XENOMORPH TIMELINE
With the failure of Hadley's Hope, Weyland-Yutani has suffered a devastating setback - the loss of the Aliens they aggressively sought to exploit. Yet there's a reason the Company has risen to the top of the food chain. True to form, they have a redundancy already in place...the facility known as "The Cold Forge".
Weyland-Yutani seeks to recover from the failure of Hadley's Hope and successfully weaponize the Xenomorphs
Alien: The Cold Forge is a book released in 2018 that takes place in 2179 in the Alien timeline. In the Alien books timeline, it comes after Alien 3 (Novelization) (2179) and before Alien: River of Pain (2179).