As a child, Chris Hooper dreamed of monsters. Monsters from unknown corners of the Universe. But in deep space he found only darkness and isolation. There's also trimonite, the hardest material known to man, which he and his fellow miners discovered on planet LV-178, eaten away by crushing sandstorms. When the space shuttle crashes into the Marion mining orbital station, the miners discover what's deep in the caves There is something more hidden on the planet than Trimonite. EVIL lurks there, hibernating and waiting for a suitable victim. Hoop and his comrades open a nest of xenomorphs, and the word “hell” takes on a new meaning. Very quickly, the miners realize that their only hope is the most unlikely of all possible saviors...Ellen Ripley, the last person to survive the disaster of the commercial starship Nostromo.