Quote from: lightsyder on Jul 27, 2020, 04:47:56 PM
Quote from: SpaceKase on Jul 27, 2020, 04:23:27 PM
Quote from: lightsyder on Jul 27, 2020, 03:45:35 PM
Sadly all 4 of those still need added to the collection. Same for pretty much all the alien novels. This is very much a long term project! Lol. I really hope we eventually get reprints of the DH Predator novels. There's no way I can justify their current price.
If you ever want to collaborate or anything send me a message! I love working out reading orders / timelines
Heck yeah, it's a kind of fresh madness for sure, but charting the order that emerges out of large chaotic datasets is my jam. I've got this series of chronological recuts of several comics I've put together as I've been working through them, the whole Earth War saga was a blast to sort all out and I've been able to reorient it to be compatible with the William Gibson version of Alien 3. I'd love to get my mitts on a copy of the Weyland Yutani Report as well.
Getting ready to start either Alien or AvP comics tonight. Eager for both but also not sure I'm ready for the task...lol
I've got a copy of the report, haven't flipped through it in awhile. Anything in particular you are looking for from it?
The unique stuff mostly, esp as pertains to the AI's, Alien Theory did some bits on it, there's this really interesting undercurrent throughout the Aliens stories involving the evolution of synthetic intelligence and when it begins to break away from humanity, either in silent parental protection of it or in secretive efforts to obliterate or hobble it, perhaps for humanity's own good. I know the Report has some bits regarding the Synths beginning to build their own sometime in the 2240's which is right around the time of the the Big Deletion, so that pivotal time is rife for story telling.
Preceding that occurrence there's an interesting tidbit from one of the AvP games, 2 I believe, that makes mention of a Supreme Court case involving Synth rights and personhood. There's a ton of mysteries in the lore, from Davis's origins and ultimate fate, CONRAD the big central AI mainframe of WY, to the mysterious creators of the synthetic Ripley Replicant from the Perry novels, right back to the mysterious Benefactors of Ash himself. Not even mentioning crazy-pants David.
Quote from: lightsyder on Jul 27, 2020, 01:17:00 PM
Yes, researching this kind of stuff is kinda therapeutic. Good excuse to re-read and buy the stuff I was missing too! Lol
For a lot of the DH Predator stuff I just placed them as happening when they were published since they were basically current events story setting wise.
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I've been trying to track down stuff for the Alien RPG and some NECA card backs lately while working in n the re-read
Yeah dude, I'd love to dig in to some of that NECA lore material too. If you want to compare notes here's the basic vers of the solo Pred stuff from my grand timeline, none of the subtimes are listed here since I'm *attempting* to keep these posts succinct. But I'm especially curious about your take on the Det Schafer stories and the future timeline stories like
Gameworld,
Indigenous Species, or
Chained to Life and Death.
820.0000 Predator - If It Bleeds - g. Skeld's Keep explicitly stated
1195.0000 Predator - If It Bleeds - k. Three Sparks dead reckoning
1718.0000 Predator - 1718 explicitly stated
1863.0502 Predator - If It Bleeds - b. Stonewall's Last Stand explicitly stated
1863.0900 Predator - Hell Come a Walkin' explicitly stated
1885.0900 Predator - If It Bleeds - m. Buffalo Jump dead reckoning
1896.0000 Predator - Nemesis explicitly stated
1916.0000 Predator - If It Bleeds - d. May Blood Pave My Way Home explicitly stated
1926.0823 Predator - God's Truth reasoned deduction
1931.0700 Predator - Strange Roux explicitly stated
1933.0000 Predator - If It Bleeds - i. Blood and Sand explicitly stated
1936.0816 Predator - The Pride at Nghasa explicitly stated
1937.0000 Predator - Demon's Gold dead reckoning
1947.0000 Predator - The Hunted City explicitly stated
1959.0000 Predator - Invaders from the Fourth Dimension explicitly stated
1968.0100 Predator - If It Bleeds - o. Recon explicitly stated
1983.0000 Predator - If It Bleeds - l. The Pilot reasoned deduction
1987.0000 Predator explicitly stated
1989.0700 Predator - Concrete Jungle reasoned deduction
1990.0000 Predator - Race War (short story) reasoned deduction
1990.0600 Predator - Cold War explicitly stated
1992.0000 Predator - The Bloody Sands of Time dead reckoning
1992.0000 Predator - Rite of Passage reasoned deduction
1992.0000 Predator - Race War (series) explicitly stated
1992.1100 Predator - Blood Feud refine this
1993.0000 Predator - Bad Blood (short story) dead reckoning
1993.0000 Predator - Bad Blood (series) dead reckoning
1994.0000 Predator - Blood on Two-Witch Mesa dead reckoning
1994.0820 Predator - Big Game reasoned deduction
1996.0800 Predator - Dark River explicitly stated
1996.1200 Predator - Kindred reasoned deduction
1997.0300 Predator - No Beast So Fierce refine this
1997.0400 Predator - Hell & Hot Water refine this
1997.0700 Predator - Primal refine this
1997.0702 Predator 2 explicitly stated
1997.0708 Predator - Stalking Shadows reasoned deduction
1997.0800 Predator - Bump in the Night refine this
1998.0914 Predator - Homeworld reasoned deduction
2005.0829 Predator - If It Bleeds - e. Storm Blood explicitly stated
2008.0000 Predator - South China Sea refine this
2008.0300 Predator - Turnabout reasoned deduction
2009.0000 Predator (2009 short story) dead reckoning
2010.0000 Predators - A Predatory Life dead reckoning
2010.0000 Predators - Welcome to the Jungle dead reckoning
2010.0000 Predators - Preserve the Game refine this
2010.0000 Predators - Moments of Extraction refine this
2010.0000 Predators - Crucified [sic] refine this
2010.0000 Predators dead reckoning
2016.0000 Predator - Hunter and Hunted reasoned deduction
2017.0000 Predator - If It Bleeds - c. Rematch reasoned deduction
2017.0000 Predator - Hunters reasoned deduction
2017.0000 Predator - Hunters II refine this
2017.0000 Predator - Hunters III refine this
2018.0000 The Predator refine this
2019.0000 Predator - If It Bleeds - Tin Warrior refine this
2022.0000 Predator - If It Bleeds - n. Drug War explicitly stated
2025.0400 Predator - Hunting Grounds refine this
2030.0000 Predator - If It Bleeds - p. Gameworld refine this
2107.0000 Predator - Flesh and Blood refine this
2117.0000 Predator - Forever Midnight refine this
2186.0000 Predator - If It Bleeds - h. Indigenous Species refine this
2370.0000 Predator - If It Bleeds - f. Last Report from the KSS Psychopomp refine this
If you've got any questions about my rationale for any of these. or if any of your findings differ drastically I'd love to get your perspective.