CANON TIMELINE

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Placing the Tier 1 and Tier 2 canon materials in chronological order of when they occur in the setting… with a few marked non-canon items for tracking.

This timeline was created to try to organize the entire *story* from end to end.

Undated items have been placed where they may occur between dated items based on internal references to other dated items.

… Prehistory: The engineer's sacrifice

2023.03 CE: TED Talk 2023

… Covenant Prologue

… Happy Birthday, David

2075.05.10 CE: Weyland Industries Testimonial

2079.04.08 CE: Quiet Eye: Elizabeth Shaw

2089 CE: Isle of Skye discovery

… Project Prometheus: Mission

… Prometheus Transmission

2091.06.22 CE: Peter Weylan records crew address

2093.12 CE: SEV Prometheus arrives LV-223

2094.01.01 CE: SEV Prometheus lost <milestone> </dwtimeline>

===== ALIEN: COVENANT ERA =====

… The Crossing

… Meet Walter

… Phobos

2103 CE Alien: Covenant Origins

… 5 Crew Messages

… The Last Supper

2104 CE Alien: Covenant

… Advent

… David's Lab: Last Signs of Life

… David's Drawings

===== ALIEN ERA =====

2122 CE Alien

2122 CE Alien: Containment

===== ALIEN: ISOLATION ERA =====

… @MikeTanaka2095 Tweets

… Alien: Isolation San Diego ComicCon Comic ¹⁾

2137 CE Alien: Isolation (video game)

2137.12 CE Alien: Blackout

2138.5 CE Aliens: Defiance - Extravehicular ²⁾

2138 CE Aliens: Defiance

2139 CE Alien: Prototype

2140 CE Aliens: Resistance

… Aliens: Rescue

===== ALIENS ERA =====

2172 CE Alien: Echo

2179 CE Hope's Last Hand ³⁾

2179 CE Hope's Last Dance ⁴⁾

2179 CE Hope's Last Stand ⁵⁾

2179 CE Hope's Last Day

2179 CE Aliens

2179.7 CE Alien: The Cold Forge

~2180 CE Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual

2180 CE Aliens: Colonial Marines ⁶⁾

===== ALIEN^3 ERA =====

… Alien^3

… Alien^3 Unreleased Screenplay novelization ⁷⁾

===== ALIEN RPG ERA =====

2183 CE Map of the Middle Heavens

… USCSS Miranda ⁸⁾

2183 CE Chariots of the Gods (Draconis Strain Part I)

2183 CE Destroyer of Worlds (Draconis Strain Part II)

2184 CE Alien: Into Charybdis

2184 CE Colonial Marines Operations Manual (The Frontier War)

2184 CE Map of the Middle Heavens (Marine Locations)

… Operation: Blaze of Glory

… Perchance to Dream

… Operation: Arcturian Apocalypse

… Assault on the Kremlin

… Operation: Quiet Catch

… The Last Outpost

… Operation: Go Fish

… The Ghost Fleet of 61 Cygni

… Operation: Dreamcatcher

… Berserker Down

… Operation: Deep Shaft

… The Siege of Lamont Prime

… Operation: Octopus Garden

2185 CE Heart of Darkness (Draconis Strain Part III)

2186 CE Alien: Colony War

… Fallout

… Alien: Inferno's Fall

… Evac

2187 CE Alien: Enemy Of My Enemy

… Trojan Horse

… Building Better Worlds

===== ALIEN FIRETEAM ERA =====

2198 CE Aliens: Dark Descent

2202 CE Alien: Infiltrator

2202 CE Aliens: Fireteam Elite

===== ALIEN RESURRECTION ERA =====

2295 CE Aliens: Dead Orbit

~2379+ CE Alien: Resurrection

… Alien: The Blueprints

… Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report

~2423+ CE Alien: Phalanx

===== UNDATED =====

… Alien: Alone

… Alien: Harvest

… Alien: Night Shift

… Alien: Ore

… Alien: Specimen

… Aliens: Dust-to-Dust

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non-canon

CANON TIMELINE

PROMETHEUS ERA