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Originally Posted by Sculpt
Ah, good points. Burke wouldn't have been trying to bring the Aliens back if the Co already had the ship.
The explosion at the end of Aliens was said to be huge, and we'd have to assume the horseshoe ship was close to the colonists to infect them, so it'd probably would be destroyed. But the ship may have been a good distance, and the colonist had been exploring and brought an alien back with them. It's possible the ship could be intact, just not likely.
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Both Alien and Aliens were well thought movies. Not so much any of the sequels. They could always say there were different divisions of the corporation since it's so big. One part didn't know what the other was doing. But it's safe to assume that Burke knew about what was going on there. He did send Newt's family to take a look.
I think the colonist's experiments got out of hand. Maybe a loose facehugger or baby Alien. I don't imagine the facehuggers making the trip to the colony outside of the eggs. But the Aliens do going by Newt telling Ripley that they come out at night. I would guess that if the colonists didn't remove all the eggs or destroy them in testing that the Aliens removed them from that ship. They were "busy little creatures" after all.
And still with the ending of Aliens, they would have to make Ripley incompetent not to nuke that ship just to be sure. It was damaged in the original Alien and I doubt it could take the sort of blast that happened at the end of Aliens.