Alien: The Cold Forge

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Ingeniero

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Alien: The Cold Forge

The new 20th Century Fox officially licensed novel, Alien: The Cold Forge, by Alex White will be released via Titan Books next month (source).

“With the failure of the Hadley’s Hope, Weyland-Yutani has suffered a devastating defeat–the loss of the Aliens. Yet there’s a reason the company rose to the top, and they have a redundancy already in place. Remote station RB-323 abruptly becomes their greatest hope for weaponizing the Xenomorph, but there’s a spy aboard–someone who doesn’t necessarily act in the company’s best interests.

If discovered, this person may have no choice but to destroy RB-323… and everyone on board. That is, if the Xenomorphs don’t do the job first.”

Enhanced xenomorph image from Alien: The Cold Forge, below.

Alien: The Cold Forge novel will be released April 24, 2018.

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April 29, 2018

Sometimes I wonder if my sell by date on my brain is in the rear view mirror BigDave. Thank you for that. I'm not sure people can get as gone as David...but they try!

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April 30, 2018

Ingeniero your list of canonical Titan novels seems fine to me.

I've read them and Im happy with all 5 + Cold Forge being canon :)

I'll hold judgement until I finish reading it, but I am thoroughly enjoying Alien: The Cold Forge at the moment

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May 01, 2018

Minor spoilers for Alien: The Cold Forge

Finished reading the the book

As for the timeline:

2176, Cold Forge is setup for Dr. Marsanis project.

June - July 2179, The Jordens discover the derelict at the coordinates provided by C. Burke followed by the Hadley's Hope outbreak.

~ July 2179, Cold Forge Incident.

It seems they had another source of eggs because at the time the Jordens (re)discover the derelict Dr. Marsani is already working on/with the eggs for quite some time. Unless they exploited the derelict in secret before.

It also appears that Carter Burke had more than just the derelicts coordinates going on.

P.Praepotens is also very interesting. Is the black goo actually P.Praepotens, in an extracted or synthezied form?

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May 04, 2018

Excellent points Tiwaz.

In addition to the July 2179 Cold Forge incident and the June-July 2179 LV-426 collapse you cite above, the following month Michael Bishop set down on Fury 161 in August 2179.

Yes, where were the eggs sourced from on the Cold Forge? Good question regarding another source.

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