XENOMORPH TIMELINE
XENOMORPH TIMELINE
February 2012 / In-Universe year : 2023
In 2023, a young Peter Weyland gives a talk at the TED conference and promises to change the world.
June 2012 / In-Universe year : 2075 (approx)
Weyland Corp nanotechnologist Jamie Rossi talks about her time working for the company.
April 2012 / In-Universe year : 2078 (approx)
An introduction to the 8th generation android, David, who explains what he thinks about and what makes him sad.
May 2012 / In-Universe year : 2089 (approx)
A video message Shaw sent to Weyland to introduce herself and explain her findings.
May 2012 / In-Universe year : 2091 (approx)
Weyland Corp training specialist Andrea Bishop presents the upcoming Prometheus mission and invites candidates to apply.
October 2012 / In-Universe year : 2091 (approx)
A greeting transmission prepared for the Prometheus mission, combining samples of human culture with footage of the crew preparing for their journey to LV-223.
June 2012 / In-Universe year : 2093
Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.
August 2012 / In-Universe year : 2093
In Eizo Suzuki's Japanese novelization of Prometheus, the crew of the Prometheus follows ancient star maps to a distant moon in 2093. A new prologue shows Meredith Vickers testing the android David.
April 2017 / In-Universe year : 2094 (approx)
Dr. Elizabeth Shaw repairs David on an abandoned Engineer vessel as they continue their search for humanity's creators.
March 2017 / In-Universe year : 2103
An advertisement for the latest synthetic by Weyland-Yutani.
September 2017 / In-Universe year : 2103
The Covenant mission is the most ambitious endeavor in the history of Weyland-Yutani. A ship bound for Origae-6, carrying 2,000 colonists beyond the limits of known space, this is a make-or-break investment for the corporation - and for the future of all mankind.
August 2017 / In-Universe year : 2103 (approx)
A computer program tests the feelings and reactions of the Covenant crew.
September 2018 / In-Universe year : 2103 (approx)
Before Alien: Covenant, David was stranded alone on the Engineers' planet and, left to his own dark devices, he began to push the boundaries of creation. This collection of two books follows the android's descent into madness.
April 2017 - April 2017 / In-Universe year : 2104
A series of five transmissions recorded by the Covenant crew for their families.
February 2017 / In-Universe year : 2104
The main crew of the Covenant and their android Walter enjoy a final meal before cryosleep on their way to a remote planet.
May 2017 / In-Universe year : 2104
The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a desperate escape.
May 2017 / In-Universe year : 2104
Alan Dean Foster's novelization of the 2017 film. After a disaster kills their captain, the crew of the colony ship Covenant follows a signal to an uncharted planet. The book restores scenes that were cut from the movie.
April 2017 / In-Universe year : 2104
A 360-degree virtual reality short that replays the birth of the Neomorph in "Alien: Covenant" from inside Ledward's body, seen entirely through the creature's eyes.
August 2017 / In-Universe year : 2104
David sends a transmission from the Covenant to Weyland-Yutani on Earth, elaborating upon the genetic experimentation he has been conducting on Planet 4.
August 2019 / In-Universe year : 2117 (approx)
A team from Weyland-Yutani arrives on Planet 4, and one of the explorers enters David's laboratory to document the rogue synthetic's scientific discoveries.
April 2019 / In-Universe year : 2119 (approx)
The surviving crew of a damaged space harvester has a motion sensor as their only navigation tool leading them to safety, while a creature in the shadows terrorizes them. However, the greatest threat might have been hiding in plain sight.
August 2025 - September 2025 / In-Universe year : 2120
When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat.
May 1979 / In-Universe year : 2122
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.
March 1979 / In-Universe year : 2122
Alan Dean Foster's novelization of Ridley Scott's film follows the seven crew members of the Nostromo after they answer a signal from an unknown planetoid. It includes scenes missing from the theatrical cut, such as Ripley finding Dallas and Brett cocooned.
April 2019 / In-Universe year : 2122 (approx)
When her shift uncovers the death of a fellow miner under mysterious circumstances, a hard-working miner of a planetary mining colony is forced to choose between escaping and defying management orders to fight for the safety of her family.
March 2019 / In-Universe year : 2125 (approx)
Four survivors find themselves stranded aboard a small escape pod in deep space. Trying to piece together the details around an outbreak, they are unsure whom to trust, as one of them might be infected.
April 2019 / In-Universe year : 2125 (approx)
During the night shift in a colony greenhouse, a botanist does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have alarmed her sensitive lab dog.
April 2019 / In-Universe year : 2125 (approx)
An abandoned crew member aboard a derelict chemical hauler is trying to keep her ship and herself alive. After discovering hidden cargo, she risks it all to power up the broken ship in search of human life.
July 2014 / In-Universe year : 2137
Sevastopol space station has gone into lockdown for unknown reasons. Those tasked to investigate are in for the surprise of their lives.
October 2014 / In-Universe year : 2137
Fifteen years after the events of Alien, Ellen Ripley's daughter Amanda enters a desperate battle for survival, on a mission to unravel the truth behind her mother's disappearance.
July 2019 / In-Universe year : 2137
Fifteen years after the Nostromo vanished, Amanda Ripley travels to the remote Sevastopol station, where the ship's flight recorder is being held, to learn what happened to her mother. The official novelization of the 2014 video game.
February 2019 / In-Universe year : 2137
Adrift in space near the gas giant KG-348, Amanda Ripley records the story of her trip to Sevastopol Station, where she went to recover the flight recorder of her mother's ship, the Nostromo.
January 2019 / In-Universe year : 2137
Following the main events of Alien: Isolation, technical engineer Amanda Ripley is in danger on board the Mendel space station after being rescued from "a bad situation" by the crew and then brought on board.
April 2016 - June 2017 / In-Universe year : 2137
Battling demons from her past while fighting for her life, Colonial Marine Private First Class Zula Hendricks, in the company of Weyland-Yutani synthetics, is forced to question her strength and loyalty when the discovery of an insidious alien species on a derelict hauler sends her on a dangerous journey across the stars.
May 2016 / In-Universe year : 2138
May 2138. Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks and her allies fight Xenomorphs aboard the Europa while the ship falls out of control toward the planetoid W76.
October 2019 / In-Universe year : 2139 (approx)
When an industrial spy steals a Xenomorph egg, former Colonial Marine Zula Hendricks must prevent an alien from killing everyone on an isolated colony planet.
January 2019 - May 2019 / In-Universe year : 2140
An evil corporation's secret bio-weapons program is putting all of humanity at risk. Ellen Ripley's daughter must fight the horrific xenomorph threat.
July 2019 - October 2019 / In-Universe year : 2140 (approx)
Following the events of Aliens: Resistance, Alec Brand, the colonist rescued by Amanda Ripley and Zula Hendricks, has grown up into an elite Colonial Marine.
October 2024 / In-Universe year : 2142
A prequel to the film Alien: Romulus. Aboard the Weyland-Yutani space station Renaissance, the synthetic science officer Rook and the station's scientists study a Xenomorph recovered from the wreckage of the Nostromo, until two wary security officers tamper with its containment.
August 2024 / In-Universe year : 2142
While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
December 2024 / In-Universe year : 2142
On the planet Purdan, ex-Marine Zula Hendricks fights her way through a Xenomorph-infested research facility to find a missing friend and expose a deadly secret.
December 2024 - April 2025 / In-Universe year : 2153 (approx)
Colonial Marshals Dash Nanda and Lydia Reeves go undercover on Paradiso, a resort world for rich criminals, to catch the smuggler Ricky Valentine. Then a chestburster gets loose among the guests.
October 2023 / In-Universe year : 2156
ALIEN VS. ALIEN: PITY THE XENO! A Xenomorph queen and her hive descend on a dark world.
January 2014 / In-Universe year : 2159
As a child, Chris Hooper dreamed of monsters. But in deep space, he found only darkness and isolation. Then, on planet LV178, he and his fellow miners discovered a storm-scoured, sand-blasted hell - and trimonite, the hardest material known to man.
April 2019 / In-Universe year : 2164 (approx)
When a missing space trucker and his co-worker are reluctantly allowed inside the colony supply depot, the trucker's condition worsens, leaving a young supply worker to take matters into her own hands.
April 2019 / In-Universe year : 2172
Olivia and her twin sister Viola have been dragged around the universe for as long as they can remember. Their parents, both xenobiologists, are always in high demand for their research into obscure alien biology.
November 2014 / In-Universe year : 2179
When Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, she learns that the planet LV-426 - now called Acheron - has been colonised. But LV-426 is where Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo found the original Xenomorph - the killing machine known as the Alien.
December 2019 / In-Universe year : 2179
The final hours of the Hadley's Hope colony on LV-426, seen through the eyes of five colonists. Each has an agenda of their own, but they share one desperate goal: to escape alive.
July 1986 / In-Universe year : 2179
Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
June 1986 / In-Universe year : 2179
Alan Dean Foster's novelization of James Cameron's Aliens. Ripley goes back to LV-426 with a unit of Colonial Marines after contact with the colony is lost. The book contains the scenes later restored in the film's Special Edition.
September 2014 / In-Universe year : 2179
July 27, 2179. Corporal Hicks follows the Marines into the hive under the processing station on LV-426. Back at Hadley's Hope he records his report and finds that a cargo ship left the colony after the attack.
September 2014 - December 2014 / In-Universe year : 2179
As Xenomorphs overrun Hadley's Hope in 2179, terraforming engineer Derrick Russell gets 38 people off LV-426 aboard the ore ship Onager. They crash on the moon LV-223 and learn that Aliens came along with them.
April 2018 / In-Universe year : 2179
Weyland-Yutani seeks to recover from the failure of Hadley's Hope and successfully weaponize the Xenomorphs.
May 1992 / In-Universe year : 2179
Returning from LV-426, Ellen Ripley crash-lands on the maximum-security prison Fiorina 161, where she discovers that she has unwittingly brought along an unwelcome visitor.
June 1992 / In-Universe year : 2179
Alan Dean Foster's novelization of Alien 3. Ripley's escape pod crashes on a remote prison planet, and an alien has come with her. The book includes scenes later restored in the Special Edition, such as the ox that becomes the creature's host.
February 2013 / In-Universe year : 2179
Seventeen weeks after Hicks' distress call, the USS Sephora reaches LV-426 and finds the Sulaco in orbit, overrun by Aliens and held by Weyland-Yutani mercenaries. Corporal Winter's unit is caught in the fight.
December 2023 / In-Universe year : 2179
Massively damaged in Aliens and Alien 3, the synthetic Bishop asked to be shut down forever. His creator, Michael Bishop, has other plans.
March 1995 / In-Universe year : 2179 (approx)
The United States Colonial Marines. Ultimate troubleshooters equipped with state-of-the-art firepower, capable of power projection across the vast expanse of deep space. They can sharpshoot a man at a thousand meters or obliterate an entire world from the safety of orbit. They reckon they are unbeatable.
December 2019 / In-Universe year : 2183
This is the official ALIEN tabletop roleplaying game: a universe of body horror and corporate brinkmanship, where synthetic people play god while space truckers and marines serve host to newborn ghoulish creatures. You are nothing if not expendable.
December 2019 / In-Universe year : 2183
The job was routine, the money fair. Then the damn company diverted you to answer a distress call from a ship that disappeared almost 80 years ago: a derelict carrying something twisted and alien.
November 2025 / In-Universe year : 2183 (approx)
The crew of a small starfreighter makes a routine resupply run to the remote Jeremiah VI industrial colony, unaware that something far more dangerous is waiting. First part of the Jeremiah Saga.
February 2021 / In-Universe year : 2184
"Shy" Hunt and the tech team from McAllen Integrations thought they’d have an easy job: set up environmental systems for the brand new Hasanova Data Solutions colony, built on the abandoned ruins of a complex known as "Charybdis".
September 2020 - August 2020 / In-Universe year : 2184 (approx)
The mission was a manhunt, the objectives clear: track down four fugitives, recover any assets they may have made off with, and keep ’em all out of enemy hands. Go find them on a frozen moon full of hostiles and get it done on the eve of war.
August 2021 / In-Universe year : 2184 (approx)
Welcome to war on the razor edge of space, marine, where nukes are yesterday’s news, pulse rounds are cheap and a human life is only worth its weight in stock options.
April 2018 - January 2019 / In-Universe year : 2185 (approx)
The Trono colony on LV-871 is under attack. Emergency evacuations are ordered. Evac shuttles are taking off. All twelve-year-old Maxon and his mom have to do is make it to the spaceport. Except between them and it are . . . Aliens!
October 2022 - October 2022 / In-Universe year : 2185 (approx)
The company found a new lifeform, and they want you to study it. Their offer’s uncharacteristically generous: you catalog this organism, determine how they can use it, and bring it back so they can slap their patent on it.
November 2025 / In-Universe year : 2185 (approx)
In Hume City, on the affluent Alexandria Colony, people are disappearing and witnesses die in grisly ways. FBI agent Tyler Matterton and his synthetic partner Serena track the killer to a cult that serves its Goddess.
April 2022 - April 2022 / In-Universe year : 2186
Political conflicts on Earth erupt into open hostilities between their colonies in space, with Xenomorphs as the ultimate weapon.
July 2022 / In-Universe year : 2186
A gargantuan, horseshoe-shaped ship appears over the mining planet Shānmén, unleashing a black rain of death that creates Xenomorph-like monsters worse than the darkest of nightmares.
January 2024 / In-Universe year : 2186 (approx)
All the wonder and danger of the stars is yours, if you can just wipe the grime off your face and dig the dirt out from under your fingernails first.
February 2023 / In-Universe year : 2187
While a moon hurtles toward certain destruction, taking with it a Weyland-Yutani bioweapons lab, talks on a nearby colony could lead to all-out war among the colonies.
January 2025 / In-Universe year : 2187 (approx)
As human colonies are obliterated by the dark pathogen and hideous monstrosities proliferate, a family of scavengers find an amnesiac who may hold the secrets to the forces tearing apart the galaxy.
February 2024 - May 2024 / In-Universe year : 2189 (approx)
THE ALIEN UNIVERSE AS ONLY MARVEL COULD IMAGINE IT! Black, white, red - and GREEN! Marvel Comics and 20th Century Studios present a kill-fest of an anthology in chest-rending artistic detail!
July 2022 / In-Universe year : 2193
Years before Bloodlines, Weyland-Yutani security chief, Gabriel Cruz, was a company man.
April 2023 - August 2023 / In-Universe year : 2195
Scientist Batya Zahn will do just about anything to get her family off the icy moon where they’ve been conducting research on water conservation. But there’s more than glacial springs to find in this forgotten corner of the galaxy.
June 2023 / In-Universe year : 2198
In 2198, a Xenomorph outbreak at Pioneer Station triggers the Cerberus Protocol, which cripples the USS Otago and seals off the moon Lethe. Deputy Administrator Maeko Hayes and a squad of Colonial Marines must stop the infestation.
October 2025 / In-Universe year : 2199 (approx)
Nearly destitute, Cynthia Goodwin, owner of the aging ship Chariot, takes a job from billionaire Roman Fade: fly to the quarantined colony of New Providence and bring back his former lover, the artist Corinth Bloch.
March 2021 - August 2021 / In-Universe year : 2200
Retiring Weyland-Yutani security chief Gabriel Cruz, the only survivor of an old alien attack, must go back to Epsilon Station when his estranged son breaks into it and the Xenomorphs get loose.
October 2022 - November 2022 / In-Universe year : 2201
A groundbreaking Latinx Aliens novel by a rising star Latina author, featuring the fan-favorite character PFC Jenette Vasquez from the hit movie Aliens and the family she is forced to leave behind.
September 2021 - June 2022 / In-Universe year : 2202
THE SEARCH FOR SANCTUARY BEGINS! A small colony of “Spinners,” looking to lead a simpler life, have nearly completed terraforming a moon.
April 2021 / In-Universe year : 2202
The official prequel to Aliens: Fireteam Elite, the cooperative third-person survival shooter from Cold Iron Studios. On Pala Station, a Weyland-Yutani research facility, experiments with Xenomorph bio-materials spin out of control.
August 2021 / In-Universe year : 2202
A mysterious distress call reroutes a unit of Colonial Marines to LV-895 in the outer colonies. Xenomorphs have overrun the Weyland-Yutani refinery in orbit, and the company has been hiding its work in ancient alien ruins on the surface.
August 2026 / In-Universe year : 2207
In 2207, Fireteam Chimaera is sent to the mining colony of Storr's Boon on LV-558 to find Fireteam Banshee, which vanished after answering a distress call from Dr. Lily Pearce.
November 2023 - February 2024 / In-Universe year : 2208
EVERYONE WILL HEAR YOU SCREAM! In deep space spins a world infected by the universe's greatest killers.
July 2021 / In-Universe year : 2214
FOR ALIENS’ 35TH ANNIVERSARY, A RETURN TO HADLEY’S HOPE! It’s been 35 years since the tragedy of the Hadley’s Hope colony, but what happened to that ill-fated venture has been shrouded in mystery.
September 2022 - February 2023 / In-Universe year : 2217
PHILLIP KENNEDY JOHNSON AND JULIUS OHTA LAUNCH A NEW ALIEN EPIC! MAN, MACHINE AND THE MOST TERRIFYING CREATURE IN THE UNIVERSE…IT'S AN EXPRESS ELEVATOR TO HELL AND YOU'RE GONNA WANT TO BE ON IT!
May 2026 / In-Universe year : 2218 (approx)
In "Kingmaker," a scientist sends four young people he calls his children, all products of his experiments, to hunt down a Xenomorph as their final test. A prelude to "Alien: King Killer."
April 2026 - August 2026 / In-Universe year : 2218 (approx)
On Sovryn, a colony world already lost to the Xenomorphs, the last humans pay tribute to warlords called the Three Kings. Idris, their augmented brother, has come back to kill them.
September 2016 - December 2016 / In-Universe year : 2220 (approx)
After the battle with the Engineers, the humans on LV-223 are wounded and scattered. Aliens drag Chris Hanlock into their hive, and Captain Paget leads volunteers back down to bring her out.
April 2017 - December 2017 / In-Universe year : 2295
After a horrific accident strikes a space station, an engineering officer must survive an attack from the deadliest creature known to man with all he has: a timer, a utility kit and his wits.
November 1997 / In-Universe year : 2381
Two centuries after her death, a powerful human/alien hybrid clone of Ellen Ripley aids a crew of space pirates in stopping the aliens from reaching Earth.
November 1997 / In-Universe year : 2381
A. C. Crispin and Kathleen O'Malley's novelization of the fourth film. Two centuries after her death, a cloned Ripley wakes aboard the Auriga, where scientists breed Aliens. Parts of the book are told from the point of view of the clone and of the Aliens.
September 2019 / In-Universe year : 2381 (approx)
Technical drawings of all the major ships and vehicles from the Alien movies, presented in detail. Includes spacecraft like the Nostromo, the Sulaco and the Covenant.
July 2024 / In-Universe year : 2381
After narrowly escaping a Xenomorph attack and crash landing on the wrong planet, former military man Chris Temple just wants a peaceful life with his daughters. He just needs to deal with the brewing civil war and a Xenomorph on the loose.
October 2014 - April 2016 / In-Universe year : 2381 (approx)
For hundreds of years now, scientists at the Weyland-Yutani Corporation have been monitoring the behavior of an alien life-form so powerful that its potential for military application appears limitless.
July 2014 / In-Universe year : 2497
As a deputy commissioner for the ICC, Alan Decker’s job is to make sure the settlements on LV-178 follow all the rules, keeping the colonists safe.
February 2020 / In-Universe year : 2514 (approx)
Ataegina was an isolated world of medieval castles and rich cultures, vibrant until the demons rose and slaughtered ninety percent of the planet's population.