The new series Alien: Earth has more than Xenomorphs killing humans; it’s also got some new extraterrestrials fans of the franchise haven’t seen before.

In a new behind-the-scenes look, the cast and creator Noah Hawley offer some insight into the show’s basic plot and what it’ll bring to the larger franchise. Included in the footage are glimpses of unnamed species that range from an eyeball with tentacles to a big, centipede-looking thing, both of which want to get in humans’ faces as much as the Xenomorph does. The creatures come from a Weyland-Yutani ship that specifically went out to find various species and bring them back for study, and you can imagine how well that went.

Alien: Earth picks up in the aftermath of said ship crash-landing on the planet in the territory of the Prodigy corporation. Marines are on search and rescue duty, but entrepreneur Boy Cavalier thinks what’s on the ship could give his company Prodigy a leg up on the competition, particularly after it successfully transfers the mind of young girl Wendy into a synthetic body played by Sydney Chandler.

Like the films before it, Earth’s dual extraterrestrial and synthetic threats will be used as a way to explore if humanity deserves to survive. And if it does its job right, it’ll also leave the audience scared as hell; cast members like Babou Ceesay (Morrow) and David Rysdahl (Arthur Sylvia) talk about aliens putting the characters under a lot of stress and wanting to capture the terror of those earlier movies.

We’ll see how the show does when Alien: Earth premieres August 12 on FX and FX on Hulu.

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