《异形：地球》的故事背景设定在首部《异形》电影之前，地球及部分太空区域由五大企业掌控。文章详细介绍了这些企业，包括熟悉的韦兰-尤坦尼公司以及新出现的林奇、动态、阈值和普罗迪吉公司。其中，韦兰-尤坦尼公司对异形有着强烈的占有欲，而普罗迪吉公司则在合成人与人类意识结合的混合体技术上取得突破。文章还揭示了各公司在剧情中的具体关联，例如普罗迪吉公司拥有着陆点和研究岛屿，而动态公司则控制着月球。这些企业之间的关系和各自的动机，共同构成了《异形：地球》复杂的世界观。

🌟 故事背景与企业格局：《异形：地球》故事发生在《异形》系列电影之前，描绘了一个由五大企业统治的时代。文章介绍了包括韦兰-尤坦尼、林奇、动态、阈值和普罗迪吉在内的主要企业，并指出其中一些是系列中已知的，另一些则是新出现的，它们共同构成了故事发生的宏观背景。

🚀 关键企业及其核心业务：韦兰-尤坦尼公司是系列中的老牌企业，对异形生物表现出极大的兴趣和占有欲，其研究船USCSS Maginot载有异形标本。而普罗迪吉公司是一家新晋企业，由年轻的亿万富翁博伊·卡瓦利尔创立，专注于合成人与AI技术，并正在研发将人类意识下载到合成人中的混合体技术。

🌐 企业间的势力划分与影响：除了韦兰-尤坦尼公司掌控北美、南美、火星和土星，普罗迪吉公司拥有新暹罗的普罗迪吉市和研究岛屿“永无岛”，动态公司则控制着月球。文章还提到，林奇和阈值公司目前在剧情中的信息较少，但它们的存在共同塑造了故事中权力分配的格局。

💡 异形生物与企业动机：韦兰-尤坦尼公司对异形（Xenomorphs）的痴迷是其核心动机之一，他们不惜代价获取外星物种，并可能为了回收异形标本而采取极端手段。普罗迪吉公司在混合体技术上的探索，也预示着新的冲突和发展方向，这些都与异形生物的出现紧密相连。

🗓️ 时间线与发布信息：《异形：地球》的故事设定在2120年，是《异形》宇宙中的一个早期时间点。该剧集于8月12日在Hulu和FX播出两集，之后每周二更新，为观众提供了探索《异形》世界观新篇章的机会。

Alien: Earth takes place before the first Alien movie chronologically, at a time when the globe — and some of space — is ruled by five different corporations.

Some of these are names we've heard before in the Alien universe, while others are brand new. Some appear to be more relevant to the story Alien: Earth is telling than others. To help you keep track, we've broken down the five corporations, and everything we know about them so far.

What are the five corporations in Alien: Earth?

Although only three of the corporations have been mentioned so far in the show, the names of all five have been revealed in the official Alien: Earth press release. These are:

Weyland-Yutani

Lynch

Dynamic

Threshold

Prodigy

We get a brief glimpse of the people who presumably run these five corporations near the start of episode 1, during an impromptu politics lesson given by Maginot engineer Shmuel (Michael Smiley) to his apprentice Malachite (Jamie Bisping).

What do we know about the corporations?

We know quite a bit about a couple, and basically nothing about some others. The two corporations that have been key to the Alien: Earth story so far are Weyland-Yutani, which owns the USCSS Maginot deep space research vessel that crashes on Earth carrying the alien specimens, and Prodigy, a newer corporation that owns Prodigy City in New Siam, where the ship lands, and the "Neverland" research island where the hybrids are based.

Prodigy is owned by Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blevin), the "youngest trillionaire ever" who we learn founded the company around a decade ago — Alien: Earth is set in 2120. Prodigy is known for synths and AI, but as we discover in episode 1, they're in the process of pioneering something new: hybrids, which are essentially synths with a downloaded human consciousness.

In terms of the other corporations, we know basically nothing about Lynch and Threshold — these haven't been mentioned in Alien: Earth yet — and the only thing we know about Dynamic is that they control the moon, thanks to a passing comment by Zaveri (Richa Moorjani) in the Maginot canteen. As Shmuel explains further in the scene, Weyland-Yutani has control of both North and South America and Mars and Saturn.

As we already know from the Alien franchise as a whole, Weyland-Yutani has an obsession with Xenomorphs, and acquiring alien species for its own shady purposes (often at the expense of the humans involved with said acquiring). Given the lengths the corporation has already gone to to gather the specimens onboard the Maginot, what lengths might they go to to try and get them back?

Alien: Earth premieres Aug. 12 at 8 p.m. ET on Hulu and FX with two episodes, then weekly on Tuesdays.