Yes SiL and samoht, true that just one egg doesn't allow the Alien population to expand (except if this only egg contains a superfacehugger (giving birth to a Queen)).
Quote from: SM on Oct 14, 2012, 10:12:39 PM
It's exponential.
Lets pretend they can only make two eggs. Egg morphing takes about 3 hours tops. So if you nab two hosts at the same time, within 3 hours you have to more eggs. If those have hosts about 16 hours (give or take) later you have two more Aliens. They morph two eggs each, etc etc. So if they can only make two eggs each and if they only live 24 hours, you'll still have a constantly replenishing and growing supply of Aliens, even with those restricted conditions.
Ok I see, this works, but needs also an exponential number of hosts.
In the Nostromo case, suppose Lambert and Parker were facehugged by Dallas egg and Brett's egg. 2 new xeno's ready to eggmorph but only Ripley is available. At the end, just 1 egg is there.
If Kane's son is intelligent enough to know how many hosts are still on the spaceship (which I doubt), he would present (for example) Lambert to an egg. A new xeno which eggmorphs Parker and Ripley. At the end, 3 eggs are there.
To these space parasites to exist through the centuries, the more they have eggs and the better so I hope for them they are able to eggmorph as many hosts as possible.
