Aliens Colonial Marines Concept Art

[Ripley]

Please let them come to earth.
Please let them come to earth.
Please let them come to earth.
Please let them come to earth.
Please let them come to earth.

[Neverfate]

Haha, yeah. Aliens on Earth is never a bad thing. Well, from a player/viewer's perspective anyway.

[Hei Gui]

Originally Posted by Neverfate

Aliens on Earth is never a bad thing.

Well, that's not true. I remember something about Aliens being on Earth during AVP.

[SH0DAN]

Originally Posted by Mother

I was referring to the last images, not the first one. I am unaware in the canon of any other fully fledged "earth-like" colonies which would be of a size as earth.

I am pretty confident its not Earth either. We talked a bit about this in the GBX forum, here if anyone is interested.

Some of us got to thinking the planet might be Thedus. The Nostromo was shipping ore from Thedus back to Earth in the movie. And as Neverfate pointed out from the The PSM preview, it states:

“The sinister Weyland-Yutani Corporation use their interest in deep space mining as a cover for alien research.”

And that mining asteroid does seem to be orbiting the same planet from the other cityscape concepts. Though I did have some trouble finding any canonical references to Thedus being an actual mining planet.

[Mother]

Originally Posted by SH0DAN

I am pretty confident its not Earth either.

I suppose I'm thinking that from what we've seen of the colonies (or rather colony on LV-426) in the movies, the images above simply don't match that look. The images above look to be a well established heavily settled place with a well established socially supportive infrastructure.

If there is another planet like that, then cool. But it feels unlikely.

[Mother]

Originally Posted by Hei Gui

Well, that's not true. I remember something about Aliens being on Earth during AVP.

Yeah, but what fun that would be.

[Neverfate]

Originally Posted by Hei Gui

Well, that's not true. I remember something about Aliens being on Earth during AVP.

You didn't get my point, but that's alright, it was addressed to Ripley anyway. ^^

[SH0DAN]

Originally Posted by Mother

I suppose I'm thinking that from what we've seen of the colonies (or rather colony on LV-426) in the movies, the images above simply don't match that look. The images above look to be a well established heavily settled place with a well established socially supportive infrastructure.

If there is another planet like that, then cool. But it feels unlikely.

Well if you do some timeline digging at absoluteAvP.com:-

• Ca 2040 - FTL (Faster then light) Technology invented.
• 2101 - Colonial Marine Corps established.
• 2102 - The USCSS Nostromo assembled.
• 2104 - United Americas formed.
• 2116 - Nostromo refitted as a commercial class towing vessel.
• 2121 (June 12) - Nostromo leaves Thedus hauling 20,000,000 tonnes of mineral ore, bound for Earth.
• 2122 (June 3-6) - Nostromo sets down on an un-surveyed world and first contact occurs.
• Ca 2143 - Advances made in FTL technology and starship travel, along with artificial intelligence.
• 2157 - Colonization of LV-426 begins.
• 2169 - The USS Sulaco assembled.
• 2179 - The Colony on LV-426 is overrun.

LV426 only had a timescale of about 20 years. If the cityscape planet in the concepts was settled way back even before the colonial marines were established then you’d have plenty of time for a mining colony to grow to such a size as seen in the concepts. As Windebieste mentioned on the GBX forums thread, Australia was only settled by Europeans around 200 years ago, and look at the size of it now. So less than a hundred years of settlement could easily produce a city of the size seen in the concepts.

In Regards to it being Earth. And this is just me speculating.

The concepts appear to be by Syd Mead because they match his style. And Syd did the futuristic city concepts for Blade Runner, which is very similar in style to the first two Alien movies. In BR, alongside the futuristic architecture were old world buildings, like hotels and churches. Just like in real-life, both old and new buildings sit along side one another.

In the ACM cityscape concepts you don’t see that. Even though there are many worn out, dead beat looking buildings in the slums looking areas, the architecture throughout appears to be at about the same industrial level. Now if Syd was doing Earth, you can be certain that he would have put in the old world buildings as well.

But again that’s just me speculating, we really don’t know.

I’m still backing Thedus though.

[Mother]

Originally Posted by SH0DAN

Well if you do some timeline digging at absoluteAvP.com:-

• Ca 2040 - FTL (Faster then light) Technology invented.
• 2101 - Colonial Marine Corps established.
• 2102 - The USCSS Nostromo assembled.
• 2157 - Colonization of LV-426 begins.

Would you not expect a colony (if it is) the size of what we see (if it is) to appear on a time line?

Originally Posted by SH0DAN

But again that’s just me speculating, we really don’t know.

I’m still backing Thedus though.

Let's hope we find out soon.

[Neverfate]

Originally Posted by Mother

Let's hope we find out soon.

Frankly, ANY new info would do. The waiting is killing me. T.T