I assume this was like one of those shake 'n' bake colonies or first attempt / setup for one, send married ppl on a one way trip with more in route later to help populate the location once all is working since its better to have long distance living with someone of interest.
Married, I am meaning paired couples, may not be different sexes, much like the proposed current Mar trip. Send high skilled and others that want to go on a 1 way trip. In comparision LV-426 had about 60-70 families.
Given the known size of this current crew, it would be semi limited to plant humans and see what happens in 500 years later. With the Weyland logos all over everything more than product placement in a Michael Bay film, it has to be company sponsored. More ppl would be coming with more equipment and supplies.
Would be interesting if the equipment the Nostromo was pulling back to earth was something that wasnt needed from this colony going belly up. Would be interesting is this planet or spacestation (Later) was called Thedus.
Gah, I played too much Eve in the past. I wanted to look up the rest of the stats on this. lol
NOSTROMO
The Factory Starship lumbering with the depths
of inter-stellar space.
Function: Petroleum tanker and Refinery.
Capacity: 2000,000,000 tons.
Length: One and one half kilometers.
M-Class star-freighter
Forty-two million in adjusted dollars.
That's minus payload, of course.
Side note, LV-426 was working for 20years peacefully by time of Aliens. It hasnt grown much in that time but I would guess it may be due to atmospherics not being breathable for until within the last half of that 20years. Another is the time in distance travel. Naturally over time humans learn to speed up its means for traveling same distances faster.
From Alien they were six weeks off course and was going to take 10months to return to earth at current position. Assumed they left Thedus to head to Earth originally before the signal was picked up from Mother to pull them off course. The travel to LV-426 seemed to be shorter time than the 10 months between Alien to Aliens within that
Fifty-seven years from Dream when Ripley was found since RageQuit Nostromo, 62 years if Newt was same age as Amanda Ripley and Dream was BS. That guess - 20years (shake n bake) = roughly 27-42 years difference from Alien to Aliens, if correct it might be about seventeen days travel to LV-426 from Earth in Aliens if from Earth (Unclear).
All rough math. Its late.... But hyped for this!