Egg on Sulaco

[SiL]

"An egg materialised in the subflooring from her ass drippings" is about the best and only plausible explanation and that's saying a lot about the situation.

[City Hunter Yautja]

Would anyone object to an inserted scene of the Queen laying an egg in a flashback?

We need another movie to explain it. Call ot Alien: Egg One

Haha or The Shell of the Sulaco: A Alien Story. XD

[Local Trouble]

"An egg materialised in the subflooring from her ass drippings" is about the best and only plausible explanation and that's saying a lot about the situation.

If you put a queen in your movie, maybe you can show her dripping tiny eggs from her ass so we can finally achieve consensus here.

[BlueMarsalis79]

As it apparently does not need any fertilization the zygotes would be barely distinguishable to the naked eye until developing in the egg sac.

[City Hunter Yautja]

The other egg cycle where a person becomes an egg could work. I'd have to be Hicks though.

[BlueMarsalis79]

He's in his cryotube, same goes for everyone else.

Where the Theatrical Cut and Assembly Cut are concerned, taking what we see literally anyway, a zygote amongst the acid burn in the prior film developing under the flooring's the only possible answer.

[Corporal Hicks]

Would anyone object to an inserted scene of the Queen laying an egg in a flashback?

My headcanon insert is focused on a facehugger that hitched a ride with the Queen, with the events at the end of Aliens out-of-focus in the background. It begs the question of why the hugger didn't go after Ripley or Newt during the fight or before they get put into cryo, but it's what I got.

[SiL]

Because they're opportunists.

[OpenMaw]

Because they're opportunists.

Granted, but they're also depicted as being fairly agressive about it. I think the best opportunity would have been one of:

A. Hicks on the dropship. He's out and unable to defend himself.
B. Newt under the floor. She's completely defenseless and at the queen's mercy.
C. Ripley while she's in the power loader. It could grab on, climb into the cage, and have at it. Hicks, Newt, and Bishop would be helpless to stop the gestating. Best case scenario is Hicks, Newt, and Bishop get on board an EEV and bug out.

Hell, that might be an interesting what if story idea...

[SiL]

Facehuggers either grab you right out of the egg, or they seem to be cautious. They don't go straight for Ripley and Newt in Medical, for example.

In all three scenarios you listed there are people running around, actively fighting, etc. The space isn't isolated, there's too much opportunity for something to interrupt them.

[Local Trouble]

It's also possible that the facehuggers didn't even detect them until Ripley started poking around for her pulse rifle and then peaked up over the side of the bed.

[Local Trouble]

@ralfy Any thoughts on how the egg got on board the Sulaco?

[[cancerblack]]

@ralfy Any thoughts on how the egg got on board the Sulaco?

f**k's sake.

[SiL]

@Local Trouble hyping himself up in the mirror every morning

[Kradan]

@ralfy Any thoughts on how the egg got on board the Sulaco?

f**k's sake.

Some people just wanna watch the world burn