Why would they have Egg Tablets Permeable ?

[The_Foxcatcher]

The tablets make perfect sense given that the huggers were being harvested for compound z-01. Why put them in containers that you would need to open, when you can simply 3D print them in a protective membrane and keep them on ice, and when required, take one of the tablet cases out of cryo as your bio assay and let it defrost; we do similar with a proprietary semiochemical delivery matrix I designed in the lab - rather than package them they are designed with a membrane coating and then freeze dried; when placed in seawater either to run behavioural experiments on the animals in the lab, or out in the field, they are rehydrated when dropped into the water and the membrane acts as a slow release mechanism.

In Romulus, we see Rook had huggers in an aquarium-like tank for compound harvesting.

Unless that membrane was not protective at all. I mean, the Facehuggers could easily slime out by own will! There was no slow release mechanism. Infact it was even less protective than the actual egg itself!

Slight variation in temperature, they are off the tablets and hunt down the crew.

Cloning a Zygote and placing it in Tempered Glass jar filled with required growth aid liquid is enough!

A Permeable membrane was done just so that the movie can happen but it is logically flawed.

I think you are forgetting that there may be other motives for why they are designed that way. Remember, Rook tells Rain and Co. that it's *not* a bioweapon, and gives the whole human 2.0 speech... but Rook can't be trusted (evident by the fact he just wants to get Compound Z-01 to safety and is well aware of what happens to the rat afterwards, neglecting to mention it. When Rain, Tyler and Andy leave the lab and cross over between Romulus and Remus modules (where they encounter the hive) there is a conveyor belt leading directly from the lab with empty tablets. They were intentionally placed on there and sent in without temperature control (we likely won't know why until the prequel comic is released, but my two personal takes on this is either 1: this is why we have two separate sections to the station, one being old one being new; one to run compound z-01 experiments, and one to collect field data and observe the creature in a human population (Remember Rook denies Rain's return citing not allowing the creatures to compromise the other side of the station, suggesting they are separate /isolated). Or theory 2: during Big chap's rampage, it may be that survivors tried to make it to Remus or the lab, and fearing having that side of the station compromised, Rook sent in the huggers to eliminate that threat and protect the work being done.

In any case, the tablets also work well in the original presumed 'bio-weapon' sense.

Ok. I almost concur. Yes, I also noticed the conveyor belt carrying the tablets.

[Scorched Vuvalini]

but Rook can't be trusted (evident by the fact he just wants to get Compound Z-01 to safety and is well aware of what happens to the rat afterwards, neglecting to mention it.

He mentions that he wants the compound to be developed further, i.e., he is entirely aware that it's flawed and needs more work. He did play the rat footage and didn't preemptively stop it before it ended, nor (somewhat bizarrely) was the rat carcass removed from the site for testing and processing, so, while he's not as forward as he might have been, he wasn't exactly hiding anything either...

When Rain, Tyler and Andy leave the lab and cross over between Romulus and Remus modules (where they encounter the hive) there is a conveyor belt leading directly from the lab with empty tablets. They were intentionally placed on there and sent in without temperature control

I doubt there was no temperature control. The tablets were all slotted into some kind of contraption for transport, which I expect provided the necessary cryofuel for the expected short transit. Since the nest is down in the corridor that the conveyer passes through, I'd posit that Big Chap found its way down there while a shipment was in process, sabotaged the conveyer's power, and started bringing people down to be impregnated by the thawing facehuggers.

[Oasis Nadrama]

The tablets make perfect sense given that the huggers were being harvested for compound z-01. Why put them in containers that you would need to open, when you can simply 3D print them in a protective membrane and keep them on ice, and when required, take one of the tablet cases out of cryo as your bio assay and let it defrost; we do similar with a proprietary semiochemical delivery matrix I designed in the lab - rather than package them they are designed with a membrane coating and then freeze dried; when placed in seawater either to run behavioural experiments on the animals in the lab, or out in the field, they are rehydrated when dropped into the water and the membrane acts as a slow release mechanism.

In Romulus, we see Rook had huggers in an aquarium-like tank for compound harvesting.

Unless that membrane was not protective at all. I mean, the Facehuggers could easily slime out by own will! There was no slow release mechanism. Infact it was even less protective than the actual egg itself!

Slight variation in temperature, they are off the tablets and hunt down the crew.

Cloning a Zygote and placing it in Tempered Glass jar filled with required growth aid liquid is enough!

A Permeable membrane was done just so that the movie can happen but it is logically flawed.

I think you are forgetting that there may be other motives for why they are designed that way. Remember, Rook tells Rain and Co. that it's *not* a bioweapon, and gives the whole human 2.0 speech... but Rook can't be trusted (evident by the fact he just wants to get Compound Z-01 to safety and is well aware of what happens to the rat afterwards, neglecting to mention it. When Rain, Tyler and Andy leave the lab and cross over between Romulus and Remus modules (where they encounter the hive) there is a conveyor belt leading directly from the lab with empty tablets. They were intentionally placed on there and sent in without temperature control (we likely won't know why until the prequel comic is released, but my two personal takes on this is either 1: this is why we have two separate sections to the station, one being old one being new; one to run compound z-01 experiments, and one to collect field data and observe the creature in a human population (Remember Rook denies Rain's return citing not allowing the creatures to compromise the other side of the station, suggesting they are separate /isolated). Or theory 2: during Big chap's rampage, it may be that survivors tried to make it to Remus or the lab, and fearing having that side of the station compromised, Rook sent in the huggers to eliminate that threat and protect the work being done.

In any case, the tablets also work well in the original presumed 'bio-weapon' sense.

Thank you for this post. It's so creepy to think about!

[O_Intelligence]

The facehugger 'tablets' had been mass produced to take to lab #2, in order to extract the black substance from the facehuggers.

Hence there are some 'lying around' outside (?) of lab #2, and there's a glass tank in lab #2.

As there are two (?) facehuggers in lab #2 in the glass tank with pipes attached to them in order to extract the black substance, presumably the staff were being (in relative terms...) safe in making the extractions iteratively rather than en masse.

This is why there are two labs, and with different dates attached: the second emerged from the discovery of the black substance.