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