Layout

Each player connects Locations and Air Shafts (optionally) from their hand to locations already before them on the table. This evolving schematic is called the player's layout, and is different in every game.

The Crew player's layout begins on A-Deck with the Bridge Location, already on the table at the start of the game, and the player continues building his layout outward and downward, toward C-Deck. The Alien player builds his layout outward and upward, starting from one of his C-Corridor cards.

Although each player has his own layout, all locations on the table are part of the same spaceship. Each player's layout can be thought of as a different 'angle' of the Nostromo. The two player's layouts are bridged through the use of shared locations.