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the birth of the Newborn before managing to reach the Betty just before take-off and helping Vriessin navigating the ship to safe distance. Subsequently, Ripley confronted the stowaway Newborn inthe docking bay of the Betty and killed it by corroding a nearby viewport with her blood, causingthe creature to be sucked into space piece by piece. Although Ripley momentarily felt regret fordooming the creature who had seen her as its mother, Ripley 8 had come to choose her human half,wondering about what the future on Earth might have in store for her together with Call.After landing on Earth, Ripley 8 and Johner, Vriess and Call enjoyed a break from their struggleagainst the Xenomorph – a break that would be brief. Call informed Ripley 8 of another discoveryshe had made when she had hacked into the systems of the Ministry of Defense, traces of a mysteriousorganization within Earthgov which she had dubbed Loki that seemed to be connected to theAlien. Following the footsteps of her original template, Ripley 8 decided to continue the fight andrallied Call and the rest behind her cause, who also quickly accepted her as the new captain of theBetty. Over the following years, Ripley 8 and the crew of the Betty, among them three new crewmembers to replace those lost on the Auriga, raided about a dozen trading stations in the border regionsof known space and hacked into the mainframes of the facilities in order to gain more informationabout Loki's master plan. It soon became apparent that Loki entertained dealings with theSpace Jockey race, or Mala'kak, dating back to the Nostromo incident; in fact, it had been Loki whohad given Weyland-Yutani the information which caused the incident in the first place. It was onByzantium Station that Call finally caught up with Loki and found out that it had targeted a spacestation called Domes Epsilon for Xenomorph infestation. Ripley 8 wasted no time and retreatedByzantium Station together with her comrades and set course to Domes Epsilon in order to foilLoki's plans. However, Ripley 8 had attracted the attention of a reporter called Simoni, who finallyfound her on Byzantium Station and boarded the Betty as a stowaway. After he had been discovered,Ripley was about to have him thrown out of the airlock when she learned about his profession. Asthe daughter of the original Ripley had also been a reporter, Ripley 8, curious to learn more aboutthe memories genetically imprinted on her, decided to keep him alive and in turn revealed some ofthe information she had about Loki and its role in the Nostromo incident.Only slightly delayed by a Loki strike force, the Betty soon arrived at Domes Epsilon. As soon asthe ship got within communications range, Ripley 8 contacted the station, warning Philipakos, theadministrator of Domes Epsilon, about the imminent threat and demanded access. As one of thestaff members had already had a fatal encounter with a Xenomorph Egg, he reluctantly agreed, butwas foiled by sabotage aboard the station. Ripley 8 now had no other option but to force her entry inorder to stop the Xenomorph. She and Call, Johner and Krakke boarded the station and were soongreeted by Philipakos, who led them into the control center. With some effort, Ripley 8 convincedthe staff to evacuate and departed with Johner to check the backup bay as the main bay was nolonger accessible. After securing the backup bay, Ripley encountered the adult Xenomorph andkilled it together with Johner. However, after returning to the command center, Ripley 8 learned thatno less than a dozen creatures were discovered aboard Domes Epsilon. Ripley 8 made a break forthe backup bay together with the other survivors, only to be ambushed by Xenomorph Warriors.The group scattered through the jungle, and many fell victim to the creatures. Aware that the backupbay had been sabotaged and knowing that her plan for a controlled retreat had failed, Ripley 8 setoff for the Betty, picking up Angie, Philipakos' daughter, on the way. Later on the way, she discovereda scared and confused Simoni, who confessed to her that a crew member of hers, Rama,had been killed because of his sneaking into the station. This revelation was met with anger and disappointmentby Ripley, merely tolerating his presence on her trip back to the ship. Soon after, however,Ripley was caught by surprise by an attacking Xenomorph, only to be saved by Simoni, whosacrificed himself in the process. Eventually Ripley 8 managed to safely return to the Betty withJohner, Krakke, Call and the two only survivors from the station's staff, Angie and a dog called Rex.Soon after, Ripley interrogated Cody, a surviving colonist who had been revealed to be an androidsent and programmed by Loki to aid in the infestation of Domes Epsilon. It was then that shelearned of the full extent of Loki's dealings and the endgame of the Mala'kak. After leaving behindand destroying the station and accepting Angie as a new crew member, Ripley 8 was filled with a