Quote from: JungleHunter87 on Jan 28, 2018, 04:37:11 AM
The board member was specifically talking about the Xenomorph.
RIPLEY: Did IQ's just drop sharply while I was away? Ma'am, I already said it was not indigenous, it was a Derelict space craft. It was an Alien ship. It was not from there. Do you get it? We homed in on it's becon.
FEMALE BOARD MEMBER: And found something never recorded once, in over three hundred surveyed worlds. A creature which gestates inside a living human host. These are your words. And has concentrated Acid for blood.
RIPLEY: That's right. Look, I can see where this is going. But, I'm telling you those things exist.
Which makes their disbelief odd, for if they found other indigenous lifeforms in those worlds, then what Ripley reported should be considered possible. Besides, if they had been investigating the issue for some time after they had received initial statements from Ripley, then they could have easily contacted the colony to check the site. If they did, then the coverup would have been considerable, with top officials from the authorities and maybe even those tasked with security involved.
Odder still is Burke's remark when Ripley discovers what he did: "I didn't know. So now if I went and made a major security situation out of it, everybody steps in, administration steps in, and there's no exclusive rights for anybody. Nobody wins. So I made a
decision, and it was wrong. It was a bad call, Ripley. It was a bad call."
So only Burke bothered to contact the colony?
Quote from: SM on Jan 28, 2018, 07:10:34 AM
You've misread/ misheard the enquiry scene as JungleHunter87 detailed.
As for the loss of contact - it was a loss of contact. If there was more to it, Ripley would've found it going through the colony logs.
Of course, not. What JH mentions contradicts your claim they were only talking about LV-426 and not other worlds.
As for loss of contact, it's possible that Ripley didn't have to mention the rest of them. All she needed to prove is that Burke sent them to their deaths.
Also, you didn't address my point: from the time the first colonist was infected to the time all of them were killed or captured by aliens, they didn't transmit anything to the company or even the authorities? Were all transmitters destroyed or disabled right after the first infected colonist was brought back?