Alien: Out Of The Shadows -
: To preserve the timeline of the films, Ripley's memories of these horrific events are wiped by the ship's medical pod.
: Most of the crew is whittled down by the aliens during the mission. A scientist named Sneddon sacrifices herself to kill a Xenomorph just as a chestburster emerges. Alien: Out of the Shadows
During the chaos, the Marion picks up a distress signal from the Narcissus , the escape shuttle carrying . Ripley is brought aboard, but her arrival is complicated by the fact that she has unknowingly been kept in stasis for decades by Ash , the malevolent synthetic from the Nostromo whose AI consciousness survived and uploaded itself into her shuttle's systems. Desperate Escape : To preserve the timeline of the films,
: Ash attempts to sabotage their escape, but Hoop manages to purge the AI with a computer virus. During the chaos, the Marion picks up a
: Ripley and her cat, Jones, are placed back into stasis on the Narcissus . Hoop, however, is forced to stay behind to manually release the shuttle's clamps from the Marion , leaving him stranded as he watches Ripley drift away into space, knowing she will have no memory of him or their struggle.