Space Jockey Anatomy

Well, from ALIEN we can determine that the Space Jockey has some humanoid characteristics. You can clearly make out the head, two arms and fingers. Not too much is known about them, aside from what you already mentioned. My guess is that they (or their suits) look very "elephant-like" in nature. The creatures inside them, who knows. That's where the "suspense" comes into play. BUT, if we are going with the hypothesis that the Space Jockeys created humans, and going by the Christian Bible which states that humans were made in "God's Image" then I don't think it's very "far out there" to assume that they will have some definite human like characteristics. Hopefully some more concept artwork will be released, or some more screen caps will be show cased so we can have a better grasp on the subject. But until then, it's anyone's guess.

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Ok so if the Jockey's are using a Bio Suit (like in Independence Day) then I could see the trunk part being a sort of biological rebreather/filtration system or oxygen supply to the head of the wearer. The Huge eyes would definitely give you a huge field of view in a sort of bioHUD. I have no clue as to how the suits could ambulate if the jockey are any bigger than a human. If the jockey's bio suits are huge then the jockey's themselves could very feasibly be around our size or smaller.

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I'm going to have to look at the BlueRay again searching for damage to the exterior of the Space Jockey. Remember it had to dissolve the entire front of Kane's helmut to get inside and envelop his head. If you credit the Space Jockey with the kind of technology to create/engineer the xenomorph wouldn't it also be able to treat an infection by said organism? I'll cover the possibilities, yes it may have removed the helmut after reviving. Yes it may have been the only crew member on the Derelict. If you had experience with this organism and you woke up with your environmental suit compromised and evidence that is was by a facehugger the oh S*&t! alarms would be going off in your head. Even the damaged EEV in Alien 3 had the ability to run a diagnostic on Ripley and spot the Queen embryo. A much larger ship like the derelict must have had a medlab onboard like the Nostromo. I'm giving the Space Jockey some credit here. A ship carrying that kind of cargo should have certain measures of failsafe mechanisms in order to handle those unforeseen events. Unless the cargo was stolen, unless it was a human in that suit, oh I better stop. More questions now than ever.....geez.

Answer me this. The jockeys use a biosuit. Now the suit itself is a living organism and has to be fed and maintained inorder to keep it alive. Who's to say the facehugger didn't impregnate the "suit" thus killing it and inturn the jockey itself when the suit dies. Thus giving the jockey inside time to set off a signal. Does anyone have any ideas on what happened to the alien that came from the Jockey? Was it the one that laid the egss under the blue force field or were they already there?

And if Vickers is in in the suit, and the alien derelict is the transformed Prometheus spaceship? Facehuggher size are too small to infect the space jockey. So inside there is a body with the head much smaller

Answering yor question Rick,I strongly believe the eggs were already under the blue force field in a sort of suspended animation until they were needed or as we see in Alien,when something breaks the field. As i wrote in my topic 'Ripleys escape', the Alien was supposed to have a limited life cycle and once completed it breaks down spilling acid everywhere and dies,a superweapon you dont have to contain. This is what i believe happened to the Alien that came out of the space jockey.If you look closely at the hole Kane descends,it appears to have been melted through. I think the alien simply reached the end of its cycle,died and the resulting acid release caused the hole. Its an idea I think holds continuity,what you think? A bigger question is how did the space jockey become the victim? Was it sabotage? I cant believe a face hugger got out by chance or the space jockey had a nasty tumble into the egg pits...

Or maybe, this jockey stole the ship in order to stop the eggs from been used,crashed it on a dead moon on purpose and the resulting crash let out a facehugger?

Here is a scary thought. The Alien roughly takes the size and form of its host perhaps a little bigger. For humans probably about 7-9 feet tall. The "dog" in Alien 3 was shorter only 3-5 feet tall. If that holds true and that space jockey is big... What the heck did the Alien grow to be?

Hi Rick! Everything is merely supposition until it's in print or on screen. In this day and age considering how long fans have theorized given the few facts we have I wouldn't discredit any plausible suggestion. There are some who believe that the derelict was carrying the embryo's as it's cargo thus the need for a stasis field to keep the cargo from hatching prematurely. The more dynamic theory is based on the hole burned in the deck plating near the Space Jockey. The xenomorph obviously adapts to it's environment, after reaching maturity without any additional prey organisms it changed it's biochemistry enabling it to become a queen. The Queen spends it's lifespan spawning and placing her progeny in the cargo hold beneath the control dias on the derelict. With it's job finished she dies and decomposes over the course of time. Some time later the luckless crew of the Norstomo arrives and explores the ship. Kane said, " There"s a layer of mist, covering the eggs, that reacts when broken." That's the only thing that makes me think that the eggs were the ships cargo. The hole in the floor suggests something a little more violent occurred, I dunno, I've been wondering for years.

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Biomechanic- I totally agree that the queen wont feature in the new film/s,that was Camerons vision not Ridley's. As regards to where all the eggs came from? Did the space jockeys grow the eggs themselves or did they also produce victims for the facehugger and the resulting alien then transformed them into eggs? Its the old 'chicken and the egg' problem ha ha

Looking at the leaked pics of Prometheus,it does show someone going through some sort of metamorphosis? Maybe you're onto something there Biomechanic? Its certainly gonna take some creative writing to sort out all these unanswered questions, im praying they do it justice!

There was no damage to the exterior cause the pipe was drilling into the ground from the ship or vise versa

The "edit" feature should be fixed now Ruhaniya. Thanks for letting us know! And on topic... Suggesting that the Space Jockeys are part of a much larger hierarchy brings up alot of ideas! I never considered that!