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Aliens - timeline
6th December: Burke orders colonists on planet LV-426 to investigate the Alien ship. This event leads to the deaths of the entire colony, except for one little girl called Newt. (LV-426)
Ellen Ripley is woken from hypersleep as Earth loses contact with a colony on alien planet LV-426.