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- 10,000s of Years Ago - The Engineers Create Human Life
- 21st Century - Peter Weyland Creates Life
- 2093 - Prometheus: The Lost Mission
- Between Prometheus and Covenant – David Creates Life
- 2104 - Alien: Covenant
- Between Covenant and Alien - The Franchise's Future
- 2122 – The Original Alien
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The timeline begins when Earth was in its barren, primordial state with the creation of humanity - as seen in the opening of Prometheus, life on our planet was the product of an Engineer drinking some of the all-important black goo (a pathogen they've synthesized). In this form, the pathogen rewrites the creature's DNA and restructures it as proto-...
In the year of our lord 2023, Peter Weyland hosts a TED talk (part of Prometheus'excellent viral marketing campaign) where he lays out his plans for the future of humanity. Announcing that in a few short years he'll be able to create synthetic beings indistinguishable from humans, he declares "we are the Gods now". A few years later, Weyland achiev...
In 2088, Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway discover cave paintings from the disparate civilizations the Engineers visited and decode their star map. Interpreting it as an invitation, the scientists take the evidence to Weyland Industries, who agree to finance the Prometheus mission to the planet cited. Unbeknownst to most of the crew, the mission...
After leaving LV-223, Shaw fixes up David and they begin charting their journey to the Engineer homeworld. During their work the android begins to develop something approaching feelings for the human. Shaw goes into cryosleep and, left alone, David begins to learn about the Engineers and their manners, concluding that they were not the Gods Weyland...
The Covenant is hit by a random power surge while recharging its solar power, leading to the death of Captain Branson and the rest of the crew waking up. While fixing the ship, they pick up David's signal and, deciding the Engineer homeworld is a suitable substitute for their new colony, decided to investigate. On the planet, the ground team (inclu...
There's an eighteen-year gap between Covenant and Alienduring which time David will continue his manupulations and the true nature of the derelict from the original film will be unveilled. Ridley Scott has been typically open about what to expect from the franchise going forward, saying he has at least one more prequel planned that will bridge the ...
And so we're back to the start. In Alien the crew of the cargo hauling ship the Nostromo are woken early by a distress signal from a crashed Engineer ship on LV-426. They travel down there to find a long-dead Engineer in his "Space Jockey" suit and a cargo hold full of eggs like the ones David engineered. How exactly this links up is currently uncl...
Conventionally, after the events of Alien come Aliens, Alien 3 and (much later) Alien: Resurrection, although it's not actually been made clear whether these are part of the new timeline. Obviously Alien vs Predator and AvP: Requiem aren't canon; set in 2004, they depict an alternate Peter Weyland and directly contradict much of what is seen in Pro...
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May 11, 2018 · This article contains massive Alien: Covenant spoilers. He stands there among the many frozen colonists, trapped in their happy and married dreams of a new life on a new world. And just by the way ...
