At the farthest reaches of the solar system, aborad orbiting space station Auriga, the unthinkable has happened.

Ripley awakes. Her last memory is of her fiery death on the Prison colony Fiorina 361.

And yet she is alive.

Her questions grow as she notices her body stronger and fiercer than she ever remembers. And she confonts the most terrifying threat of all- that she's not alone in her salvation from death's grasp.