Amanda Ripley

Amanda's mother disappeared following the loss of the Nostromo in deep space. News eventually came in the form of Samuels, a synthetic in the employ of Weyland-Yutani, who came to see Ripley to inform her that the black box from the Nostromo had been recovered. He invited Ripley to join the small Weyland-Yutani team being sent to recover the recorder from Sevastopol Station, and while she was initially cold toward Samuels, the chance to potentially discover her mother's fate led her to accept his offer. Ripley and the team traveled to Sevastopol aboard the Torrens, a commercial courier ship privately owned by Captain Verlaine. Upon arrival, they found communications with the station scrambled and unintelligible. With the station's docking facilities damaged, Ripley, Samuels and Weyland-Yutani lawyer Taylor attempted to spacewalk over to Sevastopol, but debris resulting from an explosion severed their guide line. Ripley managed to enter the station through an airlock, but was separated from the others and found herself unable to contact her teammates, or the Torrens.

Ripley found Sevastopol to be largely deserted and showing signs of a collapse in civil society. She also found evidence of violence. Hostile inhabitants had formed together into small groups of looters, all fighting for their own survival. Upon reaching the Lorenz SysTech Spire and while avoiding a group of looters on the way, she gathered additional supplies, including a .357 Revolver and a Security Access Tuner to help her bypass locked systems. She also discovered the black box recorder from the Nostromo, but to her dismay found its data had been corrupted and was unreadable. As she prepared to move on, a localized security lockdown activated due to unauthorized access in the area, and in the midst of deactivating the lockdown she came face to face with an alien creature. This creature, a xenomorph, had been the one to cause all this mayhem and kill so many, turning the once busling station into a place of death with everyone paranoid and fighting each other whole trying to survive.

Upon reaching Sevastopol's comms center, Ripley discovered the station's Working Joe androids were hostile towards any attempt to re-enable the communications. Ripley managed to avoid the patrolling synthetics, and while still unable to contact the Torrens, she did manage to reach Samuels, who revealed that he and Taylor were in the SciMed Tower, and that Taylor had been injured in the accident that had separated them earlier. Ripley joined her colleagues before entering the nearby San Cristobal Medical Facility to retrieve a trauma kit for Taylor. There she met Dr. Kuhlman, one of the surviving doctors, who agreed to help her retrieve the supplies she needed, but refused to leave his office until she had recovered the passcode and keycard required to access the hospital dispensary. In the corridors of the deserted hospital, Ripley was again confronted by the Alien, which hunted her as she attempted to complete her goals. Despite the creature's presence, she recovered the necessary items and returned to Kuhlman, whom she scolded for placing her in danger. He apologized and prepared to leave with her, but was at that moment dragged away by the Alien, the creature having broken into his office behind him. Ripley fled to the hospital dispensary, recovering the necessary trauma kit and initiating the hospital's evacuation procedure to allow her to escape. As she left the area, however, the Alien dropped from a vent overhead and appeared to have her cornered, before an explosion temporarily knocked Ripley unconscious. Upon waking she found the area heavily damaged and the Alien gone. Returning to Samuels and Taylor after taking a detour to Seegson Synthetics & witnessing the Alien attack several survivors along the way, Ripley found them being held at gunpoint by Marshal Waits and his deputy Ricardo of the Colonial Marshals. After defusing the situation, Waits informed Ripley that the Alien had been brought to Sevastopol by the Anesidora, the ship that had recovered the Nostromo's flight recorder, and that he had the ship's captain, Marlow, in custody at the Marshal headquarters. He also informed her that the explosion that had inadvertently saved her from the creature was in fact a trap set by his men in the hopes of killing it. After restarting the transit control and avoiding hostile survivors along the way, Ripley made it to the Marshal headquarters where she interrogated Marlow, learning that his crew had discovered the flight recorder drifting in space and had followed the data it contained in the hopes of locating and salvaging the Nostromo. It had led them to the derelict on LV-426, and as they explored the vessel Marlow's wife, Foster, had been attacked by a Facehugger. Marlow brought her to Sevastopol seeking help, but in doing so unleashed the Alien upon its populace. Ripley attempted to inquire more, but Marlow demanded his freedom in return, which she could not grant.

Waits informed Ripley of his plan to neutralize the Alien by trapping it in the Lorenz SysTech Spire, inside a server hub that could be totally sealed off. With little alternative, Ripley agreed to help, arming herself with a Flamethrower before heading out to begin sealing the area. The plan went wrong when Ripley was mistakenly trapped inside with the Alien, and Ricardo was forced to lift the lockdown to allow her to escape, thereby releasing the Alien once more. Waits improvised a new plan to lure the creature into the Gemini Exoplanet Solutions labs before jettisoning the entire module into space, thereby ridding Sevastopol of the Alien altogether. Ripley again spearheaded the scheme, but was betrayed by Waits when he detached the module with her still inside. Ripley managed to fend off the Alien with her flamethrower long enough to get to an airlock, don an EVA suit and space-jump back to Sevastopol. Behind her, the jettisoned module was sucked into KG-348's gravity well and destroyed, along with the Alien on board. On her way back to the Colonial Marshal bureau, Ripley discovered that the station's Working Joes were now slaughtering its remaining human survivors, including Waits, whom she heard being killed over the radio. Upon reaching the bureau, she found only a panicked Ricardo had survived the attack. In an attempt to stop the murderous androids, Ripley helped Samuels interface with the station's artificial intelligence, APOLLO, so that he might order the computer to stop the carnage. Despite Ripley's desperate attempts to save him, Samuels was killed by APOLLO's defensive countermeasures, but not before he opened up access to APOLLO's core for Ripley, with him stating that he only wanted closure for her. Interfacing with APOLLO, Ripley discovered that Sevastopol had in fact been purchased by Weyland-Yutani two days after the Torrens set out for the station, and that the company had programmed the computer with Special Order 939 directing it to preserve the Alien for capture, regardless of casualties; evidently APOLLO had come to view the human survivors as a threat to the creature's survival, and had therefore begun eliminating them by way of the androids under its control. Ripley ordered APOLLO to cease its actions, pointing out that as the Alien was no longer on board, the computer had no reason to follow its orders. However, APOLLO refused, citing an irregularity in the station's reactor core. Investigating the core, Ripley discovered the Alien had constructed a Hive, inside which many of its victims were cocooned, used as hosts to breed even more Aliens. Despite her terror, Ripley entered the Hive to initiate a reactor purge, hoping to destroy the nest. While she succeeded, several Aliens escaped into the station before the blast. After destroying the Hive, Ricardo informed Ripley that Taylor, under orders from Weyland-Yutani to recover the Alien, had freed Marlow in exchange for the location of the derelict on LV-426. However, Marlow had instead abducted her and taken her to the Anesidora, which was still parked in orbit around Sevastopol. Ripley pursued him using one of the station's ambulance shuttles, hoping to use the ship to escape. On board the Anesidora, Ripley uncovered a personal message from her mother, extracted from the Nostromo's flight recorder, explaining that she destroyed her ship in an attempt to kill the same type of Alien creature Amanda had now encountered on Sevastopol. Ripley was then confronted by Marlow, who explained he planned to detonate the Anesidora's reactor to destroy Sevastopol, and with it the Alien. He was attacked and subdued by Taylor, who then helped Ripley stop the detonation. However, they were only partially successful. Taylor was killed by an explosion, while Ripley escaped the ship moments before it exploded. While the blast was not large enough to destroy Sevastopol, it damaged its gravity stabilizers, and the entire station began falling into KG-348's atmosphere.

Now running out of options, Ripley went outside the station to manually align its communications array so that she could finally contact the Torrens and request evacuation. Upon her return , she discovered Ricardo had been subdued by a Facehugger and was forced to leave him to his fate. Moving through hostile Seegson Security guards and Sevastopol's increasingly unstable and damaged interior, hounded by Aliens all the way, Ripley managed to extend a docking cradle beneath the station so that the Torrens could dock. With the personnel umbilical destroyed, Ripley would have to spacewalk over to the ship, but as she reached an airlock and prepared to don an EVA suit, she was attacked by an Alien and dragged into an overhead air shaft, losing consciousness as she tumbled through the vent. Ripley awoke in a new Hive, cocooned to the wall like the victims she had seen in the reactor maintenance area.

A Facehugger is a spider-like creature that is usually beige in color. It's body is very spiney and boney, with eight legs used to strongly grip the hosts head as well as crawl across all surfaces, even walls and ceilings. A long tail used to help it leap across areas as well as wrap around the hosts neck to keep it attached to them and to reduce oxygen flow, weakening their struggle. It will tighten harder around the hosts neck as a warning to choke them to death if someone attempts to remove it from the host. The Facehugger has two round sacs, one on each lower side of its body. Its body is 149 cm in length and 71 cm in width, making it big enough to fit snugly around a human face. The Facehugger has no distinct features such as eyes, nose or a mouth, indicating that it uses it's senses to locate a host, and that it does not eat or drink. A Facehugger also does not have a long lifespan. This is because the Facehugger only has one goal in life: to impregnate a host. When it senses a host, which can be male or female, nearby, it will stop at nothing to latch onto the host's face, wrapping it's body and legs around their head, and wrapping it's tail around their neck to ensure it stays attached to the host. From its underside, a long, fleshy and phallic ovipositor that resembles a penis, not pointy or sharp, will be inserted into the host's mouth via entering past their lips. Once inside the host's mouth, the ovipositor will travel down their throat all the way to their chest cavity. Once it reaches the chest cavity, it will stay there for a while until the Facehugger is comfortable enough to release a xenomorph embryo into the host's chest from the ovipositor. The process could take hours to a day, however if someone manages to remove the Facehugger from a host before it's ready to release the embryo into them, the Facehugger will quickly plant the embryo before it is fully removed from their mouth. If the host is resisting or hiding, the Facehugger will use it's intelligence and great speed to sneak up on the them and quickly subdue them by choking them to unconscious, as well as injecting chemicals that drug the host to a sleep induced coma when the ovipositor is inside. While breeding The host, the Facehugger will use its sacs to help the host breathe, as the Facehugger needs a living host to breed. The chemicals will not wear off until the Facehugger leaves or has died. When the Facehugger has impregnated a single host, it will shortly die, as it's only life purpose is fulfilled. When that happens, it will either leave to find a place to curl up and die, or will stay attached to the host, not even removing the ovipositor from their mouth. Although the Facehugger's only goal in life is to impregnate a host, it will try its hardest to avoid getting killed or removed before it latches on to the host. If a Facehugger comes across a host that is already impregnated from another Facehugger, it will ignore that host to look for an unimpregnated host. Facehuggers make trilling sounds, almost like purring, as well as adjust themselves on hosts to be comfortable. If they sense that the host isn't resisting, they won't be as rough. Although they breed only for instinct, they seem to take at least some sort of pleasure in breeding. Once the Facehugger has implanted the embryo into the host's chest, effectively impregnating them, the embryo will grow inside the host, stealing nutrients and life force from them. It is surrounded by a placenta that attaches to all vital organs in the chest. The gestation process could take from hours to a day for the embryo to fully be developed, in which it will be a chestburster, an infant xenomorph, fully grown in the host's chest. When developing, the chestburster may tend to squirm around in the host's chest. Once the chestburster is fully grown, it will begin its birth, where it literally breaks through the host's ribcage and skin, and chews it's way out until it has bursted from the host's chest, killing them. If the host tries to surgically remove the chestburster, the chances of the host surviving is low. A chestburster resembles a snake, with no eyes or limbs, just a long tail and body. Hours to potentially even a day after the chestburster is born, it will molt and fully develop into an adult Xenomorph. An adult Xenomorph is 7 feet tall, has a boney but also bio-mechanical looking body, with sharp claws, a bladed tail, human like teeth, a second, smaller mouth inside of its own mouth that can be thrusted outwards and bite through even the toughest gear, bones that look like tubes on its back, and an elongated head. The xenomorph has no eyes. It is completely black in color. It is highly intelligent and seeks only to kill, and defend it's kin. It is smart enough to know to let nearby Facehugger breed hosts instead of killing them, or bring the host to the hive to have the Facehugger impregnate them. It can hunt, use stealth, group up, use vents, and even toy with its prey. It can climb any survive, even walls and ceilings. Facehuggers are also surprising strong despite their small size. The xenomorphs also have a hive and hierarchy. The hive is where all the eggs are, and where they cocoon hosts to the walls using resin that holds them in place. Every stage of the life cycle has acid for blood except the Ovamorph. Facehuggers are the only stage capable of reproduction.

(All characters and events are from the video game: 'Alien Isolation'. A video game that is part of the 'Alien' franchise)

Amanda: "No, no don't touch me. Get away from my face, not my mouth. Don't put one of those things in me. Don't make me a mother to one of those monsters."