jul 1, 2179 - The survivors of Hadley's Hope.

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Thirty-eight people, led by Derrick Russell, Genevieve Dione, and Nolan Cale escape the Alien infestation on LV-426 on the sublight ore drilling ship Onager. They crash land on LV-223, in a mountainous jungle region. A number of Aliens stow away on the Onager with them and attack after setting down.

Derrick Russell spots a leftover PUP from the Prometheus mission of 2193 in the makeshift camp set up by the Onager survivors.

Russell sees the PUP again while running from an Alien attack.

Russell spots the PUP again and beings to notice patterns with its re-appearances.

Russell makes plans to capture the PUP.

Russell succeeds in capturing the PUP. He manages to activate its playback and discovers it is from a previous mission to LV-223. Meanwhile the Onager survivors – now down to about twenty-five in number – continue to debate their ongoing survival. Cale favors an attack on the Onager where the Aliens have set up their hive, while Dione prefers constructing stronger defenses.

An unnamed colonel blames Michael Bishop for the lost of the USS Sulaco and offer him his help, for a price. Space Command at O'Niell Station detects a mass in the Zeta 2 Reticuli system, after a check, they tagged it as the USS Sulaco.

The Aliens attack again but this time there are less casualties as the survivors get better at evading the creatures.

Using data from the PUP, Russell sets off on a scouting expedition and finds the structures visited by the Prometheus crew. He investigates and finds another living Engineer in hypersleep. He retires to a cave away from the rest of the survivors and starts collating the data he’s collected.

While fishing in a nearby lake, an Alien attack and drowns a colonist named Luiz. The accelerant in the water causes the Alien and Luiz to become a single fused being.

The fused Alien/ Luiz creature attacks some colonists foraging for food. It follows those who escape back to the camp, where it is ultimately killed by Cale. Cale confesses that he knew the Aliens were on the Onager when they left LV-426, and Dione punches him. Cale again suggests a mission back to the Onager for suppies and a transmitter so they can radio for help.

Cale and three others find a Queen Alien on the Onager and all but Cale are killed. He makes it out of the Onager with the transmitter, but is attacked by an Alien and falls into a puddle of accelerant.
That night, the accelerant mutated Cole attacks Dione in the camp, just as the Aliens launch an all out assault. Russell hears the screams from his cave.

Russell finds the wreckage of USCSS Prometheus and salvages some equipment, intending to use it to explore beyond the realms of the jungle.

Russell finds the diary of another colonist, Standish, and comes across the mutated Cale. He narrowly escapes back to his cave as Cale is confronted by a group of Aliens. He surmises that the moutain cave could be somehow protecting him from the Aliens.
Russell later ventures back to the structures he visited months earlier in a vain attempt to wake the sleeping Engineer.

Russell does an experiment on an indigenous lifeform and discovers anything affected by the accelerant heals very quickly. He spends most of time trying to unravel the mystery of the Engineers and accelerant.

Suffering from increasingly bad headaches, Russell reprograms the PUP – nicknamed Rover – to scan him biologically. It shows what might be tumours in his head. It also picks up a signal of human origin beneath the mountain where his cave is situated.

While tending to the graveyard where the colonists bodies are buried, Russell again encounters the mutated Cale. He manages to kill Cale with a wooden cross from one of the graves, but is ambushed by a group of Aliens. He tries to run back to his cave but trips near a puddle of accelerant. He contemplates using it to try and protect himself as the Aliens close in.

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