Upon arrival at Sevastopol, Captain Verlaine finds the station damaged and communications with its occupants scrambled and unintelligible. Ripley agrees, and travels to Sevastopol with Samuels and Weyland-Yutani lawyer Taylor aboard the cargo ship Torrens. Samuels offers Amanda the chance to join the team being sent to retrieve it, in order that she might learn her mother's fate.
The black box is being held aboard Sevastopol Station, a remote freeport space station in orbit around the gas giant KG-348. Fifteen years after the disappearance of her mother, Amanda Ripley is approached by Samuels, a representative of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, who informs her that the flight recorder from her mother's lost ship, the Nostromo, has been found.
