Where we are at heading into the next instalment. (Some Novelisation content)

Ok, trying to get a quick grasp on exactly where we're at heading into the next instalment. Side note, I have used some info from the extended Prometheus scenes and the AC Novelisation.

From Prometheus onward.

There are Elder Engineers who seem to oversee the seeding of new life on worlds, choosing younger more perfect looking Engineers as the sacrifice, or perhaps these younger Engineers willingly offer themselves up for the task, viewing it as a great honour.
Both types dress in robes and seem peaceful.

On LV-223, which seems to be used as some sort of military outpost to safely store or cultivate the black Pathogen, there are Engineers who look identical to the Sacrificial Engineer but for their armour which seems to be more like a part of their body than an actual separate suit.

We find out throughout Prometheus that these Engineers were on a mission to cleanse Earth of humans around 2000 years before and the pathogen was a key element in our destruction. We also find out that the Engineers are familiar with the ALIEN like beings by way of a mural which depicts a morph of some sort and also facehuggers.

This proves the Engineers have had involvement with the process of ALIEN creation involving Eggs/facehuggers and some variant of ALIEN creature being the end result of this cycle. It is thought this is not the Xenomorph that we see later and know so well.

Chaos ensues on LV-223 with Shaw and David escaping on an Engineer ship stacked with ampules of the pathogen, allegedly heading for the homeworld of the Engineers.

Whether or not the world in Covenant is the official homeworld of the Engineers, we certainly see that David directed himself and Shaw to a dwelling of Engineers. These wear robes and seem to be a more peaceful sort akin to the Sacrificial Engineer we saw at the beginning of Prometheus.

I have personally theorised this is where the Sacrificial type Engineers dwell and are chosen from now and again as the sacrifice to seed new worlds.

David wiped out the population in probably a similar fashion to what the Engineers on LV-223 hoped to do to humans on Earth.

David stays to dwell on the planet to study and experiment.

It's revealed David was experimenting on Dr Shaw. David has also been using Engineers corpses and local fauna to experiment on, producing versions of creatures in the search for perfection.

David encounters an Egg which had an aggressive facehugger in it that he claims was a creation of the Engineers. He claims to have had to euthanise the creature due to its aggression. I am not of the opinion this was a Xenomorph Egg.

David tries to replicate this creation and has what he refers to as his own "successes". David manages to create Eggs which contain facehuggers.

Riding on the coat tails of the Engineers at first but wishing to catch up to or surpass their accomplishments, David strives for perfection and sets out to create what we all know well as, the Xenomorph.

David now has at his disposal a ship full of colonists, with what we can only assume is plans to wipe out any humans and Engineers he can find with the aid of his killing machine creation, having no respect left for either race.

Is this where we are at heading into the next movie yes?.

Obviously just a broad stroke of points there but basically is this where we're at?.