In search of answers regarding the disappearance of her mother, Ellen, after the incident on the M-Class commercial towing vehicle, USCSS Nostromo, the Weyland-Yutani Corporation engineer, Amanda Ripley, finally receives good news. In high hopes of finding out what happened to her fifteen years previously, Amanda travels to Sevastopol Station, a deep-space base in orbit of the massive gas-planet, KG-348, along with her colleagues, Christopher Samuels and Nina Taylor, to recover the crucial flight recorder unit of Ellen's ship. However, once there, the team faces a lack of communication between their transport star-ship, USCSS Torrens, and Sevastopol, and a horrible complication. What is the mystery of the silent station?
—Nick Riganas