LV-426

I really recommend getting the starter story and playing through it.

It takes place on LV-426, which is the setting of Alien and Aliens 2. uh the first two movies but it's actually right before the story of aliens where the last survivors of lv426 show up before uh ellen ripley and the nostromo and the colonial marine show up um it's like a little story of any survivors that get through fun fun little story um and there's other stories that you can play so

Now, you can play, like I said, you can play somebody, you can play a whole Colonial Marines.

You could play, you know, a corporation and do, you know, you could technically do the original Alien movie.

You had the Oscar winning actor, Forrest Whitaker.

Incidentally, the production design of Alien ended up influencing the Star Wars films when one of the planets in Rogue One was modeled after LV-426, the planet that the Nostromo landed upon and discovered the aliens.

See, everyone steals, and it's all right.

And while the first half of Alien was more of a slow burn like 2001, the second half was more like Star Wars in its pacing, including a ticking clock finale leading up to the explosion of the Nostromo, very similar to the destruction of the Death Star.

In this film, Ripley becomes a maternally driven action hero after losing her daughter.

The film also makes efforts to rehabilitate androids after Ash's deception in the first film.

The android Bishop proves to be a saving grace for the team of Marines who are assigned with saving a group of colonists that have gone dark on LV-426, a title for the moon assigned in this film by James Cameron's script.

The Marine characters are intriguingly varied, including a woman who is more macho than most of the men and a private played by Bill Paxton who is all bravado until he meets his first alien.

In the original script they were gonna go outside the ship and investigate the Nostromo.

Using a small craft they'd see that one of the Nostromo seals was damaged which sets up the ship having issues after leaving LV-426.

However the budget didn't allow for it which is a shame but it is something that Scott would later kinda use in Alien Covenant.

Dallas then explains that they're only half way to Earth and they've been diverted off course by Mother.

We later see chains which look like tails when Brett is killed and just having this image here kinda builds towards that.

Now we think everything is fine as Ash dissects the facehugger.

There was gonna be a clue though as the mural showing the creatures life cycle was intended to be included when the away team investigated LV-426.

This would show the xenomorph around the top which we can see by the head on the right.

Yeah, you win on that one.

I just had a boring one with Weyland-Yutani sending colonists to LV-426, but I'll take yours, Nate.

Yep, me too.

Our producer's choice, who would you replace in the cast or crew? Honestly, I tried hard.

Hope's Last Day.

Um, right, there was, um, there was some commotion the day that you set off to, to work on Hadley's Hope, the shake and bake terraforming and mining colony, uh, built on the, the barren moon LV-426.

Um, your crew, led by Janice McWhir, got to work even though there was a hubbub at the base.

But that doesn't stop your work schedules.

Well, the movie is a direct sequel in some ways to the first movie, in other ways entirely different because it takes place 57 years later.

Ellen Ripley, the character from the first movie, is resurrected, or not resurrected, that's Alien Resurrection, is woken up from her long nap, from her cryotube, by the company that she works for and is more or less strong-armed into going back to the planet LV-426 for the company that she works for because the colonists there are... not responding to any sort of hail.

And they're concerned, and they need an expert.

And she is the closest thing to an expert because even though it seems as though they're not taking her warning seriously, they obviously are, or else they wouldn't need to send her on this mission.

And you're going to have a bigger problem when they colonize planets in their own visage, which we see slowly happen through a series of movies.

But yeah, she confronts them again.

And we find out they've been colonizing the original planet LV-426.

And she's like, what do you mean you're colonizing that planet? Nuke it from orbit.

This is a short cinematic adventure that tells the story of the final hours of Hadley's Hope.

the terraforming colony on the moon LV-426 depicted in the film Aliens through the eyes of five colonists.

You know, the ones who all die.

It offers a taste of cinematic gameplay, drops the players straight into the action.

I mean, Aliens, like that, that's a sequel but there's still...

Like you have to establish the world of LV-426 and that.

Mm.

And then the Terminator franchise as well.