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GOT ALIEN CORPORATION?

Weyland-Yutani is a large conglomerate corporation, playing pivotal roles in the Alien movies and is often referred to as “The Company.” It is one of the corporations that runs the human colonies outside the solar system through the Extrasolar Colonization Administration, has a seat in the Interstellar Commerce Commission’s Company Review Board, and also has a large presence on Earth. They hold their main offices in Tokyo, San Francisco, The Sea of Tranquilty, and Thedeus.

Weyland-Yutani is consistently portrayed as exhibiting the worst aspects of corporate profiteering, willing to sacrifice decency and human life in seemingly the pursuit of profit. In various portrayals of the Aliens universe, the corporation has its hands in all aspects of space colonization and research. The corporation has consistently ordered its employees and agents to attempt to obtain living Xenomorphs so that they can be exploited as a biological weapon, without regard for their obtainers’ lives. In Aliens vs Predator 2010, it is revealed in an audio diary from Karl Bishop Weyland that Weyland-Yutani’s primary purpose behind capturing the Xenomorphs using any and all means at their disposal is to exploit them and create weapons out of their biology so they can ensure humanity is the elite species in the universe, and not so much because of profit.

Weyland-Yutani is a modern example of the longstanding trope of the evil megacorporation in science fiction

Such a sci-fi geek post…

(Source: riccardosabatini)