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MemberOvomorphJune 05, 2012Using logic I am going to break down some of the questions in prometheus. Long post but bear with me, its easy to read and broken down into sentences.
What we know:
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We know that the derelict on LV-426 happened before the Prometheus film, because the 30 odd years between films is not enough time for the Space Jockey remains to fossilize into the chair (quote from Dallas in Alien). Therefore this new proto-Alien in Prometheus is not the Queen who laid the eggs on the derelict.
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We can assume from Alien, that the eggs on the derelict produced a face hugger which killed the Space Jockey in the chair.
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We can assume that the Aliens in the rest of the Alien films 1,2,3 (which all stem from the derelict on LV-426) come from the same black goo which we see in Prometheus.
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Since our DNA is the same as the Space Jockeys (from Prometheus), they have the same reproductive process and therefore could not have laid the eggs on the derelict.
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In Prometheus, there are no eggs to be seen. Just ampules of black goo. But, the black goo, when used in a reproductive process, can create facehuggers (albeit in different varieties- much larger ones come from humans it seems). This tomb is therefore the stage BEFORE the eggs we see in Alien, Aliens.
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Space Jockeys created the black goo. Mentioned a few times in the film.
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Xenomorphs "hatched" out of Space Jockeys and neary killed them off, roughly 2000 years ago.
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Xenomorphs originate in the temple (assumed by Xeno mural, black goo containing their DNA). Therefore derelict crashed before SJs were last seen in the temple. So derelict over 2000 years old.
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The Queen in Aliens originates from LV-426 derelict somehow.
What we can work out from what we know:
1
The tomb seen in Prometheus is a shrine for the origin of the Xenomorph. There are hundreds of Ampules containing their origins of life (when mixed in a reproducitve system).
The Xenomorph Mural on the wall backs this up - to signal that the black goo in the ampules creates Xenomorphs . Maybe the Space Jockeys worshipped it. Maybe it was a warning (this fits with the warning signal coming from LV-426 in Alien). Also fits with the skull on the top of the outside of the temple
2
Shaw was growing a facehugger in her womb, after mating with "Black Goo", as that is the human reproductive cycle. However, a lot of creatures have a different reproductive cycle and lay eggs.
Therefore, it would not necessarily have been a queen to lay the eggs on the derelict. We can assume that an infected "EGG LAYING" reproducing organism COULD have layed the facehugger eggs on the derelict.
This could not have been the Space Jockeys (assumption 4) so there is another creature involved somewhere in the journey from Black Goo - Face hugger Eggs.
3
Xenomorphs can start WITHOUT a queen to lay eggs. Proof is that scene at the end of Prometheus where a new "Space Jockey Xeno" emerges.
Quote from Hudson in Aliens "They are like a Bee Hive with a Queen running the show"
Quote from Wikipedia on how Queen bees develop.
"The young queen larva develops differently because it is more heavily fed royal jelly, a protein-rich secretion from glands on the heads of young workers. If not for being heavily fed royal jelly, the queen larva would have developed into a regular worker bee."
So basically in the Aliens film, many terraformers obviously visited the derelict, became infected so there were hundreds of Xenos running around in the complex. They were able to create the hive and then create a Queen themselves, as described in the quote above. There was no special Queen egg or anything.
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Therefore, the ONLY OPTION, is that the Space Jockeys infected a NEW "egg laying" species with the black goo. One to help them produce Xenomorphs. This layed the original eggs on the derelict. The Xeno mural shows that SJs know what will hatch from the eggs. Therefore can only assume eggs were laid under control from the "NEW" species, then they were flying it to somewhere (Earth?, as suggested in the films, or maybe a previous creation of theirs).
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If Space Jockeys can reproduce like humans (same DNA), then they could have produced the Xenos which killed them off in the temple. The only other option is that other non egg laying creature (no empty eggs are seen in the tomb) was infected, mated and then reproduced, producing their form of face hugger, which in turn infected SJ's and wiped them out.
All in all, Prometheus fits in quite nicely with the Alien films.
New mysteries from the film itself which don't need to tie into Alien films:
Why the SJ's decided to create us and ultimately destroy us? Heavily signposted for the sequel.
