Aliens - Colonial Marines Technical Manual

[SpaceKase]

Oh yes indeed... The mistakes of the colonies of the Prometheus Website are a little unforgivable !

Or perhaps worthy of exploring and justifying, in-universe.

Aaaaah! No dice, ye tricky devil. S/he who smelt it, dealt it. If it is to be, my friend, it is up to thee.

[SM]

The colonies are okay - the date of their founding; not so much.

[SpaceKase]

The colonies are okay - the date of their founding; not so much.

To be clear, no one is debating the possibility of mid to late 21st century colonies, only the nonsense of these purported colonies at their specifically far-beyond-rational locations.

[FenGiddel]

If it is to be, my friend, it is up to thee.

It _is_ on my list... [emoji6]


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[SpaceKase]

If it is to be, my friend, it is up to thee.

It _is_ on my list... [emoji6]


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To be clear, I am not playing along, for all the reasons I've stated previously, I'm not going to take the bait....
...but if I were going to play with justifying the absurdity then...

The colonies would have to be akin to the lost 12 colonies of Kobol, or like, the reclusive isolationist enclave from The Village, but like a highly advertised version with like a hundred supposedly lost colonies that take, on average, half a century to reach. A magic hugely enticing promise out in the middle of nowhere where no one has ever reported back from.

If we were exploring the idea In-Universe, then it would most likely be a false promise or a too-good-to-be-true trap, like Star Trek Voyager's massive spaceborne telepathic pitcher plant creature from "Bliss" (which, remarkably, there is precedent for in the Aliens Universe), or the paradise vacation where winning contestants are supposedly sent, in "The Running Man". Space lambs to the slaughter, yo.

[The Old One]

Yeah, I don't exactly regard the Weyland timeline as canon.