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diaries. 15 percent of company resources were taken by Transportation, focusing on three key aspects,namely FTL, hostile terrain and freight. Yearly transportation statistics during the early 2070sconstituted 1.7 billion gigatonnes of cargo transferred and ferrying over 8 million civilians. The culminationof the company's efforts was the relaunch of Project Prometheus on January 1, 2073,which would lead to the LV-223 incident in 2093 after Weyland scientists had discovered classifiedinformation vital for the project. (PR, PR:WIW)Weyland Modular Computing Device: An image, audio and holographic content projector manufacturedby Weyland Industries. Abbreviated as WMCD, the device was able to receive live or recordeddata from a remote device and project it in the surrounding environment, thus being able tocreate holographic environments inside the user's room in real-time. First presented in 2024, thedevice was released in an advanced version in 2073, which was able to fit its technology in a smalland handy cube-like shell. A WCMD was used by Dr. Charlie Holloway during the briefing for themission of the Prometheus upon arrival in the Zeta 2 Reticuli system in 2093. (PR, PR:WIW)Weyland RLF Reactor: A first-generation, medium-size RLF reactor manufactured by WeylandIndustries for use in civilian power grids. Capable of providing steady Terawatt levels of power for23 million households or 15 million commercial facilities at affordable pricing. The power was generatedwithout pulse for a more replete and efficient delivery. The Weyland RLF generator requiredlittle maintenance and had a blackout rate of less than 0.01 percent. (PR:WIW)Weyland, Sir Peter: A human male and the man responsible for propelling Weyland Industries tothe position of the leading corporation in the fields of research and technology in the 21 st century. Acharismatic and visionary leader, Weyland believed in the idea of advancing mankind by revolutionarytechnological concepts and was a strong advocate of the concepts of androids and the explorationand colonization of space. However, the ethical implications of his visions were not withoutcontroversy.Peter Weyland was born on October 1, 1990, in Mumbai, India. His father was a self-taught softwareengineer and his mother a professor of Comparative Mythology, who had studied at Oxford. Itsoon became clear that Peter Weyland was a child prodigy, and by the time of October 2004, he hadalready registered a dozen patents, the latest being one for a synthetic trachea based on engineeredstem cells. In the following years, he would lead Weyland Industries into an age of unprecedentedfinancial success and influence, gaining a reputation for being a pioneer for new technologies. Hisfirst breakthrough for mankind was the reversing of global warming on Earth in 2016, using a prototypeof the Atmosphere Processor technology – an achievement for which he would later win hisfirst Nobel Peace Prize in Medicine on December 10, 2017. On July 17, 2016, he was grantedknighthood by the Queen of England as one of the youngest individuals ever to receive such honor.On December 19, 2017, Weyland acquired the rights to the technology of a NASA project calledProject Prometheus and revived the program to later successfully prove the existence of life onEuropa. On February 4, 2023, he went on to win his second Nobel Peace Prize after the scientists inthe corporation's health division had effectively cured cancer in 2022. On February 28, 2023, he visitedthe annual TED conference and delivered a landmark speech in which he presented his visionfor the future of mankind. Delivering on his promise to create the first synthetic person in history,Weyland spearheaded the David project, which would improve the concept to perfection over thefollowing decades. During this time, Weyland also used the resources of his corporation to developthe means to launch mankind into space and colonize distant worlds, creating new technologiessuch as the Atmospheric Processor, FTL travel and Cryosleep.Under Weyland's guidance, the company thrived for the rest of the 21 st century. His vision greweven more ambitious and expanded to subjects such as the true origin of mankind and what happensafter death. After a spectacular discovery by his scientists in the early 2070s, Weyland launched anew phase of Project Prometheus that would channel his search for answers into one single effort.On August 1, 2078, Weyland learned of the scientific work of Dr. Elizabeth Shaw which incident-