Alien/Aliens - LV-426 timeline

[Anwar]

I really don't think we should worry about this too much - after all, we were close to getting a constructed wooden planet!!!

That's a common misconception. The planet was NEVER made entirely of wood, just one layer of it. The important parts were all metal and that stuff an artificial world would need.

 

[Rarewolf]

^ Perhaps there is some type of time limit on how long a Praetorian can do that. Maybe it was a feature designed to give it protectors before it molts into a Queen (it was supposed to be nesting in the hospital). Similar to how a Warrior could make a Queen facehugger.

They say in the extras (or commentary) thats the reason, to provide instant protection for the queen. And she prefered pregnant hosts so they'd have food!

Question is what would an Alien species like that do once they'd taken a planet?

 

[Bishbot]

^ Perhaps there is some type of time limit on how long a Praetorian can do that. Maybe it was a feature designed to give it protectors before it molts into a Queen (it was supposed to be nesting in the hospital). Similar to how a Warrior could make a Queen facehugger.

They say in the extras (or commentary) thats the reason, to provide instant protection for the queen. And she prefered pregnant hosts so they'd have food!

Question is what would an Alien species like that do once they'd taken a planet?

Why, though, wouldn't all Xenomorph reproduction work that way, rather than the much slower one victim, one egg, approach? It seems a strange dichotomy.

 

[Anwar]

Well, each individual alien can make eggs if they have the raw materials and the Xenos can also impregnate all kinds of lifeforms which result in non-Human type Aliens (like the Dog/Ox Alien and the PredAlien). So while the Queen is making eggs other aliens are at the same time capturing more victims to make more eggs and lairs in various locations apart from the main hive and there are also the non-Human Aliens running around causing all kinds of havoc.

Quite a powerful species.

 

[Reverend]

I really don't think we should worry about this too much - after all, we were close to getting a constructed wooden planet!!!

The scary thing is, the writer of that particular script still seams to think it was a great idea...

Question is what would an Alien species like that do once they'd taken a planet?

I think Ridley Scott said he thinks the Aliens are an engineered bio-weapon, something you drop on an enemy planet en mass. So with that in mind there's two possible answers to that question; 1) having used up all the hosts they'd all cocoon and go into hibernation. Or 2) their creators turn up to the newly pacified planet and take over. Either the Xeno's are programmed to be submissive to their creators or the creators have a 'failsafe' to switch them all off. Either a virus, or pheromone or some telepathic trigger.

 

[Mike Farley]

Why not just nuke the planet from orbit? It's the only way to be sure.

 

[Reverend]

Well the point of a bio-weapon is that it leaves the infrastructure intact...if a little sticky.

 

[Skywalker]

Well the point of a bio-weapon is that it leaves the infrastructure intact...if a little sticky.

Maybe the species that created them had past the point of caring about that sort of stuff, and they just wanted their enemy wiped from the face of the universe.

 

[Reverend]

Okay...but then why use a bio-weapon? Nukes (in their various forms) are much better a wholesale destruction.

 

[Anwar]

The thing about them being a bioweapon is just a theory. That's why Ridley said "I think..." and not "this is the story".

He and O'Bannon had opposing views over it: O'Bannon says they are not bioweapons but natural lifeforms (the dominant lifeform of LV-426).

 

[Mike Farley]

If they were the dominate lifeform of LV-426 what were they doing in a spaceship?

 

[Anwar]

The Space Jockeys touched down on the planet to investigate it and they found the eggs. They brought them onboard when one hatched and infected one of the Jockeys. He put out the warning before he died and the resulting alien turned the rest of the crew and whatever else organic materials they had onboard into the eggs in the lower chamber where they put all the other eggs.

The giant Jockey-Alien then went outside and froze, eventually fossilizing into a hill that Dallas and co pass by on their way to the Derelict.

This is why the interior of the Derelict looks like an Alien lair, either the Jockey-Alien made it like that when it took over the ship or it got that DNA from the Jockey and passed it onto the eggs it made (since the ship looks like it was always organic).

 

[broberfett]

It's not just heat, it's kinetic energy too. With a hull shape like that it'd as good as impossible to maintain a stable orientation as it his the atmosphere and the vehicle would tumble and spin all over the place. Even if it holds together and doesn't sheer itself into tiny pieces, the passengers inside are going to be plastered all over the walls.

A modern fighter plane(the newer ones like the Raptor or a Stealth) are unstable and need computer controlled stabilization. Since they are supposed to be way in the future, I think they could get around the instability issue with some sort of technology. The passengers are also secure in their pods.

 

[nx1701g]

The Space Jockeys touched down on the planet to investigate it and they found the eggs. They brought them onboard when one hatched and infected one of the Jockeys. He put out the warning before he died and the resulting alien turned the rest of the crew and whatever else organic materials they had onboard into the eggs in the lower chamber where they put all the other eggs.

The giant Jockey-Alien then went outside and froze, eventually fossilizing into a hill that Dallas and co pass by on their way to the Derelict.

This is why the interior of the Derelict looks like an Alien lair, either the Jockey-Alien made it like that when it took over the ship or it got that DNA from the Jockey and passed it onto the eggs it made (since the ship looks like it was always organic).

Makes sense to me.

 

[Reverend]

Well that makes one of us.

Personally, I'd take Ridley Scott's thinkings over most peoples stories any day. So yes, Deckard is a replicant.