Alien: Covenant (Bridge) – An AI-Enhanced Novel Linking Covenant to Alien (1979)
- Igor Brezina
- Sep 12
- 2 min read
Don’t bother with Alien: Covenant’s story anymore, Ridley. I’m taking over.
The Alien: Covenant movie ran through cinemas in 2017 and then… nothing. Granted, we’re getting new Alien stories now, but the main plotline is still unfinished.
How will David’s biological experiments continue?
Will Covenant ever make it to Origae-6?
What exactly happened to Shaw on Paradise?
What had happened on LV-426 before Dallas’s team landed on this harsh planetoid?
Too many questions. No real answers.
That provides an opportunity: I’ve decided to write Alien: Covenant (Bridge), a project that connects Alien: Covenant (2017) with the original Alien (1979). My story will pick up the Covenant’s journey and explain the Space Jockeys’ origin and role.
Why the Alien Covenant Bridge Novel Is Needed
Ridley Scott left the saga hanging after Covenant’s lukewarm reception. Fans have speculated for years about where the story could have gone. At the same time, generative AI has matured into a real creative partner. Those two trends meet here: unfinished canon + new tools.
How I’m Writing This Project
My “creative experiment” works like this:
I WRITE
JENNY (a.k.a. ChatGPT) PROVIDES FEEDBACK
I REVISE
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Why such cooperation? I’ve read widely, but I don’t yet have experience writing novels in English. By creating a custom AI assistant, I can sharpen my storytelling and push the text closer to professional quality.
I'm going to publish excerpts from my emerging novel. They will be basically future chapters.
What You’ll Find on This Blog
Updates on the writing process and lessons learned
Insights into continuity, world-building, and lore
Excerpts from the emerging text itself
I won’t keep it close to my chest. I’ll publish chapters as they develop and explain my choices openly.
This blog will document the making of my Alien Covenant Bridge novel, an experiment in combining AI tools with storytelling.
My imagination has cooked up a very dark story I’m eager to share. Let’s finally discover what happened before the facehugger leapt onto the unlucky Kane.