Quote from: NetworkATTH on Mar 15, 2015, 01:11:18 AM
In my opinion I still stand by the idea that The Aliens have no one "homeworld", they just are waiting in the canyons and rocks and caves of multiple worlds for whatever reason, from contamination and to intentionally letting worlds thrive. Perhaps, if they thought they would be wiped out, the Engineers could have let the last batch of people they created become a Sufficiently Advanced Civilization and land on it, and take it home with them, and let it spread. Or maybe they're just there as worlds as crops fields, in a sense letting the evolution of these biomechanical beings take place while several generations of these human trials on many worlds the Engineers have seeded, so that after say, two (there can't have been more than four maybe five human cultures over several billion years), they re visit the world and see where they can improve, because of how these creatures are built to be robust survivors. Or there's just on there, for some other reason. Maybe a rock from space contained a spore, and impacted a barren world and a violent parasitic/sexual ecology blossomed from there, developing life that are so resistant to environmental conditions and each others nigh unstoppable predation, they could ravage any compatibly weak human world. Maybe there's so much pressure and environmental conditions on most that they go unexplored because of reasons not usually delved into by science fiction. Such as more restrictive gravity, pressure that would turn burst or implode any human vessel, acidic rain, volcanic activity, you get the idea.
I'd imagine these worlds not to be, say, biomechanoid oceans of Giger, but more,
I really like some of these ideas, especially the concept of multiple human races (I'm actually experimenting with this idea in a story that I am writing). The Engineers could indeed have seeded multiple worlds with their DNA to create distinct species, with humans possibly being the most successful. There are three other interesting theories that I have. One is that humans were created as a last ditch effort to save their line before they went extinct. As we know from both Alien and Prometheus, the Engineers' control over their bioweapons was shaky at best, and it is possible that at the time of the creation of mankind that they were going extinct due to a major war or some other calamity concerning their weapons, and that humans were created so that their race was not completely obliterated. Another theory is that while we see the Engineers as the masters of their creations, they might in fact be the slaves. If xenomorphs are indeed the tip of the iceberg of some inconceivable, monolithic, godlike monstrosity, it is possible that this thing was using the Engineers to further its spread through the creation of bioweapons which might in fact not be bioweapons but carefully crafted vessels for spreading this super species. If this is the case, the Engineers might have looked more human in the past but were warped by their master's influence and were gradually losing their humanity. The creation of humans might have been one last act of rebellion before they succumbed, and an effort to keep their people alive in a pure and uncorrupted state. They might have in fact hoped that one day the humans would come back and destroy the abomination that enslaved their people. The Engineer at the end of Prometheus might not have been doing his own desires but may have been completely enslaved to a higher power that saw humans as a threat that needed to be eliminated (which would be completely in line with the series as that's how xenomorphs view all beings that aren't themselves). A third theory is that the creation of humanity might have been done by a group of schismatics who committed heresy by creating an identical species. The scene at the beginning of Prometheus seemed much more like a religious ceremony than a scientific experiment. Also, this might explain the reason for the final Engineer's desire to destroy the human race, as he might have seen the existence of humans as an unacceptable blasphemy.
In terms of your idea about the evolution of aliens, it is an interesting one, and if true, it might mean that there are other, similar xenomorph-like species scattered around the galaxy. And I do like the desolate design you picked for the world, as it would be the perfect place for a species as tough and nasty as the xenomorphs to have evolved. The Giger environment would probably be more fitting to the Engineer homeworld (especially if their society had been wrecked/enslaved by their 'weapons'). If, however, the xenomorphs are part of a larger, techno-organic virus of some kind, the Giger landscapes could be the final evolution. I mentioned before that the alien hives we see could simply be a starting point for something larger. Maybe, after a period of time, the queen lays a special egg that gives birth to a singular, more advanced being that begins to rework the hive into a more technological environment as we see in Giger's paintings and in the interior designs of the juggernauts and Engineer temples. I personally think that the idea of the alien reproducing only once is a fascinating one, especially the idea originally put forth by Ridley that the succeeding creatures would be much less animalistic than the original one. With each succeeding generation, these hyper evolved aliens could further build on the hive until it reached a state of perceived perfection, and then waited for an opportunity to spread.
