Mon 13 Jun 2022, 20:07
You might want to take a look at the 1972 movie Silent Running. Not so much for the "Alien" dread atmosphere, but more on world building angle, like Outland. The ships on an environmental / ecological preservation mission give off a design vibe somewhere between the The Prometheus and Nostromo (but lean more toward the retrotech latter if the latter had go carts). In the context of some of the colony unrest/uprising, I could see a Gamemother using the Valley Forge Incident as a thing a team of Colonial Marshals might investigate on behalf of the ship's owners. Maybe they intervene sometime between the homicidal psychosis and the ship's self destruction. Maybe bring in that Coast Guard mentioned in the game's universe.
It's a _decent_ movie, more on par with Outland in quality than Alien, but I think the overall plot and the production design, ships, utility droid tech etc could fit real well in the Alien universe. I'd see Outland first though.
To push it further, it'd be a stretch but I'd be interested in something that mashes up Alien with 2001/2010 universe. Like have the Monolith culture out there as something the Engineers don't understand either. But make the Monolith's existence more dreadful than hopeful, like Event Horizon bad. You could actually have it that the powers that be in humanity either have or have knowledge of the first Monolith/sentinel found on the Moon, and maybe even did the Discovery mission to Jupiter, it's all highly classified stuff but fit into a universe if you wanted multiple "great powers" in the galaxy.