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I don't think he meant literary the Hadley's Hope colony but more so the concept of people growing up in a Weyland-Yutani colony like Hadley's Hope, cause obviously Romulus predates Aliens.

Great to have you back Neomorph! Welcome back to the site!

WOOOO back again, thanks Chris! Hello fellow veterans! Time to dust off and start the hype train again :D August 16th people, can't wait!! 

03/25/2024a:
Due to its Japanese Academy & Oscar award wins, Godzilla Minus One was given a massive boost and Toho saw the need to expand it in Japanese theaters.

This result is a 20th weekend where it jumped back in the Top 10 at #4 and saw a blistering total of 6.41 Billion Yen ($43.7 Million) & an attendance of 4.20 Million! It'll have topped the attendance of every Heisei film before the week's end. It's tied with Godzilla vs. Mothra as the 9th most attended film in the series. It looks like it will surpass Godzilla vs. Mothra and Ebirah, Horror of the Deep, before the week ends!

03/25/2024b:
Weekend 21 of Godzilla Minus One's box office return and dominance continues having only fallen to #5. It has now blown past the 6.5 Billion Yen mark in just a week to 6.83 Billion Yen($46.55 Million). Attendance sits at a whopping 4.49 Million. (Toho, FranSpeech)

It has now officially surpassed every Monsterverse, Millennium, and Heisei Godzilla film in the franchise. It is the #1 Godzilla film just outside the all-time ranking of Japanese cinemas.

Benchmarks now include:

- 1st highest-grossing live-action domestic film of the Reiwa Political Era
- 1st highest-grossing domestic live-action 2023 film in Japan
- 2nd highest grossing/attended kaiju film in last 13 years.
- 4th highest-grossing domestic 2023 film in Japan.
- 4th live-action Japanese film to pass 6 Billion Yen in 10 years.
- 5th highest-grossing 2023 film in Japan.
- 8th most attended Godzilla movie in Japan.
(Kogyotsushin)

That's so funny Jonesy, that's exactly what I thought of as well hahaha I wonder if that was intentional!

Nice work! Another great piece of artwork! It is going to be fun to look at Alien/Aliens through a new lense, I'm a fan of "interquels" if done right and it feels like Fede is doing it right.

so great to know the film is connected with Hadley's Hope colony. I am now even imagining if any of the young characters could have some connection with Newt's family cause the ROMULUS timeline would sense that these characters will grow and reach the age of parenthood in ALIENS era (assume some of them survived :p)

we will now viewing the ALIEN ending and ALIENS opening with a brand new mind

the pod Big Chap lying kinda reminds me of this from Prometheus. 

welcome back, Big Chap 

i am also nerding out. fav franchise, hands down.
Even the "weaker" films i like watching. i love them all.
This is extremely nostalgic. Seeing him, barely alive.
Jesus i can't wait to see him on the big screen again.

Ah, thats why they are youngsters

Blending Alien with Prometheus sounds awesome! This confirms it, the ALIEN tv series isn't connected to the main ALIENverse 

According to my sources, Big Chap is still somewhat alive when it gets recovered... apparently it's kind of sad to see, like a deformed and wounded animal. But yeah, Big Chap got harpooned AND fried by the pod's jet propulsion system, frying the Xenomorph for a moment before the vacuum of space would have frozen the wounds. Stuck in a perpetual state of pain and suffering until the Network picked him up...

But yeah, the nostalgia is mounting higher and higher for me as more gets revealed. Of all the sci-fi franchises I nerd out over, Alien has always been my top obsession. I'm legitimately thrilled about this movie and everything it's going to show us.

It looks like the big chap is in some kind of hemispherical object, in a fetal position. Rewatching the ending of Alien, he got blasted out in one piece, with only a harpoon through his chest, which I guess got melted away from the acid blood. 

I'm getting nostalgia vibes.

Poor Big Chap...

this is so hard to choose, both are magnificent. But I remember I was totally hooked after watching the Prometheus trailer back in 2012. It was just AWESOME feeling, especially after all the AVP mess that Prometheus trailer is totally a breath of fresh air. The number of times I rewatched it was definitely more than ROMULUS. So yeah I vote for Prometheus. 

I Didn't even notice till now>so>sorry>But> You Got the GODZILLA '85 Up Here, instead of the '91 GODZILLA... jus' sayin'..

But I really wouldn't Mind it, if it Was the '85 GOJIRA! Hell Any One but.. hahahaaa 'da zilla'... I Had 6 IGUANA's in my Life, and he was Called: "TYRANUS~KAZZ~DRAGON~REXUS~The~VI~th"

I would Consider... Only if The Figure/Suit Could be WORN, I would have his "Big 'ol Green Ass" on the Next Plane to Tokyo>After>Hittin'>My>City>1st~CLEVELAND>!!

Maybe he stole it?

@Jonesy, good eye! Noticing the classic Weyland-Yutani logo, love it! Curious why he's wearing that, I'm thinking he finds the suit in the station and wears it, I don't see him having WY swag on the planet they come from.

Wow its been 2 years since i updated this fanfic. I plan on making more revisions in the future. 

"If my dad or girlfriend can't tell me the basics of what is happening ( in the series )...then the franchise has issues."

I am sorry, I wasn't trying to come off as condescending. I was just saying the wiki is helpfully as an all in one source, from expanded universe material to supplement material to what we know directly from the films.

Its a quirk of mine, once I'm invested in fictional universe, I want to know everything about it. 

Well regardless the ore in the Ore Refinery the Nostromo is tugging is ore collected from Thedus. Its in the ALIEN supplement material on the ALIEN QUADRILOGY and probably on the ALIEN ANTHOLOGY box sets.

Well I'm going to split hairs here but the system is called Zeta Reticuli, its a binary system with two stars (Zeta Reticuli I and Zeta Reticuli II). Calpamos orbits Zeta Reticuli II.

By the looks of the screenshot, those are definitely planetary rings.

I think the use of the Bison-class Star Freighters (the same class as the Nostromo) is the more likely explanation. 

However if its not in the Zeta Reticuli system, it would be interesting if Lv-426 is not the only source of the xenomorph. Since Fede Alvarez has been reading up on the old Dark Horse ALIEN Comics, we might see xenomorphs crop up on several alien worlds. If he is ever given the greenlight to do ALIEN sequels.

I would love to see an ALIENS EARTH WAR trilogy made into a movie series or hell I would rather it be the plot of the ALIEN tv series than what Noah Hawley is cooking up with his transhuman cyborg-centric plots

I don't care about the alien universe. I only care about the alien movies and what a causal fan would glean from watching ( not having to consult wiki or a novel ).

If my dad or girlfriend can't tell me the basics of what is happening ( in the series )...then the franchise has issues.

I think they mean Young Adults (18-25ish), not teenagers.

Well there are plenty of reasons why people would want to colonize another planet. Exploration, Discovery, and Wealth.

Yeah, I don't recall Parker ever saying that, like ever in ALIEN.

Also the Ore Refinery was built in Neptune's orbit then transported to Thedus by the Nostromo were they picked up regular Ore from Thedus to you know refine before taking it back to Earth... but then events of ALIEN happened.

Lv-426 is an untapped moon with frequent volcanic activity, it would be a treasure trove for rare earth metals and other elements. If not enriched with Iron Ore.

Also please visit the AVP wiki or the Alien Anthology wiki. A quick wiki search can tell you what you need to know about background material in the alien universe rather than coming up with a Wild Mass Guessing.

Yeah, plot is: a group of young space colonizers ? So I'm assuming they have a synth helper like the Covenant. Where are the adults?

Why do they need to scavenge anything? What planet are they attempting ( or heading towards ) to colonize?

 He is wearing a Weyland uniform. Um...interesting 

love this 8X slow mo

https://youtu.be/DeZ5uahHdnE?si=Xgm9NLyi6N4C6eU3 

it looks great !

The Alien RPG is cool.

But I'd like just a simple statement in one of the movies:

Parker "We're transporting their god damned toxic, world changing ore! We're taking the risk! We deserve more moolah!"

Brett "Yeah"

Yes. Hopefully it's in the Calpamos system. Makes sense.

Robots probably built the station with material from the systems asteroid belt ( or the rings )

Or the station was transported by a Nostromo type towing vehicle?

The less humans or synths that know about the station the better.

interesting, I love how this movie is connected with all the prequels and sequels. The timeline is getting more amazing  

I mean, if a company paid “a trillion dollars” to send a crew to a specific location and they never heard back or recovered their ship, they would certainly follow up and investigate… Not too far fetched at all. But also yes, LV-426 and LV-223 are adjacent moons to the same planet. Would make sense for Weyland-Yutani to set up shop nearby their only known location for harvesting the Xeno / Black Goo materials for their medical research.