Hadley's Hope

Hadley's Hope is the name of a fictional colony featured in the Aliens film series. It appeared in the 1986 feature film Aliens, and was represented as one of the main settings of the film.

Description
Hadley's Hope was a terraforming colony founded by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation in the 22nd century. Around the year 2159, the company established this so-called "shake and bake" colony on the planet Acheron (Company designation LV-426). The colony consisted of eighty families. By the year 2179, there was a total population of 158 people living on LV-426. Members of the colony worked at either a laboratory facility, or the nearby atmospheric processing plant.

History
When Weyland-Yutani's Bio-weapons division learned that a valuable alien life form might exist on LV-426, administrator Carter Burke sent the Jordan family to the coordinates of a downed derelict craft to investigate. The Jordans discovered a xenomorph hatchery aboard the ship, and awakened the nesting eggs. The parasitic creatures took Russ Jordan as a host, and they eventually found their way to the atmosphere processing facility, whereupon the aliens were able to begin construction on a hive. Nearly everyone at Hadley's Hope was either killed, or imprisoned inside of a cocoon to be used as a living host. The only to escape was a young girl named Rebecca Jordan.

When Weyland-Yutani lost communication with Hadley's Hope, they assigned a unit of the United States Colonial Marines to go to LV-426 and investigate. Carter Burke was a member of this mission, though no one else knew that he was secretly responsible for the aliens escaping. In addition to the marines, the crew also included civilian consultant Ellen Ripley, who had her own harrowing experience with a xenomorph fifty years earlier.

The team landed on LV-426 and discovered evidence of the hive as they surveyed the processing center. This awakened the xenomorphs who attacked the marines, picking them off one by one. Through the course of the conflict, the core of the atmospheric processing center overheated and went into meltdown. It exploded, destroying the entire area.

Colonists

 * Anne Jordan
 * Cocooned woman
 * Rebecca "Newt" Jordan
 * Russ Jordan
 * Timmy Jordan