Almayer is not a civilian ship. There is nothing wrong in bringing the fight to Almayer if you have the means to kill the xenos and reclaim your own aircraft that also is valuable on its own. You can ensure the safety of not-so-numerous civilians, you can even just lock the hangar down, minimizing the risks. This is military and taking risks is a part of what you are supposed to do. Is it LRP to even deploy, risking the lives of your soldiers and the valuable assets such as the ARC, materials, ammunition? I think we should just stay on the ship, duh.
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If you brought a Blackhawk full of enemy combatants onto an aircraft carrier command would not be happy with you.
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Yeah I would be court martialed for tricking the enemy commander with his retinue into the trap 
Besides, command not being happy about something does not make it LRP. Surely lieutenant Gorman’s command would not be happy about many decisions he made on LV-426 either.
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That’s not the situation here though. All they know ICly is that the dropship launched to the planet for an unknown reason. Unless you decide to both look at the dropship cameras (xenos have usually killed the cameras by that point so you cant), and also decide that there’s too many to handle (this will always be subjective) then why not launch? What if there are revivable marines on the ship?
Also, this situation is so insanely rare to begin with (xenos not locking PLUS xenos not launching promptly PLUS someone remote recalling), god forbid something interesting happens rarely without it getting the LRP label.
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I would find it legitimatly sedition of someone in the command structure to bring back 30 xenoes oboard the ship after they routed you. Your forces are beaten half to death, half your men are dead or missing if not more, and the rest of the platoon is next door recieving urgent medical care depending on how well the actual evac went. So now you are going to risk bringing aboard a whole xenomorph hive to your ship, which you couldn’t even handle on the ground. To which most veteran commanders would know is the actual preferred habitat of xenomorphs if the movies are to be taken into account.
Like sure I also think it brings some interesting things to the round, but talking about it as if its some IC masterplan seems like cope.
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You can look at it this way. Almayer is one of the least funded ships in the USCM and as a Commander who just failed and OP and is about to lose one of your dropships, which probably will cost you not only your rank but will put you in an even worse place. So you will want to risk it to minimize damage to yourself and maybe secure a Queen corpse in the process, having something to barter with.
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Roll The dice. I agree with you.
I’ve gotten a medal for doing exactly this as XO; I feel like how in-character it is depends on the state of the marine force itself. If you had a half-decent evac and plenty of firepower, why wouldn’t you want to save your about-to-be-lost dropship and put the xenos in a killbox at the same time?
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