LV426

I think Agent Mothman is on to something; we might be on LV-426. In the trailer at 32 sec we see a ship/shuttle entering the atmosphere of the planet (or moon) with a larger planet in the background with a rather close star behind it. Saturn's moon Titan has an atmosphere. It's also smaller then the Earth, bigger than the moon. As for the drastic environmental change... We have any of the space craft. Depending on speed, fuel, and/or mass any of the ships can change the planetoid into a rock... There is one other possibly as for why the planetoid is a rock when we find in Alien; Hades Protocols. The 'Engineers' could have foreseen the dangers of the biomass escaping and choose to sterilize the planet, killing all life, but the suit of the one in the ship protected the alien inside to burst out later.

I think Agent Mothman is on to something; we might be on LV-426. In the trailer at 32 sec we see a ship/shuttle entering the atmosphere of the planet (or moon) with a larger planet in the background with a rather close star behind it. Saturn's moon Titan has an atmosphere. It's also smaller then the Earth, bigger than the moon. As for the drastic environmental change... We have any of the space craft. Depending on speed, fuel, and/or mass any of the ships can change the planetoid into a rock... There is one other possibly as for why the planetoid is a rock when we find in Alien; Hades Protocols. The 'Engineers' could have foreseen the dangers of the biomass escaping and choose to sterilize the planet, killing all life, but the suit of the one in the ship protected the alien inside to burst out later.

In alien the crew says that the space jockey is fossilized which would mean it has been there for hundreds of thousands to millions of years which leads me to believe that it is not LV426. That would also explain why Ridley Scott said that it is not a prequel but instead takes place in the same universe. I'm hoping it isn't LV426 I think it would be much more interesting to see space jockeys somewhere else and it would also help to keep the ambiguity of what went wrong to the derelict craft in alien.

I tend to believe the space jockey went through [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy]natural mummification[/url] in the 60 years or so between the end of Prometheus and the beginning of Alien as opposed to [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossilization]fossilization[/url] which usually require special conditions that don't seem to be present where the jockey is. The crew obviously didn't know anything about what they were looking at.

@Biomechanic The space Jockey was fused with the chair which is another sign of fossilization, also like I said earlier Captain Dallas states that it is fossilized. I suppose it's possible that the space jockey was grafted to the seat while alive and that Dallas observation was incorrect but it seems unlikely to me.

is a bit too fused to be fossilization ...imho ...

Tertrahydracanabonol Frantz, What % of that atmosphere is "Tertrahydracanabonol" ? That's what inquiring minds want to know !!! Does Ash Know...?... I wanna know !

What if humans steal technology, impregnate sj with xeno, xeno bursts from sj chest, killing it, causing ship to crash on lv426, therefore humans becomes creators of xeno, which happens in last 8 min which is link to alien????

The ship crashes, killing what's left of prometheus crew, all weyland yutani receives is transmission we hear in preview, so entire mission is lost and compnay doesn't know where ship is, fast foward to alien where company receives info about possible location of ship and planet and sends nostromo there to retreive alien which they already know they created and know is there

Ship crashes into planet, kills what's left of prometheus crew, weyland yutani only receives transmission we hear in preview, considers mission lost and doesn't know where ship and crew and sj ship are, fast forward to events in alien and company finds planet and reroutes nostromo there to retrieve lost info and speciman that it already knows exists because they helped create it

Is it just me, or DID IQs DROP SUDDENLY WHILE I WAS AWAY ?!??!?!?! ...didn't we see the friggin' "derelict" ship crashing down in what looks very much to be one of the if not THEE climactic scene in the trailer... ? ? ? they are on LV-426.... where else would a friggin prequel be set ? HOW DO I GET OUT OF THIS CHICKEN-SHIT OUTFIT ? gln