Quote from: Slutty Badger on Apr 01, 2024, 09:02:34 PMQuote from: SiL on Apr 01, 2024, 08:58:19 PMWe absolutely hear it make a sound
No, that's just feedback on the radio.
You're getting things mixed up. That reference in BBW is a nod to Alien, exactly what SiL says, we do hear the sound. It's not radio. It reacts acoustically only when the light sensor field is being passed through.
And by the way to everyone else, what the hell is this blasphemy against the Queen I'm hearing recently? Without the Queen, without Aliens, we wouldn't be talking about this on such a forum. The success and scale of the franchise would be much smaller if only Alien was made or we didn't have a sequel just as good to rival it.
The Queen is awesome, disturbing and truly alien. I love eggmorphing and I love the Queen. Both can exist complementary. But having the Alien as originally intended, with no Queen and having a super short lifecycle? Less interesting and a lot less deadly. Then having so many eggs on the Derelict wouldn't even make sense IMO.
I like my cosmic horror in Alien. But this isn't the Lovecraft verse. Alien is more science fiction than space magic. It's not an indestructible ghost. It's a horrific creature that's dangerous because even one can spawn thousands, if not more. Even one can infect everything. Can't really see that without the additions of Aliens and Alien 3. It's not a mystic force, it's the ultimate macro virus. The threat was always not letting them amass more numbers and getting them near more populated areas.
The number of the eggs on the Derelict shows this threat perfectly. There can be so many of them. Alien shows us what one can do alone. Leaving the question open as to what could a flood of them do? Aliens shows us what a swarm can do and how we got so many eggs. And that was less than 200 Aliens. We have less than 20 confirmed Aliens being killed. Heaven forbid what would happen if a more populated colony or small Earth town was infected.
