
The story takes place in the year 2120, two years before the USS Nostromo encounters and retrieves the xenomorph species on LV-426. This is the first time we see Earth in the Alien series, a planet governed by three megacorporations and their wealthy leaders. As you might recall, the Weyland-Yutani corporation has been secretly searching the universe for dangerous lifeforms that can be genetically modified into bio-weapons for decades. The Weyland-Yutani ship, USS Maginot, is returning to Earth with its most hazardous specimens collected during this long voyage; due to unknown reasons, the ship is sabotaged, releasing the monsters and causing it to crash-land. Unfortunately for Weyland-Yutani, the crash site happens to be a skyscraper owned by rival megacorporation Prodigy, run by the youngest trillionaire ever, Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin). Boy has been making significant progress in the quest for post-human evolution through his “Lost Boys,” a group of terminally ill children whose minds have been transferred into adult android bodies. However, upon discovering the contents of the Weyland-Yutani ship, Boy becomes fixated on the alien bio-weapons instead.