xkamelx
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Post by xkamelx on Oct 11, 2006 18:36:28 GMT -5
When mother changed the Nostromo's course once the distress signal was picked up, was this due to regulation stating that distress signals were always responded to, or was this done because the company, Weyland-Yutami was actually searching for the xenomorphs?
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Post by valderra on Oct 12, 2006 7:19:42 GMT -5
When mother changed the Nostromo's course once the distress signal was picked up, was this due to regulation stating that distress signals were always responded to, or was this done because the company, Weyland-Yutami was actually searching for the xenomorphs? I take it that the 'company' was a legacy of Weyland and, in fact, the same company. I can't see that they were purposefully searching for an alien since Weyland died in that pyramid, before he could tell the world what happened. And the girl was the only survivor, and I am not sure she told anyone what really happened. Either way, it's all just speculations since we didn't see what happened after the predators left and what happened to the girl. I think that the company just programmed the computer to act on any kind of distress call they would encounter en route to and from their destinations. And they were to bring back any kind of alien lifeform they found on the way. Of course, since the crew didn't know about it - only Ash, the science officer - it is obvious that the company used the Nostromo for different purposes, and as it is in all American movies, there are always crew members who know everything, and the rest is left ignorant by telling them the by now rather tiresome phrase: It's on a need to know basis.
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Post by xkamelx on Oct 12, 2006 22:13:55 GMT -5
Yeah, the company is named Weyland, even in Alien although it is never stated and referred to as 'The Company', same in Aliens.
I never thought about the AVP connection, about the surviving woman telling them what she saw. She probably was interrogated by the company, since it's CEO died on a mission with her. But would they really take what she said seriously, being it was 2004 and all, not like it's centuries later and people are exploring the galaxy.
There's also the off-chance they discovered her alien head shield and tale spear. Didn't she make it to the surface with that?
However, I when I made this thread, I was thinking more along the lines of if they ever encountered the species before outside of AVP. After all, Ash never automatically what to do, as did mother, without any contact or transmissions from a star base or Earth.
Even in Aliens, it takes two weeks to send and receive a signal from LV-426, and the events on Alien took place over a day or two at the most.
So I wonder if the company knew about xenomorphs already, or that was the protocol for any alien life they discovered, to bring back at all costs; crew expendable?
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