Unknown Series: Alien?(ALIEN)?- (Part 1)

"In space, No one can hear your scream."

In space, No one can hear your scream.

This is the 1979 release of Alien Famous poster slogan from the time.

When talking about the Unknown series, it is impossible not to mention Alien. It is undoubtedly a classic science fiction film in film history, setting a precedent for space epics. Compared with today, in that era without powerful special effects, what it brought us was these unmodified, pure and unknown fears. The Alien series has also directly or indirectly spawned many related literature, movies, albums, games, etc., which will have a profound impact on future popular entertainment culture. In the context of the rise of feminism, the image of female heroes in movies also broke the previous Hollywood action movie genre and influenced the style of subsequent movies.

The following is an overview based on the timeline of the story, and detailed information about the planets, cyborgs, and time of occurrence in each episode are compiled:

Release date: 2012; Director: Reilly. Ridley Scott; Cyborg: David; Spaceship: Prometheus; Planet: LV-223; Hammerpede (Hammerpede), Trilobite (Big Octopus) ) appears for the first time

The space jockey (creator) at the beginning of the film drank a black liquid, decomposed his body, and the DNA was integrated into the water and created human beings. In 2089, the heroine Elizabeth. Dr. Xiao and Dr. Holloway discovered the remains of murals in a cave in Scotland, which catalyzed the launch of the Prometheus Project. In 2093, Prometheus went to LV-223 to search for the origin of mankind. After arriving on the planet, it discovered the sleeping space jockey and the black organic matter in the cave. Later, it was learned that this black liquid gave birth to the alien substance. After the space jockey was awakened, he actually began to massacre a group of visiting humans, and launched a spacecraft to carry this organic material to the earth to destroy mankind. The captain of the Prometheus then prevented the spaceship from taking off and crashed it. Dr. Xiao was chased by the surviving space jockeys. Finally, Xiao used the giant octopus alien he bred to kill the space jockeys. But only the heroine Elizabeth is left on the Prometheus. Xiao and the cyborg David survived. At the end of the film they decide to go to the planet where the Space Jockey Creators live. In the sequel, we learn that David framed Xiao and gave birth to the first of our most common alien forms from her chest.

Release date: 2017; Director: Reilly. Ridley Scott; Cyborgs: David, Walter; Spaceship: Covenant; Planet: LV-426; Neomorph first appeared

In 2104, Prome Ten years after the end of Project Hughes, the "Covenant" carried thousands of humans and thousands of baby embryos to fly to Origae-6, a planet suitable for human survival to settle. On the way, an unknown signal was received from a nearby planet (it was later discovered that the signal was John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Road country song). This planet is the planet where the Space Jockey Creators live (later some netizens analyzed that it should not be the home base of the Space Jockey Creators, but just an outpost or a transit station). After evaluation, the Covenant decided to change its target and land on this planet, and considered settling here. Shortly after landing, it was discovered that there were unknown viruses and monsters on the planet, causing the crew to fall ill and die one after another. At this time, the cyborg David appeared and rescued them in a crisis and took them to the cave shelter. However, this was all David's conspiracy. It turns out that after David came to this planet, he released the organic virus on the spacecraft on the planet, causing the destruction of the creator of the planet and the changes in the native ecology.

And now David also wants these crew members to become carriers for incubating aliens. Walter, the cyborg on the Covenant, tried his best to stop him. At the end of the film, the heroine Denise expelled the aliens from the ship and fled the planet, only to find that the cyborg beside her was David instead of Walter. However, it was too late. Denise and the crew began to enter cryosleep, and the Covenant also deviated from its original trajectory and headed for an unknown destination.

Released: 1979; Director: Reilly. Ridley Scott; Cyborg: Ash; Spaceship: Nostromo; Planet: LV-426; Ovomorph (Egg), Facehugger, Broken Chest Chestburster and Drone appeared for the first time

In 2122, the commercial interstellar carrier Nostromo carried seven crew members and collected ores to return to Earth. After the crew members woke up from the cryogenic sleep chamber, they found that their original route back to Earth had been changed by the computer "Mother". They were ordered by the company to land on the planet LV-426 to search for an unknown signal source. During the exploration, executive director Ken was attacked by a Facehugger that popped out of an alien egg, and returned to the ship to rest. Just when he thought he was recovering, Ken's chest suddenly exploded, and a Chestburster ran out, and began to attack the crew in the dark, killing them. It was later discovered that this was a plan between the company and the biochemical man Ash, who would sacrifice the lives of the crew in order to bring back living aliens for research into biochemical weapons. In the end, the heroine Ripley detonated the Nosmo, started the engine, burned the alien to death and threw it out of the spacecraft. She took the tabby cat Jones into the escape capsule and entered hibernation again.

Release date: 1986; Director: James. James Cameron; Cyborg: Bishop; Planet: LV-426; Alien Queen appears for the first time

In 2159, the company established the colony Hadley's on LV-426 Hope, *** has 70 households. In 2179, Ripley's escape pod was found. The colony of LV-426 lost contact, and Ripley was asked to serve as a consultant and go to the colony with a team of mercenaries to carry out humanitarian rescue. After the team arrived, they found that the colony had been occupied by aliens and found a surviving little girl, Newt. In the tense atmosphere where aliens were raging and killing people, the survivors found a way to remotely control the spacecraft and land it on the ground, and use this method to escape. In the end, Ripley got on the robot and had a hand-to-hand fight with the Alien Queen, and the classic line in film history appeared: "Get away from her you bitch." Ripley defeats the Alien Queen and throws her into space. As a result, the mercenary Hicks, the little girl Newt, Ripley and the half-disabled Bishop survived. They entered the cryogenic hibernation chamber and prepared to return to Earth.

Released: 1992; Director: David. David Fincher; Cyborg: Bishop; Planet: Fury Avengers 161; The Messenger Alien (Runner) appears for the first time

In 2184, Ripley sat on the end of the previous episode The escape capsule did not return to Earth, but unfortunately was attacked by a facehugging alien in the dormant capsule while sleeping. As a result, the escape capsule deviated from its course and crashed on a cold and dark planet (Fury Avengers 161). No one survived except the heroine Ripley. This planet is a prison built by the company and is home to 25 criminals. When the escape capsule crashed with Ripley, it also brought aliens to the planet, and the criminals were killed one by one. In the end, Ripley discovered that he actually had the embryo of the Alien Queen alive in his body.

After receiving the news, the company ordered Ripley to be quarantined, hoping to bring back the living alien through her. However, Ripley was unwilling to compromise in the end, saw through the company's plan, and chose to commit suicide by jumping into the furnace.

Release date: 1997; Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet; Cyborg: Call; Spaceship: Betty ), Auriga; Newborn appeared for the first time

In 2434, in the Auriga space station, Ripley's eighth clone Finally reached perfection. Ripley's clone not only possesses the embryo of the Alien Queen, but also has alien genes, so his physical ability, strength, and agility are different from ordinary people (like Captain America). In addition to the Ripley clones, alien human experiments are also carried out in the Auriga space station. Human beings are smuggled in and still sleeping in cryogenic sleep chambers to breed aliens for research. However, humans underestimated the intelligence of the aliens. The imprisoned aliens melted the floor with their own blood containing strong acid, escaped from the experimental cabin, and began to attack humans everywhere. The Alien Queen embryo taken out from Ripley's clone body also grew into a complete body and hatched into a human-shaped alien. In the end, Ripley sucked the newborn alien out of the space capsule, took the cyborg Call and the other survivors into the escape capsule, and finally returned to Earth.

Interestingly, Ripley never made it back to Earth once in the Alien series, and it was her clones who eventually did.

(To be continued)