At this point, Luthor attempted to persuade the unconvinced Senator Finch to grant him an import license in order to recover more Kryptonite from the crash site.Preoccupied and suddenly non-committal, the high-strung Mortimer suddenly recognizes Elaine ("What are you doing here?") - she is hysterically dismayed by the stumbling blocks to their honeymoon plans and storms out of the house:We were married today.When news arrived of the loss of contact with terraforming space-colonists at Hadleys Hope (with a population of 158) on the moon LV-426 where the alien was first discovered in the initial film, Ripley reluctantly led a rough military crew of Colonial Marines with "state-of-the-art firepower" on board theUSS Sulacoand one of its drop-ships ("an express elevator to hell") to investigate a "xenomorph.They are trained by drill sergeant Himmelstoss, the ex-village postmaster who has become a disliked, sadistically brutal commander.