Thousands Of Eggs

Gavin
MemberTrilobiteDecember 28, 20111272 Views17 RepliesWe all have our opinions and hopes as to what we think will and won't appear in Prometheus.
One recurring theme seems to be that many want answers to all the questions posed in Alien. And of those questions one sticks out more than most...
"Where did all those eggs on board the Derelict come from?"
Of course, some have tried to answer this with this theory...
"A Facehugger gets onto the face of the Space Jockey, and a Queen Xenomorph comes out, burns a hole in the floor, heads into the bowels of the Derelict and lays all the eggs."
Although on the face of things this seems to make sense there are problems with this theory...
1. The eggs are arranged in an organised fashion. By this I mean the eggs are only found in the "troughs" of the egg chamber. If a Queen had laid the eggs it would stand to reason that the eggs would be found throughout the egg chamber, not neatly nestled in the "troughs" only.
2. The eggs are protected by a layer of "laser-mist", which stands to reason that the chamber was purposefully designed to house the eggs.
Aside from plot based problems, there are also creative problems regarding the "Queen laid all the eggs" theory...
1. Ridley Scott has stated that he always envisioned the Derelict as a bomber, that would deploy the Aliens eggs onto unsuspecting worlds.
2. Ridley Scott has also stated that he doesn't like the Queen idea, thus the chances of him embracing it are next to none.
The thing is this...
...There is no need for all these theories to explain how come the Derelict is carrying thousands of eggs, just a bit of logical thinking...
[b]Derelict visits planet A and drops a full cargo of Xenomorph eggs, then visits planet B (a planet where eggs have previously been deployed), after the Xenomorph has used up all suitable hosts, and subsequently died. All that would remain would be thousands of eggs, which it would then pick up for use on another planet. Then return to planet A etc. etc. ... No queen necessary, just an unfortunate planet.[/b]