Introduction

The following is the official in-universe timeline of events as they unfold throughout the shared continuity of the Alien, Predator, Alien vs. Predator, and Prometheus franchise. While the cinematic timeline begins with Predator in 1987 and ends with Alien Resurrection in 2381, the shared universe technically began with the 1989 comic Aliens vs. Predator by Dark Horse Comics (which takes place at an unknown date) and was cemented together with the release of the 2004 film Alien vs. Predator (which takes place in the same year) and has been further expanded upon ever since throughout various Alien, Predator, Alien vs. Predator and Prometheus media, notably through the Fire and Stone (2014–2015) and Life and Death (2016–2017) comics by Dark Horse Comics. Throughout this fictional history, we see the Weyland-Yutani Corporation (simply known as "the Company") and its ancestral companies, Weyland Corporation (a.k.a. Weyland Industries) and Yutani Corporation (a.k.a. Yutani Incorporated), and affiliate organizations, such as OWLF/Project Stargazer, in their persistent pursuit of capturing and studying the Aliens (a.k.a. Xenomorph) and the Predators (a.k.a. Yautja), with civilians and military personnel, such as the United States Colonial Marines Corps, trying to combat and survive these extraterrestrial threats while either attempting to stop or aid the Company in achieving their goals.

(Notes: An event with an undefined date or year will be assigned an inferred approximate placement on the timeline, and there is thus room for error in such instances.)

Archaean Eon

• Undefined year BC

  • Undefined date: Engineers seed Earth with the Black Goo pathogen of their own invention. [15]

Proterozoic Eon

• 1,600,000,000 BC

  • Undefined date: Xenomorphs are present on Earth. [18]

Mesozoic Era

• Undefined year BC

  • Undefined date: Yautja hunts Triceratops. [10]

Cenozoic Era

• Undefined year BC

  • Undefined date: Humans create cave paintings depicting Engineers. [15]

• Undefined year BC

  • Undefined date: The advanced Amengi insectoid species invade the homeworld of the Hish-qu-Ten (a planet dubbed Yautja Prime), igniting the evolution of the Yautja species and their rebellion against their Amengi enslavement along with a technological revolution. [41][48][49][50]

• Undefined year BC (Note: Karl Bishop Weyland speculates on the age being around 10,000 to 100,000 BC.)

  • Undefined date: Yautja colonize planet BG-386 and conducts the first Xenomorph hunt. [39]

• Undefined year BC

  • Undefined date: Yautja visits Earth and teaches humans to build pyramids. Pyramids are built in Antarctica where humans are used as hosts for Xenomorphs used by Yautja for ritualistic hunts and proving maturity. [9] (approximate)

11th Century

• Undefined year AD

  • Undefined date: Vikings encounters Xenomorphs. [41]

18th Century

• 1715 AD

  • Undefined date: Raphael Adolini manufactures a Spanish-made flintlock pistol (which later was owned by the "City Hunter" Yautja which stalked the streets of Los Angeles in the summer of 1997). [1]

• 1718 AD

  • Undefined date: Captain Raphael Adolini and his crew comes ashore on Guinea Coast. After battling his crew over his intention to return some stolen goods, a Yautja named "the Golden Angel" joins the fight, leaving only Adolini and the Yautja alive. Adolini is mortally wounded and gives his flintlock pistol to the Yautja, who in return buries the deceased Adolini together with his own alien sword. [1][2]

20th Century

• 1904 AD

  • October 10th: The whaler Emma sails to Bouvetøya island, Antarctica, at the start of the whaling season under the Nyberg Brothers oil company. The Emma successfully hunts almost 300 whales during the year. Suddenly the crew notices strange lights falling from the sky, after which the crew recovers a Yautja pod and brings it back to their campsite, only to have crew-member Karl Johanssen finding a Yautja killing off his entire crew. Johanssen escapes the scene and later returns almost dead due to severe hypothermia before becoming witness to a Yautja fighting an Alien. [3][4]

• 1930 AD

  • June: A Yautja stalks and kills mob boss Bruno Borgia in New Way City, USA, and after showing Bruno's head to his wife Isabella, she shoots the Yautja in the eye, causing his blood to splatter on her and her infant son Hunter, after which the Yautja is named "Scarface". The now one-eyed Scarface makes a hasty escape, leaving behind some of his equipment, and failing to kill himself during his attempt to escape, he's shamed by defeat for having exposed his race to the humans, and Scarface is exiled by his clan to a planet inhabited by deadly arachnoid alien creatures [5]

• 1945 AD

  • August 6th: Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, and according to later US government records, the heat and conflict attracted Yautjas. [1]

• 1954 AD

  • Undefined date: Daniel Ripley encounters and eliminates a Xenomorph (dubbed the "Earth Angel") brought to the USA onboard the crashed spaceship of an unknown alien race. [36]

• 1979 AD

  • Undefined date: Last known case of cholera. [6] (approximate)

  • September 22nd: A mysterious explosion is detected by a Vela Hotel satellite over the Indian Ocean at Bouvet Island, Antarctica. The event eventually became known as the Vela Incident. Initially thought to be caused by a nuclear detonation or an airbust from a meteor crashing down to Earth, it was later theorized by Sebastian de Rosa to be caused by a Yautja self-destruct device. Colonel Alexander Woods is in charge of an investigation into the event. [4]

• 1987 AD

  • September 19th: A Yautja lands in a Central American jungle while being tracked by Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer and his paramilitary team, leaving only Dutch as the sole survivor. OWLF is formed as a result of the event. [7][1]

• • September 12th: Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer reports; "It's September 12, 1987. My name is Major Alan Shaefer, also known as "Dutch". US Army veteran, spec ops commander, and the only survivor of the "Val Verde Incident". These tapes are my personal testimony, Insurance. Should anything happen to me, what I've found won't be lost. My team was brought in to rescue a Guatemalan cabinet minister and his aide who'd been captured by guerilla forces in Val Verde. We located their downed helicopter and the skinned bodies of those aboard hung in nearby trees, seemingly at the hands of the guerilla fighters. After assaulting their camp, it became clear that the mission was a setup. American intelligence had sent us to retrieve the captured agents who'd been on recon for a future military action. But none of that matters anymore, because while we were clearing out the guerillas, something was hunting us. An invisible killer tracked us as we made our way to the extraction point. In 24 hours, it wiped out my entire team: Rick Hawkins, Blain Cooper, Mac Elliot, Billy Sole, Jorge Ramirez ... and Al Dillon. The best soldiers I've ever known, men I'd trusted with my life, were butchered like animals. It was a nightmare, we walked in with guns, but it had perfect camouflage, advanced weaponry, and could see heat. It was strong and smart. A pitiless hunter. I waited. I watched. And when I understood it, when I saw how it hunted, I killed it. As it laid dying, in a final "Fuck You", it activated an explosive device. I barely escaped the blast. My radiation sickness and the crater of that explosion are the only evidence it was ever here. I've given my official statement to Agent Peter Keyes of the OWLF, but it's become clear I need to investigate Val Verde myself. Keyes was thorough, but he asked all the wrong questions. We have proof of alien life, but that life sees us as game. It's an alien who's first contact with humanity was to hunt us for sport. All Keyes cared about was the technology lost in that explosion. He can't see the jungle for the trees. I see the threat, he sees the opportunity. Spies are all the same. I mean, we aren't not people to them, we're assets. How many soldiers will he feed to those monsters just for a chance to steal from them or to learn from them? The government can't be trusted, so I'll have to do this on my own. I'm cutting my treatment short and going off the grid. I will make my way back to South America, to Val Verde. I was told there were stories about "demons who make trophies of men". I'd like to hear those stories." [41]

• • Undefined date: Weyland-Yutani File 002 (W-YC FILE #2: THE PREDATOR) noted the following about the Val Verde incident; Reports of international interference, civil unrest, and record-high temperatures meant that the Company was, of course, monitoring the Republic of Val Verde in the summer of 1987. However, the Company recognises the CIA’s assistance in compiling this file, as no Company representative could, officially, be present for proper observations during or after their operation. In the midst of the localised disorder, CIA agent Al Dillon misplaced a series of sensitive agency documents. He recruited a private Special Forces team led by Jim Hopper to infiltrate a rebel base of operations and recover them. The team failed and disappeared without trace. Dillon responded by hiring a former colleague in Major Alan ‘Dutch’ Schaefer (See File 101) to complete the mission but unconfirmed accounts suggest Dillon cooked up a story to force Dutch and his commandos into action. They entered the jungle, swiftly discovering the mutilated bodies of Hopper and his men and neutralizing the rebels, even capturing one, but they weren’t alone. Radio operator Rick Hawkins was apparently killed, although his body was never recovered, and Sergeant Mac Eliot saw a camouflaged attacker disappear into trees. It is believed that this was an interaction with one of the creatures now codenamed as Predator. Using what little evidence they had gathered and testimony from their hostage stating familiarity with a creature matching Eliot’s description (Apparently local cultures have made a myth of our Predator and call it "El demonio que hace trofeos de los hombres" or "The demon who makes trophies of men"), the team changed their tactics. They abandoned artificial tripwires and industrial hardware and created natural traps, pitfalls and deadweights. Despite some initial success, their efforts failed and the Predator decimated the elite unit. Everyone except Dutch and the hostage were killed. While the hostage escaped to a pre-arranged evacuation site, Dutch claims to have challenged the creature. He deduced it could detect heat signatures and, after covering himself in mud to appear invisible, managed to disable its own camouflage system. He has provided extensive description of the creature’s appearance and tactics that can be provided with this file upon request. Dutch admits to being outmatched in their ensuing combat until, in an apparent display of honour, the Predator discarded portions of his armour and weaponry, before committing to a final duel. Dutch took the opportunity to lure the creature towards one of his traps and crushed it beneath a deadweight. Schaefer has thus far only responded with laughter when asked whether the creature made any attempt to communicate with him but he has stated that it initiated a self-destruct device before dying. Based on several readings from the ground and satellite, the Major was lucky to escape the following explosion. Schaefer was picked up by a helicopter from the evacuation site shortly after emerging from the jungle and has been reasonably cooperative to this point. This is the best data we have been able to track for the Predator in some time and further examination of the encounter site is very much advised. [43]

• 1990 AD

  • October 1st: Peter Weyland is born in Mumbai, India, to an Oxford-educated Professor of Comparative Mythology and a self-taught engineer (Charles Bishop Weyland). [8]

• 1991 AD

  • April 8th: Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer reports; "April 8th, 1991. I'm not dead yet. I'll admit ... I regret not curing my radiation sickness before I left. It made leaving the country difficult. I cashed in a few favors, took too many off-the-books flights in rusted-out buckets, but I made it back to Val Verde. The area was in lockdown, sealed bY American intelligence for study. The complex centered on the crater from the alien's self-destruction. I found a scientist slumming in a local bar. A few drinks, and a couple of threats later, he was ready to talk. It wasn't much, barely anything I didn't already know. The blast emitted a form of radiation they'd never seen before. Some believed it was extraterrestrial: some didn't. Either they're not that bright or there's nothing to find. I decided to to let them keep searching in vain. It kept them busy and off my trail. I've been touring villages and small towns, using the cover of an author writing about South American folklore. I don't know if any of them bought in, but they took my money and told their stories. The closer they were to the jungle, the more stories of devils in the trees. Some were bullshit, made up on the spot, but some carried consistencies that I couldn't ignore. Whatever it was, the "Demons Who Makes Trophies of Men", the "Devils of the Trees", or the "Skull-Taker", the stories always began on the hottest summer that they could remember. In the summer of 1987, Val Verde nearly broke it's all time high in temperatures. They love the heat. It must remind them of home. Everything else confirmed the truth of the stories. Proud warriors skinned and hanged: skulls and spines ripped from their bodies. Maybe it was obvious from the beginning, but it wasn't until I heard the stories that I truly accepted the purpose of these mutilations. I mean, they're taking trophies. They travel impossible distances to hunt us, skin us, and mount us over some alien fireplace on another world. It would be disgusting if it weren't so familiar. Where do I go now? It's been on my mind all year. The takeaway from all this intel is that they've been doing this for decades-- centuries maybe. They're coming back, and I need to be there for when they do." [41]

• 1992 AD

  • June 27th: Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer reports; "June 27th, 1992. It's hard to remember that the most important part of an operation is patience. You can plan the perfect op, but you can't account for everything. If shit goes south, there's nothing to do but to adapt and finish the mission. Sometimes, you just get lucky. I was on a dock about ten klicks down-river from the Val Verde border, figuring out my next move. I was ready to pack it in. I mean, I thought I'd learned everything I could: that there was nothing left for me to find. The OWLF had abandoned the detonation site a year ago, and I'd thought they'd already shipped back to America. That's when I saw Agent Peter Keyes tie his skiff to the dock. I mean, I hadn't seen Keyes since I gave my official statement to him. It was impossible, but there he was with three of his buddies. All agents. I mean the clean, tidy outfits give them away all the time. I mean, they don't get down in the dirt. You see, that's what they pay soldiers to do. Keyes walked up, looked right at me, and shook my hand. With the radiation sickness, I'd lost a lot of weight. I thought maybe he hadn't recognized me, but then he greeted me like we were old pals. Keyes is a good spy. Saying nothing: implying everything. We spent the next few hours trading war stories at the bar. If you'd heard us, you'd never suspect we were trading intel on an alien manhunter. His cover was that they'd been looking for a serial killer. A sadist who'd been operating in the area for years. Hunting people like animals and skinning them alive. Keyes wanted to talk about the monster, so it all came out in the cover story. In many ways, they were just a few steps behind, surveying villages for information, locating witnesses. He did confirm one thing I'd only considered. He told me about how the "killer" chose its victims. They were always armed: a rifle, a pistol, a knife in the boot. He wasn't taking kids or random villagers. He wanted a challenge. Whatever it was, it was a hunter. When it killed, it killed for sport. I wish they were here for a military action, recon for an invasion. But the truth was so much worse. We're prey. Animals. Fit only to be hunted. Keyes and his buddies paid their tab, and mine, but before he left, he winked at me and said ... "Stay out of the jungle. That's where he gets you". I tracked Keyes and his team for weeks, but they didn't learn anything new. Maybe they knew I was there, maybe they didn't. I don't know. I've risked enough for now. I think it's time to disappear. Keep my ear to the ground. Be patient." [41]

• 1996 AD

  • March 3rd: Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer reports; "March 3rd, 1996. I thought I could wait. I thought I could hold back and make my move at the right time. I couldn't. Fuck! I had to find them! I needed to hunt it ... or let it hunt me. I joined up with any private military company that was headed into a hot zone. I pulled every string, cashed out every favor just to follow the sweat and the death that attracted the demon. I eventually put together a team myself. Lost soldiers and haunted men, willing to fight and die wherever I led them. They thought I was a legend and I let them believe that. I'm quiet and good at what I do. I needed them to see me as a legend, so I could take them to die in the sweltering jungle. We went on more missions than I can remember. We didn't fire until we were fired at. They thought that it was my code. It wasn't. I was waiting and watching. Our last mission was an evac op in the Congo. A private munitions base had gone dark. When we arrived, they'd been dead for days. Bodies strung up on flood lights around the base, all of them skinned. Some missing skulls and spines. We secured the site and waited for backup to arrive. In the heat of the day, I stared into the waves of heat coming off the concrete, thinking that any minute they might come alive as the invisible killer. And then they did. I didn't wait. I unloaded every round I had. Trusting me, my team fired in the same direction. It wasn't the first time I'd done it, but this time I knew what I was looking for. It was so fast. We couldn't hit it. We panicked and stray rounds struck a crate of RPGs, and that explosion hit other munitions that exploded. By the time the smoke cleared, the demon was dead ... but so were all of my men. I took samples of its blood, pieces of its anatomy, and what tech I could salvage, then I burned everything. Then I disappeared. I never checked in with HQ. As far as I know, I was counted among the dead." [41]

• 1997 AD

  • Undefined date: A Yautja stalks the streets of Los Angeles during a very hot summer while being pursued by Lieutenant Mike Harrigan and the secret government organization OWLF (the Other Worldly Life Forms Program) headed by CIA Agent Peter Keyes and second-in-command Agent Garber. Keyes is eventually killed by the Yautja, leaving Garber in charge. After following the Predator into its own spaceship, finding a trophy room containing human skulls and the skull of an Alien, Harrigan partakes in a final fight with the Yautja, killing it, only to find himself surrounded by his clan-members. The clan leader Grayback or "the Golden Angel" eventually gifts him Raphael Adolini's flintlock pistol. [1]

• • October 12th: Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer reports; "October 12th, 1997. Los Angeles. I needed to come back to the states. It wasn't impossible to sneak contraband through customs, but I wasn't willing to risk what I'd found in the Congo falling into the wrong hands. Instead, I traveled to Mexico aboard a cargo ship bound for the port of Altamia, from there I made my way to Tijuana and I bunkered down. I had tangible proof of extraterrestrial life in my possession, but no idea what to do with it. I'm not a scientist. I did a soldier's duty and secured valuable intel. This was out of my pay grade. I kept an eye on the news. Los Angeles was having a record-breaking heatwave and a gang war on the streets. It was perfect. I could feel it in my bones. I'd been tracking them for so long, I could think like them. I could smell the prey. I could see the hunting ground. I had to get to LA. Crossing back into the states from Tijuana wasn't that difficult, but by the time I'd reached the city, it was already over. Like Val Verde, the OWLF only found crumbs. What I'd hoped might be an alien ship turned out to be a launching site. I wanted it too much and I got sloppy. I breached the OWLF quarantine and was captured. I'd hoped I'd be bailed out by Agent Keyes, but he died. With Keyes gone, the OWLF was leaderless and disorganized. I was interrogated, but then negotiated my release by bartering the alien materials I'd recovered from the Congo. During the negotiations, it was clear how little they knew. They needed someone who understood the threat, so I offered to work with the OWLF as a consulting advisor. They had the funding and the technology I needed to continue my hunt. I wouldn't work for them, but I would work with them. They'll be a weapon I can use to hunt down these predators as they move to fresh ground. It's only a matter of time until they see us as a real threat. When the prey fight back, it's no longer a hunt. It is war." [41]

  • Undefined date: Colonel Alexander Woods submits his final report regarding an unexplained nuclear explosion off Bouvet Island, Antarctica, in 1979, and those believed responsible, but the results are inconclusive. His daughter Alexa "Lex" Woods begins working on 'The Ice', that is Arctic and Antarctic environments. [4]

  • Undefined date: Alexa Woods and her father climb Mount Ranier, but following complications from a broken leg, Colonel Woods dies during the descent. [9][4]

21st Century

• 2004 AD

  • October 1st: Days after his 14th birthday, Peter Weyland is granted a Method Patent for a synthetic trachea (a cure for lung cancer) constructed entirely of synthetically-engineered stem cells. It is his 12th registered patent to date. [8]

  • October 10th: Billionaire and self-taught engineer Charles Bishop Weyland (original founder and CEO of Weyland Industries, a.k.a. Weyland Corporation) organizes an expedition traveling on the icebreaker Piper Maru to Bouvetøya island, Antarctica, to investigate an ancient pyramid buried beneath the ice. Crew-member Alexa "Lex" Woods, along with a few other crew-members, is brought on the Weyland 14 helicopter to the Piper Maru, and once on the island she questions why Weyland, suffering from lung cancer, partakes in such a perilous mission (recalling events where her father Colonel Woods died while climbing Mount Ranier), after which he insists on being part of such a monumental discovery which will inevitably lead to him being rendered immortal through people's memory and the legacy he leaves behind. Discovering the pyramid to be a breeding ground for Xenomorphs every 100 years intended for the ritualistic hunts of the Yautjas, everyone in the team ends up dead, including Mr. Weyland at the hands of a Yautja named Scar (who in turn gets impregnated by a Xenomorph Facehugger), leaving Alexa Woods as the sole survivor working together with Scar to take out the remaining Xenomorphs through a nuclear explosion before they reach the surface and take over the planet. The Xenomorph Queen survives and ends up killing Scar before she's dragged down by a water tower into the Antarctic Ocean to be frozen alive. Scar's dead body is later brought onboard a Yautja mothership by his clan-members, with Lex being acknowledged as a Xenomorph-killer by the clan leader before the mothership leaves the planet. A hybrid Xenomorph Chestburster later erupts from Scar's body while still leaving the orbit of planet Earth. [9]

• • Undefined date: A Yautja scout ship detaches from the mothership seen in Antarctica and crashes in Gunnison, Colorado, and releases a hybrid Xenomorph which starts forming a Xenomorph hive in the small town, leading to a Yautja named Wolf being notified through a distress signal and travelling to the location with the intention to eradicate all the Xenomorphs and any evidence of Yautja presence. Eventually the National Guard is called in but is rapidly eradicated by the unexpected Xenomorph hordes and the infestation spirals out of control to the point that the US military drops a tactical nuke on the town with a small group of people escaping the area onboard a Bell UH-1 Iroquois "Huey" helicopter, carrying with them a Yautja handgun dropped by Wolf during a final conflict with the hybrid Xenomorph. The handgun is eventually acquired by Colonel Stevens of the US military and brought to Ms. Cullen Yutani (working in conjunction with OWLF and Project Stargazer in acquiring Yautja technology; eventually leading to their collaboration with Weyland Corp and the development of advanced technology such as the FTL drives fitted aboard the USCSS Prometheus and the USCSS Nostromo, further advancing their collaborative and persistent goal to acquire and study Xenomorph and Yautja specimens). [10]

• • Undefined date: Weyland-Yutani File 005 (W-YC FILE #5: 'SCAR' PREDATOR) noted the following about the Antarctica incident; As of 3.10.2004, the Weyland Industries satellite designated PS-12 detected a heat bloom beneath the uninhabited Antarctic island of Bouvet. The heat signature could be matched to some historical records but nothing specific. Further satellite sensor investigation projected that an ancient pyramid-shaped complex was buried deep beneath the ice. The highest care was taken with confidentiality but Mr Weyland observed the report. Despite company insistence of better representation, he assembled a small team and chartered an icebreaker boat to travel to Bouvet. Mr. Weyland’s attendance was heavily discouraged due to his age, poor health and position but he could not be deterred. His financial controls and security accesses were adjusted accordingly. Upon arrival the team prepared to dig down to the pyramid but found a tunnel to the centre had already been made, apparently using advanced thermal equipment. Inside, the team discovered ancient symbols, advanced technology and evidence of two alien species- one now confirmed to be the creature codenamed Predator. They then appear to have accidently activated some unspecified technological functions. The group was separated and there were some fatalities, Mr Weyland among them. One particular Predator was widely observed by the surviving leader of Weyland’s group, Alexa Woods. She has been hesitant to speak at length but suggested that the individual was young and perhaps inexperienced but heavily armed and focussed. It fought and defeated several warriors of another alien species and apparently marked its armour with the blood of one enemy. This behaviour has also been observed among ancient human cultures and it is now unclear if this began on Earth or was influenced by acts from elsewhere. The duo apparently formed some kind of tactical bond (This will need careful clarification, previous encounters with Predators have been… unfriendly) to defend themselves from the other, as yet unidentified, species. Their defence involved triggering a massive explosion, a last ditch manoeuvre, but they survived and returned them to ground level. There they came in to contact with a larger, apparently more advanced version of the alien species and Miss Woods claimed both aliens were killed during the conflict. Despite the destruction of much of Bouvet, there is exciting extensive evidence to confirm Miss Woods’ account but no sign of physical organic matter related to either alien species. Miss Woods has since been transferred to a secure facility. As a matter of course, this file should note some sadness over Mr Weyland’s death but he was repeatedly advised not to attend the investigation personally. The remaining board members have divided his equity equally and there has been minimal effect on public share prices. [38]

• 2008 AD

  • March 3rd: Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer reports; "March 3rd, 2008. We've gotten good at killing Predators. Every time we find one, we come back with more tech, more research and the OWLF's funding goes up. Together, we've gotten stronger and more efficient. For a time, the aliens were surprisingly predictable. They had no idea we knew so much about them. But that began to change. They sent better hunters everytime. They're beginning to see us as a threat or we've become a more worthy prize. Maybe both. We know this because our last encounter was ... special. We weren't certain if they had any gender to speak of, but that changed when we came in contact with the female. She was smarter and deadlier. She didn't fuck around like the males did. She was direct, ruthless, and skilled. I was in Laos when we first came in contact with her. It was Val Verde all over again. Her ambush wiped out my entire team, only this time ... she got me. In a small village I lost track of her just long enough for her to pin me with a razor net. Pinned against the wall, razors cutting into my face. I'd been fighting for so long, I was ready to die. I should be dead. Instead of making the kill, she cloaked and vanished into the jungle. The net relaxed and I escaped with my life ... and a scar to remember her by. She spared me. Only me. Like she knew who I was. I returned to the exfil, my first failed mission in a long time. Are we going about this wrong? I mean, we've learned so much, but in doing so, have we made ourselves a bigger target? I can't stop thinking about something Napoleon said, "You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach them all your art of war." I started believing we were learning how to hunt them, or maybe she let me live to just be hunted another day. We could be teaching them how to hunt us." [41]

• Undefined year AD [46][47]

  • Undefined date: A group of mercenaries are brought to an alien planet acting as a game preserve for Yautjas. [11]

• 2012 AD

  • October 11th: Exactly eight years following the fallout of Charles Bishop Weyland's disastrous Antarctica operation, Weyland Corporation is rejuvenated and recognized as a legal entity and corporation under United States law and receives their Certificate of Incorporation from the Companies House in the United Kingdom. Due to the combined value of Sir Peter Weyland's various patents and patent-pendings, the company incorporates with a higher fair market valuation than any other company in history. [8]

• 2015 AD

  • March 27th: Weyland Industries launches first industrialized space mission to install solar panels that align and move in Earth's orbital plane but at an axial tilt, imitating a perpetual summer solstice. The renewable energy gathered in the months following this expedition made Peter Weyland his first billion. [8]

  • June 30th: Following Weyland's success with solar panels, Weyland Industries receives funding from a trio of major venture capital firms. [8]

• 2016 AD

  • February 2nd: Using a precursor to the atmospheric processor of his own invention, Peter Weyland is able to generate a localized synthetic atmosphere above the polar ice cap, effectively ending global warming. [8]

  • July 17th: At the age of 25, Sir Peter Weyland becomes one of the youngest people to ever achieve knighthood. [8]

• 2017 AD

  • December 10th: Sir Peter Weyland is honored with the Nobel Peace prize in Science for his extraordinary atmospheric work over the polar ice cap. [8]

  • December 19th: Using capital from his 2015 success, Weyland acquires copyrights to technology developed by NASA's innovative but poorly funded Project Prometheus. With Weyland's significantly augmented funding for the project, JIMO became a reality and proves the existence of simple life in Europa's ocean. [8]

• 2018 AD

  • Undefined date: A Yautja spaceship crashes in Mexico and U.S. Army Ranger Quinn McKenna and a group of PTSD-afflicted soldiers work together to take down a pair of Yautjas, including a genetically enhanced individual, and prevent a possible invasion of the planet due to the effects of global warming, while Project Stargazer (with connections to Yutani Corporation), seeks to capture and study the Yautjas and their technology. A Yautja spaceship and various other pieces of technology such as an advanced armor dubbed the "Predator Killer" are eventually acquired by Project Stargazer (and incorporated into the collaborative project between Yutani Corp and Weyland Corp in developing advanced technologies, including the FTL drives fitted aboard the Heliades class spacecrafts). [12] Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer was amused at Project Stargazer's lack of knowledge toward the Yautja race, and was present in Mexico when they captured the Fugitive Predator alive. Dutch considered this an absolutely terrible and stupid idea, recognising the aliens to be too dangerous to be captured alive, and that the only prize should be a corpse or the technology that they bring with them. After this course of action resulted in a horrific number of gruesome deaths, Stargazer was almost rendered defunct, but continued to operate through shadowy methods in the jungles of South America, in areas not too different to where Dutch had first encountered the predators over thirty years prior, in the hopes that they could actually capture another predator alive. [41]

• 2019 AD

  • January 13th: Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer reports; "January 13th, 2019. I knew that the Predator's deployments to Earth would make it impossible to keep all of this a secret. Sooner or later there would be another player on the board. I'd hoped that it would be another agency, one that understood and respected the threat. Project: Stargazer. Our initial intelligence on Stargazer was that they were capable, funded, but inexperienced. But they were smart. They took the OWLF's funding and got it shut it down. Everyone we could Everyone we could identify in their group was a disavowed member of another agency, including the OWLF. Lacking strong leadership and a clear directive, they were sloppy and arrogant. They were aware of the Predator threat, and while they had many of the pieces, they struggled to see the bigger picture. Stargazer was so far behind that we didn't see them as a threat until the event in Mexico. The recovered Predator escape pod was an extraordinary find for Stargazer, but the death toll was a heavy price to pay for taking a Predator captive. My taskforce has many directives, but one of the most primary is that we do not take captives! Retrieve technology, corpses, and other intelligence, but there is no value in a live Predator, only liability. The enemy does not want peace. The enemy does not negotiate. Its only drive on Earth is to hunt. What we might learn from a captive Predator would never be worth the risk to our people! Stargazer didn't learn from their mistakes and the technology they've recovered has only made them cocky. When the government cut ties with the agency, it should have shuttered their project permanently, but they only shifted their goals. Guerilla factions and private military companies are being contracted by Stargazer to set up bases and equipment in locations we've identified as ideal hunting grounds. We believe that the former intelligence project is setting itself up to be a fully independent dealer of otherworldly arms. This is a worst-case scenario. Hostile forces will use those weapons on their enemies, and they will use them on us, all the while the true enemy stalks us unseen. It's a distraction mankind can't afford. Stargazer will have to be dealt with." [41]

• 2022 AD

  • June 1st: Scientists from the Health Division identify the genetic chain of events for 98% of cancers. Using genetically-altered cells as well as elements found beyond Earth's heavens, Weyland successfully deploys an effective cure for almost all cancers. [8]

• 2023 AD

  • February 4th: Sir Peter Weyland is awarded the Nobel Peace prize in Medicine for his cancer cure. [8]

  • February 28th: In a now legendary TED Talk, Sir Peter Weyland clarifies his vision for Weyland Industries, laying the groundwork for the next 50 years of Building Better Worlds. [8]

• • August 5th: Weyland Industries earns patent number 8,128,899 for Method and Apparatus for cybernetic individuals for use in scientific and industrial environments. [8]

• 2024 AD

  • May 10th: Weyland military engineers make first significant improvement to rifling technology since the 19th century, tripling speed and doubling accuracy of projectiles. Exact rifling pattern and twist rate remain classified. [8]

  • September 6th: Weyland Industries makes first foray into the luxury goods market with its Holographic Environment Simulator. It is the first HES able to accurately recreate the aesthetic, mood and sounds of any place in the known world, as well as provide live video feed from any calibrated receiver. [8]

• • September 10th: Weyland Industries introduces first rifle (the Weyland Storm Rifle) able to track targets from over 500 klicks away, as well as determine target's health, physique and whether they can be locked down. [8]

• 2025 AD

  • January 7th: Weyland manufactures the first advanced android prototype model of its kind. He is affectionately called David 1, a name Sir Peter Weyland had initially reserved for his own human son. [8]

  • April: Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer reports; "April, 2025. It's hard to believe that I'm still here recording this. I probably shouldn't be smoking in the med-bay, but fuck it, it's my birthday for Christ's sakes. I turned 78 today, but I'm out there hunting. I should be retired. I should be doing anything but this. My life shouldn't be possible, but the very thing I hunt, that hunts me, is what's keeping me alive. As we began to understand the Predator's technology, we started to use it. A fight with a Predator female went bad and I was critically wounded. Dying, I agreed to experimentation. Using their medical technology was painful at first, but it worked. It worked so well that the cells in my body stopped aging. Pushing eighty now, I feel like a man fighting in his 40's. It's not the only experiment that I've been a part of. I'm deadlier now than I was in Val Verde. The OWLF has been reinstated. It's grown larger than ever before. We saved Sean Keyes from Stargazer. His father was Peter Keyes ... I suppose you could say he was a very dear acquaintance. His son is a gifted scientist. I worry about the future. The Earth is seeing an unprecedented rise in heat and war. As the climate changes and the temperatures go up, more and more countries become hunting grounds. We've killed so many of their kind, but they only send more. The number of events that we've witnessed has increased three fold in ten years. We've made an impression on them, but not like we'd hoped. We wanted to show them that we weren't prey, to deter them from ever sending another hunter to our world. We sent a warning, but they took it as a challenge. I fear we have made things worse. If the Predators ever decided we've grown too bold, I have no doubt that they could burn the Earth and all of humanity with it. My only hope is that while they waste time on sport, we can rise up together and stand against them as a species. Until then, we keep moving, we keep hunting, and we keep our eyes open." [41]

• 2026 AD

  • March 22nd: Weyland Industries earns patent number 9,158,239 for a chemical composition (an advanced polyurethane compound) of classified properties able to almost perfectly replicate the biological features and texture of human skin. [8]

  • June 3rd: Weyland Industries earns patent number 10,445,075 for Method and Apparatus for self-adjusting crosshairs that auto-process windage, Coriolis effect, trajectory, etc. -- eliminating the need for spotters and mathematical formulas. [8]

  • September 30th: Weyland acquires the world's largest public biotech firm, significantly bolstering the company's biotech holdings. [8]

  • November 18th: Weyland privatizes NASA's famous Kepler mission, increases its funding 10-fold and within the year discovers 6,546 more bio-compatible planets. [8]

• 2028 AD

  • January 1st: Weyland makes significant adjustments to the David 2 android prototype, facilitating David's first interaction with humans. This initial meeting is very promising. [8]

  • March 31st: Weyland Industries becomes first company in history to achieve a market capitalization of $100 billion in five years. [8]

  • May 20th: Weyland labs in San Francisco discover the body's ability to hypersleep (or stasis function) – the complete cessation of life processes, which can be restarted when stasis is removed. The search for a practical application begins. [8]

• 2029 AD

  • August 9th: Weyland Industries earns patent number 11,280,599 for Method and Apparatus for a device that enhances the capacity of an extraterrestrial planetary environment to support life; effectively the first fully-automated atmospheric processor. This patent is expected to make the founder's famous boast a reality: “There are other worlds than this one, and if there is no air to breathe, we will simply have to make it.” [8]

• • September 18th: Europe's nuclear research co-operative (CERN) runs out of government funding. Weyland acquires the organization as well as their largest particle accelerator and other facilities. [8]

  • December 12th: After years of litigation, Weyland wins the David patent lawsuit against the Japanese start-up Yutani Corporation, effectively protecting the investments of both Weyland Industries and its shareholders. [8]

• 2030 AD

  • Undefined date: The Yautja known as "Scarface" is offered a chance for redemption by his clan-members as humans have been using the technology that he left behind on Earth in 1930 to destroy and capture other Yautja and to wage mob warfare, culminating in the formation of Neonopolis, the successor to New Way City. The warring mob factions all pay tribute to Lucretia Borgia, daughter of Hunter Borgia and granddaughter of Bruno Borgia (who Scarface faced and killed in 1930). Scarface battles the mob in order to recover the stolen Yautja technology and take control over the new city, eventually facing MOTHER, the computer that controls the city, controlled by his old adversary Isabella Borgia who releases a batch of Xenomorphs on Scarface before he ends up killing her along with her son Hunter, who in turn incapacitated his own daughter Lucretia after having genetically enhanced himself with Yautja DNA and gone insane. Scarface finally takes Hunter's head and declares the city as belonging to the Yautja. Later, Sir Peter Weyland buys out Borgia Industries along with the new MOTHER computer, now run by Lucretia Borgia. [5]

• • July 27th: Weyland Industries earns patent number 12,004,556 for Method and Apparatus for a device (the Hypersleep Chamber) that can initiate, monitor and terminate hypersleep. HCs revolutionize space travel permitting increasingly longer, more advanced missions and enabling unprecedented discovery. [8]

• 2031 AD

  • August 10th: Terraforming begins on Luna with plans for multiple settlements. [8]

• 2032 AD

  • April 3rd: Weyland acquires four of the largest existing defense conglomerates in the world. These major acquisitions significantly bolsters multinational defense, security, and aerospace technology holdings. [8]

  • May 20th: Weyland scientists discover the inverse relationship between velocity and the flow of time making the long sought-after concept of faster than light travel a reality. The search for practical application begins. [8]

• 2033 AD

  • July 4th: Weyland creates new 5.56 millimeter round made of metals mined from the circumstellar habitable zone planets orbiting within Gliese 581 capable of traveling at max velocity in any atmosphere at any range. [8]

  • October 4th: Weyland Corp's one millionth employee is hired. His name is Dr. Richard Post and he serves as Chief Statistician to the Electronics Division. [8]

• 2034 AD

  • January 17th: Weyland Industries introduces the first FTL-capable SEV (space exploration vehicle), the Heliades. [8]

• 2035 AD

  • May 11th: The National Science Foundation (NSF) lifts restrictions on the commercial use of David androids. [8]

  • June 30th: After android regulations are lifted, the third generation David is deployed internally in order to test human acceptance of cybernetics individuals. Results are encouraging. [8]

  • July 21st: Weyland Industries opens several new offices across the globe expanding corporate presence to Greece, Antarctica, El Salvador, and South Africa to name a few. [8]

• 2036 AD

  • August 25th: Weyland Industries launches the Explorers Academy -- an alternative grad school for underprivileged college students interested in the fields of biotech, nanotech, cybernetics and terraforming. Top graduates of the program are offered positions at Weyland Industries. [8]

• 2037 AD

  • December 15th: Fortune 500 names Weyland Industries number one on their list of “10 best companies to work for.” [8]

  • December 21st: Weyland astronomers note an area of space appearing very rich in minerals and other natural resources. Weyland expected to travel there within the century. [8]

• 2038 AD

  • July 4th: Weyland Industries becomes chief employer of Asian Conflict veterans supplying 35% with steady work. [8]

• 2039 AD

  • March 2nd: Weyland Industries earns patent number 13,345,075 for Method and Apparatus for an add-on feature (Auto-Compensation) to Weyland Storm capable of compensating for composition, density, pressure and refractive index of any atmosphere. [8]

  • May 28th: Using the Weyland Atmospheric Processor, the first functional and breathable atmosphere is produced on planet GJ 667Cc clearing the way for further terraforming activities on other planets. [8]

  • May 14th: Weyland astronomers discover multiple moons (including Acheron LV-426) and a ringed planet just outside the Zeta 2 Reticula System, which are possibly able to support life. Weyland expects to travel there within the century. [8]

• 2042 AD

  • April 1st: David 4 becomes the first commercially available model of the David series. He is eventually expected to improve work-flow and efficiency at offices and homes across the world. [8]

  • August 18th: Weyland Industries awarded government contract to build and maintain HD 85512 b Class E Correctional Unit. Prisoners from Earth and other facilities are successfully relocated, and many have since been rehabilitated into society. [8]

• 2042 AD

  • November 20th: Weyland Industries writes $5 billion check to Little Explorers -- a charity dedicated to the education of troubled middle school students interested in science and technology. [8]

• 2051 AD

  • April 19th: Weyland Industries makes essential updates to on-planet transport. The new vehicle (the RT01 Group Transport) is capable of traversing any known terrain and has virtually no weight limit for cargo, passengers and equipment. [8]

• 2052 AD

  • February 14th: Weyland Industries earns patent number 14,524,002 for Method and Apparatus for first manned land-vehicle (the ATV NR6) capable of negotiating vertical surfaces. This technology permits Weyland scientists and terraforming teams to reach previously inaccessible destinations. [8]

• • July 7th: Weyland makes significant intellectual and emotional updates to the David 5 android, further increasing human acceptance. [8]

• 2055 AD

  • August 1st: NAFE (National Association for Female Executives) names Weyland Industries a Top 50 Company for Executive Women. [8]

• 2056 AD

  • January 29th: Weyland Industries earns patent number 15,725,924 for Method and Apparatus for a mechanised exo-skeleton (the Power Loader) used for lifting and moving heavy objects such as crates and vehicle weaponry. [8]

• 2057 AD

  • May 6th: Weyland Industries earns patent number 15,999,127 for Method and Apparatus for an ejectable luxury lifeboat pod able to sustain one human life for up to 50 years. [8]

• 2059 AD

  • July 22nd: Weyland introduces unique expedition security apparatus (or Portable Decontamination Pack) able to decontaminate indoor and outdoor environments. Apparatus mines surrounding air for flammable compounds, making it ultra light-weight as well as self-replenishing. [8]

• 2060 AD

  • August 9th: Weyland Industries introduces revolutionary, game-changing language tool (the Broca Dialectical Implant). It is the first-ever to require no actual learning on the consumer's behalf. [8]

• 2061 AD

  • September 2nd: Weyland Industries earns patent number 16,572,092 for Method and Apparatus for the first fully-automated diagnosis and surgical station (the Medpod 720i). [8]

• 2062 AD

  • February 26th: Only 7% of humans can recognize the sixth generation of David as a cybernetic individual. [8]

• 2063 AD

  • December 1st: Weyland Industries earns patent number 17,900,353 for Method and Apparatus for an antigravity device (the Spectagraph) that 3D live-maps any foreign terrain, revolutionizing the pre-process of terraforming and developing new colonies. [8]

• 2064 AD

  • August 11th: Significantly upgraded space suit includes a variety of Weyland patented features, such as cadium exo-skeleton; info display with mission details; vitals: environmental stats and more. [8]

• 2065 AD

  • June 23rd: Sir Peter Weyland Memorial Library built in Washington, DC. [8]

  • November 20th: As Weyland Industries expands their terraforming activities and colonial endeavors, the company is approached by the US government to begin work on the formation of a colonial peacekeeping force trained or populated by marines in the event of future conflict. [8] Note: Sir Peter Weyland's descendant Karl Bishop Weyland notably stated in response to Colonel Rookie during the incident on planet BG-386: "Have you ever asked yourself where the Colonial Marine Corps sources its weapons? We're old friends, the Corps and I. In fact, you might say I own it. That means I own you." [39]

• 2066 AD

  • April 7th: As production costs for the David series decreases, Weyland Industries is increasingly able to extend those savings to everyday consumers, leading to remarkable proliferation of the product. [8]

• 2068 AD

  • July 6th: Weyland builds and successfully deploys thousands of Seventh Generation Davids into workplaces across the universe. Human acceptance of David 7 reaches an all-time high thanks to Weyland's highly classified emotional encoding technology, David 7 can accurately replicate most human emotions down to the tiniest nuance while consistently achieving all mission objectives. [8]

• 2069 AD

  • July 13th: Samuel Brett is born in Houston, Texas, United States. [13]

• 2070 AD

  • June 30th: Since FDA approval, one dozen Medpods have been produced with tens of thousands on back order. [8]

• 2071 AD

  • May 13th: Weyland Industries becomes Worldwide Olympic Partner and official “Cybernetics Company” of the Olympic movement through 2091. [8]

  • August 16th: Weyland Industries earns patent number 18,364,003 for Method and Apparatus for device (the Synapse Reestablisher) able to temporarily restart brain activity of deceased individuals. [8]

• 2072 AD

  • March 9th: Weyland Industries consolidates all products and solutions into seven verticals: health, transportation, energy, electronics, terraforming, security and cybernetics. [8]

• 2073 AD

  • January 1st: Based on recent classified findings by Weyland researchers, the company determines the exact coordinates of a new destination for long-time pet project: Project Prometheus. New round of investment is immediately opened and mission planning enters full-swing. [8]

• 2074 AD

  • Undefined date: Yutani Corporation is officially founded. [42]

• 2076 AD

  • February 27th: Arthur J. Dallas is born in Wolf Point, Montana – United States. [13]

• • 2078 AD (Note: The 2014 guide book Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report mistakenly states the release date of the David android as being in 2090 AD and the launch of the Prometheus as being in 2091 AD. [14])

  • June 8th: Weyland Corporation celebrates 50 years of operation and the Prometheus mission leaves for LV-223. The Med Pod 720i, the RT01 Transport, and the David 8 android are officially released as part of the Prometheus launch. [15][37]

• 2079 AD

  • August 4th: Dr. Elizabeth Shaw contacts Sir Peter Weyland, expressing her interest in joining Project Prometheus, hoping to receive a response after multiple attempts over a month.

• 2080 AD

  • February 4th: Dennis Parker is born in San Diego, California, United States. [13]

• 2083 AD

  • April 20th: Thomas Kane is born in Borehamwood, Herts-UK, European Union. [13]

• 2090 AD

  • January 11th: Sir Peter Weyland writes a log entry boasting about his great scientific accomplishments.

• • January 12th: Sir Peter Weyland writes a log entry reviewing his speech during the 2023 TED conference.

• • January 14th: Sir Peter Weyland writes a log entry commenting upon Dr. Elizabeth Shaw and her persistence in partaking in Project Prometheus while mentioning the classified agenda concerning the discovery of the moon Acheron LV-426 and the strange signal emanating from that location.

• 2092 AD

  • January 7th: Ellen Ripley is born in Olympia, Luna, United States. [13]

• 2093 AD

  • November 7th: Joan Lambert is born in Ontario, Canada. [13]

  • Undefined date: Sir Peter Weyland, on a secret mission to be freed from his elderly sickly state and acquire eternal life, travels with a crew of scientists aboard the spaceship USCSS Prometheus to reach planet LV-223 and find the creators of mankind, dubbed the "Engineers", and ends up discovering a pathogenic mutagen (with the ability to create Xenomorphs) as well as a hostile Engineer (the last of an entire crew eradicated by an apparent pathogen outbreak), leaving everyone in Weyland's crew dead, including Mr. Weyland himself, with the exception of Dr. Elizabeth Shaw and the beheaded android David 8. The two survivors then hijack an Engineer Juggernaut spaceship with the intention of travelling to the homeworld of the Engineers and find answers to their many questions. [15]

• 2094 AD

  • Undefined date: Dr. Elizabeth Shaw sends out a transmission (humming the lyrics of "Take Me Home, Country Roads" by John Denver). [14][17]

• 2099 AD

  • Undefined date: The Weyland Corporation absorbs cybernetics rival Yutani; the Weyland-Yutani Corporation opens with the largest share value ever recorded on the Systems Exchange. [14]

22nd Century

• 2101 AD

  • Undefined date: The United States Colonial Marine Corps is established, through the National Security Act of 2101, with a strength of roughly 165,000 marines. [14][16]

• 2104 AD

  • Undefined date: South, Central, and North America form a financial collective, the United Americas. [14]

  • Undefined date: The colony spacecraft USCSS Covenant are traveling towards habitable planet Origae-6 when they are struck by a starburst and discover a signal from another habitable planet dubbed Planet 4 and decide to investigate it and discovers an Earth-like world filled with dead humanoids and new forms of Xenomorphs, including the Neomorphs, being a result of the hostile David 8 android from the Prometheus mission having released the Engineers' Black Goo pathogen upon the humanoid civilization of a planet belonging to the Engineers. David also conducted experiments based upon remnant Xenomorph specimens left behind by the Engineers in an effort to produce his own rival variant, the Protomorphs, using the mutagen and local fauna. The remaining crew members escape the planet, unknowingly having brought back David 8 to the Covenant, falsely believing him to be their own identical Walter android, ending up in him taking over the vessel, leaving the ship's colonists at his mercy and storing two Protomorph embryos among the ship's human embryos. [17]

• 2111 AD

  • Undefined date: Estimated date for the arrival of the USCSS Covenant on planet Origae-6. [17]

• 2112 AD

  • Undefined date: Amanda Ripley is born on Earth. [21] (Note: In Alien, the Nostromo is said to be 10 months from Earth when it sets down on LV-426, in June 2122, meaning it was originally scheduled to return to Earth some time around April 2123. In Aliens, Ripley tells Burke she promised Amanda she would be back for her 11th birthday. It's safe to assume this birthday would have fallen fairly soon after the Nostromo was supposed to return, certainly some time that year, thus if Amanda turned 11 in 2123, she must have been born in 2112.)

• 2116 AD

  • Undefined date: The USCSS Nostromo is constructed. [16]

  • Undefined date: Dr. Lucien Keitel finds traces of Xenomorphs about 1.6 billion years old in Australia's Great Desert. [18]

• 2117 AD

  • Undefined date: After nearly a hundred years without a recorded incident, Yautja attack a thousand-men-strong human colony on planet Midnight. [19]

• 2121 AD

  • June 12th: USCSS Nostromo is scheduled to departure from Thedus in 0600 hours. Captain Dallas sends a relay message received by Sevastopol Station informing of their departure.[13][20]

• 2122 AD

  • Undefined date: The crew of the USCSS Nostromo, under contract with the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, are awakened from hypersleep to investigate a distress signal coming from the moon Acheron LV-426 in the Zeta 2 Reticuli System. Eventually they discover a crashed Engineer Juggernaut dubbed "the Derelict", along with its strange alien pilot dubbed the "Space Jockey". Shortly following this discovery, one of the crew-members, Kane, encounters Xenomorph Ovomorphs in the cargo hold, and a Facehugger subsequently attaches itself to him. The resulting Xenomorph ends up hunting the crew onboard the Nostromo after having left the orbit of the moon, killing them one by one, and is faced by the lone survivor Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley, eventually discovering her crew-mate Ash is an android ordered to protect the Xenomorph according to Weyland-Yutani's Special Order 937. Ripley escapes the ship on the lifeboat Narcissus after activating the self-destruct system of the Nostromo. Ripley soon discovers the Xenomorph is on board the escape pod with her and she ends up ejecting it through the hatch, after which she enters into cryosleep. [21]

• 2124 AD

  • Undefined date: Seegson Corporation executives arrive on Sevastopol Station to reenergize the station, transforming it into a cosmopolitan hub. Some time later, the rerouting of the Sol-Thedus flight path decreases the activity on Sevastopol and the station was scheduled for decommission with its inhabitants gradually reduced to a skeleton crew. [20]

• 2130 AD

  • Undefined date: Cofounded by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, Gateway Station is constructed. [14]

• 2137 AD

  • November 11th: H. Marlow arrives at Sevastopol Station onboard the salvage vessel Anesidora requesting emergency medical attention for his wife C. Foster, who was attacked by a Xenomorph Facehugger. Chief Marshal Waits chooses to skip quarantine procedures because the Anesidora have discovered the Nostromo flight recorder and it means a cut of the reward for the station's crew. [20]

  • November 13th: Dr. Lingard uploads a video log stating the Alien Facehugger parasite has done something to patient zero, Marlow's wife. [20]

  • November 14th: A Xenomorph Chestburster hatches from C. Foster, killing her. Dr. Lingard signs her death certificate and cites her cause of death as classified. Marshal Waits and his men starts to hunt the creature with the intention of killing it. With the Xenomorph killing people, Seegson Corporation puts the station up for sale, making sure possible buyers know nothing about the situation aboard. [20]

  • November 21st: Weyland-Yutani purchased the Sevastopol Station and sent APOLLO new operational directives, including Special Order 939. [20]

  • Undefined date: Civilian engineer Amanda Ripley, daughter of Lieutenant Ellen Ripley, encounters Xenomorphs at Sevastopol Station. [14]

• 2157 AD

  • Undefined date: Hadley's Hope, a Weyland-Yutani terraforming colony, is established on Acheron LV-426. [14]

• 2159 AD

  • Undefined date: A Xenomorph outbreak occurs on planet LV-178 when trimonite miners unearth a Drukathi ship housing Xenomorph Ovomorphs. The Narcissus, guided by the preserved consciousness of Ash, docks with the mining vessel Marion in an effort to obtain a living sample of the species to complete Special Order 937. Ellen Ripley helps the surviving miners gather supplies to get them away from LV-178 aboard the Marion, but all except Ripley and Chris "Hoop" Hooper survive. Ripley is safely sent away aboard the Narcissus with her memory of the experience wiped, while Hoop escapes on a second vessel with a slimmer chance of rescue. [22]

• 2165 AD

  • Undefined date: The Tientsin (Eta Boötis A III) campaign is fought by the U.S. Colonial Marines with a strength of 240,000 marines at the end of the campaign. [16]

• 2169 AD

  • Undefined date: The Marine 70 program is established late 2169 or early 2170 with the abandonment of the "triangular" system for a "pair" or "buddy" system, allowing more mobile and fast operations with "faster and meaner" teams. These changes include the use of two pair teams, one smartgun team and one rifle team, as well as the use of the UD4-L gunship and the introduction of the M577 APC. [16]

  • Undefined date: The M41A Pulse Rifle enters into service as a standard rifle. [16]

• 2171 AD

  • Undefined date: The Bishop AP model is introduced, designed by Michael Bishop Weyland in the likeness of Charles Bishop Weyland, the original founder of Weyland Corporation and Weyland Industries. [9][14]

• 2176 AD

  • Undefined date: Colonel James Mortimer of the USASF, holds a STARTAC introductory seminar at the USCM staff college. [16]

• 2178 AD (Note: The intel mistakenly labels the year as being in the 21st century.)

  • December 23rd: Amanda Ripley is declared deceased according to intel delivered to Ellen Ripley by Carter Burke. [23][51]

• 2179 AD

  • Undefined date: The Narcissus is discovered floating in space 57 years later, and Ellen Ripley is brought to a medical space station orbiting Earth, where she's offered and accepts to follow a team of US Colonial Marines aboard the USS Sulaco on a mission to eradicate the Xenomorphs attacking a Weyland-Yutani colony on Acheron LV-426, eventually discovering a 12-year-old girl named Newt as the sole survivor who helps them navigate the location. Weyland-Yutani, represented by Carter Burke, is revealed to be attempting to acquire specimens of these Xenomorphs. Eventually, Ripley, Newt, Corporal Hicks, and android Bishop escapes the colony before it's destroyed in a nuclear explosion, seemingly eliminating the Xenomorphs and the recently discovered Xenomorph Queen, only to find the Queen having been brought back to the Sulaco where Ripley battles it with a Power Loader and ejects it into space. Ripley and the survivors subsequently enters cryosleep. [23]

• • Undefined date: A Xenomorph Ovomorph left on board the Sulaco causes the fire-detection system to place Ripley and the survivors of the LV-426 incident to be placed into an escape pod which crashes on prison planet Fiorina "Fury" 161, leaving Ripley as the sole survivor. She finds herself trying to eliminate a Xenomorph set loose in the prison compound while being discovered to contain a Xenomorph Queen embryo in her chest. Weyland-Yutani representatives, including Michael Bishop Weyland, arrives on the planet to collect the Xenomorph specimens, only to find the Xenomorph has been killed and Ripley ends up sacrificing herself in molten lead to stop the company from acquiring the Xenomorphs. [6]

• • August 12th: An unnamed colonel blames Michael Bishop Weyland for the loss of the Sulaco and offers Weyland his help for a price. Space Command at O'Niell Station detects an unknown mass in the Zeta 2 Reticuli system and eventually identifies it as the Sulaco. [16]

  • September 5th: The Weyland-Yutani office on Gateway Station are made aware of the death of Carter Burke during the events at Acheron LV-426, as no data was recovered and the Bioweapons Division has the situation locked, and a briefing is made to discuss all the events back to 2122. [16]

  • September 11th: Weyland-Yutani dispatch an extraction team to the coordinates of the Engineer Juggernaut spaceship dubbed "the Derelict" on Acheron LV-426 and begin searching for it. Seiji Tanaka is in charge of the search party aboard of the Weyland-Yutani spacecraft Shinyo Maru. [16]

  • September 15th: The crew aboard the Shinyo Maru rediscover the Engineer Juggernaut spaceship dubbed "the Derelict" on Acheron LV-426 and recovers two Xenomorph Ovomorphs for their Science Division, after which the Origin facility is established. [16]

  • Undefined date: The USS Sephora boards the USS Sulaco, dispatched to Acheron LV-426 17 weeks earlier, as a result of them responding to a distress call from Corporal Hicks and eventually ends up crashing to the surface of the terraformed moon with a battalion sized force. [24]

• Undefined year AD

  • Undefined date: Weyland-Yutani Corporation, under leadership of Karl Bishop Weyland, colonizes and begins terraforming and exploring planet BG-386. Eventually discovering ancient Yautja structures and a dormant Xenomorph specimen, an ancient Queen dubbed the "Matriarch". The Company thus begins production of more Xenomorph specimens. [39]

• Undefined year AD

  • Undefined date: Karl Bishop Weyland and his research team opens the gate of an ancient Yautja temple, triggering an electromagnetic pulse which leads to a Xenomorph-infestation being unleashed upon planet BG-386 while Yautja are attracted to the location and Colonial Marines are eventually dispatched before a Yautja dubbed "Dark" triggers a nuclear explosion obliterating the colony and the ancient Yautja structures along with all Xenomorphs. Colonel Rookie dispatched Karl Bishop Weyland, an android, by shooting him in the head before falling into molten lava. Another Karl Bishop Weyland survived however, retrieving the coordinates for the Xenomorph homeworld. [39]

23rd Century

• 2202 AD

  • Undefined date: United Americas, EU/UK, China, Heelal Yo, and four independent Core System colonies form the United Systems. [14]

• 2219 AD

  • Undefined date: Weyland-Yutani engine core spacecraft the Geryon, transporting the command ship, the Helios, the salvage ship, the Kadmos, and the Perses, leaves for LV-223 on a mission to search for the missing Prometheus spacecraft, with Captain Angela Foster intending to finish the mission of the late Sir Peter Weyland. [14][25][26][27][28][29]

• 2220 AD

  • Undefined date: Colonial Marines on the planet Tartarus battle extraterrestrial hunters over the possession of a mysterious horseshoe-shaped spaceship of unknown origin. The Weyland-Yutani rep wants the ship, and the marine captain wants to protect her crew. [30][31][32][33][34]

• Undefined year AD

  • Undefined date: Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer loses his arm during the 2nd Alien War. [52]

• Undefined year AD

  • Undefined date: Lieutenant Linn Kurosawa becomes the leader of the 13th USCM Corps. [52]

• Undefined year AD

  • Undefined date: General Bush of the United States Colonial Marine Corps conducts an experiment in collaboration with Weyland-Yutani Corporation which results in a Xenomorph outbreak in San Drad, California, on planet Earth, eventually prompting now-cyborg Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer and Lieutenant Linn Kurosawa to join forces with a band of Yautja in order to exterminate the Xenomorph infestation. The infestation is eventually exterminated through a military vessel deployed to the location which detonates a nuclear device. Dutch and Linn survives the incident, while the Yautja participants vows to return with the intention of continuing their hunting traditions. [52]

• 2226 AD

  • Undefined date: United Systems Military is established. [14]

• 2291 AD

  • Undefined date: Weyland-Yutani colony at Nu Indi successfully sues for independence. [14]

• 2293 AD

  • Undefined date: Rival company Ridton markets advanced FTL drive; Weyland-Yutani loses USM contract for FTL vessels. [14]

24th Century

• 2306 AD

  • Undefined date: Artificial Persons from the Alethea Collective are granted civil rights; all cybernetics divisions suffer financial loss. [14]

• 2349 AD

  • Undefined date: Megacorporations are banned; Weyland-Yutani loses final appeal to retain designation three years later. [14]

• 2356 AD

  • Undefined date: DNA samples from a Xenomorph-implanted human (Ellen Ripley) are rediscovered by the USM on defunct prison planet Fiorina 161. [14]

• 2376 AD

  • Undefined date: The first auton is manufactured, an android designed by androids. [14]

• 2379 AD

  • Undefined date: Following a violent uprising on Luna/AE, autons are recalled and destroyed. [14]

• 2381 AD

  • Undefined date: A clone of Ellen Ripley, dubbed Ripley 8, is produced on the military spacecraft USM Auriga through DNA left on Fiorina 161, and a new breed of Xenomorphs are consequently produced through hosts provided by a crew of mercenaries, including the auton named Call, on board a spaceship named the Betty. Ripley 8 and the remaining survivors escape on the Betty, along with the "Newborn Xenomorph" which is soon killed off, as the Auriga crashes down to Earth, destroying all the Xenomorphs. [35]

• Undefined year AD

  • Undefined date: Ripley 8, the new captain of the Betty, and her crew consisting of Call, Johner, and Vriess encounters Xenomorphs on a botanical space station. [45]

• Undefined year AD

  • Undefined date: Ripley 8 and Call encounters Xenomorphs, Yautja, and Terminators. [44]

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