Twentieth first Century had marked a great leap for humanity, advances in medicine, engineering, artificial intelligence, space exploration and Terraforming, thus, a change in political, economic and philosophy promptly followed, climate change reverted, global economy stabilized and even the world's geopolitical map changed, new countries surged from the union and cooperation, as the European Union, the United Americas and the Iranistan Republic, other powers as the Russian-Chinese Federation and the Third world empire, formed by a group of third world nations.
These changes weren't been possible without the involvement of one of the most talented inventors in history. Peter Weyland was labeled by popular magazines like Life or Colonial Times as the most influential people in the Twentieth First century, now colloquially dubbed the Weyland Century. The British engineer had born to a self-taught engineer and an Oxford mythology professor and by the time he had 14, he was a consummated inventor, forming his own company by the age of 22, but was on February 28th in that legendary TED talk when he demonstrated one of his most desired ambitions.
Despite having developed the first advanced cybernetic organism and artificial intelligence, in the form of the David series android, Peter Weyland hadn't been able to produce a son, a worthy heir of his, an obsession which lead the technology tycoon even to neglect his own daughter Meredith. Also, as his god-like delusion nested on his soul, Peter considered his greatest achievements, the cure for cancer, terraforming and faster than light travel worthless; in his mind, a god must be able not only to create life and change the world, things he already had achieved, but to have an immortal life and the gift of Omniscience.
Omniscience is the ability of the al knowing, and yes, Peter Weyland was a genius, but he didn't know everything, including the two greatest questions: How was life created? And what's the purpose of it? Peter Weyland believed that answering those questions and applying reverse engineering at the process he would find the formula to his own immortality, and that's why he embarked in one of the most ambitious endeavor since the age of exploration's quests of El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth.
Officially, the so-called Weyland Century ended with the death of Sir Peter Weyland on his home on Mars. But, just a bunch of high level Execs knew he did in fact disappeared and was presumed dead when his expedition, aboard the recently built U.S.C.S.S Prometheus had parted to one yet unexplored system and never returned. The ship had been commissioned with the intention of discovering the very beginning of human civilization and life itself, based on a theory proposed by two archaeologists –Dr. Elizabeth Shaw and Dr. Charles Holloway –whose thesis had vanish them from the scientific community for its paradigm changing statements, but convincing enough to make Sir Peter believe the dreams and delusions of the old millionaire can be achieved.
But theories are only that, theories, and they can be wrong. A little and apparently insignificant detail could mislead all calculations, and what Elizabeth Shaw and Charly Holloway thought was an invitation from the Gods turned out to be one of the greatest threats mankind had faced. Now, fourteen years after the fatidic expedition, new data had been recovered by an enthusiastic follower of Shaw's theories. But, will she realize the true danger of a gift from the gods?
