Facehugger Mechanism

But now, far away in the stars, she has seen the brutal recombinant DNA of the creatures, and feels nothing but hope.

  It first became apparent at the moment of impregnation. The fleeting heat of a molecular change within the esophagus of the chimpanzee, not a larva or worm placed into the subject, but a set of complex chemical instructions that went beyond the intricacy of anything humanity had ever seen.

  Weyland-Yutani wants the creature, but Blue wants the code. Within it, she’s certain she’ll find the key to her survival. Yet capturing that injection is like a photographer trying to capture the moment a kingfisher enters the water—twinned beaks meeting across its mirrored surface. She could spend a decade with hundreds of eggs, and still meet with no success.

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Alien: The Cold Forge, Chapter 1