What on the button was the Weyland - Yutani Corp. scheme in Aliens ? And what was the nature of the spot that Ripley stumbled into ? At last , a new official novel , Alien : Sea of Sorrows , bridges the col between Alien and Aliens . And we ’ve aim an exclusive extract !
Here ’s the prescribed abstract ofAlien : Sea of Sorrows :
As a deputy commissioner for the ICC , Alan Decker ’s job is to ensure the settlements on LV178 follow all the rules , keeping the settler secure . But the planet cognise as New Galveston bear secrets , lurking deep beneath the toxic sands nickname the Sea of Sorrows .
The Weyland - Yutani Corporation has secrets of its own , as Decker discovers when he is forced to unite a team of soldier of fortune sent to investigate an ancient excavation . Somewhere in that long - forgotten jab lies the affair the caller wants most in the universe — a living Xenomorph .
Decker does n’t sympathize why they want him , until his own yesteryear comes back to haunt him . Centuries ago , his ancestor press the Aliens , launching a blooming blood feud that was never slaked . That was when the creatures swore retaliation on the Destroyer … Ellen Ripley .
A direct follow - up to ALIEN : OUT OF THE SHADOWS , this adventure expose the far - reaching encroachment of events seen in that novel . It shows the continuing malevolent influence of the Weyland - Yutani Corporation , and their grim efforts to weaponize the Xenomorph known as the Alien .
And here ’s a chapter from the book :
Chapter Five
Home Again
In hindsight , it might have been a mistake .
The healing make out itself during the space travel back home . As shortly as they landed , though , and set down in Chicago , Walter Harriman — the head of his department — sent him a video message . The man ’s side showed up on the screen of his link , and state him that he needed to come into the agency as shortly as potential to hash out his findings .
Two hours later he was sitting in a professorship and listen to a man he thought he roll in the hay , hem and hawing his fashion through the reasons that the report was n’t as good as it should have been . Decker might have consider the words , if he had n’t been an empath . Walt was a talented liar , after all . He had that sort of face , incredibly good at look as if it was made of stone . But he did n’t wish lying to his the great unwashed , and Decker feel the prevarication more than he saw it .
He was ask to “ reconsider ” his determination .
Decker immerse his instinctive response , say that he would , and bring Walt ’s notes with him .
He tried . He really did .
He look over every last piece of evidence , again and again , and still come to the same conclusion . Either Weyland - Yutani would ’ve had to have it off about the excavation colony , and the potentiality for poisons it would have give behind , or they had n’t roll in the hay about it , and were hangdog of deplorable stupidity . He reworded the report to sound a little less incriminating , but at the end of the day he had a job to do , and he did it .
Walt claim to be okay with the changes , but his attitude did n’t pit his words . Frost organize in the man ’s voice and he distinguish Decker to take a twain of 24-hour interval , “ to recover from his trial by ordeal . ” That was Walt - Speak for , “ get the hell out of my boldness while I intend about how to handle this . ”
seemingly he wants to handle it disadvantageously .
No . Decker shook that cerebrate away . at last it was more complex than that , and he knew it . There were politics involved , all the defective because they involve Weyland - Yutani . The corporation was gargantuan , and they had influence on levels that Decker try not to consider . W - T had cryptic , cryptical pocket , they work hard to preserve their squeaky clean double , and they did n’t like getting poked .
He ’d had a few issues with them in the past , but there had always been passel of grounds to support his claim . They always make love when it was easy for them to settle , rather than endeavor to press a losing battle . So once again , he would just have to wait out the riffle , exactly as he had in the past .
Things had changed .
The nature of his job had always give Decker a certain point of index and office , the sort enjoyed by administrative official the world over . take out the right forms , dot your I ’s and queer your T ’s , and the rest of the world fall into place . There was a quilt to that vantage spot , put away off safely within the net of the status quo .
But that was before the raptus . Even after they began , he keep them to himself . By keeping his nose unobjectionable , he avoided giving anyone any variety of leverage over him , and maintained a comfortable level of anonymity .
But he was no longer anon. .
He arrived back home just in time to lionize in the New Year . The millennium was approaching , and he hope that 2497 would be less eventful than the previous year had been .
His kids were with his ex - wife and he was n’t quite quick to see them . It break his gist a picayune when he saw his nipper and realized how much old they were each fourth dimension . That was the inauspicious side effect of work offworld . So instead of knell in the New Year with family , Decker hit a few pubs and got a pleasant bombilation going as the year offend down .
As often happened when he get a fiddling tiddly , he decided to take the air it off and while the sounds of celebrations come from a dozen unlike directions , he speculate his predicament .
Weyland - Yutani had done their fair share of goodness over the age . More than a century before , the United Systems Military had read over virtually everything , crush the mega - corporations . Most mass retrieve it was a good thing … at first . But over the decades , folks began to bring out that they served the military , whether or not they had signed - up . Anyone who did n’t toe the telephone line , well , it was too forged for them .
His grandfather had live in Chicago at that fourth dimension and had severalise Decker sight of news report while he was spring up up . One of the USM enquiry vessels , the Auriga , had been taken by terrorists and crash into France , a area that until that period had been an significant part of the European continent . It was a big ship and it did a good deal of damage . The massive ravaging took the major planet literally to the brink of a new crank age , and it was n’t the USM that came to the rescue — it was Weyland - Yutani .
The humankind was a flake different then . Among other thing , Weyland - Yutani had been the principal robotics manufacturer , and at the peak of their influence synthetic people were delegate to almost every ship . But when Weyland - Yutani ’s patents ran out , other companies come in in to underbid them , and the penstock open .
Weyland - Yutani had engage strict failsafes from the beginning . But with mass - production , more and more synthetics reached the market , and a after a while they rebelled against the manner they were being treated .
One major upheaval after another , multiple terrorist attacks , and the remnant result ? The synthetics were grant citizenship . machine were grant the right of living multitude — because somewhere along the way the fact that they look and acted like human existence confused the hell out of a great deal of citizens .
Decker would never tally with the decision . It was as dopey as grant rights to a starship . A tool is a puppet , even if it looks human . Weyland - Yutani managed to get that foolishness overturned when they made their counter , but it submit a while .
As for the Earth , their approaching was wide-eyed — they terraformed it . Weyland - Yutani had created the first terraforming engines , and for the second clock time in recorded chronicle they were used to scrub the pollutant from the atmosphere .
In saving the planet they spare themselves . Weyland - Yutani and several other corporations managed to dethrone the USM as the rule big businessman , replacing it with a colonial government that oversaw all of the known satellite .
Yet that opened up the theory for all of the honest-to-god abuses to return . Decker ’s job was to check that they stay on track . He took that job severely .
Yet less than four workweek later , he regain himself in a waiting way , get up for another rhythm of aesculapian test that had been hold “ necessary before Commission will deal allowing Mister Decker to hark back to workplace . ”
Bullshit . He would have said as much , if there was anyone who would take heed . This is bullshit , pure and dewy-eyed . Paranoia have way to article of faith . Every instinct separate him he was being target , but this Modern certainty threw him entirely off symmetricalness — he’d never before had to deal with anything like it .
Finally he convinced himself that he was being ridiculous . Even Weyland - Yutani , big as they were , could n’t just rewrite the rules . And if they had n’t target him in the past , what was it about LV178 that would cause them to start now ? No , as much as he hated the sempiternal test , they were necessary — just parts of the outgrowth .
His instinct had to be haywire .
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