Best Depiction of the Predalien

[Local Trouble]

Can all of them egg-barf?

[AhabPredator]

Can all of them egg-barf?

No.

Don't do this. 

[Samhain13]

None of others bumped into any pregnant woman.

[Frosty Venom]

Is egg-barfing a Predalien or Praetorian/Juvenile Queen trait? Or is it simply a mutation of this one specimen?

[The Old One]

It's a Strause Bros mutation.

[Samhain13]

Is egg-barfing a Predalien or Praetorian/Juvenile Queen trait? Or is it simply a mutation of this one specimen?

Chet was suppose to be  juvenine queen, they never used the praetorian word, but it was kind of it, since it started as a "normal" alien, drone or whatever, then started to molt into a queen, instead of being born as a queen chestburster. Chet was the only predalien design with a praetorian head due to that. That was suppose to be temporary way to breed before she matured and started laying eggs. But then I think someone else said it was due to taking traits from predator reprodution or something.

They needed aliens in movie and that was the best they could come up with. I think in the first script it wasn't even explained where so many aliens had come from, the predalien died at the crash, and the other aliens were just there. Then egg barfing came to the rescue. Yay.

[Local Trouble]

Now I can't help but wonder if Dallas got egg-barfed off-screen in the original movie.

[Frosty Venom]

I have sometimes thought that perhaps it's a trait the juvenile Queen has taken from the Yautja's reproductive system. Turning it into something that increases the propagation of the Xenomorphs, in a horrific way.

[The Old One]

 

Yautja birth.

[Samhain13]

Now I can't help but wonder if Dallas got egg-barfed off-screen in the original movie.

No queen crown-like head, no egg barfing. But Chet and Kane's son do share THE SKULL.

[SuperiorIronman]

Being that it was supposed to be an intermediary stage, the idea was that this is how the PredAlien could spawn as many of her brood that quickly seeing as there just wasn't that many facehuggers to go around on the Scout ship.

We haven't seen Praetorian do that but then again they also haven't ever appeared on film before. So as far as we know this could be a trait unique to the PredAlien or even this specific PredAlien. While the PredAlien is an intermediary stage in Requiem between Warrior and Queen, it's up in the air as to whether its a praetorian or not, be it that its a praetorian with Predator traits, or it's a Hybrid that happens to serve the same function as a praetorian. We just don't know and the film never addresses it seeing as Chet simply wasn't alive long enough to make the transition. Being that its also the only cinematic appearance of the PredAlien and maybe the Praetorian, we just don't know if this is a mutation, or if this is just something the PredAlien or Praetorian genus is just capable of doing. 

Without another film addressing it we just don't know. And the extended media doesn't help because what exactly spawns a Praetorian is inconsistent; seeing as it can come from any Alien seeing as it gets enough Royal jelly, it's pure-breed, Queen Facehugger, or it's just a natural stage of the life-cycle. We don't know if the barfing is caused by point of origin or if its just natural.

The other PredAliens don't do this, but then again none of them are alive long enough to do that. Nor do any of them outside of Chet encounter any pregnant creatures. With a Queen usually present we also don't know if this trait is specifically in the absence of a queen or not and if this trait is unique to the hybrid or if every Alien could.

The films never addressed it nor did any of the EU and it likely isn't the Predator's reproductive system seeing as they wear codpieces (including the EU females) meaning they do protect something down there. So that system is probably eerily similar and likely doesn't including oral rape.

[BlazinBlueReview]

It's a Strause Bros mutation.

Or as it is known in the latin Stratus Mutatus.

It occured in only one known incident. It led to the Siege of Gunnison, Colorado - where a lone Predator faced off against an infestation of Xenomorphs.

[Frosty Venom]

The different concepts for AVPR's Predalien are so awesome.



















I probably prefer all of these to what we actually got.

[The Kurgan]

They should have gone with that one:



If they trim down the spikes a little and cut the wristblade thing, it would look awesome.
It would blend perfectly with the regular warrior aliens. Oh, and don't make it yellow. Just the same color as the rest of the aliens.

[[cancerblack]]

I painted some Chets with a very slightly different set of colours but IMO it fixes the design: