Showrunner Noah Hawley accompanied the world premiere of his new series Alien: Earth at San Diego Comic Con Friday afternoon, marking the residents of Hall H as the first to experience the latest chapter in director Ridley Scott’s expansive sci-fi horror franchise. Set two years before the 1979 original, Earth follows three different casts of characters in a semi-dystopian future whose lives intersect after a ship carrying a Xenomorph embryo (and a variety of other nightmares) crashes in the middle of an inhabited city.

If the pilot is any indication, Alien:Earth seems to be juggling three different plots. The first is the most traditional, following the last survivor of a Weyland-Yutani spaceship’s crew (no spoilers who) with a vested interest in capturing and restoring the escaped specimens for nefarious purposes. The second sees Wendy, a terminally ill child who undergoes an experimental procedure (paid for by Prodigy, another in-universe megacorporation) to become the world’s — and the franchise’s — first “hybrid,” soon to be followed by a number of “Lost Boys” that become her adoptive siblings. The third throughline is centered on Hermit, Wendy’s former brother and leader of a search-and-rescue team that goes to investigate the wreckage. “Former” is the keyword here, since Wendy’s procedure required her to fake her own death; but when she sees her brother in danger, she and her crew of human/android hybrids fly out to save them.

In addition to the traditional human/robot/Cenomorph drama the franchise is known for, Earth is setting up a conflict between the megacorporations that run its dystopian world. Given what longtime fans of the franchise already know about Weyland-Yutani, it seems like the aliens might not be the only ones with a vendetta against the human race — and no matter who wins, humanity loses.