A heavy, sturdy black case arrives at my door.
On it, a logo well known to sci-fi fans:Weyland-Yutani, the companyfrom theAlienfranchise.
A company whose desperate attempts to secure a Xenomorph have resulted in thousands of deaths, maybe more.
A mysterious Alien: Earth package arrived at our door.Photo: io9/Gizmodo
So, when you receive a package from them, you knowsomething importantis about to happen.
Whats about to happen is the debut ofAlien: Earth,FXs upcoming showset years before any of theAlienfilms.
The package that arrived at my door had some clues.
The contents of the Alien: Earth package. The smallest are the keys – io9/Gizmodo
Along with the package was a note from a company called Prodigy Corp.
It explained that the case was recovered from a recently crashed Weyland-Yutani vessel.
kindly inspect all elements and report your findings.
The in-world crossover is mostly disconnected from the actual contents of the package.
A hat, mug, and deck of cards are the biggest items.
Each has the logo for the USCSSMaginot, the name of the crashed ship.
The key items, however, are a cat collar and a USB drive with five videos on it.
The collar is key because the videos are all from the POV of the cat aboard the ship.
They show him basically just being a cat.
So here you get to see the cat get the camera put on him and walk around a bit.
All other considerations secondary.
So, this ship was sent out to find something.
And find something, it did.
This one is less about the visuals and more about the banter.
Here its said to be gross to want to go there.
Is that where they find the specimen on the show?
Lets check video three.
Here, our hero cat catches two crew members playing cards and discussing something theyve found.
Maybe both, she responds.
Were still running tests.
Or something new we havent seen.
On to video four.
This time our curious cat finds what we think are the samples the ship has discovered.
We cant exactly see whats in there but there are at least four of them.
Could it be four eggs?
Finally, the last clip.
We see one of the crew members in hypersleep when something goes wrong.
Is this the incident that started the crash back to Earth?
What caused the fire?
Alien: Earthis coming to FX this summer.
Thanks to the streamer for sending us the package.
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