Useless Thread No. 6011...What If ?!

I made a play on a possible ending on another thread. I beleive the biosuit theory is good. There is a lot of speculation that the two women survive to near end. What if one of them attempts to pilot the derelict ship in an attempt to return home, not knowing whats in the cargo hold. They jump into the pilot suit and are consumed buy it as mentioned above. During flight a xeno gets loose and infects the pilot (Shaw or Vickers) at which point they see no way to survive realize whats on the ship and deliberately crash it while setting off a warning signal. This would mean of course that Dallas Lambert and Kane were staring at a fellow Weyland employee all this time. Savage!

savage indeed...tho if the ship crashes and u see Vickers and Shaw running away from it...then it will have to be someone else piloting the ship....and something (god forbid a xeno) burst threw the suit (basicly the cockpit suit with a human brain inside, the presumed space jockey as we saw it fossilized in alien) ...which causes the ship to crash....just maybe?

@ Sparky That was a thoroughly disturbing article......actually kinda sad....crazy world!

There are several ships. The one we see crashing need not be the derelict.

I agree completely and so sorry for that, but it does in fact lend credibility to your theory. It's possible.

How do u know their is several ships?....we know their is at least 2 human ships....but another alien horseshoe ship?....let's stick to what we know for certain so far....not that i am saying that their might not be more than one....but their is nothing to prove or suggest that their is more than one alien derelict style ship....so far as the one that crashes....I don't see any reason why it cannot be the derelict seen in alien....maybe the angle it crashed on is wrong....but it could have just fallen over....plenty can happen in 30 years?

We know of at least two human ships? I only see proof of one.

Agreed Juxtapose. I'm just putting 2 & 2 together and adding some spice or speculation. I reckon Scott will want to end this with a quite extraordinary scene which will blow us allaway. Releasing a trailer six months early with shots of the derelict I believe is a complete non starter.

good point, which lends to the possibility of a jockey born xeno emerging from the derelict to pursue shaw and vickers.

they said (or i read) something about the other ship....they even had a name for it...Something like the "Galleon"...i dunno.. Ok...fine no other human ship cause their is no proof in the trailer....but their certainly is no proof of their being more than one alien ship either....not at this point...tho I am not gonna argue that their might be proof eventually....but if i am gonna speculate... i choose to build my speculations around stuff we can confirm...stuff we have seen in the trailer!

@ Micro Yeah i agree totally!

Being forced to permanantly fuse yourself to a fixed seat in order to run a ship doesn't sound like a very practical, super high-tech solution, to me. I'm expecting some weird CGI biomechanical merging effects when the SJ takes its' seat, but nothing permanent.

Fair enough juxta. It's good to look beyond the obvious or probable and see if we can come up with the possible!

Sounds plausible Artyoh. I would assume the jockey gets in and out of the suit.

...well perhaps u get in and u intend to get out....but oh fuck...guess what ....u cannot!...u become the suit and by a larger extend the brain of the ship...being merged or being part of that ship is enough to make anyone think of suicide....not to mention.....that is one hideous suit! If u knew of the consequences tho...then that would mean sacrificing yourself for the greater good....tho that is me heading of into some crazy ideas....(speculating....so sick of typing that word!)

Juxtapose wrote: @ Ghost Solitaire well maybe it does become like a trap...but also maybe u only die once the ship is destroyed....so u become the ship...forever trapped in that god awful suit...that thing makes the xeno's look like beauty contestants...IMO...lol It looks to me like the SJ ship is essentially indestructable. An enormous craft, many hundreds of meters in length, suffers a huge explosion/impact high in the atmosphere, then falls all the way to the surface, and doesn't crumple into the ground and collapse of its' own weight? No, that flies in the face of simple physics. It's completely absurd unless Scott is telling us something about this technology.

@ artyoh ......which means u are stuck in that indestructible thing for eternity...now all u need is a zeno to come and gobble up your liver each day....lol....(or at least some other form of ongoing torture) then the Prometheus mythology will be complete... it's one crazy theory....in the end I doubt that's how things will play out...but who knows?...;)

Oh, I like the idea, Juxtapose! It's simultaneously literate, poetic and creepy.

Though this is probably not the case, at dinner I was mulling this over. What if the ship were the actually intellegence. It only used pilots like batteries, or memory chips and when they were used up, it set down and awaited a new pilot. I don't know many people who could categorically resist climbing into that chair and sitting back just to see how it feels. Sort of chilling just to contemplate it sealing up around you rather like an iron maiden, or an ellaborate sarchophagus. Brrrrr....

i read in one of them early potential synopsis's that The Bio-mechanical Head was part of what powers the Engineer's ship{s}.