past ICC quarantine back to Earth and into the possession of Weyland-Yutani. However,Ripley managed to set off the fire alarm, and both were rescued just in time by the Marines.As Ripley and the others contemplated what to do with Burke, the Xenomorphs managed to get insidethe command center by using the maintenance space above the room. A desperate escape ensued,during which Burke was captured by a Xenomorph and taken to the hive. Newt led the remainingsurvivors through the vent system to the landing platform, but got separated and also takenby a Xenomorph. Ripley and Hicks, who were the only members of the mission left by this point,managed to reach the landing field, where Bishop was about to land the dropship. Ripley, who haddeveloped a maternal affection for Newt, refused to leave without the girl and ordered Bishop to flythe dropship inside the Atmosphere Processor. Ripley managed to find Newt inside the hive and wasabout to leave with her when she was confronted by the Xenomorph Queen. Ripley destroyed theeggs inside the Queen's chamber and resumed her escape, with the enraged Queen right behind her.Just as the processor was about to explode, Ripley and Newt escaped to minimum safety distanceaboard the dropship.Back at the Sulaco, Hicks, who had been injured during the escape, was put into medical care.However, the Queen had been able to enter the Sulaco as a stowaway inside the landing strut spaceof the dropship and was unleashed in the docking bay, ripping Bishop in half. Ripley entered aPowerloader to fight the creature and subsequently managed to flush it out of one of the Sulaco'sairlocks. With the crisis finally over, the Sulaco set course back to Earth, and Ripley, Hicks andNewt entered hypersleep - unaware that Xenomorph eggs were aboard the ship, an event whichwould eventually lead to the Fury 16 incident. (A2)Hamilton-Cross, Colin: A male human. Worked as a colonist aboard Domes Epsilon and was in ashort-lived relationship with another colonist called Gogolac before he died of a heart attack sometime prior to the Domes Epsilon incident. His legacy was a black Labrador he had owned calledRex, which fell into the shared care of the other colonists after his death. (A:OS)Hammerpede: A worm indigenous to LV-223 mutated by the Black Goo chemical weapon. Originallya very small creature with a length of only a few centimeters, the Hammerpede form is a muchlarger and stronger snake-like creature, over one meter long and as thick as a human's arm. Thehead section consists of an orifice covered by two lobes of skin which can be retracted to reveal theorifice, giving it an appearance similar to a cobra snake. As with all Black Goo mutations, the Hammerpededisplays very aggressive behavior. Additionally, the organism has a defense mechanism inthe form of corrosive blood, an interesting similarity to the Xenomorph. The Hammerpede is alsoable to grow back severed body parts, including its head.