Egg on Sulaco

[Local Trouble]

She's, um...tenacious.

[The Old One]

The truth is.

[Deadmeat]

Gotta polish my reading glasses. I completely glossed over that part.

...yeah. A simple egg-shot removal would have saved a lot of headaches.

Spoiler

In retrospect, "egg-shot" might be a contender for weirdest word combination I've used on this forum so far.

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[Local Trouble]

The truth is.

I'm hearing Claudia Black again.

[The Old One]

[Rankles75]

Not to derail your, uh...

...thing.


But I haven't posted in this thread yet and would like to ask if anyone has brought up the idea of facehuggers (not eggs) sneaking on-board the Sulaco, possibly latched onto the queen as she was escaping the nest?

Yeah, a couple of facehuggers latched on to her. I think Hudson, Simpson and Lydecker all jumped on for the ride too. 

[Deadmeat]

Not to derail your, uh...

...thing.


But I haven't posted in this thread yet and would like to ask if anyone has brought up the idea of facehuggers (not eggs) sneaking on-board the Sulaco, possibly latched onto the queen as she was escaping the nest?

Yeah, a couple of facehuggers latched on to her. I think Hudson, Simpson and Lydecker all jumped on for the ride too. 

[The Old One]

Indeed DM. 

It was with us all the way.

[Local Trouble]

You mean the egg?

Was it this? 

The egg grew out of Bishop's torso inside his cryotube.  Ostensibly, this was due to being contaminated with genetic material when the queen impaled him.  Later on, the Anchorpoint scientists were able to culture scrapings of the same material from his lower half and clone alien eggs from that.

My personal spin on the Gibson origin, which appears to be the script that pre-dated them all, is that this genetic material oozed into the subflooring of the Sulaco's landing bay where it congealed, then grew slowly out of the floor itself and into the strange position where we saw it after it hatched.

Turns out, even the WYR supports this theory somewhat...

When you fact-checked the WYR, surely you came across this excerpt on page 125:

The other, more likely, theory posits that the queen deposited a resinous egg sac in the landing gear of the dropship, or flung some amount of egg-forming material from her body once the ship was back on board the Sulaco.

That sounds a lot like my ooze theory (although it never occurred to me that she may have "flung" it).

Most importantly, SM no longer rules it out as a possibility (although he remains skeptical, but that's par for the course with him).

[SM]

I am not Alpha and Omega of good ideas.

[Rankles75]

Ok, so to summarise the last 168(!) pages, I think the main theories on this seem to be:

1. Ooze
2. Stowaway facehugger(s)
3. It was all a dream
4. Bishop did it

Have I missed any?

[The Old One]

Ok, so to summarise the last 168(!) pages, I think the main theories on this seem to be:

1. Ooze
2. Bishop did it

Have I missed any?

Patched.

Facts:

1. The Egg itself was a dream/nightmare of Ellen Ripley, in the reality of the fiction it was stowaway Facehugger(s) which caused the events of Alien³.

[Local Trouble]

I am not Alpha and Omega of good ideas.

But you have veto power.

[Deadmeat]

Ok, so to summarise the last 168(!) pages, I think the main theories on this seem to be:

1. Ooze
2. Bishop did it
3. Stowaways.

Have I missed any?

Patched.

Facts:

1. The Egg itself was a dream/nightmare of Ellen Ripley, in the reality of the fiction it was stowaway Facehugger(s) which caused the events of Alien³.

Patched.

[Rankles75]

So many patches...