USS Nostromo Incident(2279)

Subject: USS Nostromo

While returning to Deep Space Station 11 with its cargo of unique mineral ore to study, United Federation of Planets spaceship USS *Nostromo* detects a mysterious transmission from a nearby moon. In response, The Ship decides to investigate the signal. Captain Arthur Dallas, First Officer Thomas Kane and Chief Medical Officer Joan Lambert set out on foot to investigate the signal's source, while Chief Science Officer Ash, Junior Science Officer Ripley, and Chief Engineer Brett and Engineer Parker stay behind to monitor their progress and repair damage caused during the Debris from the Ship hitting the Nostromo.

Dallas, Kane and Lambert discover that the transmission is coming from a bizarre derelict alien spacecraft. Inside, they find the remains of a large alien creature, whose ribs appear to have been exploded outward from the inside. Meanwhile, the *Nostromo'*s computer partially deciphers the signal coming from the ship and Ripley determines that it is not a distress call as previously assumed, but rather some kind of warning. However, she is unable to contact her crewmates on the surface to warn them.

Within the derelict, Kane discovers a vast chamber containing numerous eggs, one of which releases a creature that attaches itself to his face. Dallas and Lambert carry the unconscious Kane back to the *Nostromo* where Ash allows them inside, defying Ripley's Suggestions to follow the ship's quarantine protocol. They unsuccessfully attempt to remove the creature from Kane's face, discovering that its blood is an extremely corrosive molecular acid. Eventually the creature detaches of its own accord and is found dead. With the ship repaired, the crew resume their trip back to Earth.

Kane awakens seemingly unharmed, but during a meal he begins to choke and convulse, until an alien creature bursts from his chest, killing him in the process before escaping into the ship. Lacking very few conventional weapons, the crew attempt to locate and capture the creature by fashioning electric prods and nets. During the search, Brett follows the crew's cat, Jones, into the Cargo hold where he encounters the Alien, which has now grown into a formidable being larger than a man. It quickly kills him and flees with his body into the ship's air shafts. Intending to flush the Alien from the shafts and into an airlock, Dallas arms himself with a flamethrower and heads into the vents, but the creature ambushes him and disappears with his body. Lambert implores the remaining crew members to escape in the *Nostromo'*s shuttle, but Ripley, now taking charge, explains that the shuttle will not support four people.

Accessing the ship's computer, Ripley discovers that the *Nostromo'*s Chief Science Officer Ash has decided to capture the creature for study even at the expense of the crew's lives. Before she can warn the others she is attacked by Ash, who attempts to kill her. She is saved when Parker intervenes, decapitating Ash with a blow from a fire extinguisher.

Devastated by the revelations, the survivors plan to arm the *Nostromo'*s self destruct system and take their chances in the shuttle, but Parker and Lambert are killed by the Alien while gathering the necessary supplies. Desperate, Ripley initiates the destruct sequence and heads for the shuttle with Jones the cat, but finds the Alien blocking her way. Cut off from escape, she attempts to abort the self destruct but misses the deadline. With no alternative, she makes for the shuttle once more. She puts on a space suit and opens a exterior hatch, trying to blow the Alien out with the resultant explosive decompression, but it grips onto the doorway. Ripley shoots it with a makeshift grappling gun and the impact propels the creature out; in the process, the gun is ripped from her hands and catches in the closing door, tethering the wounded Alien to the ship. It attempts to crawl back inside though one of the engines, at which point Ripley activates them and incinerates it, blasting the creature into space. With the Ship badly damaged and the Self destruct still activated she boards the shuttle and narrowly escapes as the *Nostromo* explodes. Ripley broadcasts a distress call before placing herself into the Escape Shuttle Cryopod safe guards.