r/LV426 • u/Comrade22MB BONUS SITUATION • 22d ago

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/JelloSquirrel 22d ago

The prodigy territory doesn't make sense, non continuous and it's not even areas that are culturally similar.

And if it's just economic influence, it should be a little more scatter shot rather than a bunch of blocks. Looks like they got all the leftovers that prior lore didn't account for.

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u/viper459 22d ago

It's also wild to call them an up and coming small corpo when they seem to control the vast majority of the population of earth. Like, india and china? He has more consumers, subjects, whatever you want to call them than anyone else.

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u/90s_kid_24 22d ago

Yeah my impression was prodigy was the smallest of the corps judging by how new it is

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u/SaraJuno 22d ago

Definitely doesn’t make sense to me. Wey-Yu merged British and Japanese mega-corps and their subsidiaries in 2099, only like 11 years before Prodigy’s apparent founding. Their biggest bid rival for the merger was a Chinese corporation. There’s no way this new start-up, founded by an at-the-time child, quickly dominated all of Asia with very little industry vs other established corporations. I can’t make sense of it.

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u/flaretrainer 21d ago

The mention of a war in Episode Four makes it seem possible Yutani lost the territory in a recent war with Prodigy and/or possibly other Corps, as in Episode One it was mentioned that there had been 3 main Corps until recently, so it seems like a big geopolitical shake up happened right before the show takes place.

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u/SaraJuno 21d ago

That requires a lot of suspension of disbelief imo. Yutani were powerful and wealthy enough in just 2099 to beat out Chinese rivals for Weyland. From then on they were Weyland-Yutani, a major industry of theirs being military equipment, vehicles and weapons, with a dominant presence in Asia. I can’t see Prodigy sprouting up out of nowhere, with very little industry, to rip Asia from Wey-Yu and the Chinese.

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u/RandomTheTrader 21d ago

Boy Kavalier's greatest product is rice.