How did the Queen Xenomorph get on the ship?

During a hasty escape, the dropship collided with the landing pad and collected debris on one of its landing skids, allowing the Queen to hide somewhere in the ship's landing gear, unbeknownst to those on board.
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How did the Xenomorph get on the ship in aliens?

The xenomorph was able to board the ship by nestling away inside the body of one of the crew members who had a facehugger on his visage for less than five seconds. Apparently, that is all it takes in Covenant for the beastie to implant its seed.
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How does the alien get on the ship in aliens?

He investigated a planet and found the eggs, loaded them onto his ship to examine, and was then impregnated by one. When he came to, not knowing what had happened to him, he took off into space. The alien then birthed, and he crashed with all the eggs intact (no queen present).
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How did the egg get on the Sulaco?

The chestburster crawls off, grows into an adult Xenomorph, and then does some kind of egg-morphing thing, and puts the egg on the Sulaco. The Xenomorph could have morphed some food on the Sulaco into an egg, or perhaps a Warrior Xenomorph can grow one egg inside itself and then lay it.
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Why does Ripley burn the eggs?

Away from the chamber, Ripley would pose no further threat to the eggs, and the minions could easily capture her then. Ripley's only solution would be to blast away the eggs, creating pandemonium that would occupy the queen and minions long enough to give Ripley time to reach the ship.
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What happened to the dog in Alien 3?

Spike was a Rottweiler who resided in the correctional unit on Fiorina 161 and was the canine companion of inmate Thomas Murphy. He was impregnated by a facehugger after it had emerged from the wreckage of one of the Sulaco's EEVs. Spike later died during the "the Dragon's" birth.
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Where did the eggs in Alien come from?

After exhausting the planet's creatures and organisms in his experimentations with the black liquid, David ends up “sacrificing” Shaw to his genetic engineering. In a way she was the first queen, as it was through her female reproductive system that he was able to create the eggs containing the facehuggers.
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How did Aliens 3 start?

The story begins with an ejected pod from the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco in Aliens crash-landing on a refinery/prison planet, killing everyone aboard except Lieutenant Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver). Unknown to Ripley, an Alien egg was aboard the ship. It is born in the prison and begins a killing spree.
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Does Ripley become an Alien?

Alien Resurrection (1997)

They must destroy the Auriga, lest it make its emergency landing and unleashes Xenomorphs on Earth. Ripley is taken to the Alien nest, where the Queen gives birth to a Newborn, a Xenomorph with human traits. The hybrid Alien recognizes Ripley as its mother and kills the Queen.
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How did the Alien get on the ship in Alien isolation?

Waits explains that the alien was brought onto the station by Anesidora captain Henry Marlow, who, after recovering the Nostromo's flight recorder while salvaging its remains in space, was able to backtrack the Nostromo's path to LV-426 and locate the derelict ship, containing within a nest of alien eggs.
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How did the derelict end up on LV-426?

The ship was believed to have crashed on LV-426 several millennia prior to the arrival of Nostromo. The derelict was thought to have been destroyed in 2179 when the Atmosphere Processing Plant at the nearby colony of Hadley's Hope exploded, but it in fact survived the blast.
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Why did the engineers create the Xenomorphs?

The crew of the USCSS Prometheus believed that the abandoned planet they explored was an outpost for weapons engineering and development, lending credence to the theory that the Engineers created the Xenomorphs (or perhaps more specifically, the Black Liquid that led to the Trilobite) for war and genocidal purposes.
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What does LV-426 stand for?

Acheron, formerly known as LV-426, is one of three known moons orbiting Calpamos in the Zeta Reticuli system, 39 light years away from Earth. The moon was given its common name by the early human colonists who settled there.
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How long did it take the Marines to get to LV-426?

It is only after the events of Alien: Out of the shadows, that he is purged from the system and Ripley finally can go home. Therefore, while technology has advanced to the point where it only takes them 3 weeks to get to LV-426, that's not as dramatic and improvement as previously thought.
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Is the planet in Prometheus LV-426?

Early in the director's commentary, Ridley Scott confirms that the planet from Alien was LV426 BUT in Prometheus the planet is LV223.
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Why are the innocent punished Alien 3?

Why are the innocent punished? Why the sacrifice? Why the pain? There aren't any promises.
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Is Alien 5 still happening?

Why Alien 5 Was Canceled. Alien 5 was in various forms of development since the release of Alien: Resurrection in 1997. James Cameron was said to be working with Ridley Scott on a version, which ultimately developed into Prometheus.
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Did the Predators create the Xenomorphs?

Through their exploration, they learn that the Predator species created the Xenomorphs for the ultimate hunt every 100 years. Allowing Weyland's team to find it was their clever way of providing hosts for the creatures to spawn in.
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Can any Xenomorph lay eggs?

The Xenomorph egg, or Ovomorph, is the earliest stage in the lifecycle of the various monsters in the "Alien" saga. Queens can lay the eggs, but other Xenomorphs can also create them via a process called "eggmorphing," in which they transform a victim into an egg by trapping them inside a cocoon.
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How do Xenomorphs see?

They have elongated, cylindrical skulls with eyes underneath the "visor". In the novelization of Alien, the character Ash speculates that the Xenomorphs "see" by way of electrical impulse, similar to a shark's lateral line.
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How did Newt survive in Aliens?

During the chaos, Newt's mother and brother were killed but she managed to escape through a vent. Newt managed to survive by hiding in the air ducts to avoid the monsters which came mostly at night to take people away.
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Why is the alien in Alien 3 different?

This Alien is different from the ones in previous installments due to its host being quadrupedal (a dog in the theatrical cut, an ox in the assembly cut). Initially a visual effects supervisor, Woodruff decided to take the role of the creature after his company, Amalgamated Dynamics, was hired by Fox.
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What happened to Newt after Aliens?

Newt was one of four people to survive the infestation on LV-426, along with Ripley, Corporal Hicks and the android Lance Bishop, who was badly damaged. She later died when an EEV carrying her crashed on Fiorina "Fury" 161, causing her cryo-chamber to be flooded with water.
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