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Originally Posted by darius359au
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Well that wiki deal states that there is a "United Americas" which is not in fact the United States so my view seems to have been correct after all at least there is not a "United States of America" of course this information is never mentioned in any of the films so it was clearly just made up by who ever wrote that page.
That is one underlying problem with the entire Aliens franchise there is no solid cannon to go by really.Just scanning that Wiki most of it seems to have just been made up by whom ever.For example one article mentions some made up civil war on a colony planet that Dallas and Parker fought in which makes about zero sense it pretty clear in Alien that no member of the crew had any military training.It says that Parker had been taken POW surely if that was part of Ridleys story it would have been used in the film.
My personal view is based of of the first three Alien films in which no specific nation is ever mentioned but companies are implying that large for profit organizations like Weyland-Yutani have true power.
I will have to watch Aliens closely and see if any American flags are shown but I am almost 100% certain that none are to be seen.
@Dowly I agree with the 99 rounds in the pulse rifle pretty sure that you can "99" a few times in the movie. By the way the pulse rifle(props in the movie) is actually an M-1 Thompson with lots of plastic bits added to it and the Smart gun is an MG3 with fancy bits added if you look closely in some scenes you can see the metal links from the MG3 belt they used 75 round saddle drums they also cut about 4 or 5 inches of the barrels.