Gateway Station (Earth-7149)

Gateway Station was a massive space station in geosynchronous orbit over Outer colony Coral, in the Troisi system. It served as a loading station for cargo to be sold between the colonies, functioning as the headquarters of the Interstellar Commerce Commission.

History
The station was constructed in 2279, shortly after the founding of Coral. In 2500, the USS Sulaco was involved in an accident at the station, leading to the death of five crew members.

In 2560, Ellen Ripley was sent to Gateway Station after spending eight years adrift in space in cryosleep aboard a D81-LRT Condor. After undergoing a routine medicinal procedure, Ripley was brought in before a board of executives of the Interstellar Commerce Commission where she was extensively questioned about the destruction of the Concordance Extraction Corporation's outpost Con-Am 27, the freighter she was a crew member of. Her account regarding the xenomorphs and its slaughter of the crew was regarded as hallucinations by the ICC, which revoked her flight license. She was subsequently returned to her homeworld Luna.