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Originally Posted by Mother
I suppose I'm thinking that from what we've seen of the colonies (or rather colony on LV-426) in the movies, the images above simply don't match that look. The images above look to be a well established heavily settled place with a well established socially supportive infrastructure.
If there is another planet like that, then cool. But it feels unlikely.
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Well if you do some timeline digging at
absoluteAvP.com:-
- Ca 2040 - FTL (Faster then light) Technology invented.
- 2101 - Colonial Marine Corps established.
- 2102 - The USCSS Nostromo assembled.
- 2104 - United Americas formed.
- 2116 - Nostromo refitted as a commercial class towing vessel.
- 2121 (June 12) - Nostromo leaves Thedus hauling 20,000,000 tonnes of mineral ore, bound for Earth.
- 2122 (June 3-6) - Nostromo sets down on an un-surveyed world and first contact occurs.
- Ca 2143 - Advances made in FTL technology and starship travel, along with artificial intelligence.
- 2157 - Colonization of LV-426 begins.
- 2169 - The USS Sulaco assembled.
- 2179 - The Colony on LV-426 is overrun.
LV426 only had a timescale of about 20 years. If the cityscape planet in the concepts was settled way back even before the colonial marines were established then you’d have plenty of time for a mining colony to grow to such a size as seen in the concepts. As Windebieste mentioned on the GBX forums thread, Australia was only settled by Europeans around 200 years ago, and look at the size of it now. So less than a hundred years of settlement could easily produce a city of the size seen in the concepts.
In Regards to it being Earth. And this is just me speculating.
The concepts appear to be by Syd Mead because they match his style. And Syd did the futuristic city concepts for Blade Runner, which is very similar in style to the first two Alien movies. In BR, alongside the futuristic architecture were old world buildings, like hotels and churches. Just like in real-life, both old and new buildings sit along side one another.
In the
ACM cityscape concepts you don’t see that. Even though there are many worn out, dead beat looking buildings in the slums looking areas, the architecture throughout appears to be at about the same industrial level. Now if Syd was doing Earth, you can be certain that he would have put in the old world buildings as well.
But again that’s just me speculating, we really don’t know.
I’m still backing Thedus though.
