In the mental institute, Billie learns that the doctors intend to lobotomize her in a last-ditch attempt to cure her of her nightmares. Although Wilks recognizes the operation as a probable suicide mission, he reluctantly agrees to lead the Marines selected for the job and is promoted to Sergeant, serving under Stephens.

Orona reveals that he is planning an expedition to the planet from which the Xenomorph's originated to secure a live specimen for the military, who hope to study the creatures and develop weapons to counter them in light of the recent incident involving the Dutton. Unexpectedly, he is called to a 'parole' hearing, where Colonel Stephens introduces him to a Dr. Upon in investigating, the ship's crew are attacked and killed by a Xenomorph and both ships are destroyed.īack on Earth, disgraced Colonial Marine Corporal Wilks is held in military prison, his only crime being the fact he survived an encounter with the Xenomorphs on the colony world of Rim that claimed the lives of every other member of his unit. Elsewhere, Coast Guard cutter the Dutton discovers a derelict spacecraft in orbit around Earth. Plagued by horrific nightmares of the Xenomorphs, young Billie has been committed to a mental institution for many years, where the doctors attempt increasingly severe treatments to try and cure her of her vivid and distressing dreams.

And what follows is no less then guerrilla warfare on the Aliens' planet - and Alien conquest on Earth! Plot When Wilks's team departs on their mission, a trained assassin trails them. Now the government has tapped Wilks to lead an expedition to the Aliens' home planet to bring back a live Alien.īut the competition on Earth to develop the Aliens as a new weapons system is brutal. Thirteen years later Wilks is in prison, and Billie lives in a mental institution, the nightmare memories of the massacre at Rim seared into her mind. Thrown together in the last hellish night of an Alien invasion, Billie and Wilks helped each other get out alive. Billie was a child, the only survivor of a far-flung colony outpost.

Wilks is a space marine with a near-fatal flaw: he had a heart.

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