How did a Queen egg end up inside the Sulaco?

I've been talking about that for years personally, but that's by the by.

How could she know they would go into hypersleep? At that point she was out for revenge rather than survival.

Ripley entered hypersleep probably 2 hours after they boarded the Sulaco.....Queen probably took hours to recover...((I keep seeing the image of the Xeno aboard the narcissus...how slow and lethargic it was....I see the Queen the same way...))... more than enough time for Ripley to enter hypersleep...Queen finally recovered .....limited around the Sulaco looking for Ripley....Too late to 'goo' her to a wall, had to settle for a facehugger death.

Queen didn't know they were headed for hypersleep...Queen recovered from her exposure to space....she lost the scent at the hypersleep chamber. Probably couldn't find Ripley without her smell......gave up, layed a bunch of eggs then when into some long term coma.

What does the Queen eat anyway?

Whatever the hell she wants I suspect.

Okay so you're assuming she needs to recover from exposure.

Lol!

Yes, exposure would have been rough.....Like to see a half eaten mortally wounded Queen...acid dripping, half her face gone...though I doubt they could have made her look anymore terrifying.

But knowing that the facehuggers came from the egg, etc. Bishop would have taken those orders from Burke strictly. Bishop also knows Ripley would flip out, etc. So the best thing to do, sneak an egg or two on board without Ripley knowing about it. That way his orders from Burke are carried out, and Ripley isn't tipped off.

And again, we never see Bishop carry out Ripley's orders, so Burke's orders (as the company rep) are probably the most relevant to him. 

Ripley's orders contradict Burke's so Bishop would need them to sort that out before he could action one.

Bishop is unable to carry out either order because he's at the uplink tower when Burke releases the huggers and Hudson and Vasquez shoot them.

How is Bishop going to "sneak an egg or two on board without Ripley knowing about it"? And if he did so, why did he risk his 'mission' to wait around for Ripley and Newt when the sensible thing to do would be fly off back to the Sulaco and sic a hugger on the comatose Hicks.

@S.M.  -  You make a really strong point:  Bishop has no real reason to hang around and wait for Ripley if he's already got what the company needs.  

After thinking about it more, the timing of everything makes it very unlikely for Bishop to be part of how the egg got there.  Especially if he's acting alone.

My hypothetical team of stealthy Marines would probably run into problems sneaking into the hive, somehow carrying the egg out, and then placing it there.

I'm thinking that whatever put it there needed to be able to carry the egg without being facehugged.  

A lot of these conspiracy ideas are pretty shaky simply because - why would anyone risk something that important to chance by sticking it on the Sulaco unsupervised?  Best idea is to leg it back to somewhere it can be contained and studied properly.

We've seen what the Company does when they want the Alien - they send scientists and commandoes.  Leaving things to chance results in fires, lifeboat ejections, potential hosts resisting, big explosions and ultimately losing the prize.

Not withstanding expecting the wonderful Alien 3 to be a Cryo-Dream/Nightmare I suspect that Bishop placed at least one egg on the Sulaco and or within the undercarriage of the drop ship. Why upside down I don't know. I don't like the idea of an emergency egg within the Queen.

How did Bishop get an egg?

And once he had one, why risk hanging around?

@SM

Yes very few good points especially of Bishop was following company orders and he had a Hicks on board and then he had Eggs, why wait for Ripley... very good point.

Maybe if he had 2 Eggs he would need 2 hosts, but i would be sure he would not risk his objective if that was the case and surely the company would preferred one Egg for Study and other for infecting a Host.

Indeed there is many plot holes in theories we can come up with, another would be are we to assume Eggs only Activated and Release their Face Hugers when a Host is in close Proximity...

So we have to ask how does the Face Huger escape while the Survivors are in Cryo-Sleep.... i think its just going to be one of those things that will never be covered.

Also the theory that the Queen managed to survive and get back on board is one i overlooked and it could work...  But then how would the Queen get back inside?  and how far was she blasted away and then how far did the Sulaco manage to get prior to any chance of the Queen catching up with the Ship.

Also if the Ship had a Queen on board then why need Ripley, unless the Sulaco is destroyed by the Fire.

The Queen would most likely had been attracted to the nearest source of gravity, which, once being ejected, would be LV-426.

Assuming Bishop was guilty, he wouldn't need hosts; just the egg(s). Hosts would be a bonus, but not essential.

I figure the Queen had an egg or two stashed under one of her extra arms or else still in her body.  The Queen is always shown as being more crafty than the drones and warriors.    But then again, the Company is always looking after stuff for their weapons divisions.  

She could easily have stuck one behind back between the spines.

Just my guess but my guess is that when the queen pulled herself from ovipositor it triggers her last eggs to morph into a pretorian queen and a worker drone then her sole purpose is to find a safe place to lay them. We know that when the drop ship collided with the gangway is when the queen climbed onto the strut and made it back to the sulaco. what the movie does not explain is how long they spend after the have made it back to the sulaco patching up Hicks and what-not. so lets assume they spend 20mins before they exit the dropship that would give the queen a reasonable time to go lay her last eggs somewhere in the ship bay and make it back to her hidey hole. If you look at the blueprints for the sulaco(link at the bottom) you can clearly see the the EEVs and orbital drop pods are right next to the ship bay which are in range for the queen to lay her eggs. this is where it gets a bit confusing as the most likely place for the queen to lay her eggs is near the reactor or the cooling tower in the rear of the ship which happens to be through several bulkheads not too mention she would have had to go through several narrow hallways and up a lift shaft which would have taken way longer than 20 mins. So my guess is that she layed her eggs in the shipbay somewhere then then went and laid in wait for Ripley the whole VS scene played out and then Ripley Hicks and Newt go into cryo then some time into the return journey there is an electrical fire which triggers the eggs to hatch and the Facehuggers to look for a host at which point the EEV starts to prep itself to receive the cryo tubes at which point the tubes are loaded onto the EEV and the huggers senses the hosts and boards and one impregnates Ripley. but again we know it takes days for the facehugger to finish the job. Here is my guess for that because the nature of the embryo being a queen it does not need to assimilate any of the hosts traits so it is born pure and at an accelerated rate as for where the hugger that impregnates ripley is bishop mentions that the Acid in the huggers oxidizes after death so my guess is the EEV does not need to be pressurized due to the pods having there own life support and the hugger was consumed by the acid given there is no oxygen present in the EEV when they opened the pod at the beginning that's when the acid oxidised.

Sulaco blueprints: https://lcarsgfx.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/sulaco.png

Anyway that's my theory sorry about going on for so long and thanks for listening :)                                               

We see Bishop coming from the cockpit, removing a headset and Newt getting up from the chair she was sitting on. Why would they wait 20 minutes to disembark?

And as cool as that blueprint is - it's not exactly official.

"Assuming Bishop was guilty, he wouldn't need hosts; just the egg(s). Hosts would be a bonus, but not essential"

Well this is where we have to use a bit of Logic..

1) Are the Xeno Eggs Dangerous?  Erm not really, only Danger is when they release the Face Huger.

2) Are Face Hugers Dangerous, yes to a degree, but we have to assume if you can wait until it has done its job and fallen off a victim you could attempt to remove the Organism, and Destroy it.... or Cryo Freeze it.

3) Would a Chest Buster be Dangerous, very much so they can easily escape and when they grow you have a Deadly Xenomorph that is harder to contain.

So if the Company wanted a Organism Specimen and Bishop was the Bad Guy, and he had the Eggs, then why would he bother going back for Ripley?

The company would have had contingency plans to maybe Quarantine and Store the Xeno Eggs to be taken to Company Labs...

We have to assume Bishop could do that without the Egg opening, because how else did he get them on the Ship. So why not put them in some place Secure or infect just Hicks and Leave Ripley on LV-426.

Its for that reason that i find it doubtful Bishop had anything directly to do with the Eggs, but if the Eggs got on board by other means than a Queen, then maybe Bishop knew about this?

I still say the Logical Answer has to be the Queen.

If the Queen was laying Eggs we have to look at how this happens, and how the ovipositor functions.

For this we can only assume, but if we look at it like a Termite then Eggs are produced here and mature to the size needed to then be laid and collected by workers.

But a Termites ovipositor is part of its body and is actually its abdomen that swells due to the swelling of her many ovaries that contain thousands of Eggs.

The Xenomorph Queen can detach from her ovipositor and so we have to ask are Eggs Produced inside the ovipositor, or does the ovipositor act like a Female Mamals Womb where the Eggs grow.

Therefor how do we know a Queen does not produce the early stage Eggs  that go into the ovipositor where they grow.

If this is the case, but we have no proof.  Then maybe she can have some not matured smaller Eggs inside her?

What about......Ripley and crew could have been awoken a little bit after Aliens ended.  10 minutes or 10 months(?)....had another nasty adventure....(a battle with David or the Engineers?)...defeated the baddy...then returned to hypersleep(explaining the new hypersleep coffins).

There is nothing to indicate Alien 3 started the second Aliens ended?

The Sulaco could have been boarded the very second Aliens ended.

@MonsterZero - If you take the Colonial Marines game into account, that's exactly what happened. Less said about that the better.  There's about 10 days between the end of Alien and the start of Alien3, and the first frames of Alien3 mirroring the final frames of Aliens are supposed to indicate we're picking up where we left off (different cryotubes aside).

@BigDave - One script draft (or perhaps the novelisation) said tiny dots (ie. eggs)could be seen on Ripley's bioscan indicating that the embryo was Queen. In that regard an Alien Queen would be the same as a human female in that they're born with every egg they'll ever produce.