What Happened To Ripley?

[birblord gaming]

What happened to Ripley at the end?

[NinthElement]

It's unclear, but it's for certain that she didn't die in her spacesuit. The light that shines on her suggests she was picked up by a ship, and a leading theory is that it was one sent by Weyland-Yutani

[dcshoe]

11 Dec 2137: Amanda Ripley escapes the dying Sevastapol. She dies of cancere at the age of 66, on 23 Dec 2178.

16 May 2179: Ellen Ripley is rescued, 57 years after Nostromo's destruction. Amanda has been dead for five months.

[Antti-san]

Another theory that's been thrown around is the part with the Alien onboard the Torrens was a nightmare.

The abrupt, cliffhanger ending is the only thing I hate about this game, since it seems there won't be getting a sequel.

[Still Alive]

In the second movie after hibernation Ellen Ripley was told that her daughter died of old age on the Earth so Amanda survived and was picked up for sure.

[Dayve]

As others have said, Amanda Ripley goes on to live until her 60's. She dies of cancer and has no children.

In the game, I personally have no doubt that the ship at the end is the Weyland-Yutani ship coming to board Sevastopol station and get their alien (they bought Sevastopol station when Ransome informed them of the alien on board).

Alternatively, and less likely (I think), the light at the end is from the Torrens. Verlaine (or the other member of the crew whose name I forget) managed to hide when the alien was on board, and was able to take control of the ship when Ripley took herself and the alien out of the airlock.

I don't give the "nightmare" scenario any thought. We can see aliens crawling all over The Torrens at the end of the game, just before Ripley blows off the clamps which are dragging The Torrens down with Sevastopol. Verlaine also tells Ripley that she set the door to auto - meaning the door will open if it detects a presence outside, just like supermarket/mall doors do. It's obvious an alien got inside through the door.

[The Phasmid]

As the above posters pointed out, Amanda perished from terminal illness as reported by Burke in the Director's Cut of Aliens. However, we all know Burke is a bit of corporate shill weasel. He's willing to twist the truth for the company's benefit, and keep Ellen at bay. Maybe Amanda was still alive. Maybe she had as much dirt on WY as Ellen did, and they wanted to silence her.

If people truly wanted to retcon Alien 3 (which I personally enjoyed), I think Ellen meeting her daughter, who is now older and wiser than her mother, would've been an interesting direction to take the series. But, alas, Fox didn't want the scene to be included in the theatrical release due to time constraints. Aliens DC officially makes Amanda's story canon, and so does this game. Who knows?

I honestly think Ellen and Amanda working together would've made a fitting ending to the series. If they could somehow make a trilogy out of this series, and the final entry inculdes Amanda meeting her mother, I wouldn't protest them taking that route in terms of retconning Alien 3 (again, which I still enjoyed)

[Elensar]

The Alien encounter on the torrens was a nightmare while she floats unconcious. The lights over her body at the end is teh torrens coming to pick her up.

Her being dead in Aliens DC could be the company just lying to her mother... we know that's the kind of nasty Weyland Yutani would pull.

[Yautja]

Originally posted by Elensar:

The Alien encounter on the torrens was a nightmare while she floats unconcious. The lights over her body at the end is teh torrens coming to pick her up.

Her being dead in Aliens DC could be the company just lying to her mother... we know that's the kind of nasty Weyland Yutani would pull.

Agreed they are complete manipulators.

[McFlurry Butts]

The ship likely located her from a tracking device in the suit since it makes sense that such suits would have one. The corporation likey were not expecting the whole station to crash into orbit, so it makes sense they would like to figure out what happened.

[Dayve]

She's not floating in space, she tethered herself to The Torrens before releasing the clamps. The Torrens didn't need to "find her" or "pick her up", she was literally tethered to it and able to walk in through the door, which Verlaine set to auto, which is how the alien most likely got in.

[gru]

It is not clear but near the end of the game, since the Alien behaviour changes a lot and they don't really attack you. In fact just before you go to the torrens the aliens looked like they tried to restrain you, so it might be that Amanda was pregnated.

[[H34D]L3SSH3D(0f)ST4T3]

Did she get cancer from spending too much time around the Sevastapol's main reactor?

[FoRmaTiTo]

She choked on my pickley.

[Dayve]

The official history of what happened to Ripley (according to me) -

1. Arrives at Sevastopol to pick up the Nostromo flight recorder, becomes entangled in the alien crisis there.

2. Manages to survive the crisis by escaping Sevastopol as it plummets into the gas giant. First she extends docking clamps for The Torrens to dock with Sevastopol (the proper docking bay was ruined by Marshall Waits when he tried to blow up the alien), then she puts on a suit and goes out into space where she tethers herself to The Torrens and then uses the emergency procedure for releasing the docking clamps. This releases The Torrens from Sevastopol's grip and Ripley gets inside Torrens through the main airlock, which Verlaine earlier set to auto so that Ripley could enter whenever she got a chance.

3. Unfortunately an alien made it inside Torrens and Ripley had to blow herself and the alien out into space again. This is not a dream, this happened. There were several aliens following Ripley and watching her as she released the clamps (this scene takes place on top of The Torrens, don't forget, there are literally several aliens on top of The Torrens with Ripley when she releases the clamps). It was easy for the alien to get inside - the door was on auto.

At this point, things are less clear. We know that Ripley gets picked up because we see the light from a ship reflecting on her helmet. What happens here is up to you to decide -

1. The ship we see was a Weyland-Yutani ship arriving at Sevastopol to collect their alien. They would've picked her up, and maybe even picked up the alien floating close to Ripley. Either they released her or they kept her prisoner so she couldn't talk about what she had seen. Maybe the story about her dying in her 60's from cancer, told by Burke, was a lie. Burke was afterall a slimy corporate liar and would have no problem lying for Weyland Yutani if he thought it would advance his own career.

2. The light we see is from The Torrens. Maybe Verlaine or Connor hid and survived the alien which got on their ship, then took control back once Ripley blew the alien out of the airlock.

The dream theory is BS.

The theory about Ripley having an embryo inside her from when she was taken to the nest at the end of the game is also BS, as in Alien 3 the Weyland Yutani corp STILL don't have an alien. That's why they want Ripley to go with them so badly instead of jumping into the molten lead - they want to finally get their hands on an alien and this was their last chance (or so they thought at the time).

[gru]

I can understand all of your points so far, but how do you exactly explain the alien's behaviour in that case near the end?