Quote from: Still Collating... on Jun 17, 2023, 12:44:11 AMHidden cult members in a plethora of different positions can make a lot of sense when you have something inspiring as the Alien which is real in this fictional universe. I for one really welcome Alien cults back into the EU, it hasn't been explored enough IMO.
What if the Engineers formed cults as they evolved that worshiped the Alien...and created the black goo as their attempt, like the nuclear bomb or WY's attempts, in their own little attempt to weaponize it or worship it? But presumably whatever strain of them that went to do that perished and they evolved past that or died out I guess.
EDIT: Maybe as they evolved, they encountered an Alien...developed some sort of very deep cosmic understanding of it's purpose as well as it's DNA, and either feared it, worshiped it, or both. Drinking the recreation of the black alien blood to seed life while dying. This actually makes the engineers more interesting. The idea that they became a bio-mechanical hyper-evolved religious cult in a lot of ways.