Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver)And three others from the previous film:Cpl.Dwayne Hicks12 year-old Newtsynthetic humanoid Bishop 341-B)Their 337 Model E.E.V.escape pod was ejected and crash-landed on the bleak and windy planet of Fiorina or "Fury" 161, a Weyland-Yutani outer-veil mineral ore refinery - and a maximum security correctional facility populated by 25 hardened, violent sex criminals (with double-Y chromosomes) who also had "apocalyptic, millenarian, Christian fundamentalist" beliefs - only female protagonist Ripley survived.]The film""s screenplay (credited as being written by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, and Capra himself, with additional scenes by Jo Swerling) was based on "The Greatest Gift," an original short story first written on a Christmas card by Philip Van Doren Stern.Dr.Irina Spalko appeared, expressing her interest in the skull""s ultimate global domination powers for use in warfare, after it was returned to Akator, although Indy doubted that it was only a legend: "This next level of weapon is ours to have, yours to fear.Ardeth stated: "They have become his slaves.So it has begun, the beginning of the end." Using the Rosetta Stone, Evelyn determined that if the black book was inside the statue of Anubis, then the gold Book of Amun-Ra must be located at Hamunaptra inside the statue of Horus [Bembridge scholars had mixed up the two locations].