The phrase "alien system" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a system that is foreign, unfamiliar, or not native to a particular context or environment.
Example: "The researchers struggled to understand the alien system of governance that was in place in the newly discovered civilization."
Alternatives: "foreign system" or "unfamiliar system".
The delusions of the schizophrenic seem to belong to an alien system of ideas or perceptions.
Throughout the long period of foreign rule, the southern part of the Low Countries generally preserved its institutions and traditions, and only for a short interval, under the First French Republic and Napoleon, could integration with an alien system be enforced.
These are things often ignored by researchers.Conversely, local NGOs campaigned against the ICC in Uganda, saying it was an imposition of an alien system on to a complex local situation and that traditional rituals were a much better form of justice.
The highly developed Buddhist arguments had little purchase on Chinese intellectuals and the only available common form of discourse that could "domesticate" this alien system was Neo-Daoist "abstruse learning" which focused on the metaphysical notions of being and non-being.
But three new planets only a fraction the size of Earth, including one Mars-size body, make up the smallest alien system found to date.
So if one brings in an alien system of medicine it is difficult to see how the people will accept it or have faith in it.
I have been a gamer since the dawn of the commodore, atari and a host of now alien systems.
Carnegie Institution astrophysicist Alan Boss believes that the detection of these two planets suggests that there are a whole range of planetary masses in alien systems--from rare super-Jupiters to fairly common sub-Saturns and below.
"In 5 to 10 years, we'll have an alien replicating system," he said.
The alien communication system was clever, but it felt like starring in a less coherent re-make of Solaris.
He suspected that the alien solar system was much older and that unaccounted-for factors were helping to stabilize it.
