More speculation: my view on the plot

Hello to all, this is my first post on the website, but I’ve been an avid reader of it for some time now and I am a huge Alien and sci-fi fan. I would like to present my high-level and admittedly incomplete view on what the Prometheus plot could turn out to be, based on the trailer, publicly-disclosed hints by director, writers and actors and aspects of other theories found on the site – therefore it’s an educated guess but even so most likely totally wrong :). Yeah, just what you were looking for: some more PURE SPECULATION :). Feel free to agree, disagree, comment, cut, paste, etc. Let’s say that there’s a race, “The Gods”, that has mastered the creation of life and decides to implement their findings across the universe. They basically choose a number of hospitable planets for the races they created and populate those planets with the genetic seeds of life. Doing this on Earth would make up for the first few minutes of the movie, shot in Iceland, and would account for the trailer scene of the huge spaceship above the water fall. The Gods also want to get to know their creations as soon as they reach a certain degree of technological evolution. What they do is to leave a map behind. However there is an intermediate step – these races must first travel to a planet (a kind of a Gateway – did anybody ever read Pohl’s “Gateway”?) where they are presented with the explanation of their past, a ship and another map. Two important notes: this Gateway is not LV 426; I don’t think we will actually see the Gods in the movie. So the Prometheus crew travels to this Gateway, where they find a chamber (the Giant Human Head on the wall assures them that’s the right one, all right…) in which a set of urns with the basis for their DNA is unquestionable evidence that Humans were indeed created by The Gods. The ever-curious crew will also find other chambers that hint at other races. This includes the Space Jockey, which also visited the Gateway in the past (more about this later)– in fact, the remains of one of them are found and its skull is scanned inside the ship. Looking forward to see the chamber with the Giant Space Jockey Head (yes, I’m speculating). Tinkering with the urns in other chambers will also mean finding some pretty nasty things and will lead to unwanted effects: mutations, deaths with varied degrees of pain and suffering, etc. The Gods also provide a ship (or a hangar full of ships, in case They are not that worried with inventory management) – “derelict-shaped”, of course - so that the humans (and other races) can finally travel to their God home planet – hence the holographic space map in the trailer. Now debating starts within the crew, according to their varied interests, beliefs or agendas: some will want to meet the Gods, some will want to go back to Earth and break the news and hopefully save the increasingly-mutated, some will be ambitious, some will be scared, the company guys will be keen on getting hold of the technology, David-the-android will consider using human DNA to become human, etc etc etc – plenty to justify the “multi-layered-plot” tag. Finally most of the crew agrees on returning to Earth. Unfortunately The Gods have planted a safety system for races acting Prometheus-like and stealing their technology, which is activated after their derelict-shaped ship is commanded to go somewhere other than God planet. It might (yes, pure speculation) lock the pilot to the seat and use its DNA to mix with the goo deposited inside the urns on the cargo deck, hence creating a new unfriendly race to the pilot. No clue what this would look like, but probably not the best choice for a pet. Some of the resulting abominations will then kill most of the survivors and the ship would happily continue its trip to Earth in order to wipe out the Prometheus-like race (“they went looking for their beginning but what they find might mean their end”). Fortunately the last-standing crew heroes (perhaps David-the-android-now-almost-human on an interesting act of selflessness towards the race he now feels he belongs to, yes I’m speculating) realize that to be the plan and crash the human ship onto the derelict-shaped ship thus saving humanity and leading Rapace and Theron to figure out it’s time for some jogging. No clue what happens to them afterwards, except that Rapace finds some time to record a message: “we were so wrong…” to decide to come back to Earth. On a final act, we might see a multi-thousand-year flashback of the Space Jockey derelict crashing onto their own home planet LV-426, carrying their own abominations, aka Aliens or Xenomorphs. We realize by then (“we” being the lucky ones that didn’t waste their time reading this post) that Space jockeys were also created by The Gods and, just like Humans in the future, had tried to “steal fire” from the Gateway. As a result, we might get a nice glimpse of crowds of space jockeys going around their lives just before the derelict crash, not knowing that very soon all their faces will be hugged and their chests, well, you know… Again, feel free to agree, disagree, comment, cut, paste, etc!