| Neither answer makes complete sense. If the company knew about it beforehand why send space truckers? Why not a company ship just for Alien harvesting? If they didn't know why the sudden change of the Sci officer?
I see two possiblities.
1) they were starting s blanket campain to find Alien life and were placing their andriods on all of their ships to take action in the case of finding signs of life. The Nostromo just happened to win the lottery from hell.
2) The company detected the signal, but had it's hands tied by goverment regulation, and had to act in it's own interests and make the discovery and recovery seem like a chance happening. Crew expendable. |