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LV-426 Explained: Weyland knows about it but deters others from knowing

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Ptlewis

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I just picked up the BluRay today! First thing was to look at the extras, The Peter Weyland Files. Going in you have a choice to play all or play one you want. However, if you look to the right of the playable videos there will be what looks like an email communication. This is a written recording of some type of dictated note BY Weyland, and in response to the specific Weyland File you are on. Looking at recording #1. Quiet Eye: Elizabeth Shaw, Weyland tells us that they picked up a transmission, FROM LV-426!!! "As fate would have it, Shaw and Halloway's interest in Zeta 2 Reticuli has proven to be mutually beneficial. While the good doctors rely on ancient carvings and primitive cave paintings, my science division's own long range scans have recently detected a faint, almost imperceptibel signal eminating from one of the lesser moons in that system. And contrary to the findings of Shaw and Halloway, which target LV-223 as our primary site of interest, our findings suggest the point of interest could actually be the moon LV-426. Per standard procedure, we will embed a David 8 unit with the crew. And he will be programmed with multiple contingency plans to address and exploit whatever assets we secure on 223. But only David will know about 426 and will ensure that the rest of the crew - including Meredith - learn nothing about the transmission we've recently discovered until the time is right. For if the Yutani's new ECIU software is to be trusted, there might be great risk awaiting us on the path to an even greater reward." So folks, there it is. Alien LV-426 was known, its the same system, and the transmission was intercepted 30+ years before Ripley landed there.
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without question, Alien and Prometheus take place within the same fictional universe. Multiple people associated with the film(s), including ridley himself, have explicitly stated this. The issue/confusion with how prometheus fit into the alien universe really stemmed from differing definitions of the word: "prequel". But yeah...the abovementioned, along with other tidbits in the film, along with this little tidbit found on the blu ray should end any kind of question as to whether or not prometheus take place within the "alien universe".
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Joeyjoe Thank you sir !!! Check ...... Finally one question answered !!!!! NOW Does the signal referred to in the OP in any way contradict that Yutani did not get a predator shoulder mounted laser somewhere in 2004/06 ? Is this irrefutable proof that avp and alien is not part of the same universe ?
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BigDave, I like the direction that you're going in. I've been thinking more about the star-maps cave drawings and wondering why the Engineers were pointing our race toward a 'military-base'. However, could it be that the crew flew to the wrong star in the star map altogether? What were there, four or five altogether? Stars on a star map could be billions of kilometres apart. Hey, we took a wrong turn and ended up in Engineer Death-land instead of Engineer home-land. I read somewhere on this website about the brief (very brief) moment where the last Engineer strokes David's hair before decapitating him. I loved this: an act of love, appreciation, respect? Followed quickly by an act of barbarism I know, but I guess the Engineers are just following orders from a higher power. Bloody hell, a higher power than the Engineers? Bring back Atheism!
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Uh-huh and this would lead me to believe that somewhere in the next two movies (if there are two) Shaw meets her end in some way or at least doesn't make it back to Earth to reveal what the company knew.
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@Stonebird19. Quote "I read somewhere on this website about the brief (very brief) moment where the last Engineer strokes David's hair before decapitating him. I loved this: an act of love, appreciation, respect? Followed quickly by an act of barbarism" I think that was from one of the replies in my thread A Robot God? I could be wrong though. I'm really glad the BluRay as given us some information about LV 426 and Prometheus's connection to ALIEN! But it makes things even more complicated as it's stated throughout the commentaries and the documentary, that the Deacon is the ancestor of the necronom("xenomorph") from ALIEN? So how does that work?

The poster was good though!

 

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1) its either purposeful misdirection. 2) or the deacon does pre-date the traditional xeno (just not the deacon shown to us in this film). without question...we now know that, at the very least, the deacon that is birthed in prometheus post-dates the traditional alien/xeno (multiple pieces of evidence provided in the film/on the blu ray support this). 3) there is semantic confusion surrounding the use of various words by the filmmakers (progenitor etc.).
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@Joeyjoe. Quote 2) or the deacon does pre-date the traditional xeno (just not the deacon shown to us in this film). without question...we now know that, at the very least, the deacon that is birthed in prometheus post-dates the traditional alien/xeno (multiple pieces of evidence provided in the film/on the blu ray support this)." That's what i originally thought and i think it's the most probable explination after taking everything into account. Although... They have a deacon in the mural which suggests that it is a massive part of the engineers history. OR, If the deacon in Prometheus IS the first deacon, then that would mean that the mural is a prophecy and prophecy means "a message of gods will", which makes sense to this perticular story me thinks.

The poster was good though!

 

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"Yutani" reference? I thought there was a reference to Tyrell!
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So, has anyone come up with an idea for why the aliens/humans painted murals of the star system, in different civilizations throughout earth, pointing towards a bio-weapons lab,? I didn't get an explanation during the commentary, and this email still doesn't explain why all the paintings on earth would lead to this system.
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"... my science division's own long range scans have recently detected a faint, almost imperceptibel signal eminating from one of the lesser moons in that system..." I have a problem with recieving this signal...well any signal from an alien race. It seems to like trying to recieve an AM.signal with an FM reciever....different basis for a signal.. What are the chances that this can occur? I am sort of familiar with electronc noises from deep space...Would Engineers sort piggyback the electronic signals,that are part of our life? If Weyland's science division..did pick the signals as Weylamd describes,,,could Prometheus crew also pick any transmissions from the moon after landing?..And especially from the Juggernaut,,as tries to escape to Earth,,
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"..house the Xeno EGG CHAMBER/birthing silo.." Would the pups also detect egg lifeforms in their travels down the shaft?
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system in astrophysics means sun & orbiting planets & their moons& asteroid belts et cetera ... the nearest neighbouring sun is proxima centauri, distance of 4.2 light years from here. suns can be seen with the naked eye, planets not. i have a question about Alien 1 : actually 2 things... first, the size of the dead gunner in Alien. he seems much taller than the Engineers of Prometheus. 2ndly. why are the alien (organic) pods neatly lined up in rows in the Engineers vessel? aliens do not do this. they are inherently messy and do not clean up after themselves, when digesting, just like a few north American children. who then lined up the pods. not the dead gunner... The dead Engineer was only two thousand years old. DNA of an Engineer identical to the dead one on LV-223 initiates life on Earth. That's a hiatus of 500-600 million years of evolution give or take ... or as commented: we are separate, special DNA product, separate from all other Earth life? A scientific strech that ... now that we no longer have miracles from Rome and its roman catholic popes every day to explain to our kids.

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