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It seemed to me that the 'human' birthing method would be a step back in regards to the Alien likecycle. I guess it was the militarys' way of trying to control the Aliens more. They just didn't pull it off in the movie anyway. From what I've said above I guess the lifecycle could be something along the lines of this:- 1/ DNA altering substance. Possibly found in the ampules in Prometheus. 2/ Changes someone/something into some type of Xeno or egg. 3/ Either facehugger comes from egg and infects someone, or the Xeno turns someone into an egg as I have stated was in Alien reinstated scene which then hatches when a host is avaliable. 4/ Cycle continues without the need for Queen or any outside influence. Only one Xeno would be needed to continue species. It would only need to find one person/animal to turn into an egg, then the egg would hatch when a suitable host was nearby.

Here is the Alien Lifecycle, known to date... The Xenomorph is capable of eradicating an entire ecosystem of its indigenous population with a single egg. This egg, containing a parasite known as the Facehugger, incubating the embryo of a fertile female within, implants the embryo within a suitable host. The embryo develops into a larva known as a Chestburster, from the manner in which it fatally leaves its hosts body. This larval fertile female quickly develops into its immature form, known as the Princess. This Princess, utilising the indigenous population as hosts to incubate embryos via direct implantation, spawns a brood of subservient infertile females, known as Warriors. Once mature, the Warriors begin constructing a Hive. Once the Hive is established, the Princess develops into her mature form, producing an ovipositor from her abdomen, with each laid egg containing a Facehugger, this Queen now incapable of direct implantation. These Facehugger’s incubate the embryos of infertile males, which after gestating within living hosts mature into Drones, gradually replacing the Warriors. Once the hive is complete, the Queen can produce a limited number of prized eggs, the parasites within carrying other fertile female embryos. Incubated within incapacitated hosts the larvae grow into Princesses, who are then forced from the Hive to establish their own.

The Newborn was a mistake, it clearly states in the film that the Queen had too much human DNA in her genome, another reason I suspect it was born from Ripley 7, not Ripley 8.

Sounds right Snorklebottom if you go by the Aliens Queen theory, but Ridley Scott has stated he didn't envision a Queen as part of the Alien lifecycle which is why I thought it may be the cycle I stated above, or story concept as my original post. I just think Scott is heading more towards his original vision of the story.

i was actually just making a very early one on paint, but with pics instead of words, should have it up in a few hours :D

Well here was my 2 cents on the matter : [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/433]Alien Life Cycle[/url] Not asking you all to agree I know it is controversial just thought I would share.

Nice theory Biomechanic. Shaw giving birth to the first facehugger or indeed a version of the Xeno is quite plausible. I guess any of us could be right. Or indeed we could all be wrong and Scott has come up with something that will knock us sideways.

That is assuming the Aliens will feature in Prometheus, which I don't think they will. That said the original idea of using hosts in pairs (1 into an egg, 1 as a host for that egg), may have been their original intention, but it was never actually explained as such at the time, which "essentially" gave Cameron free reign with the Queen idea. I know a lot of people may not like the Queen idea because they feel it lessens the Alien into an insect. Is that necessarily a bad thing. Insects outnumber us at least 1 million to 1, imagine if the where 8 feet tall with acid for blood and used us to propagate. that a nice image. One thing many seem to overlook, what happens when the Aliens run out of suitable hosts.

Snorklebottom. I guess we assume that they would be looking for human hosts, but as in Alien3 they could no doubt use any living creature as hosts resulting in different types of Xenos. Assuming the creature they choose is large enough for the facehugger and to accomodate the chestburster. If they managed to get to all populated planets and use up the hosts I guess they would perhaps have fulfilled the point in them existing. Wiped out all other life. If indeed they have any kind of 'mission' to fulfill. Ultimately could just be an experiment gone wrong.

I don't think biomechanoids or facehuggers will feature in Prometheus. This won't be the normal facehugger it will be a protoform of it anyway. I think Shaw knows something is growing inside her and allows it to happen because she has faith in God. She has a conversation about it with her love interest Holloway and he wants her to abort it but she refuses. I don't think we will see a facehugger attach itself to the space jockey that is already implied. We have seen still with Shaw being scanned. We may just see from Shaw's scanner image what looks like a facehugger in her stomach, she gives birth and that is the last we know of it in the Prometheus movie. Maybe it is implied that Vickers and David are keeping it in stasis as the rest of the movie plays out. Maybe it is released or escapes at near the end of the movie on to the derelict.

Could also back my theory that the Aliens were created by the Space Jockeys as a means to artificially create extinct events on prehistoric planets to encourage the evolution of intelligent life. BM, I really don't think shaw or anyone is going to give birth to a xeno or any form of facehugger.

Nice one Biomechanic. There are those saying that the last 8 minutes or so would link to the original film. This could be the reveal of the 'baby' or indeed as you say, showing it on the derelict. I guess we wouldn't actually have to see it attach to a space jockey to know what was going to happen.

i just posted mine, go check it out :D

I have since concluded the pregnancy is a punishment for man and the spacejockey. I think it may parallel the [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/519]Prometheus Bound story[/url] The space jockey is Prometheus and gives man intelligence but their is another force that is against this he creates Pandora Elizabeth Shaw who will open up plague and petulance on both by giving birth to the biomechanoid race.

Here's a link to a clearer image of the life cycle chart for those unable to read it clearly[url=http://i1109.photobucket.com/albums/h436/terry_jones2/29122011398_1.jpg]Alien Life cycle chart[/url]

And going off course abit.. (as a Briton, given how many UK characters there are in this film, it does feel frustrating to know that the cute swede who's the main character is to have a 'love interest' with not a Brit but an american. Whats wrong with a british guy?)

that was a bit explained ...they have a sort of conflictual relationship ...she is a beliver ..hes not , he rely only on science ... so i think its to give more "weight" to moral implications . Plus there is , probably ( we are not sure ) , the pregnancy sideplot Guy Pearce is australian Elba is british Fassbender is german Rapace is sweden Rafe spall english Theron south african PAtrick wilson e Green are american very worldwide cast :p

I always thought about love interests in space this way...anything is big flashing green light for a go... it doesn't matter because the trump card is that human nature gives us that anyone alone or on a ship with few people in space for any length of time is going to have moments when they have feelings of this nature....and then act on them... It's what being Human is All About!

Frantz, I hope there's no pregnancy, and hope it'll constitute to something minor. I actually like the idea made by someone else in the forum, Shaw gets abducted and impregnated by force from the Engineers better. It's assumed she's bruised and how likely is one going to do it with the bad bruises seen on her legs? It doesn't really make sense. Furthermore, she is seen running at the near end with Theron.

I always think Scott was interested in exploring the human relationships in any place. In ALIEN there are some ideas that float over the movie (and when you see the deleted scenes and the conversation between Ripley and Lambert after Dallas' death is clearly confirmed): seven people months or years together (main of the time in hibernation, true, but not all time), alone. Inevitably, the relationships (sexual and maybe deeper) between them appeared with no doubt. I think is a theme which get unexplored in ALIEN that could be treated in this one.

Yes but will it lead to something bigger, such as the origin of man or the xeno's?? I don't want to see the alien as the product of two people in space. I've always regarded it as an elegant creature of its own race - if it's related to the SJ race, so be it. Must man be the root of everything?

a_j216 ›[quote]Shaw gets abducted and impregnated by force from the Engineers better.[/quote] Damn I did not read that one and I like it a lot, the darker and more sinister this thing is I think the more I am going to enjoy it.

Hahaha... I think it's impossible (at least for me) to read everything in these forums... tons, tons and tons of information and theories!

so true Fleischman...by the way, did you do your Bar-Mitzvah phonetically or did you understand everything you were saying? I had no clue what I was singing and saying...lol.

the bruises on noomi leg should be from the "dust storm" scene ....she do a big fly ...

Thx a_j216! You can read the slightly-lunatic-and-admittedly-speculative abduction theory here: http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/503

No Bar-Mitzvah for me Spartacus... It's just I am a big fan of 'Northern Exposure' and it's the name I usually use in internet... lol

lmao, I have seen every episode, very funny show ! Love the DJ guy!

Ridley said "the movie is about everything".. I guess love is one of everything then... lol

I still believe this whole love story thing is a fabricated fanboy piece and it won't have anything to do with the film. There is so much stuff that has been fabricated since day one just due to peoples ideas on what an image is showing that it is hard to ascertain what has been made up and what hasn't been. Scott has said nothing, nowhere about some silly love story/pregnancy being a part in this. Somebody saw a puffy belly. Saw a dude with his head in his hands and a leg on a bed and whammo.....Love story. lol

its not fanboy made ..its from an interview of Rapace ..she explain that her character and Green character are engaged even if their relactionship is a bit conflictual . The main reason of conflict in the mission is that her character is a beliver in God and a bit naive while Green character belive in science ... so there is an engagement of some sort ( i dont see the point of Rapace to lie about that )

"one half of a conflicted couple" from Scott, not Rapace. so I guess I missed that part and I am still not buying how much is being made of this plotline. This still goes along with my original post in this thread.....there is SO much speculation about the film that large parts of that speculating has been adopted as factual now.

yes everyone should think 4-5 times before opening a new thread ...too many threads make the forum impossible to follow ..we should also avoid anything not related to "prometheus" because that push back interesting threads in the "recent discussion" ( that i think is the main section in which we look first) ... when a discussion disappear the "recent discussion" is usually forgotten very fast i also suggest the owners to make the "recent discussions" space a bit more longer and make the "status updates" a bit more shorter imo

...At the same time if it has nothing to do with Prometheus, put it where it belongs...i.e. "Community Discussions", Discussions about "Memories Of" "Alien" and "Aliens", or just flat our new media for the Film itself in the "Media" section. Also, you should run anything through the moderator via email at... news@prometheus-movie.com that you think pertains to any new and not yet posted news item. With regard to improvements or modifications to this web or any other matter you may feel needs attending to on the site just use the "Site News and Announcements" section.

if the subject is like 50 subjects ago, no body will look at that page again, and your idea will not get noticed, thats why people keep posting the same topic over and over.

so everyone who have a new idea open a new thread to be noticed ????? threads are not made to show a great idea ( that usually is not ) but to discuss togheter of an aspect ..if its a new idea it cant be "fiction" but must have some proofs so everyone can discuss about it ....

Well said [b]@Biomechanic[/b]. And that's true; didn't we nominate a few members?

Congrats on the useless thread. If you think this sit/forum is hard to navigate then I doubt you have much to add in the way of ideas. no offense. Bad threads get pushed back when they run their course.

in theory its not a bad idea, the problem is the way the site works, what it should do is the last post to be commented on goes back to the top of the list, so if i went and commented on the first thread ever, that thread will go back to the top of the list so people could see what i say, the way they have it now, if you were to post on the first thread nobody would see it unless somebody just randomly went back to look at it. who makes this site anyways? we should tell them to do that :D