Quote from: EEV-2501 on Mar 20, 2012, 12:34:32 AMMaybe he was trying to maintin his ship after the impact with the Prometheus but the Chestburster kills him by bursting his chest, He dies on the pilot chair and the Derelict crashes.
i just really don't think they're supposed to be the same ship. it takes a lot of "maybe" ad hoc reasoning to make them the same.
they're visually different, too. the new one is much more geometric than the old one. a lot of the comparison screenshots hide this, but the original was shaped organically, like a set of bones. it looked more like
this, whereas the new one looks more like a section of a circle. it's also been trimmed a bit, and the arms are now in the same plane as the body, instead of curving up.
i'm not saying this is proof they're different; they might have been meant to be the same design. it's certainly close enough that everyone except the hugest giger nerds (like me) thinks they're practically identical.
Quote from: RoaryUK on Mar 20, 2012, 12:36:39 AMI doubt this is LV-426, I just don't think it's plausible. Even with alien technology, to terraform an entire moon in 30 years yet somehow forget to make the atmosphere breathable, when this planet appears very habitable already?
to be fair, they are wearing helmets, at least when they're outside the temple. but it really does look way more mild. maybe the nostromo set down in a storm -- but it stormed the whole time the marines were there too. i think that's just the place's climate.
Quote from: OpenMaw on Mar 20, 2012, 12:39:32 AMI just want to point out that the way this thing crashes is... Well Prometheus (in the close up of the collision) collides with one of those openings that the Nostromo crew entered through on the other craft. ... The exact one. (The left one). Likely, there would be so much damage in that area that I very much doubt the ship is the same derelict.
it appears undamaged in the other shots, though. it's hard to say what happens exactly (trailers can be out of order) but it sort of looks like the prometheus blows up on it, knocks it out of the air, and does very little actual damage.