>>6065
That's an interesting point of view. I thought that having a xenomorph hide in her gunship was a delightful reference to the movies. Maybe an even better reference to the movies would be to have Samus win in spite of being ambushed in her own ship without her powersuit.

In fact, for Samus to properly win, all the xenomorphs need to die. Perhaps even after Samus loses her powersuit, she and Lara could make a heroic final push to wipe out the aliens. Lara goes out in a blaze of glory, Samus kicks one final xenomorph out of her ship, vaporizes the monster with air-to-ground fire, then flies away and we end with "The operation was completed successfully."

I like it. Compared to that, the ending I was planning where Samus is killed by a xenomorph would have been quite anticlimactic.