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Originally Posted by Targan
The dropship crashing meant that the mission suddenly became sharply time-critical, also for a variety of reasons. The survivors were almost certain to have been overrun some time that night even if the reactor didn't go critical.
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IIRC, there was a minimum time for Bishop to get to the transmitter station (the link to the command building also being severed by the crash) and pilot the second drop ship down.
The key was the alien getting on the first drop ship and causing it to crash, which really had nothing to do with Gorman.