In the Alien franchise, two moons play a vital role in the history of the xenomorphs and the most important happenings of the films and the world: LV-223 and LV-426. In Alien (1979), the crew of the Nostromo visits LV-426 to discover a xenomorph, and it almost kills them. Many years before that in the prequel, Prometheus (2012), the crew of the Prometheus landed on LV-223 and discovered the Engineers and the structure they created there. LV-223 and LV-426 are two of the three known moons of the gas giant Calpamos in the Zeta2 Reticuli system.
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