In the vast sphere of multinational global conglomerates operating with honesty, trust and transparency, the Weyland-Yutani Corporation of the "Alien" franchise would rank at the absolute slimy bottom. This fictional megalomaniacal enterprise had its greedy tentacles into everything from robotics, biotechnology, cybernetics, AI, and interstellar mining, to terraforming, off-world colonization, medical research and developing weapons using extraterrestrial DNA gathered around the galaxy.
But what are the ambitious beginnings of this notorious San Francisco-based company, how have its personnel, facilities, spaceships and machines been integrated into the "Alien" universe and who are the human monsters behind the murky dealings of Weyland-Yutani? Building Better Worlds might be its altruistic marketing slogan but we all know the secret horrors of its corrupt agenda.
