This can be seen as another ironic reference to the ship's role in the game it is Pandora's box and it unleashes the Xenomorph upon the station. Epimetheus (the afterhinker), brother of Prometheus, subsequently opens the jar with no knowledge of the diseases it contains, thereby unwittingly releasing them to plague mankind. The gods thus send Pandora to the humans carrying a jar (often mistranslated as a box, hence 'Pandora's box') filled with 'gifts', which are in fact diseases. In an alternative version of the myth, the gods create Pandora/Anesidora to punish humans after the Titan Prometheus (the forethinker) gave to them the secret of fire, contrary to Zeus' orders. In reality, Anesidora is another name for Pandora, the first human woman created by the Greek gods, and means 'she who sends up gifts' this is likely a reference to the Anesidora bringing the Alien aboard Sevastopol. Although Amanda Ripley and Nina Taylor attempted to stop the overload, they were unsuccessful the blast was mitigated, but Anesidora was still destroyed in the resultant explosion, which damaged Sevastopol's orbital stabilizers and eventually resulted in the station's destruction. I can't let it live.' ― Marlow and Ripley (from Alien: Isolation)ĭuring the chaos of the Xenomorph infestation and the revolt by Sevastopol's Working Joes, Marlow managed to escape from his cell at the Colonial Marshal headquarters and made for his ship, intending to overload its reactor and destroy Sevastopol with the blast, thereby wiping out the rampaging Xenomorphs. ' It'll annihilate every trace of the creature. ' That'll turn the reactor into a God damn nuke! You'll destroy the ship! And the station!' ' I'm going to overload the fusion reactor.' Marlow was placed under arrest by the Colonial Marshals for his role in the disaster while Anesidora remained parked in orbit around KG-348. Foster was taken to Sevastopol's medical center, but the Chestburster duly emerged, killing Foster and beginning a Xenomorph infestation that rapidly overtook the station. Hoping to get medical aid for his wife and unaware of the Chestburster now gestating inside her, Marlow took Anesidora to Sevastopol Station. Within, Marlow found and disabled the derelict's beacon, while Catherine Foster, Marlow's wife, was attacked and subdued by a Facehugger from one of the Xenomorph Eggs in the ship's vast cargo hold. Their search led them to Acheron (LV-426), where the crew soon found the derelict ship previously discovered by the crew of Nostromo fifteen years previously. After recovering and accessing the recorder, Captain Henry Marlow and his crew elected to follow the flight data in the hopes of finding and salvaging the ship itself. In 2137, while conducting salvage operations in the Zeta 2 Reticuli system, USCSS Anesidora stumbled across the flight recorder unit from USCSS Nostromo.

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