Egg on Sulaco

[irn]

I've been saying this forever; it dropped from where the queens ovipositor was ripped off (as we see acid burns in front of Bishops feet) and burned through the floor, and grew into a cluster of eggs under the grate. To me it's the only logical explaination, given the alternatives.

After almost 20 years of this this thread I'll side with this theory.

[BigDaddyJohn]

Nah we need way more pages.

[Oasis Nadrama]

On Burke's orders, Bishop picked up some slime the Alien Queen left behind and watered it until it became a full-grown egg that used its roots to slowly crawl out of view, anchor itself on some ceiling and birth a facehugger.

[DARIAS93]

[Engineer]

Wasn't the original science officer left behind on Thedus? Who was this mysterious man?

It was chad all along
We'll see it in Titan's next novel.

[Slutty Badger]

It was chad all along
We'll see it in Titan's next novel.

We better bloody not.

[SM]

It's always Chad.

[StrangeShape]

Ok so we have a very plausible explanation for how the egg (or eggs: see earlier discussions and evidence) got there. But now, why did the egg "hatch"? The first 2 movies demonstrated that the facehugger comes out only if theres a host he can sense next to it, otherwise it can lay dormant for ages

[Local Trouble]

If you treat the queen facehugger as a "hive starter," the inconsistency actually becomes a feature, not a bug.

Unlike regular facehuggers that stay dormant until a host is practically breathing on them, the queen variant would be more proactive and genetically designed to seed a new hive by itself.

[Coolertonic7]

If you treat the queen facehugger as a "hive starter," the inconsistency actually becomes a feature, not a bug.

Unlike regular facehuggers that stay dormant until a host is practically breathing on them, the queen variant would be more proactive and genetically designed to seed a new hive by itself.

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[TheDerelict]

Ok so we have a very plausible explanation for how the egg (or eggs: see earlier discussions and evidence) got there. But now, why did the egg "hatch"? The first 2 movies demonstrated that the facehugger comes out only if theres a host he can sense next to it, otherwise it can lay dormant for ages

Categorically not true. Kane plays around with that blue mist and falls off the ledge knocking into an egg.

Nothing happens. Guess it was having a nap.

Also the Sulaco egg was upside down so maybe the hugger fell out.

[Acid_Reign161]

Ok so we have a very plausible explanation for how the egg (or eggs: see earlier discussions and evidence) got there. But now, why did the egg "hatch"? The first 2 movies demonstrated that the facehugger comes out only if theres a host he can sense next to it, otherwise it can lay dormant for ages

Categorically not true. Kane plays around with that blue mist and falls off the ledge knocking into an egg.

Nothing happens. Guess it was having a nap.

Also the Sulaco egg was upside down so maybe the hugger fell out.

Yeah it isn't very clear cut... Ripley stands in a hive of eggs blasting a flamethrower in the air to warn the queen and nothing opens... one does open after she stands on tendrils, but she must have trodden on dozens to be that far in anyway.

But to answer the original question, do we even know the proximity at which an ovomorph can detect prey? If the egg is where we think it is (beneath the loading bay flooring) then the cryo tubes are right next door anyway.. we don't know how long Ripley and Newt were awake before going into cryo... it was enough time to get a stretcher to carry Hicks from the dropship to medical, rebandge and dress his wounds, bag up Bishop etc... so they were backwards and forwards...it may have hatched before they went into Cryo, detecting them moving above it.

[StrangeShape]

Ok so we have a very plausible explanation for how the egg (or eggs: see earlier discussions and evidence) got there. But now, why did the egg "hatch"? The first 2 movies demonstrated that the facehugger comes out only if theres a host he can sense next to it, otherwise it can lay dormant for ages

Categorically not true. Kane plays around with that blue mist and falls off the ledge knocking into an egg.

Nothing happens. Guess it was having a nap.

Also the Sulaco egg was upside down so maybe the hugger fell out.

The egg knocking was a goof, but even in universe it could be explained that not all the eggs were still alive. But also, it took the hugger some time to sense Kane.Seems like the hugger needs more than a moment. Id actually buy Local Trouble's theory, although its a pure fantiction not based on any material

[Local Trouble]

Id actually buy Local Trouble's theory, although its a pure fantiction not based on any material

Most of my theories are.

At best, it's extrapolation and deduction.

[StrangeShape]

Ok so we have a very plausible explanation for how the egg (or eggs: see earlier discussions and evidence) got there. But now, why did the egg "hatch"? The first 2 movies demonstrated that the facehugger comes out only if theres a host he can sense next to it, otherwise it can lay dormant for ages

Categorically not true. Kane plays around with that blue mist and falls off the ledge knocking into an egg.

Nothing happens. Guess it was having a nap.

Also the Sulaco egg was upside down so maybe the hugger fell out.

Yeah it isn't very clear cut... Ripley stands in a hive of eggs blasting a flamethrower in the air to warn the queen and nothing opens... one does open after she stands on tendrils, but she must have trodden on dozens to be that far in anyway.

I think it opens because she stopped next to it. It took 1 minute and 10 seconds since kneeling next to the egg for the facehugger to jump on Kane. Of course, that egg could have been there for thousands or millions of years so it wasnt in best shape. It took 5 seconds for the egg to open after Ripley comes to a fill stop next to it. Case in point, facehugger dont go out until someone stops nearby

Id actually buy Local Trouble's theory, although its a pure fantiction not based on any material

Most of my theories are.

At best, it's extrapolation and deduction.

Hey, if youre right, you were the first one to come up with the egg seed thing. And as Acid Reign showed, that theory does have some elements (strong imo) from Alien 3 material that substantiates it