So many interesting things in it such as the research they are doing and the fact that Seegson not only still exists but manages to pull one over on Weyland-Yutani. While Dorian Sudler is established as a major dick from the start as he likes have people fired for little to no reason. He becomes far worse after becoming obsessed with the Xenomorphs, it is interesting to see him spiraling and becoming more unhinged and dangerous as the story progress.
Blue is an interesting character too and a very strong survivor, as despite her condition putting her at all sorts of risks, she goes through hell to get what she wanted.
Her identity is interesting too as at the end of the book, Seegson offers to give her a female synthetic to use as an avatar but declines saying she prefers a male body to use.
Either this is because she doesn't want anything from Seegson, or she has used Marcus so long that she is used to that type of body and maybe enjoys feeling equal to colleagues who would otherwise treat her differently (as there is still some sexism in the story which I find odd since its the future, I would figure it be far more progressive than now.) or perhaps she may harbor some transgender traits, the latter won't make too much sense since we know that gender reassignment seems to be more perfected by the first film if Lambert is any indication so if Blue felt that way, she could have had a re-assignment years before going to the Cold forge, of course maybe the Bishara's syndrome prevented that.
I am not sure how to feel about Seegson, ever since Alien Isolation, every book has to either mention them, their products or have them in to varies success. Here, these "underdogs" have proven themselves to be worse than Weyland-Yutani ever was.
While the latter has had "crew as secondary priority" they never intentionally murdered people like Seegson did. In the first film, it is Ash interpreting the orders after the crew become a threat to the Alien, in the second film its Burke acting alone and in the third, they let Morse live even though Ripley thought they would kill witnesses. The games and comics tend to make them worse but the movie W-Y is ambiguous and morally gray at worst.
Spoiler
Seegson outright arranges for nearly everyone aboard to be killed, they released the Xenomorphs.
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Dorian's fate is little too easy for him despite what it is.
Spoiler
Normally being impregnated is the worst fate you can have but due to his recent insanity and obsession with the Xenomorphs, he is pleased and happy to have a legacy.
One thing I didn't like was the once again sped up life-cycle, apparently the facehuggers immediately deposit the plagiarius stuff upon attaching to a host, though one tech guy does say it comes off in a day or two, but that still doesn't explain why we got Marachuk and some other colonist dead from successfully removing the hugger
before it deposited the mutagen. It also shows a Chimpanzee given birth to a chestburster not long after it had woken up, actually its almost instant. Too much Covenant influence methinks or perhaps Fox did actually add a few "suggestions".
Other than a few things like that,
