Quote from: LordCassusSnow on Dec 11, 2015, 05:02:43 AM
Engineers had to have created yautja. Since fire and stone weve learned that humanoid beings from other planets were also created by engineers. The chances of us finding an actual humanoid would be very peculiar and would raise so many new questions in both science and religion.
Here is the thing. I find that the idea of the Engineers creating the Predators... kind of devalues them. That they aren't unique and it further places the Engineers on a pedestal which... I think over-rates them. I most certainly don't want them to be these... galactic overlords and I'm just afraid we're going to be getting that. Fire and Stone showed only a few races who were either created by the Engineers, or interacted with them.
But here is the thing... the universe is so big that perhaps not even the Engineers have covered the entire universe. I mean if the Yautja were created by the them, then how come they weren't made aware of them? More so... Incursion suggested that the Predators in the new EU have documented their history, even cherished it to where it's heavily archived. One would think they would've documented about the Engineers and their relation to them. If they were created by the Engineers, there would've been archives on their planet and the Yautja would've known about them.
Fire and Stone indicated that they didn't. And Incursion's suggestion of the Yautja keeping their history down suggests no real interaction between the species.
Also.. Elden had suggested that even he didn't know where the Yautja came from when he was undergoing his transformation and perhaps.. off-panel viewed some history. He even said to one of the Predators: "I don't know what you are or where you came from."
Quote from: LordCassusSnow on Dec 11, 2015, 05:02:43 AM
It doesnt affect anything and it has the potential to contribute to the ever expanding yautja lore. Which imjust fine with
We do know that the Yautja are a polytheistic race with their own deities. Similarly to our own but we also know that they are an ancient race-- and the old EU suggests that their origins were even lost to them, though the new EU suggests they have their history heavily archived. I just think that the Predators need to be their own thing, and kept as something unique. I mean why not? Isn't it enough that the Engineers are pretty much well.. the Masters of the Universe (No, not He-Man) now? I say let some races be engineered, and some be naturally occurring.
As a Predator fan, it would just further devalue the concept of the character for me.