Carbon Rites

Carbon Rites is a 2022 short story written by Jess Landry, published by Titan Books as part of the anthology Aliens vs. Predators: Ultimate Prey.

Trivia

The short story is one of few stories in the franchise to be set in the advanced time period of Alien Resurrection. Other examples include the comics Alien vs. Predator: Thrill of the Hunt and Alien vs. Predator: Civilized Beasts, and the non-canon crossover comic Aliens versus Predator versus The Terminator, and the novels Aliens: Original Sin and Alien: Sea of Sorrows.
In Carbon Rites, the USM placed humans and synthetics together in simulations based on locations from previously documented extraterrestrial encounters^[1] such as LV-223 from the film Prometheus, the South China Sea from the novel Predator: South China Sea, DS 949 from the comic Aliens: Berserker, and Sevastopol from the video game Alien: Isolation.