Missing Alien

Yup ... and also newt parents got another facehugger ..they didnt encounter that alien too ... btw the ship was in the range of the nuclear blast ?

Hey Guys, The Alien is supposed to have a very short lived life span much like the mayfly. The mayfly lives in fresh water as a nymph for a year but once it matures and turns into an adult it lives a single day and its sole purpose is to reproduce. My guess is it is somewhere keeled over dead. But, we have no idea what the aliens final life stages are though it could melt down into a stew since it has molecular acid for blood or it could just fall over dead and decay like we do. Regards, Rick

Whatever the case I really hope it appears in Prometheus!

It'll be interesting how Ridley reconciles the lifecycle of the alien in Prometheus with the variants seen in "Alien" and "Aliens". If the Space Jockey gave birth to a queen, it could have created all those eggs before it dies (or goes into hibernation - something alluded to in the Alien novelization). It seems that Ridley's vision originally required the alien to cocoon victims in order to transform them into eggs. If that's the case, where did those eggs come from in the derelict? Of course, there's the possibility that the alien transforms its first victim into an egg that generates a queen ...

I never thought of that... It could have been a queen that came out of him... Geeez! You guys make me feel do stupid!