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Originally Posted by Baron Von Marlon
I like to think
The explosion was local and destroyed the base and its surroundings. Don't remember seeing the ship in Aliens so if it was out of sight, there might have been enough distance between the ship and the base to withstand the blast.
The ship was discovered after the humans were done terraforming and building the base. Propbably small groups went out to check the rest of the planet, found the ship, couple of people got facehugged, brought back to the base and the shit starts. After that they experimented on facehuggers.
Ripley leaving happened quite fast. And after that she had to deal with the queen. So there already could've been some distance between them and the planet so too far to nuke? Can't remember if they said the ship carries nukes.
We could also say for the sake of unofficial sequel, that you need launch codes. Because the company doesn't want unauthorised destruction of things they might have a use for. Like a huge alien spaceship.
Now someone make this sequel!
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We can tell you didn't read ImmortalSlasher & my last posts
. I basically wrote the same things you did, and then ImmortalSlasher revealed most of the answers to our like-reasonings.
The colonists didn't find the old horseshoe-shaped alien ship on accident by exploring.
In Aliens, Ripley told Burke she found Burke's directive to the colonist to go to the horseshoe-shaped alien ship, & that Burke didn't warn the colonists about the alien creature that wiped out Ripley's crew. If you remember, Ripley told Burke she was going to expose him, that's why he locked specifically Ripley in the room with the facehuggers. This Burke-directive was after he heard Ripley's story at Ripley's company hearing on the destruction of the Nostomo.
You reasoned Ripley in the Marine ship was too far away from the planet, or the Marine ship didn't have nukes. But in Aliens, after most of the marines get wiped out in the first alien encounter, Ripley says, "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure", they weren't talking about the station overload, cause that hadn't happened yet. I suggest we can assume she was talking about a military weapon aboard the Marine ship.
Plus, I think we can assume, based on Ripley's intelligence & resolve, that after they escaped the station blast, that Ripley would go back & destroy the alien ship. But it is true, the film didn't mention that.