>How long after we're declared overdue can we expect a rescue?
>17 days
So did any rescue team ever ship out, /tv/? The timeline between "S" and "^3" is short, but not clear.
That's what the game Colonial Marines is about
>rescue
The plot isnt that hard to follow
>>71624932
Dont ever fucking talk about that shit ever again, that doesnt even fucking exist
>>71624882
That screens hot is from the fucking blu ray can use a vhs version please the true master race quality of that film, it adds to the texture and feeling and mythology the blu ray version feels sterile and misses some of the original charm
>>71625274
I heard it's actually not that bad.
>>71625384
fucking millenials actually believe this
>>71625629
>Bad glitches, unthreatening AI -When it was out
>Gets patched, somewhat alive MP -Years later
?????????
>>71624932
marines of the colon?
>>71624882
>do not send commincation saying "all ok here"
>military says "hmm, thats odd"
>get ship together and squad to go check
>double check no communication received saying "sulaco here, sorry someone spilt coffee over the comms, were all ok, seriously"
>launch ship to co-ordinates of sulaco
>drift in space in hypersleep to lv426
>mount rescue to retrieve squad
17 days my balls
>Americans forced to fend for themselves in a hostile foreign location against a dangerous enemy due to the actions of corrupt interests.
Fuck Vietnam in Space, Aliens is actually Benghazi in space.
>>71624940
You're right anon, the plot isn't that hard to follow.
The team spends a little over a day on the site (when's the last time you got any sleep, 24 hours?) before it goes kaboom. During this same brief interval (the body of the film), the 17 days remark is made. At no point after the second film's first act do we have positive confirmation that they're directly in touch with anyone "back home", "with corporate", "with the government", etc. Although in the third film Bishop does indicate that all the data gets fed back to the above entities, as we'd naturally expect. This triggers the other "rescue" ship at the end, albeit with a different objective.
Of course, the site goes kaboom and a few survivors get out, making a rescue moot, as you seem to have snarkily observed, thinking yourself smart. But do we know that any of the above earth-based entities knows that the site went kaboom? The marines are distinct from WY, though they obviously work together all the time.
The real point being that this plot point is ripe for "lesser canon" exploration, which other anons have helpfully indicated has already been done - in this treatment (the question itself being answered yes, say) the marines haven't actually heard anything definite from the Sulaco for whatever reason, and so a second rescue ship is sent out, to a bombed-out nothing (?)The original derelict and its eggs are still intact, and found...
