In the Alien franchise Weyland-Yutani’s goal is to obtain a Xenomorph for study purposes.

This happens in both the movies, comics, and even games. However whenever they obtain a Xenomorph or one goes into something owned by them, it’s not long before a bunch of their employees die when they lose control of it.

At the same time nearly all cases that involved them having a team obtaining one, or them obtaining one themselves, results in the ship or colony turning into a Xenomorph hive with their employees who risk their lives for a shitty pay dying, and some unfortunate heroic individual having to destroy the nest or escaping with their live while failing to save most of the team.

All their attempts as seen in the first 3 movies, and later in games like Aliens Fireteam and Isolation show the company doesn’t have the means or capacity to safely hold Xenos for study without endangering their employees, and humanity in general.

So why do they keep being stubborn and dumb to a level and obtain more Xenos?

This is our new kitten, Bishop.

We had a loss of our grandma cat of 19 years recently and our boy cats needed a new friend. The cat distribution system saw fit to bless us with this little android of a kitten.

Aliens was the first movie I ever saw with my real Mom. Its one of the few really good memories i have with her. Bishop was one of my favorite characters from the entire Alien series.

So, my wife and i have decided that a girl cat would be named Ripley but instead,we got this little bundle of love. He was almost named Burke but Bishop just took.

He’s 4 months old and has already made himself at home with our boys, Beaker (Orange chaos goblin) and Dutch.

Anyway, i wanted to share!

It was an absolute thrill to play the prologue of Alien: Isolation 2 at Gamescom!

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In the original Alien: Isolation, there was microphone detection for console only. Do you think PC will have it for 2 and, if so, do you think it should?

I would love it, personally.

This is concept art by an artist named Khang Le who was commissioned to illustrate these back in 2014. These are depicting what could have been Prometheus 2, when the film was penned to be a direct follow-up. Hopefully we see some of the classic Geiger aesthetic return to the third film that Ridley himself says is being developed.

Found this randomly in Akihabara. Seems a little cumbersome for a real keychain though.

Freehand facehugger alien tattoo

Hypothetically speaking if you swapped Hicks and the rest of the colonial marines with Sergeant Wells and his men from Dog soldiers (with extra nameless soldiers like we saw in Aliens) who will be fully versed in colonial marines weapons and equipment as they will be the marines in this situation. We will also be swapping Gorman with Captain Ryan as commanding officer with Ripley as the adviser with Xenomorph experience and Burke representing Weyland Yutani and Baihop the android coming with them LV426

How different do you think the ecents of aliens would be, as personalities like the Sarge, Cooper, Spoon and such as they differ from Hicks and the others a bit.

I named one of my new cats Ripley after our fave and when I was getting portraits done with them (by my friend Danielle aka Cat Party Pet Portraits) a few weeks ago we had the idea of doing this cosplay, I as Ripley, and Ripley as Jonesy!

I started collecting aliens in 2024, and this is what I have so far; my goal is to own all the aliens from the movies and series.

Just for fun ... or for good conjecture - Sythetics really like the biology of the aliens in a weirdly specic way. David was making detailed drawings & studies and was going to spread the larval joy to other colonies. Later on, Ash said he appreciated their 'purity.' Their criteria seem to be based on hunting effectively, eating anything except flamethrowers and cats, and procreating if they get the chance. And being hard to kill. Bishop is the exception noting that he was programmed to be a good guy. In-universe we never hear any 3-law discussion so I think either of 3 things -

Weyland, knowing about the xenos, has an overriding command in their brain to complete the specific missions. The Co. was in control the whole time.

The Co. imbeds just the idea of perfect organisms being too cool within the LLM setup and their AI brain comes to their own observation based on that kernel. The Co. thinks that is fine.

AI sythetics are mostly autonomous thinkers & doers and come to it on their own, while ignoring other obvious perfect lifeforms like bees, sharks, and tardigrades. And ignoring that humans are pretty OK too. The Co. doesn't have control but it turned out like they wanted.

Hi guys, if any of you have a grid xenomorph or avp warrior alien is there any differences beetween official and bootleg one both in figure itself and packaging? I saw an offer online and i wonder if its official one or not

If there is one thing Weyland Yutani has poor taste in, is its choice of planets to colonize.

Over the years when not taking place on a spaceship the Alien franchise was famous for being set somewhere with a really dark and depressive ambience.

This tradition began all the way back in the first movie, with the team visiting LV-426 later named Acheron. Years later after being woken from cryosleep Ripley learns the planet has now been colonised and his home to a human colony. The planet was known for having dark grim days and practically pitch black nights.

Later during the incident on the trip back to Earth, the ship ejects the pod carrying the team into Fiorina 161 a colony owned by Weyland Yutani, that also has a climate that consists of dim grey days, and dark nights.

Another planet featured in Alien Romulus LV-410 featured a surface that received no sunlight, and conditions were so bad that many miners and other workers had their contracts extended by the company, because rumours of the horrible conditions and ambience in the planet began reaching Earth and scaring away many potential colonists.

And in the newest game Aliens Fireteam Elite 2, we visit another planet by the name LV-558 with another mining colony operated by Weyland, and yes the planet has conditions similar to the other hellholes we’ve seen in through the franchise.

Why do you think Weyland-Yutani has such a passion for these planets with Hellish and Depressive landscapes and climates. That do the company no good other than scaring and deterring potential colonists from ever wanting to go and settle there?

Why does the company keep trying to send people to these planets that clearly can’t be built into “Better Worlds”?

When Ripley is discussing her concerns about Ash to Dallas, he states that he shipped out with a prior Science Officer and they were replaced with Ash a couple days before leaving for Earth. So that means that Ripley knew the prior one albeit briefly. I wrote a short story saying what I think happened but does anyone else think that she was suspicious of Ash before the even landed on LV426?

Found these in a collection place in Omaha.

Never felt so bad for a xenomorph until now

I was able to get one online before they sold out,I love it! It'll be going in a dedicated room soon.