Quote from: SiL on Jan 07, 2024, 05:00:26 AMWe have no idea how long it's been dead because apparently that's a space suit, not a living organism (another thing I hope gets changed). It could easily be less than ten years.
That's something I'd have a hard time buying (personally); the 'suit' is organic, it has a skeleton/skull, we see it has flesh that syncs with user (it even blinks). I'd expect it'd decompose the same way as any other flesh. On Earth, full skeletonization of a human body, the final stage of decomposition, can take up to several years, with the main driver of decomposition being oxygen. As LV-426's indigenous atmosphere was described as "primordial", consisting mainly of nitrogen and carbon dioxide, with smaller quantities of oxygen, methane and ammonia (some of the latter existing in a frozen state), we would expect decomposition to take much much longer. For a Xenomorph to have burst from that host less than 10 years prior to the Nostromo finding it (probably considerable few years less, as David would need time to make several hundred new ovomorphs from the Covenant crew, locate a new juggernaut with a pilot to infect, and it to be in the vicinity of LV-426 when the burster pops).. I dunno, I'd expect it to be a fleshy, decomposing withering corpse, not something that could be 'mistaken' as fossilised. It's a hard sell for me. 😅
(Like you, I also hope the suit thing gets changed!) 😅