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What is Weyland-Yutani? The 'Alien' universe megacorporation explained

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The Weyland-Yutani Corporation of the "Alien" franchise would rank at the absolute slimy bottom.

This fictional megalomaniacal enterprise had its greedy tentacles into everything from robotics, biotechnology, cybernetics, AI , and interstellar mining, to terraforming, off-world colonization, medical research and developing weapons using extraterrestrial DNA gathered around the galaxy.

The company's motto is Building Better Worlds might be its altruistic marketing slogan but we know the secret horrors of its corrupt agenda.

The main antagonist in the "Alien" universe is not those molecular acid-spewing nightmares, but the Weyland-Yutani Corporation.

The British - Japanese conglomerate worth over $200 trillion continues its exploration of the galaxy using all its considerable financial, political and technological might.

The abandoned Renaissance space station and its pair of modules, Remus and Romulus , in director Alvarez ’s sequel set in that 57-year gap between 1979's 'Alien' and ' Aliens '.