Egg on Sulaco

[whiterabbit]

No tubes was a better choice than the floppy tubes we got from that movie you know you all love.

[CainsSon]

SM says the opening sequence is Ripley's hypersleep dream and a distorted version of what's really happening.

Literally - there is no explanation for the magic repairing cryotube.  Same as how there's no literal explanation for the position of the egg or the different cryotubes.

Right and the dreamlike storytelling is all that mattered because they were interested was meant to be expressionistic. That's not a plot hole. That's an artistic choice.

[whiterabbit]

It was xeno-magic. Now you see it, now you don't.

[RagingDragon]

Hey, can I temporarily derail this mother a bit? I want to know, and maybe you old salties have had this convo many times already,  but wouldn't WY most likely go to the Sulaco immediately following their departure at Fury, and collect the empty egg?

That would at least be something, with Weyland having the egg. I'm sure with a sophisticated team like that, they could break in to an old boat like the Sulaco and cover their tracks... what sayest thou?

[stephen]

Why would the team need to cover their tracks?  And so what if they have an empty egg?

[chupacabras acheronsis]

wait, are you talking A:CM canon...?

Why did they wake up Hicks, then let Ripley asleep until she and Newt got jettisoned(along with whoever that spaguetti man was), and THEN went to fetch Ripley in the Patna, if the Sulaco was already there?

Were they even in control of the Sulaco if aparently there was an outbreak? How did they get it back?

[RagingDragon]

naw naw, talking right after Alien3.

Why would the team need to cover their tracks?  And so what if they have an empty egg?

Because boarding a USCM ship without authoritzation and taking something like the egg, which would be extremely important evidence to any investigation which would inevitably occur, is illegal. Not only could WY be charged with the above, but they would be implicated with the deaths of everyone at Fiorina and possibly at Hadleys if the USCM or ICC became aware that they knew about the dangerous organism (which everyone in Ripley's inquest had just heard about weeks earlier.)

They would have to remove every trace of the Alien egg, and leave the Sulaco as a mystery with missing cryotubes, acid damage, and a second dropship that was used. I think only WY would have the ability to pull something like that off.

But then Weyland would have an egg to study, at least. This could lead to something, eh? Some wild ass EU story... like the Terminators arm!

[chupacabras acheronsis]

And asuming everything in Conestoga ships is automated, they would also have to hack into the ship mainframe to delete that docking and boarding instance from the logs, and that would be an act of espionage at the least or terrorism at the most.

That is, if Wey-Yu doesn't have it's mitts deep into the Colonial Marines' business already, as a lot of people believe.

[lizard5]

What if an alien drone saw the queen and followed her to the ship where he took the eggs she was holding,

quote from someone else: There's two ways this could've happened:
1) She rescued it from the nursery and hid it between the spines on her back

that's how the drone got the eggs from the queen, he then proceeded to place it, in the place where the egg in the movie (alien 3)
is seen and the other is placed somewhere off screen

Some would say "But what happened to the alien drone" well here's my answers

A: the alien is not seen and gets sucked out when Ripley opens the air lock

B: the alien is told by the queen to get more eggs so he goes back and then the ship takes off

[Salt The Fries]

One other issue, Ripley should have still gotten a facehugger attached to her face when crashing. She'd rather get dislocated jaw first than we'd see facehugger letting go of its grip.

[DerelictShip]

I just don't see it being the queen, she was to occupied with Ripley and you never saw her carrying an egg before she hitched a ride, and she couldnt lay it since she was not attached to her egg sac. Therefore, Bishop has to be the culprit as he was probably carrying out orders from Burk before he died.

[SM]

Bishop has no motive or opportunity.

[Vermillion]

Bishop has no motive or opportunity.

Ordered to do it is motive enough. 

[SiL]

Cannot harm, or by omission of action allow to be harmed, a human being. Which would cover stowing an egg in an unsecured location.

[DerelictShip]

Bishop has no motive or opportunity.

Dude, HE IS WORKING IN THE LAB ON FACEHUGGERS THE WHOLE MOVIE UNTIL THE END, god knows what else he found in there! Also when they had to leave newt and ripley for a few minutes, how the hell do we know he didnt stow an egg away in the dropship!