Robocop, Terminator, Alien, and Predator timeline.

Using Dark Horse's, comics Alien vs Predator, Alien vs Predator vs Terminator, and Robocop vs Terminator , I've put the films into one neat chronology.

Whelp, I figure Alien vs. Predator is official since there was an Alien skull on the Predator's ship in Predator 2 .
Also, the storyline has spun off into a game wich is advertised in Alien Ressurection , and there may even be a movie, so it's kind of universally accepted as canon.

Robocop vs. Terminator is official because Frank Miller who wrote Robocop 2 and 3 wrote it (the suckiness of Robocop 3 wasn't his fault).

And, where Alien vs Predator vs Terminator connects to Alien vs Predator, and the Terminator could theoreticly coexist in that world, if you consider that Jim Cameron did Terminator and Aliens, so they're part of the Cameron-verse, and Arnold did Predator and Terminator, so they're part of the Arnold-verse, and Jim Cameron worked with Arnold on Terminator 1-2 so they're apart of each other's -verses.

Now, Terminator is the approaching future, and Alien is the distant future, so mankind could rebuild after the Terminator future, and make spaceships and make the Alien future.
Then, the Terminators, being immortal, could hide out until Alien Ressurection.
This angle is indeed used in AvsPvsT .

It would also make sense for the Terminators to begat the Aliens androids, and that the Terminators would subtley guide Wayland Utani Corporation, thus the Alien future is dark and creepy because it's still run by the Terminators.

Bishop the android in Aliens mentions being of the Hyperdyne Systems 128-2 model. This strongly resembles Cyberdyne Systems, the company that creates the Terminator. Both Terminators were also directed by James Cameron. In an earlier draft of the script, Bishop indeed comes from Cyberdyne Systems, in a half joking reference to Terminator.

The tricky part comes in that there are deliberatly no dates mentioned in Robocop but overall online consenus seems to place it in 2015. Since all Robocop sites that mention dates all seem to agree on this, I'm forced to conclude they all got it from the same reliable source. The level of technology displayed in Robocop in extrapolation from our present time would also seem to support a future of only a couple decades, and therefore 2015 is a very reasonable estimate. Also, this would mean many of the characters in the film were born at the release time of the film. The dates of the other films can be determined from then on, and are consistant with the ticking clock of the impending Terminator future.

The only date reference given in the entire Alien series is Burk's memo back to Wayland Utani in Aliens dated 6/12/79. This would set that film in 2X79. The level of technology seems to be consistant with the year 2179. Coincidentally, this places Aliens an even 150 years after the future depicted in Terminator.

As for the Terminator dates, Terminator 2 came out in 1992, but Edward Furlong was 14, but if John Conner was 14, the year would be 1998, and Judgement Day was supposed to happen in 1997, so the world would have to have been blown up already.
So, he had to have been playing younger.

The computer screen the T-1000 views in the police car shows that John Conner was born in 1985, and that John Conner is 10, indicating a present date of 1995. BUT, all other references to date indicate an even 10 years after the first Terminator film. Ah-nuhld tells John that 35 years in the future he sends the Terminator to protect himself. Which when subtracted from the known future date of 2029, equals 1994. The Terminator has a computer brain, so he can't be generalizing. So, John Conner's birthday just must have occured sooner than the new year. Also, one of the trailers says "10 years ago...", so this also indicates a date of 1994. This would be consistant with Skynet being a computer using even round numbers for it's temporal coordinates. Zero in on the date of Conner's conception, and then send increasingly more dangerous Terminators 10 years apart as backup.

A final final note, I also threw in the upcoming T3 and T4, and the upcoming Robocop Prime Directives TV movies, wich jump ahead 10 years from the first film to skip over the sequils, and claim to return to the grit and blood and dark sarcastic commentary of the first film.
Personally, I can't wait.

This this piece of promotional material in the form of a fake OCP memo from the official Robocop Prime Directives website, contains a joking passing reference of Cyberdyne Systems, wich would seem to be a goof on Robocop vs Terminator. The exact relevent sentance that concerns me is.."(instrumental in succesfully repelling the retrotemporal takeover of OCP by Cyberdyne Systems five years ago.)". Even though this seems to be a gag, I take it as official acknowledgment of the storyline, and  the filmakers placing a clear date on it's occurance. I have correspondingly trimmed Robocop vs. Terminator back 1 year, and Robocop 3 back 2 years. This tightens up the occurance of future events nicely.

So, using the following films and Dark Horse comics, here's the history of the future.
However bleak it may be.

The films are in red, the comics green.

1984-The Terminator

1987-Predator

1990-Predator 2

1994-Terminator 2

2001-Terminator 3

2015-Robocop

2015-Robocop 2

2020-Robocop 3

2020-Robocop vs Terminator

2025-Robocop Prime Directives

2029-Terminator 4

2122-Alien

2179-Aliens

2179-Alien�

2180-Aliens vs Predator

2182-Aliens vs Predator: War

2379-Alien Ressurection

2380-Aliens vs Predator vs The Terminator