Free League Publishing Announce Alien: The Roleplaying Game

[The Old One]

My point is the information given to the viewer in AR is so nonsensical, that working around AR is really easy conceptually if you wanted to create a new Trilogy for example, that more lives in the world of Aliens and Alien³ after AR.

[Local Trouble]

So where do you stand on the quarantine theory?

[HuDaFuK]

I find it hard to believe the USM would go to all the effort of cloning a long-dead Ripley (especially given how clearly difficult it was to perfect) when they could just go to the derelict and grab some eggs.

Ergo, it is unequivocally gone.

[Kailem]

Maybe they had a bulk discount? "Clone 7 and get an 8th clone free!"

[Xenomrph]

I find it hard to believe the USM would go to all the effort of cloning a long-dead Ripley (especially given how clearly difficult it was to perfect) when they could just go to the derelict and grab some eggs.

Ergo, it is unequivocally gone.

If they aren't sure eggs are there, and there's a quarantine in place preventing them from accessing the planet, it could very well have been easier to clone Ripley "under the radar". The movie establishes that what they're doing is shady as hell, going to a quarantined planet likely would have raised a lot of uncomfortable questions they couldn't answer without raising too much suspicion and blowing the whole operation. The eggs could be there, but for all intents and purposes they might as well have not existed.

[Local Trouble]

Is that your canon now?

[Xenomrph]

Is that your canon now?

I like the idea a lot, especially in light of the RPG. I might tweak it a bit to accommodate some other sources and events (mostly involves shifting the timeline back a little so the quarantine doesn't go into effect immediately after 'Aliens', but the end result is the same.

[Local Trouble]

The quarantine is also an explanation for how Ripley could have willingly left orbit without nuking the derelict first.  I'm not sure how much tweaking you can do before it totally undermines that purpose.

[SM]

I find it hard to believe the USM would go to all the effort of cloning a long-dead Ripley (especially given how clearly difficult it was to perfect) when they could just go to the derelict and grab some eggs.

Ergo, it is unequivocally gone.

^

[Local Trouble]

But that upsets people.

[[cancerblack]]

But that upsets people.

So do death and taxes, and they're just as unavoidable as the most reasonable conclusion being that the derelict is gone.

[Xenomrph]

Let's play "spot the opinion".

But that upsets people.

So do death and taxes, and they're just as unavoidable as the most reasonable conclusion being that the derelict is gone.

Found the opinion.

[SM]

But that upsets people.

So let their sets be up then.

[[cancerblack]]

Let's play "spot the opinion".

But that upsets people.

So do death and taxes, and they're just as unavoidable as the most reasonable conclusion being that the derelict is gone.

Found the opinion.

It outright is the most reasonable conclusion though. However - I'm not trying to make claims about canon so don't worry.

[Xenomrph]

Let's play "spot the opinion".

But that upsets people.

So do death and taxes, and they're just as unavoidable as the most reasonable conclusion being that the derelict is gone.

Found the opinion.

It outright is the most reasonable conclusion though.

We'll have to agree to disagree.