3 times the terror.

Aug 8 2179. Nearly 2 weeks after leaving Acheron, the Ovomorph left by the Queen on the USS Sulaco hatches and impregnates Ripley while she is in hypersleep.

When the Facehugger tried to get access to Newt's cryosleep tube, the glass was ruptured and injured the Facehugger, spilling his acid blood on the ground. The liquid found its way into a maintenance area beneath the hypersleep facilities and ate through critical equipment, causing an electrical fire in the process.

The Sulaco's main computer evacuates the ship.

The hypersleep chambers of Ripley, Newt, Hicks, and Bishop are put on board EEV unit 2650.

The EEVs crashes on the Outer Rim planet Fiorini 161 in the early morning hours. Hicks and Newt are killed in the crash and Bishop is rendered inoperative. Clemens, the medical officer of the facility, witnessed the crash and found Ripley's body on the shore. He carried her back to the prison where he put her under medical care and ordered some prisoners to retrieve the wreckage from the bay.

Superintendant Harold Andrews requests Weyland-Yutani immediately extraction of Ripley. Meanwhile the Facehugger on the EEVs impregnates Spike, a dog belonging to Prisoner Thomas Murphy who helped in transporting the EEV into the complex without being seen.

Later that day, Andrews formally informed the prisoners of the situation.

Andrews: This is Rumor Control, here are the facts... Alien³. 20^th Century Fox, 1992. Movie.

Ripley was brought to the facility's infirmary for recovery. Eventually, she woke up and was filled in by Clemens about the situation. Ripley decided to check out the EEV and went to the wreckage with Clemens, where they discovered an acid burn on the inside of the wreckage. Fearing that there may be a kiande amedha present, Ripley convinced Clemens to perform an autopsy on Rebecca 'Newt' Jorden's body under the pretense of a possible cholera infection. However, the results of the postmortem did not confirm her suspicions, and in the evening, the bodies of Hicks and Jorden were cremated in one of the blast furnaces. It was during this funeral that the kiande amedha embryo completed its gestation period, erupting from the animal and disappearing into the depths of the complex unnoticed.

August 10, 2179. Ripley tried to settle into her temporary life at the facility, even developing a sexual relationship with Clemens.

Murphy was cleaning Ventilation Shaft 22 in the second quadrant when he accidentally stumbled upon the Dragon's hideout in Ventilation Shaft 17. The Dragon's attacked Murphy, which caused him to stumble into the fan and get ripped into pieces. The death was discovered, and Clemens was called to the scene to provide his medical opinion. While it seemed obvious to the administration that Murphy's death was a tragic accident, another acid burn in the shaft aroused Clemens' suspicions.

That night, the Dragon attacks Prisoners Boggs and Rains, while Prisoner Golic escapes. Elsewhere, Ripley is attacked by Prisoners Junior, William, Gregor and Martin while at the prison's waste dump retrieving Bishop. Dillon intervenes preventing her from being raped.

Clemens and Ripley retrieve the blackbox of the EEV from the wreckage. At Ripley's request, Clemens pointed her to the scrapyard where the remains of the android Bishop had been taken. She hooked up Bishop's remains to the blackbox and ordered the android to reconstruct what happened on the Sulaco. Bishop confirmed that a kiande amedha had been present on the ship, and Weyland-Yutani knew about it.

Meanwhile, Andrews received a new message from the company, ordering him to treat Ripley as a top priority. Aware of the relationship between Clemens and Ripley, he called the medic to his office in order to get more information about Ripley. However, as Ripley had not let Clemens in on the possibility of a kiande amedha presence, Andrews' attempt was without success.

About an hour later, Golic shows up raving about the Dragon that killed Boggs and Rains, but since Golic's mental state was questionable, Andrews came to the conclusion that Golic killed the other prisoners and ordered Golic to be straitjacketed in the infirmary.

Ripley, however, came to a different conclusion and made a futile attempt to warn Andrews. Ripley returned to the infirmary, where Clemens is killed by the Dragon, but oddly leaving her unharmed. Panicked, she ran into the nearby mess hall, where Andrews was about to organize a search party for the supposedly missing prisoners. Again, Andrews ignored her warning, but was taken by the Dragon in front of the whole assembly of prisoners, making the existence of the creature a known fact among the community.

Aaron attempts to take charge but the prisoners refuse his authority. Scared and demoralized, they instead convened with Ripley to devise a plan to destroy the Dragon. As there were no weapons and the security surveillance system was inoperative, the options were limited. With no means to kill the Dragon available, the group decided to lure the Dragon into a heavily armored industrial vault normally used for nuclear and toxic waste. The plan was to drive it into the vault by covering the corridors leading to it with a highly inflammable liquid called quinitricetyline. The plan was eventually successful, but during the preparations, the kiande amedha killed one of the prisoners and thus triggered the liquid prematurely. The fire cost many prisoners their lives before it could be put out.

August 11, 2179. With the kiande amedha trapped, Ripley informed Weyland-Yutani of the threat and the successful capture. Suspicious of the company's agenda, she requested permission to eliminate the creature, regardless of the fact that they did not have the necessary equipment on site. Her fear that Weyland-Yutani would rather have the specimen alive for study was confirmed when the company immediately denied that permission.

Meanwhile, Golic, whose encounters with the kiande amedha had led to a mental breakdown, managed to flee the infirmary and release the creature from the vault.

By this time, Ripley's rapid deterioration in health led her to consider the possibility that she may have been impregnated with a kiande amedha. Aaron assists Ripley with the bio-scan she performs on herself aboard the crashed EEV confirmed that a Queen was gestating inside her. The results of the scan were subsequently transmitted to Weyland-Yutani, which decided to act on the promise of gathering a live kiande amedha specimen and sent the modified Conestoga-class starship Patna under the command of Michael Weyland en route to Fiorina 161. Ripley tries to convince Aaron several times that Weyland-Yutani does not care about him or any other employee, and in fact care more about acquiring "Dragon". Aaronrefuses to send the rescue ship away, thinking that it would be suicidal to reject the only armed reinforcements they had at their disposal and Aaron's desire to see his family again.

Ripley and the surviving prisoners decided to try one last effort to kill the Dragon. The idea was to kill the creature by luring it into one of the facility's blast furnaces, and Ripley was to play a key role as she had discovered that the Dragon would not endanger the Queen embryo inside her and would therefore not harm her. Aaron calls them crazy and locks himself into his office.

Dillon is killed when he acts as bait to lure the Dragon into the refinery's lead works. Prisoner Morse dumps hot lead on the Dragon, from which it escapes. Ripley turns the sprinklers on it, shattering the molten Dragon into pieces.

Aaron eventually received the Weyland-Yutani team at the entrance to the facility to lead them to the furnace to find Ripley, Aaron and Morse as the only survivors of the kiande amedha infestation. Michael Weyland introduced himself as the self-proclaimed creator of the Bishop android model, and tried to convince Ripley to come with him. Aaron finally believes Ripley and strikes Michael Weyland with a large metal rod, nearly ripping his ear off - finally showing his loyalty to Ripley and betrayal to Weyland-Yutani. Aaron is subsequently shot dead by the accompanying soldiers. Ripley then sacrificed herself by throwing herself into the molten lead, taking the Queen embryo with her.

The Weyland-Yutani team shut down the facility and left, but not before taking blood samples of Ellen Ripley for cryogenic storage, which would lead to a successful cloning of Ripley and the Queen inside her 200 years later. Morse remained as the only survivor of the incident and was relocated to an undisclosed location. However, he wrote an account of the events on Fiorina 161 which would get leaked to the public. The book was banned, but at least one copy of the text survived the purge.