Quote from: judge death on Mar 22, 2022, 10:14:57 PM
Im stilol convinced my theory is still the one disney will go with and what will be correct later on when the tv show is released.(if its not cancelled as some discuss in its thread.)
David merely made his own version of the Xenomorph hence the more biological design with msuchles and skinn etc and why its so much dumber. Due to him finding designs from the engineers and he reverse engineer it and also the black pathogen which is taken from the original xenomorph has a habit of trying to recreate its original form. The breed David made has a lot od design changes and differences to the normal xenomorph, which I discussed and shown earlier so wont go into it now.
PRometheus also showed they were around before, and with the tv show set prior to covenant, if they show one single xenomorph then it will confirm this and David didnt design them, but we have to wait and see. 
So: Xenomorphs are around and David just made his own version of it is what I take from the covenant movie and the expanded EU and prometheus showed us.
Pretty sure disney will do the safest route so im pretty sure this will be the case, but we´ll see.
I think we're going to see a retcon for sure, but it was supposed to be an evolution from less to more, where Giger's Alien could have returned in all glory and majesty in the sequel to
Covenant. So, David resequenced the original mutagen (the pathogen) to create a new mutagen called plagiarus linesters which is used to create the Praetomorphs. The mutagen used to create biomechanical Aliens is called plagiarus praepotens.
The black pathogen creates the Neomorphs, including the Deacon subspecies, and beyond our theories, the origin of the virus is unknown.
"The future is neither organic or synthetic - it's biomechanical"
But things have changed, and now a TV series has been announced that chronologically speaking would be located closer to
Prometheus than
Alien. From here one could expect 2 possible things:
1 - They can contradict the prequels without making any direct reference. The Alien simply already existed.
2 - They can recontextualize the prequels, making direct references. I.e; these movies are still canon, it's just that David has recreated a lifeform that already existed.
On the other hand, Fede Alvarez's announced film would supposedly be a standalone movie that has nothing to do with any of the characters, locations and events of the entire Alien series.
There is a lot of skepticism about these projects, so only time will tell.
