This. Obviously, they have a bioweapons division. They literally even talk at one point about contracts with the military.
This is why movies are stupid today. Things that get casually worked in 40+ years ago now require painful amounts of exposition.
Business model?
I always took them as a company that publicly made money in the import/export business while dabbling in colonization and on the lesser known side, weapons of different types.
I mean, they claimed 42 million in losses from the Nostromo, and Burke later claimed that the Alien would be worth millions to the bioweapon research guys.
The Sulaco would have been worth far more than the Nostromo, so Burke must have been lying through his fricking teeth to Ripley, as the Company was already on the hook for the Nostromo, and an entire colony, and the Company was willing to possibly sacrifice the Sulaco also for a specimen.
42 million for a space freighter was silly-low in 1986 dollars let alone now. At some point they reset the dollar value to avoid counting in quintillions.
its under the auspice that its a shitty mass produced space craft in a world that where space faring is so prevalent Black folk and women are hauling random crap in space
They were a megacorp, they did a lot of things but mining seemed like a big focus. Ship building meant they could get purpose built craft for anything, terraforming enabled easier mining, colony administration meant they had better control over the mines, military contracts would help keep their claims safe in theory. They wanted the alien specimens to for bioweapons research, which they would sell to the military obviously. They ran the prison in 3. Their model was control. Control raw resources. Control the people gathering them. Control everything without becoming a government.
the lab does contract work for multiple places including several US companies, not only just the US govt, one paricular one ~~*Ecohealth alliance*~~ was founded as a subsidiary by the UK wildlife alliance
but the particular reason the lab itself became a level 4 research lab was because of a gay moron UK charity that funded it because the CDC and the French told them to go frick themselves so they gave a bunch of money to the chinese and got the french to help build a level 4 lab where they modified coronavirus strains, the actual coronavirus strains found in chinese caves actually all cause the nearby people village to develop antibodies that innoculate, covid19 "magically" somehow is immune to human antibodies, sort of like research lab sample viruses made study functions
its not the brits fault
its some rich moron from britains fault, who tookover the wild life trust and moved it to the US to pilfer science grants to line his pockets to do level 4 studies viruses in shitty chinese labs
Well they knew of the alien and wanted to capture one for themselves for the bioweapons division.
Worth millions, which is why they were fricking each other over and sacrificing their employees lives for a percentage.
Then again, even though W-Y signed off on the Sulaco mission, it seemed that Burke was acting alone. Though they send the real Bishop in 3.
they made weapons and sold them to the highest bidder. I guess they did whatever it took, sent in androids and military troopers to troublesome places where they could get technology and predator shit ala the first alien vs predator move.
At that point, there was no business model. They were everything, owned everything, employed everyone they wanted, controlled most resources. The State was there just to be a punching bag for the real overlords: mega-corporations like WY.
>there was no business model they controlled most resources. The State was there just to be a punching bag for the real overlords
so like now and the 20th century
I don't think so, but we are headed in that direction, yeah. More like pre-WW1 and a bit after. Wealth inequality being so fricking abysmal that made Communism to sprout, then suddenly every-fricking-one started to get their shit together because divine right of kings was something that wouldn't stick anymore.
She would dump us in a heartbeat, anon. The only girl we are allowed to take are family girls with a mild penchant for gold digging that really just want us for a working dick and some money in the bank. We are fricked.
I loved the RLM bit about how the xenomorph is about as far from the perfect life form you could get. What would anyone want with a huge drooling moronic animal that attacks everything it sees? That would be like Amazon, or BP paying out the ass to harvest a nest of 2 foot tall fire ants from some Pacific Island at the expense of hundreds of millions of dollars
First you get the women. Then you get the organism. Then you get the money.
Are you talking about the Bonus Situation?
lmfao
>nothing about bonuses
What was their problem?
Without looking it up, I assumed they were a industrial freight shipping/terraforming business.
Smuggling aliens seems counterintuitive to this business.
Idk if you know this, but corruption is a thing. Shipping companies take dirty money to deliver hot goods all the time.
Proof?
This. Obviously, they have a bioweapons division. They literally even talk at one point about contracts with the military.
This is why movies are stupid today. Things that get casually worked in 40+ years ago now require painful amounts of exposition.
Kill hundreds of people and expend billions of dollars to get a big parasite that drools a lot and runs around eating people
Favorite track? For me it's Bells of War.
Deadly Melody. Street Life rips that track.
1) Get homocidal alums
2) Put collar on aliem
3) ???
4) Profit!
Easy.
Get alien.
Make anti-alien vaccine (it doesn't actually have to work).
Release alien to the public.
Governments panic and buy your vaccine.
Business model?
I always took them as a company that publicly made money in the import/export business while dabbling in colonization and on the lesser known side, weapons of different types.
I mean, they claimed 42 million in losses from the Nostromo, and Burke later claimed that the Alien would be worth millions to the bioweapon research guys.
The Sulaco would have been worth far more than the Nostromo, so Burke must have been lying through his fricking teeth to Ripley, as the Company was already on the hook for the Nostromo, and an entire colony, and the Company was willing to possibly sacrifice the Sulaco also for a specimen.
>42 million in losses from the Nostromo, and Burke later claimed that the Alien would be worth millions to the bioweapon research guys.
Pocket change for corpos. Samsung spent billions designing a fricking foldable phone hinge.
"42 million in adjusted dollars"
42 million for a space freighter was silly-low in 1986 dollars let alone now. At some point they reset the dollar value to avoid counting in quintillions.
Well in RoboCop 2 Detroit was bankrupt because they had a 37 million dollar debt
I could've paid for that.
its under the auspice that its a shitty mass produced space craft in a world that where space faring is so prevalent Black folk and women are hauling random crap in space
ah back in the 70's when 50 million dollars seemed like an outrageous big sum
good times
Building better worlds. It literally says it on their logo.
They were a megacorp, they did a lot of things but mining seemed like a big focus. Ship building meant they could get purpose built craft for anything, terraforming enabled easier mining, colony administration meant they had better control over the mines, military contracts would help keep their claims safe in theory. They wanted the alien specimens to for bioweapons research, which they would sell to the military obviously. They ran the prison in 3. Their model was control. Control raw resources. Control the people gathering them. Control everything without becoming a government.
Shake a bake new colonies. Did you not see the ads?
A new life awaits you on off world colonies!
>A new life awaits you on off world colonies!
Could Bladerunner and Alien universe work as the same setting? I’ma thinkin they could!
mining resources to sell or reinvest into colonization/industry. alongside bio-research/weapon manufacturing.
being moronic, like that british NGO that use a cut rate chinese lab to do level 4 virus research
I thought the US funded the wuhan covid research lab?
They did.
the lab does contract work for multiple places including several US companies, not only just the US govt, one paricular one ~~*Ecohealth alliance*~~ was founded as a subsidiary by the UK wildlife alliance
but the particular reason the lab itself became a level 4 research lab was because of a gay moron UK charity that funded it because the CDC and the French told them to go frick themselves so they gave a bunch of money to the chinese and got the french to help build a level 4 lab where they modified coronavirus strains, the actual coronavirus strains found in chinese caves actually all cause the nearby people village to develop antibodies that innoculate, covid19 "magically" somehow is immune to human antibodies, sort of like research lab sample viruses made study functions
So the narrative now is it was the Brits fault, how original
its not the brits fault
its some rich moron from britains fault, who tookover the wild life trust and moved it to the US to pilfer science grants to line his pockets to do level 4 studies viruses in shitty chinese labs
Why were they dead set on getting a xenomorph, finding the engineers made a lot more sense
I'm assuming they were just looting space for resources. Hard to think of a less evil industry 2bh.
But what was their tax policy?
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Well they knew of the alien and wanted to capture one for themselves for the bioweapons division.
Worth millions, which is why they were fricking each other over and sacrificing their employees lives for a percentage.
Then again, even though W-Y signed off on the Sulaco mission, it seemed that Burke was acting alone. Though they send the real Bishop in 3.
>TFW no comfy apartment on Gateway Station, with a kitteh.
>What exactly was their business model?
all I can say it involves the bonus situation or more to the point avoidance thereof
they made weapons and sold them to the highest bidder. I guess they did whatever it took, sent in androids and military troopers to troublesome places where they could get technology and predator shit ala the first alien vs predator move.
At that point, there was no business model. They were everything, owned everything, employed everyone they wanted, controlled most resources. The State was there just to be a punching bag for the real overlords: mega-corporations like WY.
>there was no business model they controlled most resources. The State was there just to be a punching bag for the real overlords
so like now and the 20th century
I don't think so, but we are headed in that direction, yeah. More like pre-WW1 and a bit after. Wealth inequality being so fricking abysmal that made Communism to sprout, then suddenly every-fricking-one started to get their shit together because divine right of kings was something that wouldn't stick anymore.
https://www.promarket.org/2018/01/03/inequality-imperialism-first-world-war/
They are a megacorp, so literally everything from biochemistry through industrial freight to military.
>TFW no Ripley GF
She would dump us in a heartbeat, anon. The only girl we are allowed to take are family girls with a mild penchant for gold digging that really just want us for a working dick and some money in the bank. We are fricked.
Sad, but true.
This... is acceptable.
As long as I got to tap that for a while.
she would suck life out of you and then move on to next victim
Cut costs by not giving bonuses
I loved the RLM bit about how the xenomorph is about as far from the perfect life form you could get. What would anyone want with a huge drooling moronic animal that attacks everything it sees? That would be like Amazon, or BP paying out the ass to harvest a nest of 2 foot tall fire ants from some Pacific Island at the expense of hundreds of millions of dollars