2179 (MMCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (dominical letter C), the 2179th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 179th year of the 3rd millennium, the 79th year of the 22nd century, and the 10th year of the 2170s decade.
Events
- The M39 Submachine Gun was procured for United States Colonial Marine Corps service.
- Armat Battlefield Systems released the M42A3 Sniper Rifle.
May
- Ellen Ripley and Jones awaken after fifty-seven years of hypersleep.[1]
June
- Carter Burke contacts the colony of Hadley's Hope on Acheron (LV-426) and requests the probable coordinates of the derelict ship, obtained from Ripley's testimony, be investigated.[2]
- Russ and Anne Jorden discover the derelict and Russ is impregnated by a Facehugger.
- All contact was lost with the colony. A squad of Colonial Marines is sent to investigate.
July
- The USS Sulaco arrives at Acheron.[3]
- Most of the Marine squad are lost in the Xenomorph infestation and destruction of Hadley's Hope. Only Ripley, Dwayne Hicks, Rebecca Jorden and Lance Bishop survive.
August
- A Facehugger escapes aboard the Sulaco, triggering an electrical fire and impregnating Ripley. The ship's computer evacuates its passengers in a Type 337 EEV.[4]
- Rebecca Jorden dies from drowning, Turk is impaled by a fractured support beam and Lance Bishop is damaged further and become irreparable, leaving Lt. Ripley as the lone survivor of the crash.
- A Xenomorph goes on a rampage killing most of the custodial staff in the Fiorina 161 Class C Work Correctional Unit.
- Robert Morse pours molten lead into the mold, drowning the Dragon, but it escapes and Ellen Ripley turns on a water sprinkler and the water pours on the Runner, causing the Alien's mesoskeleton to cool rapidly and shatter via thermal shock.
- Ripley commits suicide to prevent the Queen gestating inside her from getting loose or in company hands.
- The Fiorina 161 facility is shut down.
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- Cpl. Hicks is awoken by Samwell Stone and Turk from his stasis when Weyland-Yutani PMCs board the USS Sulaco and infiltrate the hypersleep bay. During the fight, one of PMCs throw Turk into Hick's opened cryotube and seals him inside before evacuating its passengers into the EEV which later crash lands on Fiorina "Fury" 161.
- Dwayne Hicks and Samwell Stone arrive too late to save Ripley and are captured by Weyland-Yutani Commandos, led by Michael Bishop.
November
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- The USS Sephora arrives at Acheron in response to a distress signal sent by Hicks from the Sulaco.[5]
- The Marines encounter both Xenomorphs and Weyland-Yutani PMCs on the Sulaco and on Acheron. In the end, only Christopher Winter, Peter O'Neal, Bishop, Lisa Reid, and Hicks survive.
Late 2179
A Xenomorph infestation occurs on Rim, only Marine Corporal Wilks and young colonist Billie survived.
Deaths
Rim
LV-426 (first incident)
- Russ Jorden
- Al Simpson
- Brad Lydecker
- Anne Jorden
- Timmy Jorden
- Mary
- Pvt. Ricco Frost
- Pvt. Tim Crowe
- Pvt. Trevor Wierzbowski
- Pvt. Mark Drake
- Pvt. Daniel Spunkmeyer
- Cpl. Colette Ferro
- Warrior (Bug Stomper)
- Cpl. Cynthia Dietrich
- Sgt. Al Apone
- Pvt. William Hudson
- Carter Burke
- Pvt. Jenette Vasquez
- Lt. Scott Gorman
- First Acheron Queen
USS Legato
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- Ethan
- Andrews
- Rebecca Hutchins
- Lisbeth Hutchins
- Adam Gregor†
- Vincent Muller†
- Susan Faraday†
†These three characters only appear in Stasis Interrupted's co-operative campaign mode, being the characters assumed by additional players. As such their canonicity is debatable.
Fiorina "Fury" 161
- Rebecca Jorden
- Turk
- Spike / Babe
- Thomas Murphy
- Edward Boggs
- Daniel Rains
- Lance Bishop
- Dr. Jonathan Clemens
- Harry Andrews
- Arthur Walkingstick
- Walter Golic
- Mark Vincent
- Yoshi Troy
- Eric Buggy
- Frank Ellis
- Peter Gregor
- Clive William
- Ted Gillas
- Alan Jude
- David Postlethwaite
- Kevin Dodd
- Leonard Dillon
- The Dragon
- Francis Aaron
- Ellen Ripley
USS Sulaco
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LV-426 (second incident)
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Resolute
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Appearances
- Aliens (mentioned only)
- Aliens: Outbreak (edited releases only)/novel (mentioned only)
- Alien3 (mentioned only)
- Aliens: Newt's Tale (mentioned only)
- Aliens versus Predator (video game) (mentioned only)
- Aliens: Colonial Marines/Stasis Interrupted (mentioned only)
- Alien: River of Pain (mentioned only)
- Aliens: Fireteam Elite (mentioned only)
References
- ↑ Christopher Golden. Alien: River of Pain, p. 28 (2014), Titan Books.
- ↑ James Cameron (writer and director). Aliens (1986), 20th Century Fox [DVD].
- ↑ S. D. Perry. Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report, p. 99 (2014), Insight Editions.
- ↑ S. D. Perry. Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report, p. 136 (2014), Insight Editions.
- ↑ Events of the game are said to take place 17 weeks after the events of Aliens. As Aliens (the Acheron part) takes place from July 27th to July 28th 2179, 17 weeks later (119 days) would be November 24th of that year.