Alien: Earth

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When does this take place?

Weyland-Yutani is a thing (as opposed to it just being Weyland Corp in Prometheus) but also Yutani is one of the characters (the founder, or maybe her daughter?) so I doubt it's that far into the future if she's alive and well. Where is it in relation to Alien 1?
 
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Rajaah said:
When does this take place?

Weyland-Yutani is a thing (as opposed to it just being Weyland Corp in Prometheus) but also Yutani is one of the characters (the founder, or maybe her daughter?) so I doubt it's that far into the future if she's alive and well. Where is it in relation to Alien 1?
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2120, Alien is 2122. The Nostromo left Earth in 2120. Part of me thinks the Nostromo gets redirected to LV 426 on the way home since they lose all their samples in this show.

Hawley flat out said he was ignoring Prometheus and Covenant cause they fucked up any hope of a timelime.
 
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I think it's supposed to be a couple decades before Alien 1, potentially after the ship left earth though so they would have no knowledge of what happens in this show. It actually has the potential to clear things up for 1 & 2 as to why/how Ash and Bishop had prime directives to preserve the alien. Although I guess that was SOP since Morrow had the same programming.

Clearly the alien has inconsistent power levels and hunting techniques. I've always chalked it up to a mix of respect for a skilled enemy (similar to how the predator is portrayed) and some instinctual recognition of a good host. It toyed with Ripley in the first movies because it wanted her specifically as a host, and later knew it was a host. Similarly it "picked" the brother as a potential host and didn't insta-gib him and instead glued him to the wall.

It's not a perfect explanation but works for me given all the other oddities we're supposed to accept in any science fiction alien life form story.
 
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I don't know too much about alien lore but aren't they like ants where there are workers and soldiers? The soldiers being taller, stronger, and more heavily armored? This one certainly seems bigger than the one in alien.
 
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Bald Brah said:
I don't know too much about alien lore but aren't they like ants where there are workers and soldiers? The soldiers being taller, stronger, and more heavily armored? This one certainly seems bigger than the one in alien.
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Basically. Apparently queens send out a telepathic link to the colony, but even some humans are susceptible to it. This is all comic stuff, and it's been years since I've read them but if I remember you got alien cults and shit happening.

Think it's drones or warriors for humans. Praetorians are there in the comics, and they were just there to guard the queen but I don't know what they birth from, I think it was an egg, and that was from the earth wars series.

Then the offshoots like the runner from the third film. The comics had other ones based on whatever life form the alien impregnated. The colonial Marines series had had some crazy fish or walrus version when they were on a water planet. The Batman versus alien comic had a giant crocodile alien! You even had the predator alien which I think that predators labeled an abomination.

I could be wrong on some of this, but that's what I'm currently recalling.
 
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Bald Brah said:
I don't know too much about alien lore but aren't they like ants where there are workers and soldiers? The soldiers being taller, stronger, and more heavily armored? This one certainly seems bigger than the one in alien.
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That is how they were presented in Aliens and that has sort of stuck since then.
 
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