Newborn

Newborn's History

The Newborn was a mutant human/Xenomorph hybrid creature born aboard the USM Auriga. The Newborn emerged as a by-product of cloning experiments conducted by scientists of the United Systems Military, created when the Queen produced as a result of the experiments became contaminated with human DNA, granting her a second reproductive cycle using a womb and a live birth.

Instead of the Queen that gave birth to it, the Newborn apparently viewed Ripley 8, the clone that had originally been host to the Queen, as its true "mother". It was killed by Ripley 8 when it was violently sucked into space through a small hole in the hull of the smuggling vessel the Betty.

At some point, the Cloned Queen ceased laying Eggs and replaced her ovipositor with a womb, inside which developed the Newborn. After a rapid period of development, the Newborn emerged in the waste tank where the Queen had set up her Hive.[4] Almost immediately after being born, the Newborn turned on the Queen, tearing off the front of her head with a single swipe of its bare hand; the Newborn then moved to Ripley 8, who was also present, whom the creature apparently considered to be its true mother. The creature became distracted by a now maddened Dr. Gediman, who was cocooned in the Hive, and brutally killed him by biting off the top of his head while Ripley 8 escaped.

Aboard the Betty and death

The Newborn pursued the fleeing Ripley 8 to the Betty, and there cornered Call in the ship's cargo hold. After killing Distephano by crushing his head when he arrived to investigate, Ripley 8 once again appeared and convinced the creature to release Call unharmed. Using the Newborn's apparent devotion for her to her advantage, Ripley 8 distracted the creature as she used her acidic blood to burn a small hole in a nearby viewing window. The subsequent decompression blew the Newborn into space piecemeal through the tiny aperture, killing it.