Chapter 1
Doom
Blood pounded in his ears as Lieutenant Lloyd Renald ran for his life with the surviving members of his squad down the blood and rust covered corridor towards the room that they had converted into a makeshift base camp. He could here it closing in behind them-the sound of its heavy footfalls on the chain link floor and the loud screeching sound its giant blade made as the pyramid-headed monster dragged it along behind it.
He and his men ran for all they were worth. Even if they were about to die the fleet had to be warned not to send anymore squads into this Hell. They reached the room where they had set up the holoprojector. As Renald ran inside and opened the link to the Star Destroyer Tarkin his stormtroopers stopped at the door and turned to face their pursuer.
"This is Lieutenant Lloyd Renald of the 4th infantry squad calling the Star Destroyer Tarkin," he spoke into the receiver as the troopers opened on fire triangle-headed terror. "We have encountered heavy xenomorphic activity. Most of my squad is dead. The situation is unsalvageable. Request that all Imperial units abandon this region of the planet immediately!" he yelled over the sound of blaster fire.
"Shit! I can't stop it!" yelled one trooper as blaster bolts bounced of the monster's helmet.
Renald glanced back nervously just in time to see the monster unaffected by the blaster fire decapitate two troopers simultaneously with a horizontal swing of its giant blade. Sweating bullets he turned back to the projector, "I repeat, request that all Imperial units abandon-" that's as far as he got, cut off by the dieing scream of the last trooper. He then felt a sharp pain in the back of his head, then nothing as the Great Knife split his skull and crushed the holoprojector in the same motion.