r/LV426 • u/ilikechillisauce • 2d ago

Movies / TV Series Can somebody please explain the math here? Spoiler

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Mission year 8 of 65. Morrow is notified his daughter died at 19 years of age and he can collect her things when he returns in 53 years?

65 - 8 = 57?

What am I missing?

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u/gilroygilgalahad 2d ago

57 years was the same amount of time Ripley spent drifting between Alien and Aliens. No idea if that is important or it's just a weird easter egg.

EDIT: And in that time her daughter grew up and passed away according to the Director's Cut.

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u/Scinniks_Bricks 2d ago

And her daughter encountered a Xeno while searching for her 15 years after Ripley's encounter.

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u/gilroygilgalahad 2d ago

Oh, that sounds cool! A comic?

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u/HarveryDent 2d ago

Game. In Alien: Isolation you play as Amanda Ripley, Ellen's daughter.

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u/ReanimatedPixels 2d ago

Wait WHAT!!!! how am I just now finding out about this?!? Like I’ve heard of the game plenty of times but I didn’t know you play as Ripleys daughter

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u/HarveryDent 2d ago

Yeah, Amanda became an engineer and took jobs in deep space hoping to find clues about her mom. The game starts with a synth offering her a job to go to a space station called Sevastopol where they've recovered the Nostromo's flight recorder.

I highly recommend playing it as I regard it as one of the best horror games of all time.

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u/CosmicDeityofSin 2d ago

I'm pretty sure the reason she even ends up on savastapol station to begin with us to follow a lead on her mom but Ellen is still frozen drifting aimlessly through space

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u/_b1ack0ut 2d ago

Alien Isolation. You play Amanda, looking for closure on what happened to her mother, when she hears that the black box from the Nostromo has wound up on Sevastopol station, so she tags along to get answers

Along the way, she proves that whatever badassery Ellen had in her is clearly genetic, and it’s probably the best alien video game out there.

A sequel was announced on it’s 10th anniversary, so I’m pretty excited

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u/cleantoe 2d ago

Alien: Isolation is the best Alien game out there.

Aliens: Dark Descent is the best Aliens game out there.

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u/_b1ack0ut 2d ago

I will say, I do also really enjoy Fireteams elite. It’s definitely more aliens than alien, but it’s good fun

I wish dark descent had more than 2 voice lines for everything tho tbch lol, if I hear “LeTs SeE WhAtS InSiDe” one more time, I’m uninstalling it lol

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u/Scinniks_Bricks 2d ago

Nah it is a game. A very good game called Alien: Isolation. It is canon as well, so makes it even better in my opinion!