Alien Romulus: How do the work colonies function ?
Alright, I’m new here but have been a fan of the series nearly 3 decades. I have a question though regarding the Weyland Yutani work Colony featured early on in the Film.
I’m rewatching Alien Romulus and a detail really caught my eye. Early in the film Rain (The main protagonist) is attempting to full fill her work contract and leave to a new planet.
However the woman working the terminal I’m assuming the colonies version of HR, denies Rain’s request and actually extends her contract to “5-6 more years”
Now I’ve only watched the films, even some of the bad ones and can’t remember them explaining the class system, or work institutions.
How do these contracts work? How do you get sucked into these? How does this even work?
Idk am I weird but for some reason this idea of all of these people spending all of there lives mining coal should have a more thorough explanation other than “shit sucks”
Anybody got a lore reason for this ?