What are these other alien monsters to be featured in Alien: Earth?

[reecebomb]

Luckily, with given information, the whole bug hunt thing was super vague and could be translated in multitude of ways. And yes, one way it could imply that the marines have dealt with alien lifeforms before but nothing more serious than routine pest control, these pests might have even been nothing extraterrestrial.

Bug hunt may even have been some slang term for missions that sound dangerous but turn out to be nothing.

Whatever it was, in relation to the xenomorph they were largely meaningless.

[skhellter]

so.. regarding the T.Ocello monster.

the italian rip off Alien 2 Sulla Terra has creatures that attack people's faces and turn them into zombies.
Someone from avpg needs to ask Noah if this is a reference...

[TheBATMAN]

Luckily, with given information, the whole bug hunt thing was super vague and could be translated in multitude of ways. And yes, one way it could imply that the marines have dealt with alien lifeforms before but nothing more serious than routine pest control, these pests might have even been nothing extraterrestrial.

Bug hunt may even have been some slang term for missions that sound dangerous but turn out to be nothing.

Whatever it was, in relation to the xenomorph they were largely meaningless.

This is also my view.

[Oasis Nadrama]

However, having every single thing we find out there be a monster that wants to kills us or make us it's home is Alien Universe relevant. A universe full of life that wants us dead. It fits in perfectly.

The thing is, for such an organism to have evolved to fill such a specific ecological niche, you'd have to have a whole lot more species that are more analogous to docile terrestrial animals for it to make sense (ie ones whose eyes are a similar size and function etc). The galaxy is a lot less terrifying when it's filled with space cows and everything up the food chain necessary to support such an organism.

The aliens we know and love may have certain aspects of their lifecycle inspired by terrestrial insects, but they still have enough completely unfamiliar elements as to seem genuinely alien (eg surviving for countless years in a dormant state, taking on certain physiological elements from their hosts, etc). These other critters just strike me as B-grade knock-offs (which Prometheus also did to a certain degree).

You're very right, but I'd propose an alternate take.

It's very possible that the eye organism originally didn't exist at this scale and its upper part wasn't white with veins and pupils. This may be all adaptation and a mimicry effort.

Maybe the previous generation of Species 64 was ten times tinier and parasited insect-like organisms. And one of them landed in a human eye on some distant colony...

[reecebomb]

I was just thinking, what if the eyeball thing takes over a person and then starts to communicate with us... f**k that would be mind blowing.

One of the oldest and overused tropes in sci-fi, no thanks.

[Oasis Nadrama]

I don't think any of these species is here to communicate. They are here to f**k us up.

[The Necronoir]

Bug hunt may even have been some slang term for missions that sound dangerous but turn out to be nothing.

Exactly. I always took it as their equivalent of 'a wild goose chase'.

It's very possible that the eye organism originally didn't exist at this scale and its upper part wasn't white with veins and pupils. This may be all adaptation and a mimicry effort.

Maybe the previous generation of Species 64 was ten times tinier and parasited insect-like organisms. And one of them landed in a human eye on some distant colony...

Throwing in absurdly rapid cross-species evolution like that isn't going to make it any more palatable for me, sorry. At least the prequels established the volatile nature of the pathogen firmly enough to make its wild, usually fatal mutational abilities part of its horrifying charm.

[AlienatedPredator]

So idiots are still writing stuff that envisions exploring the entire UNIVERSE. Lol do they not realize how impossibly vast just our own galaxy is? But no, they've explored billions of galaxies. OK.