Quote from: SiL on Oct 27, 2007, 09:48:53 PM
Quote from: gameoverman on Oct 27, 2007, 09:44:09 PM
Seriously, though, how did Aliens happen? We only saw one guy get facehugged - so only one drone.
I explained this earlier. In Cameron's original chain of events, an investigative team was sent to the derelict and got infected.
Is that explanation canon, though?
QuoteNot only that, but even if there was only one, it could take a person, turn them into an egg, and then that hugger could go on to make more eggs as well, or it could be a Queen.
Yeah but like I explained, it can't keep doing it. To create 12 aliens, you need 24 colonists. And in the beginning there is only one alien.
Also, the drone born from Jordan has low probability to be a queen (if natural queens are made that way - by random egg).
QuoteYes, the colonists had weapons - So did the crew of the Nostromo. A single Alien is notoriously hard to deal with, especially if you don't have prior knowledge of what they are.
Yeah but one alien versus over one hundred colonists. They are not going to ignore a creature that just killled one of their own.
QuoteWe have no timeline from Jordan being hugged, to contact being lost. In any situation it had to be a few days, whether a drone went around egg morphing or a Queen was born first off.
Well we know the drone did not have benefit of being undetected, like dog/ox alien. So really it did not have much time. It needed to start egg morphing right away - like the first alien did. The first alien, though, only had to deal with 6 people.