Technically, doesn't Ripley own the Alien?

External Since: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 104

As far as one can tell from the movies, if you find something, can prove you
found it, and report your having found it, you won it. At least, this is how
I interpret the various remarks about the matter in A1 and A2 (Parker: "If
they find something out there, does that mean we get full shares?" and in
A2, at the colony in the SE: "If he finds something, it is his.")

Now surely this means, if I have inferred the way claiming works in the
Alien universe, that the derelict and the aliens all belonmg to Ripley. She
is the sole survivor of the original encounter, and accurately reported
where more were to be found (again from A2SE: "Some honch in a cushy office
on Earth tells me to go look at a grid reference. I go look...").

An alternative, more cynical Ripley would decline to join Gorman and Burke's
rescue mission and simply say Sure, go look. When they failed to return,
which without her they would have done, either a further mission would
establish the facts, or the Sulaco would have sent back enough information
to verify her story.

External Since: Jun 28, 2003 Posts: 405

"John Redman" <johnphilipredman.DeleteThis@hotmailREMOVETHEBLEEDINOBVIOUS.com> wrote in
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> As far as one can tell from the movies, if you find something, can prove
you
> found it, and report your having found it, you won it. At least, this is
how
> I interpret the various remarks about the matter in A1 and A2 (Parker: "If
> they find something out there, does that mean we get full shares?" and in
> A2, at the colony in the SE: "If he finds something, it is his.")

Good question...

But, my take is, as Ripley was under the pay of the company, and we know the
company deliberately sent the crew there....
(Re: Ash's special order)
.... then *as* an agent of the company, it actually makes it *their*
discovery!

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