Hello all!

First and foremost I want to say thank you to you all for reading, reviewing, and encouraging this story since it's first chapter way back in December of last year, building it up to now over 5,000 views.

Secondly, I want to give a HUGE shout-out to my Beta-Reader DarthTenebrus, who not only helped fine tune the story, but also improved upon it, and added his on little touches. Once again please check out his page, he has several stories over several fandoms.

He has been a co-author of sorts in this whole endeavor, without him the story might have not been as easy to read or entertaining.

So now onto a few items of discussion.

Firstly some FAQs I have gotten in private messages and e-mails.

Why did you have Gorman die? Yet have Hudson and Vasquez survive?

Firstly I felt that with extra survivors in the form of the twins, and Stone, that Hudson and Vasquez could be saved. While with Gorman I wanted him to have a truly heroic moment, and although he technically does have this in the movie itself it comes more out of desperation rather than heroics, so I felt he need a more fitting demise without having it be do canon-breaking.

What was your inspiration for Ashley Stone?

Believe it or not I was going to have Mils' romance be Ferro, but felt that it (once again) was going to be a major headache for canonical timing (how on earth could she not get killed by the Xeno in the cockpit? Etc.). So I decided to create another OC which is where Stone came from, her inspiration was to have a little bit of comic relief, at the same time not being based on an actual person. I picked Helen Slater to play her, because I felt she was a good 80s actor, but not a megastar.

Why is Andrew Mils in a coma?

This one is actually a little more to do with the type of movies the Alien trilogy contains, one of my biggest critiques of Alien 3 (a good premise, but slightly flawed execution IMO) is that they kill off Hicks and Newt (brutally I might add) right away, out of nowhere, just like that. I felt that something similar would be done in Aliens, because there needed to be a loose end, a key witness to what happened on the Nostromo who couldn't testify at the moment of the inquiry. I also felt it was the way it would be written at the time of the movie, additionally I think it brings possibility for the sequel.

Why stop Alien 3 from happening canonically.

I like Alien 3, it's a good return to the roots of the franchise, but it's beginning can tend to ruin the rest of the movie for people, and the ending is also a downer. I wanted to have a happy ending, with hope the same way Aliens ended without the catch of "and then Alien 3 happens". Also, I didn't want there to be a "stasis interrupted" moment down the line (if you played Aliens: Colonial Marines you know what I mean).

So then what next for our heroes?

All I can say is that I'm taking a break for good this time, I'm almost done with college and should be graduating in early 2020, so I might go silent for the time being. I have in the meantime given DarthTenebrus a little something to work on, he's beta-reading Alien Isolation: Not Alone, fine tuning, adding it extra things and making it a little easier to read. So stay tuned for that story to be cleaned up a bit.

With that said, I look forward to delivering future stories to you all!

Thanks again

EAP404 😊