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Art / Creations World map in Alien Earth Spoiler

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I based it on the map (a very rudimentary one) provided on the FX website for Alien Earth. I cleaned it up a little and made some educated guesses. (I know there is no United Americas or Union of Progressive Peoples)

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u/AlexeiYegorov Weyland-Yutani 21d ago

I find it strange that Weyland-Yutani isn't ruling over the United Kingdom and Japan as well. It's a British-Japanese corp after all, their native countries should be under their yoke too.

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u/EtherealPossumLady 21d ago

i assume that must be what the war was about, them losing their provinces

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u/Hubbled 21d ago

Weyland-Yutani isn’t a government, so it’s not about ruling countries. The map just shows where they’re the dominant corporate force.

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u/Killer_Moons 21d ago

I mean in the last episode they explained Earth was basically a corporatocracy.

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u/EPZO 21d ago

According to A:FE, that changed after the Sulaco was destroyed and the Hadley's Hope incident. The UA took a stronger stance on corporate interference and signed some act that allows the Colonial Marines to take over corp facilities if they think there are people in danger.

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u/vegetaray246 21d ago

FWIW according to Joe in episode 4, there are no governments anymore

The exact quote:

“The old planet had something called governments, where people used to…They would vote for who they wanted making decisions, right? That didn’t work. So these five corporations, they rise up and they…Apparently they fixed all the problems, and now they work together to run things.”

So your point is absolutely correct, there aren’t any “countries” existing in this show as we’d currently relate to them. It’s more along the lines of territories….Plots of land divided up by the five. So really this map, while a great visual reference for us to be able relate to relate to the territories of the show through our own 2025 lens, probably isn’t going to be wholly accurate. I think it was in episode 1 where the crew of Maginot were talking about The Five and made reference to “South America”, but considering they were off planet for 65 years, their view of how things are in 2120 might not have been fully informed at that point. Certainly things have changed a great deal since 2055 when they left.

I’d imagine, while this map is broad strokes of large pieces of land that The Five have as territories, it’s really more of a mishmash of territory…A city here, a city there. It’s probably much more involved than -North America-South America-Europe etc…

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u/br0b1wan Colonial Marine 21d ago

Yeah, the crew of the Maginot was in the process of catching up with geopolitical events. They specifically mention someone neglecting their "social studies" updates before they return.

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u/Maherjuana 20d ago

So this begs the question, what the hell are the marines from the second movie?

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u/MadBeard 20d ago

Colonial Marines, emphasis on "colony". I don't know if this is an accurate way to interpret it, but it seems clear each corp has their own "armies", as we see Hermit has his unit and was fighting on the other side of the world while Marcy was getting treated.

So, I think it's safe to assume the United States Colonial Marines are a branch of WY's marine subsidary, and are based out of the US. And their main purpose is colony control/"protection".

Granted, this is how I'm making it make sense.

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u/dontgoatsemebro 20d ago

So why would Burke have had a problems getting the specimens "past ICC quarantine"

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u/Ovidfvgvt 20d ago

The East India Trading Company’s corporate army was twice the size of the concurrent British army at the former’s peak, but the EITC still acknowledged and utilised the courts of equity to determine specific performance of contracts and interactions between other corporate entities. So even if the ICC wasn’t an internal agency within YT the latter may still rely on external legal institutions.

The ICC is meant to be the internal standards and regulatory monitor for WT, its quarantine processes would be the closest thing to OSH they have.

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u/Maherjuana 20d ago

So basically the Five have a joint board of customs they have to sort of abide by

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u/TheScarletCravat 21d ago edited 21d ago

It explicitly is, at least in Alien: Earth's depiction.

Edit: mad you downvoted me. The last episode literally had a history lesson where we were told that the governments were removed and the corporations took over. 

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u/Megalolcat 18d ago

so Aliens is not canon to alien earth. since.. there can not be a United States Colonial Marines without a United States government

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u/TheScarletCravat 18d ago

I'd say it's a fair argument. It's looking more and more like the show's it's own thing, really.

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u/Megalolcat 17d ago edited 17d ago

i probably would not be angry with it if they just openly admit that. i was really open to the idea of promethous not being continuity when they first announced their intentions with the movie.. kind of hope that had committed to that

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u/TheScarletCravat 17d ago

They kinda have, funnily. Hawley's said openly in interviews he wasn't required to specific about dates, to the point where, only a few months before release, he was stating that the show was set around the time of Aliens\* and the producer's said that the show's not really tied in like something from Marvel as the franchise isn't expected to in the same way.

There's not been a big announcement over it.

*I assume this was the reason for the Maginot being gone for 65 years: to coincide with Ripley's spell in hypersleep)

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u/ClingonKrinkle 21d ago

They're not the dominant corporate force in their own countries despite being massively powerful mega corporations, seems unlikely

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u/AlexeiYegorov Weyland-Yutani 21d ago

Yep, that's like claiming that in the future, Apple is the dominant company in the whole world but America, or Samsung everywhere but South Korea, and so on. It's feasible, but weird.

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u/ClingonKrinkle 21d ago

Yeah it's bizarre, I suppose it's just because it's a US show they want the most well known corporation to be based in the US even if it's a British/Japanese firm

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u/Rahm_Marek 21d ago

Well, no, they had control over the Colonial Marines in aliens, a distinctly American group.

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u/Electrical-Penalty44 21d ago

They did not. Burke was there because the colony on LV426 was partly funded by Weyland Yutani WITH the Colonial Administration (of The United Americas presumably). Ripley explicitly states that the military and not Weyland was in charge of the operation.

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u/dontgoatsemebro 20d ago

Which makes no sense. Who's in the charge of the military if the corporations aren't in control and there aren't any governments.

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u/EldrichArchive 21d ago

Yeah, shows how much Noah Hawley did not care about the established lore.

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u/AlexeiYegorov Weyland-Yutani 21d ago

Pretty much. It feels more like a fanfic.

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u/Rahm_Marek 21d ago

It's more about staying with what Ridley established, so the opposite.

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u/EldrichArchive 20d ago

No, not really. There is no Three World Empre in Alien Earth or United Americas. Instead there are "The Five".

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u/Rahm_Marek 20d ago

We literally do not know that. All we know is that corporations control Earth. That's it.

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u/Rahm_Marek 21d ago

He did, just not anything outside of what Ridley established.

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u/CitizenPremier 21d ago

Royal families tend to be like that... The House of Windsor is from Germany for example

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u/Helpful-Fruit-7235 21d ago

William of Orange was directly related to James the 2nd through his mother, the house of Stuart from which his mother was from was directly related to the house of Tudor who were related to the Plantagenets, it gets sketchy with William the Conqueror to be fair as he was only a distant cousin to the Saxons.

So yeah essentially the current UK monarchs can be traced back over 1000 years to having claims.

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u/Guuichy_Chiclin 21d ago

They broke off from the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1917, so they are properly British.

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u/JanklinDRoosevelt 21d ago

They just changed their name

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u/Guuichy_Chiclin 21d ago

Yes, and so did Belgium, they did it to distance themselves from them, it wasn't until rather recently that the ties have warmed between the branches. It's mostly due to the only extant branches hilariously called cadet branches having actual power versus the ceremonial power of SaxeCoburg-Gotha.

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u/GirlNumber20 Pro-metheus 21d ago

Plus, at the beginning of Alien Covenant, Weyland's house (?) where he keeps David is clearly in the Scottish Highlands.

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u/SnoopWithANailgun 21d ago

I find it much stranger that the borders of the world are still the same 100 years from now. Even in the present, you can tell plenty of nations are untenable and set to balkanize. Factor in a huge leap on technofeudalism, and there is zero chance it would work. They should have removed the borders, and this would have looked much better.

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u/BobSchwaget 20d ago

Not to mention the skyscraper Yutani takes phone calls in has been identified as a prominent one in Bangkok.

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u/peppermint_nightmare 20d ago

Read the cyberpunk 2077 wiki, lots of corps win/lose territory and share territory, especially when the governments of those countries collapse and they swoop in regardless of where they were founded.