As a deputy commissioner for the ICC; Alan Decker's job is to make sure the settlements on LV178 follow all the rules; keeping the colonists safe. But the planet known as New Galveston holds secrets; lurking deep beneath the toxic sands dubbed the Sea of Sorrows. The Weyland-Yutani Corporation has secrets of its own; as Decker discovers when he is forced to join a team of mercenaries sent to investigate an ancient excavation. Somewhere in that long-forgotten dig lies the thing the company wants most in the universe - a living Xenomorph. Decker doesn't understand why they need him; until his own past comes back to haunt him. Centuries ago; his ancestor fought the Aliens; launching a bloody vendetta that was never satisfied. That was when the creatures swore revenge on the Destroyer - Ellen Ripley.