Quote from: Engineer on Apr 30, 2023, 04:14:22 PMTbh I'm expecting a reboot of the EU at some point in the near future. Disney did it with Star Wars
Disney actually cares about the profitability of Star Wars and Star Wars fans are obsessive about the franchise. Aliens was nothing more than a licensable movie monster to Fox, and it's probably no more important to Disney. They didn't care about the RPG (Gaska was just allowed to use his head canon) and they certainly don't care about continuity since we know that Hawley's TV series is yet another canon-muddling prequel set in the early 2100s.
There's no Alien canon, in any traditional sense of that word.
QuoteAs I've said - "for a layman like me". How many viewers actually thought about whether or not acidic blood makes sense ? O'Bannon himself probably didn't
I'm no biologist but I don't think that stomach acid is as potent as Xeno's blood is shown to be. Probably cause it's supposed to digest food not melt spaceship decks. Also, we don't have acid running in our veins. Probably for a reason too
If whatever the Alien's body chemistry is, is non-reactive with that type of acid, then it would be fine. For example, fluoropolymers like Teflon are non-reactive to many acids, which is why Teflon is a preferred storage material for them. Our insides have evolved to contain and resist stomach acid because it is sufficient for our digestive uses, most of which is breaking down plant and animal matter.
I mean, it's still a little bit implausible that a highly corrosive hydro-fluorine compound with some kind of accelerant would end up as a body fluid, but then again, if the Alien is truly a genetically engineered bioweapon from an advanced species, it might not be beyond possibility to have engineered them that way.