The story takes place two years before the
events of the original 1979 Alien film, in a near-future Earth dominated
by five powerful corporations, including the newly established Prodigy
Corporation. The research vessel Maginot, returning from a 65-year
mission to collect alien specimens such as facehuggers, suffers a
catastrophic malfunction and crash-lands in New Siam, a bustling
cyberpunk metropolis on Earth.