Quote from: SM on May 16, 2024, 10:30:05 PMThe take I like is that the Engineers aren't homogeneous. Humanity was slated to be wiped out, and some of the Engineers didn't want that. They pointed humans to LV-223, to try and get them to progress, and when the ship was due to fly to Earth with the goo, an Engineer let it loose on the other instead (what we see in the holograms) to stop them. The Engineer that let it loose subsequently travelled to Earth again over the centuries to continue encouraging development so humanity could 'come and find them'.
I'd be down to support that explanation actually; we see cloak-wearing Engineers in the opening scenes without biomechanical augments to their bodies, travelling in a saucer shaped ship. The Engineers seen in Covenant that David bombs with pathogen also resemble this 'faction' more (could also explain lack of biomechanical architecture on the planet too).
And whilst I hate to reference it for anything, as it was at least *considered* to be canon by the studio at some point, Aliens: Colonial Marines featured nods to Prometheus (the pups scanning the derelict) and a hologram activated from the Jockey chair shows it was in a battle with a saucer shaped ship... yeah, I'm happy to accept that theory as plausible! 😊👍
(For what it's worth, I'd always considered the possibility that those seen in Covenant, weren't Engineers, but instead were another seeded world like Earth created by the Engineers, hence their gathering at the Juggernaut appearing, the same way ancient civilizations on Earth may have when they were visited.. the tech left there and biomechanical places of worship perhaps being left to them, being the preferred creation (a people that didn't rebel or get too big for their boots like we did), instead respecting their "gods".
