ALIENS | A lore primer and overview of the spooky latex aliens.
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Aliens, one of the most classic and all time best science fiction horror franchises of all time. From the fishnet wearing predators, to the latex clad xenomorphs Aliens is a fantastic franchise. So settle in and enjoy a lore overview and primer on the series.
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"Pyramids are just a very convenient way of staking rocks on each other." Fucking Brilliant. Well Said.
the tribe swith an accurate system beyond telescopes is a real thing though
Alien Elite Fireteam had an interesting twist with the black goo and the Aliens. The game also seems to take the Engineers into their story, but it doesn't look like they acknowledge the Prometheus movies.
There was also an event that forced the cooperations like Weyland Yutani to sign an document that basicly says, "You guys are no longer in charge. The gouvernements are. And if the Marines say jump, you ask, how high." They aren't even the primary weapon manufactuer of the Marines anymore. Everyone was just fed up with their bullshit.
The lore of the other nations is a nice read too. Maybe, one day we actually will see them.
But that is all just in the game.
I really want that UPP vs UA/3WE cold war expanded on. An interstellar war also could be amazing.
@@The_Viscount What's interesting is that the old Gibson treatment of ALIEN 3 had some shadows of that conflict in it.
A bit of lore is in the new-iah aloen rpg. And there is an older aliem rpg from the 90s with more lore on the nationa
Listening to you try to rationalize the breaks between the newer movie and game lore and the old novels is hilarious.
I suggest picking up the Colonial Marines Technical Manual. It has some more indepth information, as well as theories on the Xenomorph "blood" acid and descriptions of the FTL systems onboard the Sulaco [I think they call it a hyperlight shunt], which basically allows a ship to skip past lightspeed and convert the ship to tachyons for FTL travel, and then the faster you go, the faster time in your frame of reference goes, which is one reason they use cryopods for the crew, as at 650 times the speed of light, time on the ship is actually going FASTER than the outside universe [again, IIRC]
So, my headcanon on xenos:
Xenos don't eat meat. They subsist off of minerals, which they use their acid to break down before consumption. They hunt creatures for breeding, because the minerals are more available and pre processed.
Yeah. When I discovered the Alien Franchise and how cartoonishly greedy and evil WaylendYutani is, I just looked back at the Armored Core Franchise and its corporations and said, "Friends of yours?"
Yeah, it's unfortunately very common in Sci-Fi (even Science Fantasy like Star Wars) because it's too easy to imagine the megacorps of our current era actually doing this (and they already do, to an extent).
@@DragonxFlutter Yeah. About the most unrealistic thing is how often those corporations have their own "army" and wage wars.
There's no money to be made in waging a war. The money is made selling shit to the military, and coming in after to steal resources from conquered territories. Waging a war itself? Not really profitable.
@@DragonxFlutterAt least the Armored Core or Cyberpunk Megacorps let you become a machine killing machine.
Ah, Prometheus. Maybe the only movie I've ever been so enraged by that I viewed the entire thing through a red mist. The absolutely staggering incompetence of every single member of the expedition offended me as a professional. Felt like the writers researched safety, contamination, and containment regulations just so that they could force the characters to violate every single one, with a huge measure of lack of common sense thrown in as a garnish. Hated it so much that I refuse to watch is again, and turned me off the franchise so hard that I won't even give Covenant a chance to hurt me.
Still absolutely love the first two movies, though. Also greatly enjoy Predator. Liked Prey quite a bit, too.
What's more insulting is when compared to the original ALIEN. Ripley *tries* to follow quarantine procedure, and gets overruled by the medical officer who appears to fall into the "I just wanna save one life so I'll endanger everyone" trope. Which turns out to be a red herring for the "I'm a traitor" trope. Great writing.
Also, if Ripley's order had been followed, then only Kain would have died. Lambert and Dallas would probably have survived (just open the outside hatch and let the chestburster run out), along with everyone else.
The Prometheus comes along and the biologist doesn't show any caution when facing off against a python-sized crobra-hooded vagina snake, the geologist with the map gets lost, and the husband is sad that there aren't living aliens to give him eternal life (wherever the hell he got that idea from, don't know) despite the fact they've got indisputable proof of intelligent alien life with biological samples and a computer database.
I love the fact that alien, predator and blade runner is in the same universe
Wait ...what? I knew that Alien and Predator were but Blade Runner? That's nuts!
@@kieranadamson3224 Yeah. Tyrell and wayland are competitors. Ridley Scott has hidden easter eggs in the movies that connect them. But yeah, blade runner takes place about 100 years before aleins, and the off-world colonies where replicants are used are the worlds coloized by wayland. In a dvd extra of alien it is stated that some of the nostromo crew were taking bribes from tyrell.
@@supsup335 There are also some connections to "Soldier" (Kurt Russell film), mostly place names IIRC
The way I understand it, a lot of technology in the Alien series, and the prequel movies, it's sorta based on budget. Alien used more analog stuff because it was essentially an intergalactic long-haul semi-truck, vs Prometheus was a top of the line exploration ship which Weyland put vast resources into for his quest for immortality
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Aliens is one of those franchises that the longer it went on and the more lore they added the worse it became.
It's almost like horror works better the less we know about the creature.
I know that this is old, but I think that they have a pretty strong world that if properly expanded could have loads of great, engaging, and super neat lore. Like it wouldn't be too hard to make the engineers make sense, for example there could be an internal schism where one faction was like hey we should seed life everywhere and promote other species, while another faction thought that other intelligent life is a threat and should be eradicated. I think that could nicely explain why they went through the effort of seeding life throughout the galaxy only to drop xenos on them later. You could even maybe have there be another alien civilization that either existed, or still exists that fought with the engineers that lead to the different factions/change of ideals and would kinda explain why they would engineer the xenos in the first place. Not to mention that even if the xenos were engineered, doesn't mean that they can't be hella old and have psychic powers, because as far as I know the timeline of events isn't exactly supper fleshed out especially taking in the newer media into account.
Also there is still loads of untapped potential with humans expansion across the universe, the history of the company and how it became so dominate, how other human factions/nations/corporations function, the many exploration/settlement/research/cowboy-esque missions across the universe that have literally infinite potential for discovering other species or even intelligent life on seeded worlds and the challenges that could potentially pose.
lastly how do predators fit into the engineer lore, like maybe the reason that the engineers turn hostile is becasue the predators were one of the seeded races that worked out. The predators whole hunting challenging prey would align with them attacking and if they were a species made by the engineers then it could explain why they are so OP as a species, although not necessary to explain why the engineers turned hostile to humans. The predators could have been a completely separate intelligent race that genetically modified themselves , or were modified by other yet unknown species, and attacked the engineers making them mark all intelligent life as a threat. Plus if the xenos were made in response to the predators, after generations of war and having to fight the engineers/the xenos they created it would totally make sense that killing the thing specifically designed to hunt them would become a right of passage, like you need to do at least this much to survive. Also a protracted war with a species as advanced as the engineers would go a long way to explaining their nomadic/tribe like society and why all of their tech seems to be handed down or antique. Like maybe they were a massively advanced species, but due to the conflict lost their home world and had to scatter eventually loosing the knowledge/ability to manufacture and part of them visiting worlds that they previously occupied is to raid old training grounds for caches of supplies, and like the whole xeno hunt it eventually lost its original cause and became a custom with cultural significance after doing it for so long, kinda like how alot of myths and oral tradition in human history started as a way to teach morals or important lessons for survival before transitioning into tradition/cultural identities. Not to mention that the custom of nuking themselves if they were defeated originally could have started as a operational security thing to prevent any data leaks possibly putting the entire species at risk and like a lot of the stuff they do became tradition loosing its origins, but retaining the intended effect.
This is mostly just me being high and trying to make a neat head cannon for a franchise I think is dope. One last thought too, if the predators were a seeded race it could possibly explain why the predators seem somewhat accepting of humans. Like we are their wimpy but clever cousins, and it would also kinda bridge the gap of them acknowledging certain humans who defeat xenos, becasue even though we are a different species were are in a similar situation and managed to 'stand up' to the engineers weapon, which in this hypothetical conversion was the origin of the custom to begin with.
Isolation is good
it's weird to me that the xenomorphs seem explicitly designed to not be a sustainable species so that whoever deployed them would be able to move in afterwards, and yet they have proven many times to be incredibly difficult to remove from planets even after they take it over.
So those two xenos Ripley blew out the god damn airlock are alive?
Ya know, the whole "Not on the periodic table" line always annoyed the hell out of me. The table is built by taking the previous element and adding 1 to make the next one, and the last couple rows are theoretical only and so radioactive they have half-lives measured in seconds. So if something is made of something "not on the periodic table of elements" then it's so radioactive that it dissolves itself into gasses and powder within seconds. 🤨
Well, there's the theoretical "island of stability", that predicts we may eventually find new superheavy elements with considerably longer half-lives.
(Also, those aliens metals may be, you know, complex alloys rather than entirely distinct elements and the scientist just can't tell exactly what elements were used to make it or how it was done.)
There's a Blind Engineer/Space Jockey who saved humans Vs Xenomorphs in the comics.
But the true question is do we now count the alien queen a Disney princess?
No. She rules.
Oh this channel needs more subs. Commenting for the algorithm gods and subbing because this was one of the best primers on the Aliens universe I've seen in a long time!
"Like an armoured vehicle", lol, then says "like a HumVee".
Reject Prometheus/Covenant (aka Ridley-Scott-self-adulation) , embrace the chad AvP lore, basically the 'expanded universe'.
There is a fan theory that Avatar is in the same universe as the Alien/Predator films.
Smart guns lock on to targets in AVP game
If far off future you mean near future then sure. Far off is like a 1,000 plus years, the first movie happened 140 years into the future.
Alien takes place in 2122, which is only 99 years in the future for us.
watched the first movie as a kid and I loved.
Listened to this while playing Aliens: Fireteam. Five stars
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So according to aliens the Engineers turned Earth into a Death World?
FTL.
That's the background music.
I love this content. :)
I'm pretty sure I know why the computers look the way they do, at least insofar as what the average wage-slave interacts with: it's cheap. The CEOs and Bureaucrats may have the fancy OLED screens or Hologram interfaces, but the average grunt worker doesn't need that fancy stuff. All the grunt needs is something cheap to produce, cheap to repair/replace if needed, durable enough for most grunt work on the fringes, and won't be a massive money drain in the event a ship/station/facility is lost and a new one has to be fabricated.
Like everything else in Megacorp dystopia settings: the less we spend on the grunts, the more we keep for ourselves.
Do Mass Effect! There is so much lore!
I am really interested in everything humans are up to, outside of the Aliens. It seems there is so much there.
ya-oo-ch-a that is how i pronounce it.
I also heard AVP universe and blade runner universe are also kinda connected...
Ah yes alien space Wizards created the constelations, understood.
Wy corp reminds me of fallout vault tec, human experiments is a very cost effective way to progress
How come everytime Weyland Corp (with or without Yutani) shows up they're evil? Weyland Megacorp in Babylon 5 was harvesting Shadows to grow new weapons to sell to Earth Alliance, a governement that competitor Edgars Industries stated that the Megacorps own the Earth Alliance.
Bruh, you meed to remake rhis video aftwr replaying aliena vs predator 1(avp 2000 gold on gog), 2, and 2010 and reading all the rulebooks for alien rpg. In aliena vs predator 2010 in the colonial marines campaign you can actually see a shadow of aan being eaten briefly by a xenomorph in one segment if you stop and watch the shadows of the xeno on top pf.pne of the poor colonists. The adult xenomorphs do indeed eat meat. People meat, along with whatever humans had for food, as per a del ted scene in alien. They can also morph a human into an egg.
Weyland yutani my favorite company ever they got the big evil yellow W just like Walmart
The best solution to the lore is to only count the first two films. 😂
Ah yes
Alien vs Predator aka Latex lads vs Fishnet Gang
Also- you are not the only one who hates the modern Alien lore.
Fuck that, it used to be less of the "Spacewizard did it' back in the day- we mainly can blame this sorta bullshit on the brainless idea of forcing Prometheus to be a part of Alien (it feels like recognition move more than an attempt to establish the lore more).
Where are all of the videos likes?
Xnenomorph puppys
I don’t care what anyone says the colonial marines drop ship and APC is so damn cool
It like suffering a LAV25 into a giant cobra attack helicopter
Lol, crypto pods, we are such a greedy corporation that we will use your life support computers to bit mine while you are in cryo 😅
No, don’t “eat the rich.”
The solution to corporatism isn’t attacking capitalism.
I mean if all the money is floating to the top, a valid solution would be to forcefully pull that down to the rest of us and keep it here
Obviously we win through giving Xenomorphs crippling anxiety. That's why Xenomorphs made from humans are just ADHD anxiety monsters.
Hey Ford made the Pinto. Sooooooooo 🤨
They’re silicon based life, not carbon tho..
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why the fuck is 'Yautka' a banned word?
Usually it's because it sounds similar to some slur or another, I can't think of any, but maybe there's one in a different language that RUclips thinks he's saying?
@@Enixon869, I'm 100% sure he's talking about the name "Predator."
@@occam7382He definitely meant predator
I say we take off and nuke the place from orbit
I say we send s probe down first and check it out before sending people.
It's the only way to be sure.
Nah blow up the sun. Just to make sure.
Oh man you got soo much wrong on this...
Can’t give it a like for the idiocy that is “eat the rich”. You have to have the collective brainpower of Weyland-Yutani (demonstrably none) to think that’s an intelligent idea. Love them or hate them, rich people are where jobs come from. I’ve never once been hired by a poor person.
Incidentally, this is why I hate Alien’s lore. W-Y would have gone out of business a LONG time ago if they were as stupid as the movies portray them. Competitors would have happily torn them apart. How do I know there would be competitors? Because there’s no way the W-Y decision makers created a government-sanctioned monopoly and are still in charge and not quietly disposed of by a government solving a problem they can now blame on a bunch of corpses.
No, rich people come as a parasitic effect OF the economy. All value is generated by labor. Capital assets have no intrinsic value.
Ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for chocolate cupcakes
Aliens are weak against Kurensky brand Soup Stock 🥣 🐺
Alien Clanners.