In deep space the spaceship Sulaco experiences an onboard fire and launches an escape pod containing Ellen Ripley, Newt, and Corporal Hicks. The pod crashes on Fiorina 'Fury' 161, a mining facility and penal colony inhabited by all-male former inmates with "double-Y" chromosome patterns. As the inmates recover the pod's passengers, an alien facehugger is seen approaching their dog. Ripley is taken in and awakened by the facility's doctor and learns that she is the only survivor of the crash.