<P> In 2104, 11 years after the Prometheus expedition, the colonization ship Covenant is bound for a remote planet, Origae - 6, with a crew of 15, two thousand colonists in stasis and 1,140 human embryos aboard . The ship is monitored by Walter, a newer android model that physically resembles David . A stellar burst damages the ship, killing 47 colonists . Walter orders the ship's computer to wake the crew, which includes several married couples . The ship's captain, Jake Branson, is burned alive when his stasis pod malfunctions . While repairing the ship, the crew picks up a radio transmission from a nearby, habitable planet . Against the objections of Daniels (Branson's widow), the new captain, Oram, decides to investigate . </P> <P> As the Covenant remains in orbit, an expedition team descends to the earth - like planet's surface and tracks the transmission's signal to a crashed alien ship . Crew members Ledward and Hallett are infected by alien spores . Oram's wife Karine helps the rapidly - sickening Ledward back to the lander where Maggie, the pilot, quarantines them both inside the med - bay . A small, pale, alien creature (neomorph) bursts from Ledward's back, killing him, and then kills Karine . Maggie attempts to kill the creature with a shotgun, but triggers an explosion which kills her and destroys the lander . The neomorph escapes while a similar creature bursts from Hallett's mouth . </P> <P> The neomorphs attack the remaining crew members and kill one . The crew manages to kill a neomorph before David, who survived the Prometheus mission, scares away the other, and leads the crew to a temple in a city full of humanoid (Engineer) corpses . David tells them that upon his and fellow Prometheus survivor Elizabeth Shaw's arrival at the planet, their ship released a black liquid bio-weapon which annihilated the native population and that Shaw died when the ship crashed in the ensuing chaos . After the crew members tell David of their mission, they attempt to contact the Covenant but are prevented by fierce storms . The surviving neomorph infiltrates the structure and kills crew member Rosenthal . David tries to communicate with the creature, but is horrified when Oram kills it . Oram questions David who reveals that the aliens are a result of his experimenting with the black liquid in an attempt to create a new species . He manipulates Oram into being attacked by an alien parasite (facehugger). An alien creature (xenomorph) later erupts from Oram's chest, killing him . </P> <P> As the others search for Oram and Rosenthal, Walter, who has found Shaw's dissected corpse, confronts David . David explains that he believes humans are a dying species and should not be allowed to colonize the galaxy . When Walter disagrees, David disables him, and threatens Daniels . Walter recovers (being a superior model capable of self - repair) and confronts David while Daniels escapes as they fight . A facehugger attacks security chief Lope, but he is later rescued by crew member Cole . The now fully grown Xenomorph appears and kills Cole, while Lope escapes and meets up with Daniels . Pilot Tennessee arrives in another lander to extract Daniels, Lope, and Walter, who claims David has "expired". After an encounter outside the ship, they kill the Xenomorph and return to the Covenant . </P>

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