City-State War on Ataegina ends. Population – 198,653. Aliens: Phalanx

A second Queen is born inside the wreck of the Nan-Shan and two Xenomorph factions fight with only one surviving. Aliens: Phalanx

Sinesh Bishor is born. Aliens: Phalanx

First year of The Rising. Xenomorphs – referred to as ‘Demons’ by the Ataeginian peoples – slowly spread from Black Smoke Mountain. Within a short time over 1,000 people are dead. Population – 420,593. Aliens: Phalanx

Second year of The Rising. Xenomorphs roam across the lands, killing 35,000 people. The largest city of Illsbrook is wiped out. Whenever the Demons are engaged in battle the human losses are heavy. Population drops to just over 395,000. Aliens: Phalanx

Third year of Rising. Many cities are either wiped out or abandoned and the Ataeginian economy collapses. The last armies are defeated as survivors of Illsbrook and Lemeth Plains flee to abandoned mountain holds. Other survivors flee to the east. Seventy-thousand people die and population growth drops to 0.5%. Aliens: Phalanx

Society collapses. One hundred thousand people are killed by the Demons and another hundred thousand sail away across Becky’s Ocean. They are never heard from again. Population – 123,617. Aliens: Phalanx

Glynnis Flu outbreak kills 2,500 people. Those still in the lowlands remain subject to Demon attacks and 12,500 are killed. Population – 109,235. Aliens: Phalanx

Glynnis Flu continues another 5,000 people in the holds. Fifteen thousand more die in Demon attacks outside the holds. Aliens: Phalanx

Another 15,000 people did from Glynnis Flu and 10,000 from Demon attack. Aliens: Phalanx

Although Keflan Hold discovers a cure for Glynnis Flu, 10,000 more die before it can be properly instituted. Those outside the holds, now largely living on the coasts remain targets for Demons and 5,000 more people die. The population of the main Ataegina continent sits at 50,555. The population of the now cut-off Southern Continent and Manroon Island is unknown. Aliens: Phalanx

Trade routes are tentatively established to distribute the Glynnis cure from Keflan. As 2,500 more people are killed by the Demons, General Sinesh Bishor organises a new force to attack the creatures at Black Smoke Mountain. Aliens: Phalanx

Bishor leads 5000 men from a number of holds against Black Smoke Mountain. They are routed in 15 minutes and only 500 survive. Beaten and crippled, Bishor flees to Lemeth Hold.

Pendaran and Hibernia both fall. Aliens: Phalanx

Aloisius Darby becomes Margrave of Lemeth Hold. Two thousand, five hundred people are killed by Demons. Population – 36,743. Aliens: Phalanx

Aulus Darby is born. Aliens: Phalanx

The Yautja arrive on the planet, and head for a mountain in the jungle. Inside is an ancient ziggurat, where they discover the kiande amedha. One yautja is immediately killed when they attack en masse. The Yautja begin loosing the fight, and one of them is sent back to their shuttle, which is surrounded by kiande amedha. He activates the self-destruct on his wrist gauntlet and throws it at the swarming horde chasing him. It explodes as the Yautja plunges into the water below.

In the farthest reaches of space, a creature terrified us. Acid blood. Armored skin. Razor-sharp teeth. No mercy. In the depths of a rain forest, another creature hunted us. Perfect camouflage. Fearsome weapons. Brutal methods. No conscience. Now, after the big deletion 100 years ago, all memory of the Yautja and kiande amedha has been forgotten. And when Mankind again reaches for the stars, they will discover that, truly, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Once again, Man is caught in the middle of a deadly struggle. Aliens: Thrill of the Hunt

8 months later.

The new world was an unspoiled frontier perfect for colonization, a virtual paradise of boundless beauty and limitless resources, untouched by human hands . . . but not untouched, as the unsuspecting colonists soon discovered. Now marooned on a planet infested with the deadliest kiande amedha species ever encountered, the colonists learn firsthand the Law of the Jungle: adapt or become extinct. And a little helping hand couldn't hurt, inexplicably provided by the selfsame Yautja who destroyed the colonists' ship and made them prisoners in paradise. Are these extraterrestrial hunters actually showing sympathy for the humans' plight, or do they have something even more monstrous in mind? Aliens: Civilized Beasts

Hundreds die during a crippling outbreak of forgetter’s syndrome at Takanta. Runner Herriet Lumos makes six runs, after already completing her mandatory ten, and against the wishes of the Dakateran Council carrying plinton fruit – effectively saving the entire hold. Aliens: Phalanx

Aiko Laster is born. Aliens: Phalanx

After twenty years of population decline the number of inhabitants of the main Ataeginian continent now sits at 33,127. Aliens: Phalanx

Aulus Darby is elected Margrave of Lemeth Hold following the death of his father. Aliens: Phalanx

Terraformer Rick Pierce colonized LV-178 and re-christened it New Galveston. Over the next 30 years three separate cities are founded. Alien: Sea of Sorrows

Ahiliyah Cooper is born. Panda is born. Aliens: Phalanx

Creen Dinashin is born. Susannah Albrecht is born. Aliens: Phalanx

Brandun Barrow is born to Aaron and Cadence Barrow. Aliens: Phalanx

Ahiliyah’s mother is killed on the Dakatera – Keflan run. Aliens: Phalanx

Ahiliyah’s father, Vance, is killed on a raid to Biseth. Aliens: Phalanx

Ahiliyah Cooper starts as a Runner. Aliens: Phalanx

At this point the populations of the Holds are all very low.

Biseth – 5,250

Takanta – 4,500

Dakatera – 4,125

Vinden – 4,000

Jantal – 3,700

Lemeth – 3,250

Keflan – 1,300

A number of holds are over-run by the Demons. Ahiliyah Cooper, Creen Dinashin and Brundun Barrow discover that the leaves of the Caminus plant counteract Demon acid, and find a way to weaponise it against the creatures. The Demons are repelled from Lemeth Hold though hundreds, including the Margrave, are killed. Ahiliyah is promoted to General and leads an attack on Black Smoke Mountain. She, Creen and Brandun encounter Zachariah who assists them in defeating the Queen in the bowels of the wrecked Nan-Shan. Brandun is killed during the battle, and Ahiliyah and Creen are badly hurt, but ultimately rescued by Drasko Lamech. Aliens: Phalanx

Humanity recovers on Ataegina free of the Demon scourge. Ahiliyah Cooper and Tolio Minsala have a son named Brandun, and Ahiliyah continues as a General. Creen discovers more secrets from the wreck of the Nan-Shan and the city of Hellan is rebuilt. Aliens: Phalanx

Alan and Linda Decker have a daughter, Bethany. Alien: Sea of Sorrows

Alan and Linda Decker have a second daughter, Ella. Alien: Sea of Sorrows

Alan and Linda Decker have a son, Josh. Alien: Sea of Sorrows

City of New Shanghai, Vega 4.

Workers were digging a new subway tunnel when they uncovered dormant kiande amedha Ovomorphs. The colonists were helpless against the horde, so they sent a distress call to the Earth-based authorities.

The distress call was received and understood by a passing Yautja spacecraft. The Yautja were in search of big game. They had been thinking of hunting humans, but now they would be up against more challenging prey.

The Yautja Hunt began in the streets of New Shanghai. Once the kiande amedha had been cleared from the streets, their underground Hive would have to be destroyed before the city would be free of them, which was infested with many types of kiande amedha, including Facehuggers and the unique Chrysalis kiande amedha that hid in the waste water.

After the sewers had been cleared of kiande amedha, New Shanghai was free of kiande amedha, but they had infested the forests as well.

Once the city and countryside were cleared, the Yautja continued to hunt down the kiande amedha a waterfall located outside the city. There they faced a powerful Gorilla kiande amedha at the bottom of the cliffs, where another Hive is located.

The Yautja had determined that the kiande amedha had come to Vega 4 from the Orion Nebula long ago. So, the Yautja decided to follow the trail, flying the infested spaceship to the source of the kiande amedha plague. AvP SNES game

Alan and Linda Decker get divorced. Alien: Sea of Sorrows

Problems arise while planning for a fourth city on New Galveston. The proposed sites ground proves unexpectedly soft. Alan Decker (deputy commissioner) and Lucas Rand (engineer) of the Interstellar Commerce Commission are dispatched to investigate.

Early Nov

A probe platform at the site on New Galveston, named Sea of Sorrows, collapses on top of Decker. His leg is badly injured and he is to be sent back to Earth. He his discovers that Kelland Mining - an old subsidiary of Weyland-Yutani - had a mine at the Sea of Sorrows in the 22nd century, but failed to disclose this to the ICC. Before he goes into hypersleep, he mentions this in his report.

Early Dec

Alan Decker arrives back on Earth. He learns that Weyland-Yutani is putting pressure on the ICC to change the report about the old mine on New Galveston. Alien: Sea of Sorrows

Late Jan

Alan Decker is suspended without pay pending an investigation of the events on New Galveston. He is then abducted by Weyland-Yutani mercenaries and taken back to LV-178 aboard the Kiangya under Captain Cherbourg.

Mid March

Upon waking from hypersleep, Alan Decker is told by Weyland-Yutani Rep Andrea Rollins that they 'own' him. As he is a distant descendant of Ellen Ripley, they believe Decker owes them for the damage Ripley caused to the Nostromo and its payload. Rollins also explains why Decker has nightmares about the kainde amedha - creatures he has no previous knowledge of: Decker has some low level psychic abilities. His 'psychic' link with the kainde amedha will aid their mission. Decker is to enter the newly uncovered mine with the mercenaries that was previously visited by Ripley and the crew of the Marion in 2159, and secure kainde amedha specimens. If they are successful, they will consider Decker's debt paid.

Manning and his 35 mercenaries land at the new mining site. The following day, Manning, the mercenaries, Decker, and Weyland-Yutani Rep Tom Willis descend into the mine to secure specimens.

Dr Nigel Silas and his science team find an ancient extraterrestrial city and kainde amedha Ovomorphs at the bottom of the mine. One of the scientists, Colleen, is attacked by a Facehuggers. This precipitates an attack by the kainde amedha, where the mercenary team is all but wiped out. Cut off from the surface, Dr Silas blows up the elevator, not wanting the kainde amedha to reach the surface. Dae Cho shoots him, but their position is also over-run, and Cho is killed.

Manning, Decker, Muller, Adams, Elway, Llewellyn and Silent Dave discover the Queen and kill her. Adams and Elway, however, are attacked by Facehuggers.

Under instructions from Rollins, pilot Eddie Pritchett flies back to the planet to get samples from Willis' office. He encounters Willis while there, but Willis is killed by an kainde amedha.

Manning, Decker, Muller, Dave and the Facehugged Adams and Elway make it back to the Kiangya. Pritchett is killed by an kainde amedha during the evacuation. Manning traps the kainde amedha with a foam gun that fires rapidly hardening cement. Decker further ostracizes himself from Manning when he tries to kill Elway.

As all stationed personnel at the mining colony were dead, Rollins authorizes that it be nuked from orbit. The trapped kainde amedha is secured and Adams and Elway are put into hypersleep. Rollins tells Decker's debt is paid and he's being sent back to Earth. Decker protests, wanting all the kainde amedha destroyed. Rollins tells him the kainde amedha are going elsewhere. Alien: Sea of Sorrows

Alpha Centauri 3.

A Yautja drone ship placed kiande amedha Ovomorphs onto the planet, which hatched and produced kiande amedha adults, eradicating the human population in the process. A Yautja hunting party then arrived to hunt the kiande amedha, but underestimated the number of kiande amedha (possibly due to the presence of a Queen), and the Yautja hunting party was wiped out. The last of the Yautja clan embarks on a mission to defeat the Queen, regain the Yautja's honor, and his own. AvP: Last of His Clan

Captain Akoko Halley is called in and informed that she has been tasked with a top secret mission, the details of which are withheld from her until the small squad that she is assigned has left on their ship, the Doyle.

She knew the pilot, Corporal Jane Hanning. The other Marines (Sergeant Tew, Private Shearman, Rogers, Rosartz) were unknown to her. She had requested to choose her own troops, but the Major denied it, having already begun the process. She believed that Del Kalien had something to do with that. Halley knew Kalien was Section Seven - but as far as the rest of the crew knew he was a science observer. Fortunately the crew were all from the 39th Spaceborn ("DevilDogs"), so she trusted them at least.

The preflight briefing was short - it was to be a rescue mission, but it wasn't logged. Hanning would be sent coordinates once they were 1000km out from Charon Station. The ship was not preped for a long journey, so Halley knew their destination would only be a few days away.

Once underway, the team is informed that they are being sent to Trechman Two, a research station operated by ArmoTech, to investigate the loss of contact with the facility. The team is placed under the overall command of Section Seven agent Del Kalien, although Halley retains command over the military aspects of the mission. She is frustrated by Kalien's refusal to elaborate on what they might find on the station, but follows her orders.

Upon reaching Trechman Two 16 hours later, they received no response to their hails. Hull integrity was intact, life suport was functioning, none of the lifeboats were launched, and its two station transport ships were still docked. Halley ignores Kalien's suggestion that they board immediately and instead has Hanning launch a reconnaissance drone. On their initial sweep they found no sign of trauma or damage. However, Tew has the drone back around the central hub.

To the team's shock, the drone reveals a Yautja aboard, which eerily watches the drone through an exterior window. Halley believes the Yautja was brought to the research station. Kalien reminds them that their mission is to recover vital research data from the station's computer core. Tews objects and Kalien lifts Tew up with one hand and repeats the order, which shocks Halley. Halley reluctantly leads the Marines aboard as all the Marines had been previously trained to combat the Yautja. Kalien suggests the Yautja was probably drugged yet still managed to escape containment.

Once on the station, Halley splits the six-man squad into two teams: Hanning, Rogers and Tew is one team. Halley, Shearman, Rosartz is the second. They begin to clear the area and search for survivors as they make for the core.

Before long, both groups discover victims of the Yautja. Suddenly, the Yautja attacks Tew's group; Halley remotely links to their body cameras and can only watch as the creature begins brutally slaughtering the Marines. With his fellow Marines slain, and despite Halley's warnings, Tew attempts to kill the Yautja with the plasma setting on his weapon — the blast ruptures the station's hull, leaving Halley to believe both Tew and the Yautja were sucked out into space.

Halley and the two surviving Marines reach the computer core. As they recover the data, Kalien informs them that the Yautja is still alive. Halley patches into the dead marine's feeds to witness the Yautja butchering Tew's corpse for a trophy.

With the data secured, the team is preparing to leave when Halley's suit picks up movement outside the room. The door opens and the Marines open fire with explosive ammunition, unwittingly killing the female survivor who was attempting to enter the room. At the same time, the Yautja breaks through the room's ceiling and attacks. Amidst the chaos, Halley notices signs of human experimentation on the Yautja. Just as the Yautja turns to attack her, one of the dying Marines sets off a grenade and the blast knocks Halley unconscious.

Halley awakes, seriously wounded but alone. She makes her way back toward the Doyle, encountering the Yautja once again outside the airlock to which the ship's umbilical is attached. Like her, the Yautja is grievously wounded after the explosion and the two face each other wearily, neither making a move to attack. Kalien calls to Halley from within the umbilical, asking if she has the data they have come to retrieve and making it clear he will not let her on board unless she does. Hearing him, the injured Yautja heads into the umbilical — as Kalien's hideous screams ring out, Halley throws a grenade into the passage and seals the airlock. The blast destroys the umbilical and sets the Doyle adrift.

Now the sole survivor aboard Trechman Two, Halley uses the station's medical supplies to patch herself up, and then hopes to take a lifeboat to escape back to her home base. Predator: If It Bleeds

Captain Akoko Halley’s DevilDogs first encounter the alien lifeform known as the FireSpite. Aliens: Bug Hunt – Spite

Lieutenant Johnny Mains and his small squad of Colonial Marine Excursionists, the VoidLarks, respond to a Yautja attack on the remote colony of Southgate Station 12, near the edge of human space. They kill the two hunters responsible, but lose two of their own in the process. With the situation under control, they return to their previous duties - covertly surveilling a vast deep space Yautja habitat just outside of the Human Sphere. As they observe the vessel, they receive word from USCM command that there has been an alarming increase in Yautja incursions into human space in recent months. Soon afterwards, several Yautja vessels launch from the habitat and head for the Human Sphere. Deeming them hostile, Mains and his VoidLarks engage; they destroy several of the enemy ships, but their own vessel is critically damaged in the process and they are forced to land on the habitat.

Meanwhile on the planet LV-1529, scientist Isa Palant is attempting to research the Yautja, working from second-hand accounts and limited biological samples, hoping to learn more about their physiology and society. The two Yautja slain by Mains and his squad at Southgate Station 12 are delivered to her laboratory, and Palant eagerly goes to work studying the bodies, joined by new assistant Milt McIlveen, a company man. Meanwhile, fellow scientist Angela Svenlap receives a cryptic message from the Founders, its content driving her to sabotage the base with a bomb, destroying the compound and killing most of the staff; Svenlap herself commits suicide when discovered. The survivors, Palant and McIlveen among them, take shelter from the planet's harsh climate in a remote, dilapidated warehouse that escaped the blast.

Aboard Charon Station, the overall command center for the USCM, General Bassett and Weyland-Yutani executive Gerard Marshall learn of a spate of similar terrorist attacks throughout human space, killing tens of thousands. In response to the total loss of contact with the base on LV-1529, Marshall contacts Major Akoko "Snow Dog" Halley and dispatches her and a small contingent of her Colonial Marine regiment, the DevilDogs, to investigate. When they eventually reach LV-1529, they find the survivors under attack by Yautja; the Marines quickly slay the remaining creature and rescue the survivors from the base. Back aboard DevilDogs' ship, Palant informs Halley that the Yautja are apparently entering human space because they are fleeing some greater threat - information she and McIlveen have learned by translating intercepted communications between the creatures that attacked them. Realising the inevitable toll of fighting the Yautja on a large scale, Halley permits Palant to compose a transmission to the invaders requesting a temporary ceasefire.

Aboard the Yautja habitat, Mains and his surviving VoidLarks discover evidence of a massacre, Yautja torn to pieces by unknown aggressors. The stranded Marines face assaults by the remaining hunters on board, of which there are apparently few, but the repeated contacts begin to drain their supplies and reduce their number. Their attempts to commandeer a Yautja vessel to escape fail when they find the alien technology completely indecipherable, but during one such attempt they notice another vessel, seemingly not of Yautja origin, attached to one end of the habitat. Moving to investigate, the group discover the cause of the slaughter aboard the habitat - kiande amedha, apparently brought there by the unidentified vessel. The creatures attack, killing everyone but Mains and another Marine named Lieder, but the two survivors manage to fight their way through them and reach the ship. Aboard, they discover a ruined android named Patton, and realize the kiande amedha are somehow under its command.

Far outside the Human Sphere, Liliya now resides with the former Founders, a faction of dissident human scientists that fled human space centuries before, seeking to create a new, free society among the stars, far beyond the influence of the rest of mankind. However, Liliya has become disillusioned with the group's cause, which now focuses on returning to the Human Sphere and reaping revenge for the perceived persecution that first drove them out. To this end, they have renamed themselves the Rage and, building upon the research originally brought to them from the Evelyn-Tew by Liliya, have succeeded where countless others before them have failed - they have developed an effective means to control the kiande amedha. They have now bred an army of the creatures, planning to use them as shock troops in their assault, operating under the command of their android generals, just as Mains discovered. Deciding she is no longer willing to assist the Rage in their planned genocide, Liliya steals the secret to the their kiande amedha control and flees for human space, hoping that the information she carries will help mankind repel the impending invasion. Discovering her betrayal, Beatrix Maloney, the leader of the Rage, dispatches Alexander, the greatest of her android generals, to mercilessly hunt Liliya down.

In response to Palant's request for a ceasefire, a peace meeting is arranged between humans and Yautja in a neutral location, the creatures requesting that Palant herself lead the human delegation. Speaking with the senior hunter, named Kalakta, they discover that the threat from which the Yautja are fleeing are the kiande amedha, which the Rage have unleashed upon them in order to test their army in battle ahead of their advance. Realizing that the organized army of creatures may be unstoppable, the two sides agree to work together to combat the threat.

Before she can reach the Human Sphere, Liliya is captured by a Yautja vessel and is subjected to horrendous torture by its crew, who recognize her as a member of the Rage. Only when the ship is attacked by Alexander's kiande amedha army is she able to convince her captors of her true intentions, and she flees the destruction of the vessel with Hashori, her torturer, who intends to regroup with other Yautja for the fight back.

Aboard the Rage vessel attached to the Yautja habitat, Mains and Lieder learn the true scale of the threat now facing humanity - accessing the ship's data banks, they discover that the Rage have intercepted and captured a fleet of colony ships sent out from human space centuries before, each one containing thousands of colonists in suspended animation. They deduce that the Rage have used these captive humans to breed their vast kiande amedha army; the same colony vessels are now heading back towards human space, bringing with them their deadly cargo. However, before Mains and Lieder can transmit news of their discovery back to the USCM, kiande amedha swarm into the ship. Predator: Incursion

Aboard the Yautja habitat where they have been stranded, Lieutenant Mains and Private Lieder prepare to meet their end at the hands of the kiande amedha. However, at the last moment, they are saved by the arrival of another Excursionist crew, the HellSparks, led by Lieutenant Eddie Durante. Escaping the infested habitat aboard the HellSparks' ship, Mains and Lieder immediately send a message to USCM command explaining what they have learned - the Rage have captured an entire fleet of ancient colony ships and are now returning with them to human space, having used the captive colonists aboard to breed a vast army of kiande amedha under the control of their android generals.

Within a matter of weeks, the Rage reach the Human Sphere and begin their invasion. Armed with weapons technology far in advance of anything possessed by the rest of humanity, as well as their kiande amedha army, their progress through the Gamma quadrant is swift and brutal. They immediately move to capture dropholes across the Outer Rim, seeking to use the portals to quickly penetrate further into human space, as well as assaulting any military targets they encounter. The onslaught is as rapid as it is devastating; aboard Charon Station, the primary command center for the USCM, General Bassett and Weyland-Yutani executive Gerard Marshall discuss the possibility of deactivating the entire drophole network in order to stall the Rage's advance. However, realizing that doing so would leave billions of people stranded hopelessly in deep space, they cast the idea aside as unthinkable.

Among the military installations attacked by the Rage is the base on LV-1657, where leading Yautja researchers Isa Palant and Milt McIlveen have been stationed while Palant recuperates from a brain injury that has prevented her from travelling to Earth. General Rommel launches a ground assault with his kiande amedha; the Marines defending the installation are swiftly overwhelmed, while Rommel uses one of his own vessels as a suicide bomber to obliterate the base. Palant and McIlveen are saved from the carnage by Major Halley and her Marines, who have been assigned to protect them, and the group lifts off in their vessel, the Pixie. While attempting to provide air support to the survivors still on the ground, Halley and her Marines manage to corner Rommel in a cave; rather than be captured, the android self-destructs in a nuclear explosion, the blast severely damaging the Pixie. While repairs to the ship are carried out, Marshall contacts Halley and orders her team to seek out and capture one of these android generals intact so that it can be studied, his hope being that the secrets of their control over the kiande amedha can be unlocked and thus a counter developed. As they begin their search, the crew of the Pixie find they are being shadowed by two Yautja vessels, their crews apparently ordered to follow Palant and protect her following her peace summit with the Elder Kalakta.

Despite the ongoing battles in the Gamma quadrant, Durante and his HellSparks are tasked with patrolling another sector of the Human Sphere. There, they unexpectedly stumble upon another Rage ship, heavily damaged and seemingly adrift. Durante boards the mystery vessel to investigate, along with several of his men and Mains and Lieder. The group eventually encounters three badly wounded survivors, who explain that they are aboard the Othello, one of the Rage's two command ships. The trio explain that there was an insurrection aboard, perpetrated by members of the crew who did not agree with the slaughter now being waged on human space; the uprising was swiftly crushed by the android general aboard, who unleashed his kiande amedha upon the rebels, the last survivors of whom now stand before the Marines. Realising the vessel is hostile, Durante orders a retreat, but they are attacked and trapped by freshly awoken kiande amedha soldiers, while their own ship is destroyed, stranding them.

Meanwhile, Liliya and her Yautja companion Hashori continue to flee the army of General Alexander, the Rage commander tasked with capturing them. After temporarily escaping their pursuers through a drophole, Liliya and Hashori arrive at a remote, independent space station known as Hell, where they are greeted with trepidation. Taken to a secure cell, they are interrogated by Jiango Tann, who comes to accept Liliya's story and desire to help. Agreeing to assist, he goes in search of a crew and a ship that can take them quickly to Earth, where Liliya can pass on to those in command the secrets of the Rage's control over the kiande amedha, information she now carries in her synthetic blood. Tann's search leads him to Ware and her misfit crew of mercenaries, who agree to the job despite the dangers involved.

The Pixie eventually locates one of the colony ships being used by the Rage to breed and transport their army, damaged and adrift just like the Othello. Halley and her Marines board the vessel and find evidence of conflict aboard, before they too are confronted by kiande amedha. During their frantic escape, they discover their Yautja companions have also boarded the vessel to hunt; one of the creatures incapacitates the android general in charge and delivers him to the Marines. After evacuating and destroying the colony ship with nuclear weapons, Halley and Palant debate whether giving the android to Weyland-Yutani - and thereby gifting them the secret of true kiande amedha control - is a wise move. Concluding the company cannot be trusted, they elect to disobey their orders and study the android themselves. However, McIlveen pulls a weapon on them, revealing himself to be a company agent and demanding they deliver the android to his superiors; he is killed by one of Halley's Marines, and the rest of the crew follow their Yautja escorts to a secret Yautja installation where Palant can research the android herself.

On the Othello, the surviving Marines and their three rebel companions are relentlessly assaulted by the thousands of kiande amedha aboard, and soon Mains and Lieder once again find themselves the sole survivors. They locate a hangar and attempt to steal a ship to escape, but the sheer volume of kiande amedha manage to break inside the vessel before they can launch, and the two Marines ultimately find themselves trapped in the on-board armory. With kiande amedha starting to break down the door, they activate the ship's nuclear warheads and share a final kiss as the blast obliterates them and the Othello.

Aboard the second Rage command ship, the Macbeth, news of the Othello's destruction reaches Beatrix Maloney, leader of the Rage. She mourns the loss of her sister vessel but presses on with her grand scheme, plotting the next phase of her invasion of the Human Sphere. She dispatches General Mashima to attack the heavily populated Weaver's World, intending to use the slaughter there as a distraction to draw the USCM's focus while her own ship jumps to the very heart of human space - Earth. Aliens: Invasion

Despite escaping their pursuers and taking refuge on the space station known as Hell, Liliya and Hashori are stunned to find General Alexander and his army are still on their trail. The two fugitives narrowly escape Hell with resident scientists Jiango and Yvette Tann aboard the Satan's Savior, a mercenary vessel captained by Ware, as Alexander launches an assault on the station; after putting his kiande amedha aboard to slaughter the inhabitants, he continues his pursuit. Realizing that Alexander will never stop hunting them, Liliya has Ware use her ship as bait to lure the general into a Yautja ambush, which succeeds in destroying Alexander's ship. Now safe in the knowledge they will be pursued no more, Liliya and her compatriots resume their journey towards Earth. However, unknown to them, Alexander has survived the destruction of his vessel, and after repairing his damaged body by grafting pieces of dead kiande amedha soldiers to himself, he hijacks a Yautja ship and continues the chase.

Elsewhere, General Mashima arrives at the human colony planet of Weaver's World and begins his attack, unleashing his entire army of 16,000 kiande amedha soldiers on the populace. The planet's defense is led by experienced Colonial Marine commander General Sergei Budanov, but as so many times before, human forces find themselves ill-matched against the highly advanced weaponry and kiande amedha army wielded by the Rage - within hours, the major cities on Weaver's World become war zones, while the inhabitants of outlying settlements are systematically massacred with little opposition. Even when reinforcements arrive in the form of a large group of Yatuja, the fighting remains brutal and the situation seems dire.

News of the devastation on Weaver's World reaches Major Halley at the secret Yautja installation where Isa Palant is researching a captured Rage general, whom she has christened "Oscar". Working alongside a Yautja scientist named Yaquita, Palant begins to unlock the secrets of the Rage's control over the kiande amedha. Discussing her findings with the Elder Kalakta, Palant learns that the advanced bio-mechanical technology the Rage employ originated from a long-departed race of ancient aliens called the Drukathi, whom even the Yautja fear. Kalakta suggests the Drukathi, however unlikely it may seem, may be influencing current events, and that the war is a means to prevent mankind becoming too advanced. Palant and Yaquita return to their work, but their research is cut short when Oscar attempts to self destruct; although Palant averts a devastating nuclear explosion, the general's body is destroyed. In Oscar's final moments, Yaquita is able to extract from the android the probable location of the Rage's command ship, the Macbeth.

Aboard the Satan's Savior, the Tanns conduct their own experiments on Liliya, accessing and studying the kiande amedha control tech she carries in her synthetic bloodstream. Through Hashori, they learn of Palant's work at the secret Yautja base, and elect to rendezvous with her so that they can share information. However, the journey there requires them to use a drophole that has been commandeered by the Rage. Reaching the drophole, the Satan's Savior engages the Rage forces guarding it, employing unorthodox combat manoeuvres to successfully destroy two of the enemy ships. However, the third cripples Ware's vessel and puts several kiande amedha aboard; Ware and her crew are forced to engage the creatures in close combat, assisted by Hashori. Although the confrontation is brutal, the crew manage to kill the creatures, leading the surviving Rage ship to launch an even larger group at the stricken vessel. Alexander also arrives in his stolen Yautja ship and docks, seeking to board the Satan's Savior himself. Just as the situation seems lost, two Yautja attack craft arrive, destroying the remaining Rage vessel and remotely activating the stasis systems on Alexander's stolen ship, capturing him.

At the Yautja science installation, Palant begins formulating a plan to destroy the Rage's android generals by remotely activating their self destruct systems. However, in order to affect every android across the Human Sphere, she realizes she will need to be aboard the Macbeth. Thus the small band of humans sets off in Halley's ship, the Pixie, using a secret Yautja drophole located within the heart of the asteroid that contains the base. On the other side of the drop, the Pixie meets up with the Yautja vessels that saved Liliya and her compatriots, and the two groups meet and confer. Testing the validity of their plan, they jettison Alexander's body into space, whereupon Liliya succeeds in remotely destroying him. Satisfied, they press on, but when the convoy of ships finally arrives at the location Yaquita extracted from Oscar, they find no trace of the Macbeth, only a drophole that has been extensively and drastically modified by the Rage; using this upgraded drophole, the Macbeth has already performed an almost inconceivable drop across hundreds of light years to reach the very heart of the Human Sphere - the Solar System.

The Macbeth, now split into a dozen smaller vessels, immediately begins its final assault. Among its targets is the USCM control hub at Charon Station, which is attacked by two of the separated ships. The heavily defended station puts up a valiant fight, employing all of the defensive weaponry, countermeasures and combat personnel at its disposal, but even this is not enough, and it is gradually overwhelmed and obliterated by the Rage; General Bassett is able to send a final message reporting the fall of the USCM's command center before he is slain by one of the Rage's kiande amedha.

Shortly before Charon's destruction, Weyland-Yutani executive Gerard Marshall escapes the station with two Marine personnel on a secret mission - in a last-ditched effort to stall the Rage's advance, he has been ordered by his superiors at the company to deactivate the entire drophole network that allows travel throughout the Human Sphere. While this will strand countless billions in deep space with no hope of ever returning to another colonised system, it will also prevent the Rage from rapidly travelling between populated areas. Reaching the control center for the process, concealed aboard an apparently derelict ship drifting in space, he settles down to wait for a sign that all hope is lost.

Meanwhile, the leader of the Rage, Beatrix Maloney, presses on towards her ultimate target - Earth. However, before she can reach it, her command ship is attacked by a lone Yautja vessel. Relaizing Liliya is aboard, having followed the Macbeth through the modified drophole, Maloney has the ship disabled and brought aboard, planning to dispose of the traitorous synthetic herself. As this happens, a second Yatuja craft, hidden by its cloak, also sneaks aboard, bringing with it Palant, Halley and her Marines, who duly storm the ship. Fighting erupts in the vessel's corridors as it is assaulted from outside by more Yautja craft. Meanwhile, the Tanns, Ware and her crew also manage to get aboard, creating a distraction to try and draw some of the innumerable defending kiande amedha away from Halley and Palant. Through almost incredible odds, Palant reaches the control center for the android generals and uploads the modified nanotech she has prepared. Just as Maloney prepares to have Liliya killed by feeding her to the Queen contained in the ship's hold, the android receives word from Palant that they are ready, and she duly activates the self destruct systems of every Rage android across the galaxy, destroying them and their ships and releasing their command over the kiande amedha soldiers; Liliya's own modified heart also detonates, killing her and Maloney and destroying the Macbeth. The survivors - Palant, Marines Halley and Huyck, mercenaries Ware and Robo, the Tanns and Hashori - are jettisoned from the ship in its drive section.

Aboard the drophole control center, Marshall detects the enormous nuclear detonations throughout the Solar System, correctly identifying them as having come from the Rage. After the blasts, the entire system falls silent, and he and the others with him conclude that the war is lost. Despite knowing they are likely condemning themselves to die a lonely death in deep space as much as the billions of others throughout the Human Sphere, Marshall and the two USCM personnel agree that the doomsday protocol must be initiated. Reluctantly, Marshall shuts down the drophole network.

In the aftermath, the survivors of the attack on the Macbeth regroup and take stock of how the Human Sphere is no more, replaced by countless human communities spread throughout the galaxy and separated by insurmountable distances. With the Rage destroyed and their former kiande amedha troops now leaderless creatures once more, Palant and the others consider how mankind's ongoing battles with them, such as the one on Weaver's World, may be progressing, especially now that the participants are truly cut off. Concerned at the thought of the surviving section of the Macbeth falling into Weyland-Yutani's hands, Halley suggests destroying it, but Hashori insists the Yautja will take it with them; unable to argue and in no mood for another war, Halley relents. Finally, the survivors consider their futures in an uncertain universe - Palant and the Tanns graciously accept an invitation from Hashori to join her on a pilgrimage to the Yautja home world, while Halley and Huyck consider an offer from Ware to join her mercenary crew. AvP: Armageddon

Mankind had neutralized the 400+ year war between kiande amedha and Yautja. Now they have agreed to finalize the conflict by American Football on Earth. The kiande amedha Football League and the Yautja Football League were born and fierce battles engaged for the Super Bowl Title. There was only one new rule. The quarterback must be human. AvP: Hard Bowl

On the planet Oleta, Police Chief Tarleton approaches one of the pristine terraformed world's residents, former Colonial Marine Captain Angela Hall, and informs her that there is an ongoing incident at the local mine, and that he suspects a kiande amedha may be involved. Knowing that Hall has had experience fighting kiande amedha s, Tarleton attempts to enlist her help in dealing with the situation, doubting that the colony's contingent of young, inexperienced Marines and their blustering commander, Lieutenant Colonel Simon Nicholson, will be able to contain the situation. When Hall refuses to become involved, Tarleton arrests her and takes her to the scene in his hover car.

Upon arriving, Tarleton's fears are confirmed — Nicholson refuses to accept a kiande amedha could be responsible, even when presented with security footage that appears to show a black-shelled creature tearing several miners apart, and sends his Marines without warning or proper tactics. The first wave sent inside the mine is quickly massacred. Learning that there are two young children trapped in the mine, Tarleton also rushes in, desperate to save them, while Nicholson sends in more Marines.

Nicholson is informed by his cousin Joe, also a Marine, that giant Blue Moon Centipedes may have been introduced to the planet as a means of quickly and easily boring the mine tunnels, and that these creatures may have been the hosts for the kiande amedha s — unleashing a huge and incredibly dangerous version of the organism. When the second unit of Marines is also massacred, much like the first, Nicholson's bluster turns to shock and he loses all ability to command. Assuming command, Hall arms herself with a flamethrower and gathers a group of Marines to go into the mine and eradicate the kiande amedha s.

They discover the creatures have indeed gestated inside Blue Moon Centipedes and are now giant, multilegged specimens. Their flamethrowers are only moderately effective, but Hall manages to save one of the two children and escape the mine. However, the centipede-like kiande amedha s follow her out and begin attacking the Marines on the surface. Remembering that centipedes are highly susceptible to salt, Hall and the Marine unit's android, Tommy II, formulate a plan to use a mechanical spreader to fire rock salt from the mine at the creatures.

While Tommy II prepares the spreader, Hall sees the other child emerge from the mine, pursued by more kiande amedha s. She rushes over to save him, realizing full well she will likely die in the process. Just as one of the centipede-kiande amedha s is about to bear down on her, Tarleton reappears and saves her, setting the creature ablaze with a flamethrower. Tommy II then arrives in the spreader and turns it on the kiande amedha s. As they had hoped, the creatures react violently to the substance, breaking down as it contacts them.

After all the kiande amedha s are destroyed, it is revealed that Nicholson's cousin Joe was responsible for bringing the kiande amedha s and the centipedes to Oleta; Tarelton arrests him. With the planet saved, Hall, Tarleton and the two children — revealed to be Tarleton's niece and nephew — head back to Hall's farm for breakfast. Aliens: Bug Hunt – Darkness Falls

Terra Mining Colony NA-622. 1622 Hours.

One Yautja is engaged in battle with Hartwig and his squad of Marines. It is cloaked, but the accompanying robot can still detect the Yautja. The soldier gets in one shot before the Yautja uses his Smart Disc and kills the soldier. As he collects his trophy, he is killed by a squad of Marines and accompanying robots, led by Colonel Hartwig. Alpha Team found the Yautja ship, killed 5 Yautja, and neutralized the ship with heavy casualties.

1805 hrs.

The Marines arrive at the ship, and discover the trophy room, with the XO Manowar helmet on display.

1921 hrs.

As the Hartwig and his squad of Marines plan to return to the Manning in stationary orbit to haul the Yautja ship away, they discover they missed one Yautja, who activate the ship's auto-destruct device. It destroys the ship but the Marines escape. Predator Vs. Magnus Robot Fighter

Northam. Goph Level - the lowest level of the continent-wide city. 6:15pm.

General Hartwig leads a group of people - a gun club - on an (illegal) urban safari hunt - for a "Freewill" robot. In the group are Ms. Trent (whose family manufactures robots), Squire Schnupp, and Senator Church.

As Hartwig is about to take down the robot, another robot unit "accidentally" bumps into him, causing him to miss the shot. They continue nonetheless, accidentally causing an explosion. As they gain ground on the Freewill, Magnus interrupts them. Schnupp orders his robot units to attack Magnus.

Magnus has been trained since his youth to fight and destroy rogue robots. To make himself the ultimate weapon.

As the Robots attack, Schnupp fires his weapon at Magnus. Hus tunic, however, disperses energy blasts - rendering the shot useless. The Freewill warns Magnus about the others about to open fire. They kill Schnupp but the warning manages to allow Magnus to get to safety with little injury.

Magnus recognizes the Freewill as one of Tekla's robots from Synanon. The Freewill says she was on a mission of goodwill when she was kidnapped, ha a device attached to her to prevent her contacting anyone, and let go for the hunt. Dying, Schnupp tells Magnus to go to the gun club's trophy clubhouse in the upper levels of the Yale sector, level Q-Z, unit 42063. When Magnus gets there, he finds the XO Manowar helmet.

Upper levels, Milespires. 8:30 pm.

Senator Church and his companion Poochie meet Ms. Trent and Hartwig. She tells Church that Schnupp gave up the location of the trophy room - depriving Hartwig of his trophy. Magnus isn't in very good graces with the authorities since he went into voluntary exile down on the Goph level. Hartwig plans to engage on another hunt - to kill Magnus and get his trophy back.

Northam Space Defense Center. 8:32 pm. The Bot reports to a human that an intruder ship was detected entering local space without identification and not answering any hails. The human orders to dispatch an interceptor and monitor the situation.

Milespires. 9:01 pm. Magnus meets with his girlfriend Leeja Crane, bearing real flowers. Leeja had planned to dine on the balcony with her Bot T-4-2 cooking on a hydrogen grill. Leeja considers it old-fashioned but prefers the taste and considers it more intimate. Leeja confirms she is still trying to reform Northam from within the system.

Leeja is a councilmember and her father is President. She is the off-an-on again girlfriend of Magnus.

Northam Space Defense Center. The Bot reports that the interceptor brought the intruder ship into the docking bay. Anomalous readings for life forms. The human orders them to do a diagnostic on their equipment and run a visual check on the intruder's interior. Full alert and battle armor.

Milespires.

Magnus asks Leeja to look into Schnupp's friends and associates to find out where the helmet came from. As they begin to get intimate, Leeja, an empathic, senses something from the helmet. It is somehow alive or at least sentient.

Northam Space Defense Center.

The Bot reports that the intruder ship headed back towards Northam in the Lake Ontario sector at flank speed, still unresponsive to any hails or overrides. The human orders emergency crews and to alert city security command.

After the interceptor ship impacts the intruder ship. Though the safeguards should have protected the human crew, they discover the crew all skinned, with missing skulls/backbones.

City Security contacts General Hartwig, who orders them to seal the area and send all available units - human and PolRobs, to the area as he suggests it is probably a Freewill gone rogue. They are to ignore low-priority calls from other sectors, especially the Goph level, until they capture the perp.

Ending transmission, he turns to the others in the room. Because of his orders to City Security, they have the diversion they need to go hunt Magnus.

Milespires.

As the helmet may be alive, Leeja asks to hold on to the helmet, as she may be able to probe it with her empathic powers to get some images from it.

With Magnus gone, she begins her scans, learning that is an X-O. The mask seems to be warning her - just as a Yautja crashes through her window. T-4-2 defends Leeja, but is quickly disabled.

Magnus's home.

Hartwig and his team (including V'ril who claims Magnus once fancied her but she turned him down - but in reality she tried to blackmail him and he turned the tables on her) located Magnus' home. They decide to wait as Magnus doesn't appear to have the helmet.

Milespires.

Leeja manages to get away from the Yautja by blasting him with the hydrogen grill.

Magnus's home.

One of the gun club's robots "accidentally" runs into Poochie, which alerts Magnus. Moments later Leeja arrives at Magnus' place to tell him about her attacker, who then arrives - as Hartwig watches. He recognizes the Yautja from the terra colony.

The fight is quickly taken outside, with the Yautja gaining the upper hand. He ensnares Magnus with a net and prepares to throw his smart disc. Church and V'ril are too eager to shoot the Yautja as Poochie lets loose a shot, gaining the Yautja's attention. The Yautja immediately hurls the smart disc, severing Poochie's hand. Church is the next victim, dying from a spear through the chest. The robots are ordered to attack the Yautja. In the battle, the crossfire starts destroying the net pinning Magnus to the wall, and he manages to tear free by bringing the side of the wall down on top of him.

When the Yautja engages its cloaking device, the bots switch to infra-red and locate him, but are destroyed and the V'ril is killed. The Yautja sees Hartwig racing away with the helmet. Magnus digs his way free and finds Leeja. He decides to go to Professor Talltrees and learn more of the situation.

Hartwig runs into an ambush by Goph humans, who outnumber Hartwig when the Yautja arrives. As the Yautja attacks the Goph, Hartwig runs away.

Milespires. Upper levels. Professor Talltree's offices. 10:37 pm.

Talltree explains that the Yautja has visited Earth several times, hunting humans for sport. Talltree suggests the only way to defeat the Yautja is to kill them, as if they lose they activate their self-destruct. Magnus, however, refuses to accept killing as the only answer.

Magnus was raised by his robot mentor, 1-A, ever since he was an infant, to be the complete warrior. To defend Northam against rogue robots or whatever else threatened Northam. He's been cast in the role of defender for a society that is too decadent, too corrupt, to defend itself. To champion people whose values Magnus has come to despise. And Now he is supposed to save Hartwig - who symbolizes everything wrong with Northam - and kill a being with whom he finds himself in greater sympathy.

Talltrees reminds Magnus that he projects himself too much onto the Yautja. If the Yautja is not stopped, he may go after the people he despises - not those too decadent but the Gophs, who are far more independent and aggressive, and would make better sport for the Yautja.

Leeja still has her empathic link to the helmet, and can lead Magnus to where Hartwig are going. He makes it to the gun club and into the elevator, but the Yautja destroys the controls, causing everyone in the shoot to fall. Hartwig manages to grab a ledge at the least second, however.

Meanwhile, in a hovercar, Leeja, PolRob85, and Magnus circle the area until they spot them. Magnus freefalls to the ground. The PolRobs got the Yautja on infrared and the "Main Brain" has instructed it and all other PolRobs in the area to apprehend and immobilize it. However, the Yautja uses his shoulder cannon and fires at the hovercar. Leeja jumped out at the last second. In the carnage, the Yautja adjusts his cloak, goes invisible, and escapes as the PolRobs can no longer detect him on infra-red.

The Yautja finds Hartwig and is about to kill him when Magnus interferes. Magnus quickly disarms the Yautja (but overlooked one gauntlet) and challenges the Yautja to a duel. However, Hartwig bolts and the Yautja retrieves the spear and impales Hartwig to the wall.

Above, a Yautja ship decloaks as Magnus and the Yautja fight. The Yautja had the upper hand until Magnus cripples the Yautja by breaking its spine. The Yautja onboard come to retireve their fallen comrade and offer the Yautja the fallen comrade's signet ring - to which Magnus hurls away in disgust. Predator Vs. Magnus Robot Fighter