version 4 - The Alien Encyclopedia

Building on the galaxy-wide infrastructure of Weyland Industries, Weyland-Yutani was involved innumerous colonization efforts by co-financing and providing a wide range of technologies such asAtmosphere Processor components. Combining technological advancements of both original companies,Weyland-Yutani also had a prolific transportation branch, ranging throughout colonizedspace. The conglomerate additionally expanded upon business relations established between WeylandIndustries and the military branch of human government, leading to defense contracts andclose relations to the USCM corps. However, the Company also developed an interest in ethicallyquestionable high-risk black projects, resulting in the formation of a secret bio-weapon division.The pursuit of these interests led to numerous contacts with the Xenomorph organism, andWeyland-Yutani also played a key role in the events surrounding Ellen Ripley's involvement withthe species. While maintaining the public image of a benevolent organization focused on the advancementof humankind, the Company secretly exhibited a ruthless modus operandi, consideringhuman lives as expendable in order to achieve its goals. (A1, A2, A3, A:RES, A:NE, A:OS)Weyland Zero-Loss Lithium-Ion Battery: An update of the conventional lithium-ion battery.Manufactured by Weyland Industries. Used in a wide range of devices in the latter half of the 21 stcentury, the battery combined proven lithium technology with cathodes made of rare metals andnano-layered silicon anodes to provide ultra-low internal resistance and zero memory loss. The systemcould be deposited on a single-layer graphene base, which rendered such a portable batterynearly invisible. (PR:WIW)Wi-Fi Access Movement of 2029: A global movement with the aim to speed up the developmentand distribution of communication technology and make it more accessible and secure. Under theguidance and endorsement of powerful partners such as Internet Explorer, the movement was regardeda success and would be continued in order to be applied for colonized space in the 2070s.(PR:WIW)Wierzbowsky, Trevor: A male human and member of the Colonial Marines. Sporting the rank ofPrivate, he was part of the recon mission to LV-426 that resulted in the Hadley's Hope incident in2179. Wierzbowsky was killed during the unit's fatal exploration of the Xenomorph hive inside thecolony's Atmosphere processor. (A2)William: A male human and one of the prisoners involved in the Fury 16 incident. William was oneof the inmates who tried to rape Ripley at the scrapyard of the facility. William was later killed duringthe attempt to lure the Alien into the blast furnace. (A3)Williamson, Carlyn: A female human and a member of the team of scientists assigned to the cloningproject aboard the Auriga in the late 24 th century. After the creation of Ripley 8 and the extractionof the Queen embryo, Williamson was tasked with performing cognitive experiments with theclone. She later helplessly witnessed the Xenomorph outbreak and the abduction of Gediman by theAlien. Williamson was taken to the hive and died there, either by giving birth to a Xenomorph orduring the explosion of the Auriga. (A:RES)WMCD: An abbreviation for Weyland Modular Computing Device.Wren, Mason: A male human and the scientific leader of the cloning project operated aboard theAuriga in 2381. With the help of his team of top-notch scientists, Wren succeeded in creating aclone of Ellen Ripley and cultivated a Xenomorph population from the Queen embryo inside Ripley8. He continued to supervise the research up until the Xenomorph outbreak, when he was capturedby the crew of the Betty and forced to assist them in their escape to the Betty. Wren later shot Calland left the group behind to make his way to the Betty alone. He was hindered in his escape by Call,who had survived and tapped into the ship's system to block off the scientist's route to the ship.