During the tribunal aboard Gateway Station, the ECA representative was one of the more vocal skeptics of Ripley's story. She questioned how Ripley could have found an alien creature on a moon with no indigenous life, despite Ripley asserting several times that the Alien her crew had encountered on LV-426 had come from a derelict spacecraft and was not indigenous. This ECA representative also debated the outlandish description they had been given of an organism that used living human hosts as incubators for gestation and possessed highly acidic blood. Despite Ripley's attempts to confirm her assertions, the rep remained unconvinced.