Weyland-Yutani

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The Weyland-Yutani Corporation is a British and Japanese multinational conglomerate that dominates the stars. They are an innovative producer and manufacturer of synthetics, spaceships, computers, and weapons for the average consumer market as well as commercial clients and the industrial military complex. They are in the business of deep space mining and resource procurement, interplanetary shipping and transport, terraforming, and the establishment and maintenance of extrasolar colonies. Weyland-Yutani also maintains an extensive Research and Development division devoted to the development of biological and chemical weapons.

**H I S TORY**

Weyland-Yutani was founded at the turn of the century by the merger of Weyland Corp and the Yutani Corporation. The two companies were so renowned for their corporate takeovers that the circumstances behind their merger became murky. While it is known that Weyland Corp had suffered severe financial losses with the failure of the Prometheus mission and the deaths of both company founder Peter Weyland and CEO Meredith Vickers, it is also true that Yutani had suffered many setbacks as well.

Conflicting insider information versus media reports make it questionable as to whether it was Yutani or Weyland who performed a hostile takeover on the other—and the company board likes it that way. The company inherited and expanded upon the technologies and products of its founders, including FTL drives, artificial intelligence, and deep surveillance equipment. Already leaders in the mining and shipping of extrasolar resources, by the 2130s they decided to get back into terraforming with a comparatively inexpensive and less safe redesign of Weyland Corp atmospheric processors. Over the next 30 years they established many new colony worlds within the American Arm of the Outer Rim Territories, in the process becoming the United Americas’ chief supplier of weapons and starships.

**L E A D E R S**

Like any major corporation, Weyland-Yutani is run by a board of directors and shareholders. Though unsubstantiated, there are rumors that upper management is actually run by synthetics operating under directives that date back to co-founder Peter Weyland’s David series of androids.

W-Y XOs and corporate agents are numerous on the Frontier, but the real man in charge out there is Michael Bishop.

**DOG CATCHERS**

Weyland-Yutani maintains a commando corps trained to handle and capture Xenomorph specimens. Called the Dog Catchers, these corporate security units usually include four commandos, two animal containment specialists, a science team, and a chief surgeon— often led by a high level corporate exec. These commandos wear APE suits (see Chapter 6), carry pulse rifles, and utilize specialized capture equipment. Unfortunately, most of the information Weyland-Yutani has gathered about the Xenomorph and its subspecies is based on secondhand reports, and therefore these teams are often ill-equipped to deal with the actual threat the creatures represent.

**MICHAEL BISHOP**

DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PROJECTS, BIO-WEAPONS R&D, AND SYNTHETIC DESIGN, THE WEYLAND-YUTANI CORPORATION

A narcissistic genius and creator of the Bishop series android, Michael Bishop’s ambitious and manipulative behavior catapulted him through the corporate ranks from a synthetic designer at Hyperdyne Systems to a senior position in bioweapons and director of special projects at Weyland-Yutani. His focus over the past few years has been to obtain viable specimens of p.praepotens for bioweapons research. He almost achieved his goal when confronting Ellen Ripley at the Fiorina 161 Class C Work Correctional Unit, but her suicide by immolation there prevented him from obtaining his prize. During the incident Michael suffered severe head trauma and has since received extensive corrective surgery and cybernetic implants in order to repair the damage to his skull. Unfortunately, the doctors have been unable to control his severe migraines and red-outs, and Michael has become dependent on highly addictive painkillers. Never one to throw in the towel, Michael has since operated on the Frontier, tracking down any Xenomorph XX121 leads and sightings in the hopes of capturing one and weaponizing it. His corporate transport ship the Patna can frequently be found docked at the W-Y corporate berth on Anchorpoint Station.

**L O C A T I O N S**

Weyland-Yutani has main offices in Tokyo, London, San Francisco, Sea of Tranquility, and on Thedus. They can be found on any major starport world, and they have holdings on Alexandria in the Independent Core System Colonies. Throughout the Outer Veil, Outer Rim, and Frontier are dozens of W-Y sponsored colonies, terraforming projects, and mining operations.

**R E L A T I O N S**

Like both its predecessor companies, W-Y plays hard and fast with mergers and acquisitions, buying out those they can and destroying those they can’t. As such, they have a ruthless and cutthroat reputation in the corporate world. Despite the fact that the company has a seat in the Interstellar Commerce Commission’s Company Review Board, their commercial fleet management is known to bribe both ICC agents and Colonial Marshals rather than submit their spacecraft to mandatory safety inspections. An uneasy alliance of convenience exists between W-Y and the United Americas, one that is currently straining both entities’ relationships with the Three World Empire.

**C U R R E N T A C T I V I T I E S**

Weyland-Yutani is operating top secret R&D facilities throughout the territories, specializing in illegal development of synthetic and biochemical weapons.

For decades, a major focus of said research has been the procurement of both Chemical A0-3959X.91-15 and p.praepotens for use as biochemical self-replicating weapons. After the incidents on LV-426 and Fiorina 161, W-Y has doubled down on their efforts. Orbital research facilities like RB-232 “The Cold Forge” and Odobenus station have spent considerable time and effort researching the Xenomorphs, but a method of safely containing them still eludes the company. Special “Dog Catcher” commando and science teams under the supervision of Michael Bishop explore the Frontier in search of Xenomorph XX121 hive worlds, archaeological ruins belonging to the Engineers, and viable alien specimens. W-Y is also covertly developing aggressive X-stimulants, hardwired cybernetic integrated exo-suits, and illegal combat androids for the USCMC.