Deep Background is a short story written by Keith R. A. DeCandido. It was first published in the 2017 anthology Aliens: Bug Hunt, edited by Jonathan Maberry.
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Nickole Kejela, a talented journalist is assigned to a unit of Colonial Marines to run a profile piece on life in the Corps, but when the company is dispatched to a remote science installation, they find themselves fighting for their lives against an outbreak of Xenomorphs.