which came first? the egg or the facehugger?

Well if we take into consideration there have been hints by Ridley that Giger did work on a wall mural for Prometheus, it's altogether possible that the mural Giger did was of this piece of work... [IMG]http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/n484/ThunderOdin25/giger.jpg[/IMG] This mural of the Alien life cycle suggests that Shaw may indeed be impregnated and will give birth to a seed which will develop within an egg sac that carries a facehugger of some sort. IMO

Yeah I love that mural! Very disturbing. . . But yeah I'm thinking along the same lines, what Shaw is "impregnated" with will be a kinda of pre-facehugger creature, that will in turn have the ability to intake DNA of any creature and alas we have the Xenomorphs. BUT one thing driving me mad is, what would a Xeno look like that has been birthed from a SJ?? As in the Derelict ship, he had a chestburster scar so had to have had one inside him. So could the Xeno's we see just be the SJ-type ones. What if they're others, that we'll see in Prometheus. . .

@GigerFace, very interesting, then it most likely that shaw will give birth to the father of the facehuggers...

@LyleP, I think that if Shaw will give birth to a facehugger that this time be different to those who know they will have special features that pudisen give it the ability to infest a space Jockey. Another possibility is that the Jockey is the true father of the facehuggers and the Xenomorphs... and what apparently comes from the womb of Shaw is something else, perhaps related to the film mutants... who knows...

Why or when will this happen? We clearly know That Shaw and Vickers are in it towards the end (running from the crash).

@red hood, we suspect that Shaw and Vickers running from the crash is near the end and it might very well be so. But if Mr. Scott is truly bringing us back to the film making design of the original, then Prometheus may also have a fourth act?! And in this fourth act we may see Shaw give birth to the facehugger possibly?! However it occurs, somehow Mr. Scott has to get us to the chestbusted Space Jockey, how he does that will be revealed in June!!

could the aliens we've seen up untill now be half breed ie face hugger from shaw/jockey? and we have yet to see a thorough breed ie full offspring of 2 jockeys? im getting confused

Ah, but the egg in the ampule room deepens the mystery. Figure that part out, and the rest should make sense.

I can't see Shaw giving birth to anything Xeno or Facehugger and surviving. Surely she has to give birth to the big blue dude.............. the white worm must be the early form of xeno / hugger. I can't see the biology of the alien coming from a womb when in Alien it rips out of someones chest..........

I did not think that in that scene that she is giving birth in the traditional manner though. what do you mean by "womb" there's no womb birthing here as far as I know?

[quote]what do you mean by "womb" there's no womb birthing here as far as I know?[/quote] I can take a guess how former-troll USHBUCK would of wanted it to happen, LOLOLOL!

Though this Giger mural is quite old this could give some new hints on the film..Am I the only one that sees that the pictured ´person´ to be impreganted clearly looks like the JS with the helmet and trunk? Looks as if they were designed to be impregnated..

No link with this mural in Prometheus. But it's funny how many things must happen to create a xenomorph, it's complicated. You will see.

The egg came before the Facehugger. What we see in Prometheus is not the same creature in any way, shape or form that is in the Alien franchise... Why am i so certain... simple logic... - The derelict engineer craft on LV-426, with its cargo of Xenomorph eggs has been there a LONG time, thousands if not millions of years. - The creature developed on LV-223 is created in 2093, its a whole new creature/redesign of the old creature (the one on LV-426).