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2997 BC (AvP: Movie)

Yautja arrive and teach humans to build a pyramid. (Bouvet Island, Antarctica)

2897 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans - which they continue every one hundred years on this date.

2797 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

2697 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

2597 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

2497 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

2397 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

2297 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

2197 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

2097 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

1997 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

1897 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

1797 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

1697 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

1597 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

1497 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

1397 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

1297 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

1197 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

1097 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

997 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

897 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

797 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

697 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

597 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

497 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

397 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

297 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

197 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

97 BC (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

4 AD (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

104 (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

204 (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

304 (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

404 (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

504 (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

604 (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

704 (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

804 (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

904 (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

1004 (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

1104 (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

12th Century (Aliens vs. Predator: Annual #1 -- "Old Secrets")

Saint George came to Bradilovo, Bulgaria. He sought to convert it to Christianity, as he had done with so many other villages throughout Eastern Europe. He wasn't aware that in the nearby forest lived a dragon that had been terrorizing the region for generations. The villagers fed the dragon sheep to satiate its thirst for blood. When it remained unsatisfied, they sacrificed villagers.

Still, it was not appeased. The dragon demanded the king's only daughter. Otherwise, it would unleash its wrath upon the entire countryside.

As Saint George was told this tale, he witnessed a ball of fire erupting from the sky. The dragon revealed itself from its shroud of flames, came to take the girl as a sacrifice. Instead, the beast found Saint George. The battle raged, until Saint George drove his lance deep into the beast's chest. The dragon (Yautja) was defeated, the village saved. On the site of this victory the church was executed and given the name of the village's protector.

Since the church's inception, a brotherhood emerged. It has strived to keep hidden the Yautja spaceship and the Kiande Amedha eggs. It has also tried to keep the secret of the existence of these aliens from mankind.

1204 (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

1304 (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

Circa 1358 (Aliens vs. Predator: Eternal #1)

Thirty-eight-year-old Li Yat, playing a sage, peddles elixirs and functions to dimwitted mountain villagers in Tokyo. This cure, however (all of snake blood, ginseng and urine) fermented into a toxic brew. Seventeen died. The rest smashed his chest like porcelain, drove him out to a slow death, breathing his own blood as night and cold closed in.

Li Yat is an atheist. He believes in no gods. Yet he prays for deliverance now -- never hurts to keep your options open. Suddenly, a Yautja ship crashes at the floor of the mountain he was climbing. In the village, they cower in their beds, fearful of this star of ill-omen. To Li, it's an opportunity, for he believes that Predators hold the key to eternal life.

1404 (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

1504 (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

1604 (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

1704 (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

1718 (Decade of Dark Horse #1)

A Yautja hunted a band of pirates, taking a gun made in 1715, which has the inscription "Roanoke".

1804 (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

May, 1863 (Predator: Hell Come A' Walkin')

Clay County, Missouri.

Jesse (15 years old) was up before dawn, ate breakfast, and began his chores. The Yankees ride up to him and demand he tell them where his brother, Frank, is. Frank and "known Confederate guerrillas" set fire to a barn belonging to a farmer loyal to the Union. Jesse refuses to cooperate, and they beat him.

The Yankees leave him for dead and proceed to Jesse's home, demanding of Jesse's father the same question. The response is the same, so they hang a noose around Jesse's father's head and let him hang. They occasionally let him down to ask him again - but the response doesn't change. So, the Yankees leave him strung up and ride off.

It's been a half hour since the left when Jesse returns home. His younger siblings, Sarah and John, drag him into the back. There, he sees his mother and his sister, Susie, trying to hold aloft his father. it was that day Jesse decided to join the Rebels, to make the Yankees pay.

September, 1863 (Predator: Hell Come A' Walkin')

Dutch	Jesse	Sparticus	Standing Bear

The Ozark Mountains. Somewhere near the Missouri-Armansis border.

Zeke, Hiram, and Polk (Rebels) are waiting for the rest of their group, but the rain is holding them up and so they are late. Polk leaves for a bathroom break when he hears fighting come from the base. Racing back, he finds everyone dead and a Yautja standing behind him.

Jesse, Standing Bear, and Nebediah, meanwhile, attempt to find Polk's campsite. Nebediah, a racist, wonders why Standing Bear fights for the Confederacy when they stumble on Polk's campsite, and the dead bodies. They split up and scout the area. All three men know the Ozarks inside and out. Jesse is the one who finds the corpses hanging from a treetop, headless.

Elsewhere Union captain Riggs and his command (the 2nd brigade, 3rd division) are on the march. The trans-Mississippi theater puts them in danger from both civilian guerrillas and Confederate soldiers. The brigade is slowed down lugging their cannon in the mud. Riggs, unaware of the problem, asks what the delay is. Lieutenant Hendricks, saluting, informs him - but before he finishes, Riggs is shot down. The rest of the brigade take cover. Johnson insists he should get the flag, and is shot down as well.

A short distance away, Nebediah and Jesse, the shooters, watch the Yankees take cover.

Two hours later, Hendricks blames himself for Riggs' death. Dutch and Hengle try to convince him otherwise. Hendricks leaves cover to get the captain's body - allowing Nebediah to shot him in the side of his head. Hendricks survives, losing only his ear. He admits that his father was right about him - he was a fool to join the army.

Sparticus speaks of his past, and what brought him to the army. Sparticus then asks about Dutch's family.

Neb wonders about Hendrik's cannon, and if Shelby could use it. Copper, he continues, could have used a few cannons at Honey Springs. Blunt and his army, though outnumbered 2-1 by the Choctaws, still won. Standing Bear claims the black soldiers were full of devils that day. Standing bear has heard many stories that the black man brought devils to this land from the one he was stolen from. Perhaps that is what the Yautja was, he guessed. Or perhaps it was the cannibal spirit.

Though Jesse was apt not to believe that myth, but Neb actually defends the "heathen redskin." There might be truth in what he says, and as proof relates the myth of "the Traveler".

Jesse leaves Neb and Standing Bear to swap ghost stories to take another look at the cannon, and if it could be freed. He wants to be the one to bring the cannon, to get some esteem from his comrades. Then he sees the Yautja materialize in front of the cannon. He races off to tell the others.

Meanwhile, Dutch wants to build a fire, to ease Hendricks' shivers - but they can't risk the Rebels finding them. Yet the Rebels do find them, but under a truce flag. Jesse wants to pair up with the Yankees to fight the Yautja, but has a had time convincing them - until Standing Bear is shot down. All the men open fire, but the Yautja only vanishes again.

Later, Sparticus wakes Jesse at 12:10 am - it is Jesse's birthday. Sparticus offers Jesse some coffee. Neb orders Sparticus to get him some coffee, which he refuses to do. Neb grabs his shotgun, not wanting any backtalk from Sparticus - but Jesse shoots of Nebs hat - Neb has been trying Jesse's patience since Prairie Grove. When Sparticus attempts to thank Jesse, Jesse reminds him he'd as soon blow off his head too. Hendricks just wants everyone to forget their differences and concentrate on killing the Yautja.

They get the cannon free and press on. They come across Yautja footprint, and wonder if it's watching them. They all split up, and try and lure the Yautja into the clearing. Sparticus instead runs into Neb, who holds Sparticus at gunpoint. At the last second, Sparticus ducks as Neb fires -- and kills the bear standing behind Sparticus. He saved Sparticus' life. Neb laughs, but is quickly beheaded by the Yautja. Fortunately, Jesse provides distraction enough for both him and Sparticus to clear away and lure the Yautja toward the cannon.

Yet the Yautja spots the trap and keeps back. Hendricks runs out and challenges the Yautjaa. he gets the Yautja in the open, but is himself in the line of fire. He orders Dutch to fire regardless. When the smoke clears, the Yautja is still standing. Dutch races out to shoot it, wounding the Yautja in the shoulder. Then Jesse impales the Yautja from behind with the US flag. It removes its mask, and Jesse shoots it in the head.

Once the dead are buried, Rebels show up. Frank rides point. They plan to kill Sparticus and Dutch, but Jesse threatens to kill Frank himself if he doesn't let them go. He owes them his life, and so they are given safe passage until sundown.

Riding off, Dutch remarks that the saddest thing he's sen in this war is Jesse - to be so young and filled with such anger. Sparticus understands, knowing firsthand how easy it is to lose oneself to rage. Yet he won over that by choosing to build instead of destroy. He'll fight to free himself and his people. he doesn't believe Jesse will ever be free of the demons that possess him.

Indeed, Jesse realizes what he saw in the Yautja's eyes was recognition - an acknowledgment that passes between predators. this revelation makes his skin crawl.

1881 (Predator: Nemesis)

A Yautja hunts in Bengal, India. They are linked to the Indian legend of "Rakshasa". Edward Soames is the only survivor.

August, 1896 (Predator: Nemesis)

London, England. It is a time of secrets and evil: the time of Jack the Ripper, and his reign of terror on Victorian England.

When the exclusive and powerful Diogenes Club summons Captain Edward Soames of the British army, he has no idea why. The esteemed Captain soon wishes the Queen's men had left him alone when he is sent to seek out and destroy the killer perpetrating peculiar and grisly murders in London, whom the periodicals are calling "Spring-heeled Jack." It will take all of the captain's cunning and skill to find and defeat his quarry.

As Mycroft Holmes tells Captain Soames, "London is the very heart of the Empire. An empire such as the world has never seen before, encompassing an area one quarter the size of the globe. An event - any event - affecting this city has repercussions throughout that empire. It is the duty of this committee to ensure that nothing - nothing - be permitted to threaten the stability of either this city or the Empire it controls."

Seeing this as a chance to atone for the events in 1881, Soames dispatches the Yautja. He was left with more unanswered questions, though: Have they been to London before? For the Yautja had chosen its hiding place well. The waters of the Thames are unpredictable, and the underground passageway leading to its lair is submerged for most of the time. "London stands on ancient ground," said Sergeant Thackery, the servant of the Diogenes Club. Was he trying to tell Soames something they've known all along?

And of more recent events, the Radcliffe Highway murders at the turn of the century? An entire household put to the slaughter, with the culprit never caught...

1904 (AvP: Movie)

10th October: Yautja arrive for their feasting ritual on xenomorphs and humans.

WWI / June 18, 1914 - June 26, 1916 (Predator: Bloody Sands of Time)

The Yautja join in the killing during World War I. They were located in several places: near Verdun, Paris, Fort Douaumont, and Belgium.

August 10, 1926. (Dark Horse Presents #46)

The Everglades.. The Big Cypress Penitentiary.

One inmate escaped, and has evaded capture for three hours, despite that his pursuers have bloodhounds. The inmate doesn't want to go back - he'd rather die. One Yautja watches the inmate run.

One of the pursuers, Sherman, complains that as hunting goes, there isn't much sport in it. They have guns and hounds against one convict. The sheriff reminds Sherman the inmate has eluded capture for 3 hours when the bloodhounds get spooked and disappear. The dog handler goes off to catch them, but is promptly killed by the Yautja.

Sherman and the sheriff split up, the sheriff warning Sherman not to fire without a good reason. Sherman walks ahead into waste-deep water, but the Yautja emerges from behind him.

A short distance away, the sheriff hears Sherman fire his gun, but also hears a second shot from somewhere else. When he investigates, he's snared in a trap like a rabbit - a trap set by the inmate. Before the inmate can kill the sheriff, the Yautja kills him. The Yautja then walks up to the sherrif, looks at him, then mutters (in Sherman's voice), "Ain't much sport in it," then leaves him there.

July 1931 (Predator: Strange Roux)

A Yautja hunts in Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana. The Yautja is associated with the Cajin legend of the Gollywomp.

August 16-20, 1936 (Predator: Jungle Tales)

A Yautja hunts in the Serengetti.

It is associated with the Indian legend of the "Dudu Ya Porini" and the Hunting Star.

After WW2 (Predator: Demon's Gold (DHP#137))

A Nazi commandant will risk anything to locate a hidden cache of gold, but when he finally finds it he also discovers that the treasure has a guardian.

1958 (Predator: Kindred)

Fleener Creek, Oregon. Little Buddy Wilcox wished on a falling star that his abusive father would die. But this falling star was actually the ship of a Yautja who made little Buddy's dream come true -- right in front of him.

1959 (Predator: Invaders from the 4th Dimension)

Hollywood. Wednesday. Richard Flynn works at a second-rate studio for a second-rate studio. He is trying to sell his latest movie, Invaders from the 4th Dimension. The characters on the screen can't see a creature, but the viewers can.

Meanwhile, at a clear southern California sky, a Yautja ship crashlands. The Yautja has been to Earth several times, the game always plentiful and exciting. He hopes for another good hunt.

Tommy Anderson goes to investigate the crash, wearing the new "4-D" glasses he'll wear to the new movie. There he sees the Yautja, but not when he removes the glasses. He watches as the Yautja plays with some micro-grenades: upon impact, the grenade envelops the target in an electric cocoon. Tommy steals three grenades and tries to run off, but the Yautja sees him. He puts his hand out, wanting the grenades back. Tommy runs, and the Yautja attacks. Tommy uses one grenade on the Yautja and hides. The Yautja cannot find him, and gives up the chase. The game was wily, but not sanctified for the hunt.

Tommy runs into a police officer, but refuses to believe Tommy's story. He humors the boy by puting on the special glasses, but then sees the Yautja chasing Tommy. The police officer is killed. taking back the glasses from the corpse, Tommy hops into the police car and drives away, doing a hit and run with the Yautja.

Tommy drives straight to American National Poctures to see his uncle. He tells the guard to call the police because of the monster chasing him, but the guard does not. his uncle doesn't either, until he dons the glasses as well. Looking out the window, he sees the Yautja and picks up the phone to call the police, then Times magazine. None of them believe him, for he has done such reports before as media attention grabbers and believe this report to be no different. Then the Yautja discovers them and attacks. The two humans rush out of the building and yell at the security personell to call the police. They fail to believe them as well, until an explosion convinces them. Tommy and his uncle race to the theatres, with the Yautja following them.

After the Yautja kills a few humans, Tommy again faces the Yautja. The Yautja simply places its hand out and waits. Tommy returns the micro-grenades and the yautja leaves without further incident.