Giger thought in a similar way about LV-426's bakcstory. The biomechanical civilization covered by magma as a result of a large-scale disaster.
On the other hand, one can feel a sense of anachronism in Alien Covenant. That dead necropilis; Hellenic on the outside, and totemic on the inside. And yet; its inhabitants were capable of traveling through space billions of years before humans, not to mention that they are their creators. In the expansion of the Kardashev scale, a Type II-minus civilization:
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However, what we see in Raised by Wolves is some kind of ancient AI of unknown origin. Arguably an almighty alien intelligence.
I dig the comparison. But at the same time, it's arguably the in between Forbidden Planet & Metropolis.
Among other things of course