When Weyland-Yutani intercepts confirmation of the Xenomorph species, they dispatch the research vessel Legato to LV-426 with colonists in stasis to serve as hosts for a breeding program. Colonist Lisbeth Hutchins wakes to find the Legato overrun by Xenomorphs and PMCs incinerating impregnated civilians. She fights through to her parents, finds them dead, realizes she has been impregnated herself, and triggers the ship's self-destruct—dying just as the creature inside her hatches. Meanwhile, Cpl. Hicks is revived from stasis aboard the Sulaco by survivors Stone and Turk, and the three fight through Xenomorphs and Weyland-Yutani forces to eventually reach LV-426, where Hicks and researcher Rick Levy race to transmit a Colonial Marine distress call before Weyland-Yutani destroys the uplink.