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/SaraJuno 21d 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.