Two hundred years have passed since Ripley made the ultimate sacrifice on Fiorina 161. Over those intervening years, and after seven horrific failures, scientists have finally managed to clone a perfect replica of Ripley a clone that includes the alien Queen growing inside here at the time of her death. The clone is so perfect; the scientists decide to keep her alive for study as well. But the new breed of alien born from Ripley’s Queen is far more clever than its predecessors.