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To fully appreciate Alien: Romulus, it's critical to understand the backbone of the series. The first film introduces us to the Wayline Utani Corporation, whose crew stumbles upon a deadly alien life form while investigating signals on a remote planet. The crew is annihilated, and it's only Ellen Ripley—the resilient lead character—who survives after a harrowing battle that culminates in her sending the alien into the depths of space.
Fast forward twenty years, and the remnants of the Xenomorphs pose a renewed threat. In this latest film, Wayline Utani discovers that part of an alien is still caught in space debris, triggering a desperate retrieval mission which serves as the catalyst for disaster in Alien: Romulus.