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Newt. With only several minutes left, Ripley raided the hive, confronting the queen in the process,and managed to free Newt and escape, just seconds before the reactor exploded. However, theXenomorph Queen had managed to get aboard the Sulaco and, after ripping Bishop in half, confrontedRipley for a last showdown. Ripley was able to enter a Powerloader to get on even ground withthe monstrous creature and finally blew the Queen out of an airlock. The nightmare was over, fornow. During these climatic events, Ripley had developed feelings of respect and friendship forBishop, thanks to whom both Newt and Ripley were still alive at all. After setting course back toEarth, Ripley, Newt and Hicks entered hypersleep.It was during the flight back home, when events transpired that would ultimately seal Ellen Ripley'sfate. Unnoticed, several Xenomorph eggs had been smuggled aboard the Sulaco. The Facehuggershatched and impregnated Ripley in her cryogenic tube. In the process of cracking the glass tube, oneof the creatures was injured. Quickly, the acid blood ate through electronic systems of the ship, triggeringan automatic emergency ejection of the hypersleep tubes aboard an EEV. During that time,the Sulaco was passing by the remote planet Fiorina 161, nicknamed „Fury 16“. The EEV waspulled in by the planet's gravity and crashed down into the ocean near a coastline.Unbeknownst to Ripley, the inhospitable planet she was stranded on was home to a former metalfoundry turned prison facility operated by Weyland-Yutani, a facility which was reserved for onlymale criminals. Ripley and her crashed EEV were salvaged from the coastline and brought into theprison complex. When she came to in the hospital ward, she awoke to a dangerous world inhabitedby murderers and rapists. But her final ordeal was only about to start: After recovery, Ripley wasshocked to learn that Newt and Hicks had not survived the crash. After discovering an acid burnmark on the EEV, the horrible possibility that she might have brought a Xenomorph as a stowawaywith her dawned on Ripley. With the assistance of the resident doctor Clemens, Ripley immediatelyarranged an autopsy of Newt, which proved to be inconclusive. Distrusting the facility's administratorAndrews, she kept her suspicions to herself. However, Ripley had been right from the start:The Facehugger had survived the crash and infected the dog of one of the prisoners, and while sheattended the funeral of Newt and Hicks in the furnace, the dog perished, giving birth to a Xenomorph,which disappeared into the vast bowels of the facility.Meanwhile, Ripley tried to get used to the unfamiliar surroundings she was forced to cope with untila vessel would arrive to pick her up. During that time, she formed an uneasy acquaintance withthe prisoner Dillon, who had made a moving elegy during the funeral and was some sort of religiouslybacked authority figure among the prisoners. However, the relative calmness would not lastlong: Alarmed by a mysterious freak accident that got one of the prisoners killed, Ripley went outon her own to the scrapyard, retrieving the remains of Bishop from the shuttle wreckage. His reportconfirmed what she had feared from the beginning: the presence of an Alien in the escape vehicleand Weyland-Yutani's knowledge of it. On her way back, a couple of prisoners ambushed Ripleyand were about to rape her, when Dillon interfered and saved her from his fellow inmates. Back inthe main complex, Ripley finally tried to warn Andrews, who did not believe her story and confinedher to the medical wing. Suddenly, the Alien appeared in the ward and killed Clemens, with whomRipley had a brief sexual relationship. Ripley ran to the mess hall to warn the other prisoners. Andrews,who was present at that moment, ignored her warnings, only to be taken by the Alien in frontof all prisoners.Now the existence of a Xenomorph on Fury 16 was an indisputable fact. Holding a crisis meeting,Ripley, Dillon and the prisoners realized that they were in a dire situation: The facility had noweapons or usable equipment whatsoever, and the security surveillance had been out of order forsome time. With the help of the prisoners, Ripley devised a bold plan: In a joint effort, they tried tolure the Alien into a massive vault used for nuclear waste and lock it in there. Due to the interfer -ence of the Alien, the plan backfired and the fire which was supposed to drive the Alien into thevault was triggered prematurely, costing the lives of many prisoners. The Alien was captured, onlyto be freed again by the insane prisoner Golic. In the aftermath of the disaster, Ripley again visited