12. Alien: Theories regarding the derelict space craft and itsfossilized pilot (from the movie "ALIEN").
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This article is from the Alien Movies FAQ, by Darryll Hobsonand Eelko de Vos E.W.C.deVos@TWI.TUDelft.NL with numerous contributions by others.
12. Alien: Theories regarding the derelict space craft and itsfossilized pilot (from the movie "ALIEN").
- Perhaps the species that was transporting the eggs mirror the human errors
of judgement (made mostly by the Company) that were to follow. Perhaps
this species, like the Company, thought they could lower their guard,
treating the aliens like a commodity. Maybe their now dead/mute state
indicates where the human race might be heading as a result of the company's
"financial" venture.
- The species piloting the derelict craft were aware of the dangers of the
aliens, this is why they submersed the entire colony of eggs under the blue
"film". When the film is broken, it would trigger an alarm (sort of like
a laser-operated security system) and they'd know that there was motion in
the "cargo".
- Suggested by an old draft of the "ALIEN" script: the derelict craft landed
on LV-426 to make repairs, a silo of eggs (on the planet) was discovered
by the space jockey species and they got infested. The hull full of eggs
is in fact the crew of the derelict after being transformed into the eggs
(as shown in the Brett-egg scene edited out of the "ALIEN" theatrical
release)
- The derelict ship transported something else than the eggs. For instance, it
carried food, like meat, or animals. Somehow the pilot got impregnated with
an alien chestburster and just before it hatched, the pilot set down on
LV-426 (he didn't crash land because of the valuable cargo) and recorded
the distress signal. It put it on the air, and died when the chestburster
broke free. This chestburster got down, and grew into an alien. This alien
made an egg from the storage down below, a queen-egg. It hatched, and a
queen alien arose. This queen alien started to produce eggs from the stored
food/animals. The blue mist was conserving the food/animals, but was now
used to conserve the eggs. The full-grown aliens died, but the eggs
survived over the centuries.
- The aliens already *are* biological weapons that were developed by the
pilot's race and that he transported, probably to use them in some long-
forgotten interplanetary war. (They would kill everything on a hostile
planet, die when there's nobody left and leave a full complement of new
eggs ... kinda like the neutron bomb, only biological and self-replacing.)
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