Tangent

Was sitting here reading over the posts and started thinking about the similarities between Prometheus, and Alien. As far as we know, Weyland Yutani must have listed the Nostromo, and all crew plus the Refinery lost. There were no subsequent updates, no flight recorder, tachyon packet squirts, or any data released that were revealed in Aliens. The salvage of the Narcissus was the first that Weyland heard any news from the Nostromo and even then they had to have flat out lied when they said that the only events the flight recorder corroborated with Ripley's story was that she detonated the engines on the Nostromo and jettisoned the shuttle craft before it occurred. All of this is not even an occurrance in RS's universe, it never happened. I know it's a fictional universe, but I'm one of those people that finds the details fascinating. In Prometheus, the same thing is going to happen if their vessel is destroyed, Weyland is just going to hush up the total loss until such time as they can follow up on it. Does anyone really know how wide spread humanity is at the start of this film? Do we supposedly, and that's a HUGE rift in plausibility have colonies in other solar systems or Is the Prometheus expedition the first manned extra solar foray? This would suppose that something from the digsite may have enabled Weyland to retroengineer an EQV FTL drive or something similar. Obviously they never shared any data on a failed expedition to Zeta Ret with company personel except maybe Ash. It just gets more convoluted and corrupt the more that is revealed doesn't it?