Egg on Sulaco

[SM]

Well, that's certainly novel.

Why wouldn't it keep seeping through the grate onto the floor below?

[Local Trouble]

I imagine that it started to congeal at some point and that's where it ended up taking root.

[stephen]

Ok.

Feasible I suppose.

One assumes that the facehugger that bursts from this egg is capable of facehugging two hosts?

[Local Trouble]

Fine with me.  Maybe the queen instinctively pops out a queen egg when she knows her death is near.  Seems legit.

[stephen]

Fine with me.  Maybe the queen instinctively pops out a queen egg when it death is near.  Seems legit.

Well it would need to facehug two hosts because it would need to get Ripley and then it would need to get the dog.

So going by your theory, the egg that "congeals" into place and finally matures would hatch and then get ripley and then the dog.

[SM]

srsly?

[stephen]

srsly?

I don't necessarly like it.  I prefer mine.

I don't like the idea of eggs being "goo" - it just doesn't feel natural to me.

[Local Trouble]

We all started out as gooey eggs.

[stephen]

We all started out as gooey eggs.

Not like this.

Don't get me wrong, the idea is feasible in the fictional world of Alien but ultimately it doesn't sit right with me.

[SM]

I don't think it's remotely feasible, personally.

Why bother with the egg sac then?  She can spread shoot out mini eggs where she please and they'll grow into proper eggs, and she won't be tied to the one spot.

Might as well just barf them down someones thro-



oh...

[stephen]

I don't think it's remotely feasible, personally.

Why bother with the egg sac then?  She can spread shoot out mini eggs where she please and they'll grow into proper eggs, and she won't be tied to the one spot.

Might as well just barf them down someones thro-



oh...

Well when you say it like that......

[Local Trouble]

Well, the egg sac would allow for the rapid production of fully functional eggs.  This method would be much slower.  Theoretically, a soldier alien could produce eggs the same way.

[SM]

Nah, egg morphing ftw.

[RagingDragon]

I don't think it's remotely feasible, personally.

Why bother with the egg sac then?  She can spread shoot out mini eggs where she please and they'll grow into proper eggs, and she won't be tied to the one spot.

Might as well just barf them down someones thro-



oh...

I just barfed down your throat.

[Amaterasu]

If that ever happened, I'd be like "see ya" and leave.