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MemberOvomorphJul-19-2013 6:49 PMSo everyone is wondering why the engineers would wipe out the entire population of planets ( earth), wait thousands of years for one race to become superior and then do eradicate them again.
it occured to my mind that it could be possible that the engineers are a dying race, all of them are looking the same, there are no (or none showed) females and the living engineer was dazzled by seeing Shaw, what was someone interpreted as him seeing female the first time.
so its quiet easy: the engineer race is dying, thes just survive by cloning themselves over and over again.
to 'heal' them they plant their dna on planets, hoping that superior race they are creating will turn out as 'healthy' engineers, female and male, so they can reproduce themselves naturally.
if the outcome of evolution is not similar to them they wipe it out with the xenomorph and start over.
they have to different 'teams' to accomplish this, one is flying across the universe, seeding life, the other one follows the path of the first one, checking planet for planet, if their plan succeded, if not they release the xenos. this would explain the two kinds of spaceships and the enormous amount of black goo they are carrying.
excuse the mistakes and please let me know what you think about my theory.
;)
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granolaboy
MemberOvomorphJul-19-2013 8:32 PMSimple and clever theory, like it Skaduush ! If this is true, I wonder if shaw and david will meet dumb and dying engineers on Paradise... Makes me think about one story of "Hyperion" wrote by Dan Simmons.
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Redhead Ripley
MemberOvomorphJul-20-2013 12:18 AMVery good theory :-) can you imagine what would happen if the "dying engineers without females" will see Shaw for a first time...she may appear like a God for them...or maybe a different path is waiting for Shaw: lab tests and insemination over and over.
I have a pretty good idea of where it is. It's just down there, in the basement....
meshuggah
MemberOvomorphJul-20-2013 12:06 PMI really like this and it could very well end up being the case, great stuff!
Custodian
MemberOvomorphJul-21-2013 4:55 AMRR,
kinda sounds (ugh-ily) like the many versions of Ripley in that white-alien abomination Resurrection.
No, no, no, Pro2 can't go there.
Anyway, the Engineers will have seen women "every time they genetically impregnate" the resident races of a planet.
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Custodian
MemberOvomorphJul-21-2013 4:56 AMPS: I hope there's no (borg) Alien Queen running the intergalactic seeding farm.
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Visionary Alpha
MemberOvomorphJul-21-2013 12:33 PMI doubt there are no female engineers. Speculation that there aren't reminds me of when Vickers asks Shaw "so are they all dead", when they are just examining one head and they just got there. The film depicted a story that didn't involve a female engineer, where it only involved some males. Females are maybe restricted in their roles, such as not being priests or monks (like the robed engineers) and not being scientists or soldiers. Females could be right around the corner, and I believe they are because they're DNA is identical to humans.
This said, while this is a clever idea, the engineers wouldn't need to go such lengths to replenish their own species. Their ability to control genetics implies that they'd have much better capability, and it doesn't make any sense in any way at all for them to use xenomorphs or other people's worlds. They could do it all in laboratories, with no risks.
Visionary Alpha
MemberOvomorphJul-21-2013 12:34 PMI doubt there are no female engineers. Speculation that there aren't reminds me of when Vickers asks Shaw "so are they all dead", when they are just examining one head and they just got there. The film depicted a story that didn't involve a female engineer, where it only involved some males. Females are maybe restricted in their roles, such as not being priests or monks (like the robed engineers) and not being scientists or soldiers. Females could be right around the corner, and I believe they are because their DNA is identical to humans.
This said, while this is a clever idea, the engineers wouldn't need to go such lengths to replenish their own species. Their ability to control genetics implies that they'd have much better capability, and it doesn't make any sense in any way at all for them to use xenomorphs or other people's worlds. They could do it all in laboratories, with no risks.
Necronom 4
MemberNeomorphJul-21-2013 5:07 PMWe can't rule out female engineers just because their were none in Prometheus. But if female engineers do exist, how about this:
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The poster was good though!
BigDave
MemberDeaconJul-22-2013 7:28 AMThats true as i said in another thread we cant rule out Female Engineers but then we cant prove there are any... only once they finish Paradise would we get any definite answers...
Yes we are led that this Engineer race are very old and possessive advanced technology and are masters at genetic engineer and maybe this is evident by their Bio Mech suits and Space Jockey suits.
We do not know if Elder Engineers are just older versions of the Engineers and that their race does age over time, or that the Engineers are clones in their image and how the Engineers came to be.
Only Ridley had hinted that they had created Mankind via the Sacrificial route and that this is just how they choose to spread their Engineer Seed/DNA to create new forms of life.
Surely there must be other ways that they could created life, so there has to be some reason they go the Religious/Cultural route of a Self Sacrifice.
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