Weyland Aerospace Corporation

The Weyland Aerospace Corporation was a corporation originally founded by engineer Arthur Xavier Weyland as a corporation that designed engines, power sources, and faster-than-light drives for starships. After coming close to dissolution, the corporation was absorbed by the human supremacist group known as Cerberus, and was used as a front corporation for that group.

Founding
The corporation was originally founded when several engineers and starship designers worked together to create optimized drive cores for human starships. They were originally brought together by then-entrepreneur Arthur Weyland, who received funds from some Earth-based governments to help build starship drives.

Cerberus Aquisition
After a years of little success, the company was falling into bankruptcy. This was made worse when the corporation's founder died of a massive heart attack in 2165. His grandson, a power-hungry businessman named Gavin Xanatos, took over. Afterwards, he was approached by a shady group of human supremacists, who offered to bring his company back from the brink if they would in turn help their cause. Xanatos accepted.

The corporation's bounce-back was astonishing, and caused many species to become suspicious of this new multi-billion dollar earning corporation. Cerberus supplied the company with new technology, which was used to engineer spectacular starship drives.

Return to Bankruptcy
The corporation hit another downturn in the mid 2170's after Xanatos' eccentricity and lust for power began to ruin the company. He proposed bioweapon projects, omni-tool amps, and dozens of other non-lucrative programs that more often than not returned negative profits.

Cerberus then approached Xanatos with a strange proposal involving the enigmatic alien race known as. Xanatos agreed, and Cerberus and the Weyland Aerospace Corporation began co-funding a sophisticated expedition to through the Omega-4 relay.

Dissolution
The expedition never did return, like all other expeditions. Without profit or scientific returns, Cerberus withdrew its support of the Aerospace Corporation. Not long afterwards, David Xanatos was found dead, killed by an unknown assassin. Several members of the company's board of directors were also killed.

The resulting loss of leadership crippled the corporation, and it quickly went bankrupt.

It was eventually liquidated and dissolved, leaving nothing but a few peculiar footnotes on history.

Trivia

 * The corporation was inspired by the Weyland-Yutani corporation of the Alien movies.
 * Gavin David Xanatos' name is a reference to David Xanatos, an eccentric billionaire from the 1990's animated TV series Gargoyles.