i think the story is chaos, and that chaos is beautiful. perhaps the message is chaos. engineers develop black goo, man develops android, android is able too see potential in the goo the engineers did not. basically, everyone involved is "god", and thus no solid "creator" is ever discovered as everything comes from something else and so on. in essence the "story", the mystery that is the story, can go on forever. blegh...i should probably stay off the internet when I'm drunk. mystery is ok. knowledge is awesome...just sometimes not knowing is cool, too. leaving room for mystery is awesome. i like to think of the Alien franchise (well, a large portion of it) as being Star Wars for thinking people. Star Wars is rock n roll, and rock n roll is cool because it's for everyone. But Alien is total jazz, and jazz isn't music for morons.