2179

2179 is the seventy-ninth year of the 22nd century.

The events of the movie Aliens take place during this year. In the film, Ellen Ripley is awakened in this time after a fifty-year hyper-sleep. She becomes a consultant for a military detachment of Colonial Marines to go the planet LV-246 to re-establish communication with a "shake and bake" colony there. They quickly discover that the colonists have all been either killed or harvested as incubation material for a species of alien xenomorphs. Ripley finds a lone survivor - a young girl named Rebecca "Newt" Jordan. Along with a marine named Dwayne Hicks and an android called Bishop, Ripley manages to destroy the infested colony and escape from LV-426.