Simple, Most Likely Plot (spoiler)

"Could these be classified as ruins or evidence that LV223 is their homeworld?" Those look pretty new and very much like regular human technology (solar panels). I doubt they have anything to do with the SJs.

The irony of the whole story would be that Weyland is following in the footsteps of the engineers, but now everyone, including Weyland, is shown where playing god will get you. I doubt that this deters Weyland though, and he probably just wants to appropriate all the tech he can find, since he is doing all the exact same things as the engineers in his own egomaniacal way.

I doubt that the planet is their homeworld. There would be ruins of cities and whole lot more SJ remains.

Could these be classified as ruins or evidence that LV223 is their homeworld? [img]http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/Prometheus-Alien-Planet--280x170.jpg[/img]

That has been my thinking as well. Does it say anywhere that it is not their homeworld? Everything I've seen says it is. It really doesn't seem logical though. Well, we do know for sure that the engineers want to either take or destroy the Earth once they find out about it, the question is why?

I think that pic is of a different world that Weyland made.

Observation: LV2(23) - 23 number of human chromosomes LV2(46) - 46 number of human chromosomes required for reproduction

Very cool, didn't notice that chromosome connection.

This touches on part of another question I have - but meanwhile, I'm not sure I'm following, because this seems a puzzle: if the Engineers are, "wiped out", then who are we telling Earth is habitable, who is thinking it's their World for the taking, how could they, "escape", and where did, "the last of them", suddenly come from?

What is more likely, that the engineers want to destroy the earth or just take it off of our hands?

When I say "wiped out," I mean all but a handful.

My theory is that LV-223 is a scientific outpost and the temples are actually labs.

With the way we are able to create life from scratch in labs nowadays, it wouldn't surprise me if someday we will have the technology to "print" organisms as if we were making a wrench, machines will be able to make us from scratch I'm sure, maybe within several hundred years. Then you just send the machine to a new planet and tell it how many people to make.

I agree, the temple is a lab, but I think it is also the mothership buried under ground.

It will be so cool to see if we are right about any of this stuff, I can hardly wait! Yes, I'll admit it, Scott is my favorite director of all time, sorry Cameron.

The article about the planet in the news section says the big head is part of the SJ culture. The big head is image of true gods, when the SJ discovered the tech for creation and begin experiments they are punished by outbreak of another experiment Xeno. The story begins to repeat itself with Weyland who is able to create synthetic individuals and looking to push the limits with what they might find on expedition.

The comics have touched on the Space Jockey homeworld. I'm sure Ridley took a look at this "canon" before re-doing it. [url=http://forums.millarworld.tv/index.php?/topic/99627-ridley-scotts-prometheus/page__view__findpost__p__2386717]Interesting Post on Another Board[/url]

@Ebugogo Hm...and the last handful were in hiding or suspended animation or something I suppose? Something like that? Yes, it is a strong solution - there are some inconsistencies, as I look at it - but, generally, it stands up. However, I just wonder. It's [i]very[/i] straightforward?....

I like it... When I read some of these convoluted, complicated guesses at the plot... I don't know... I think it will probably be a lot more straightforward than people think

My theory is.... That it's actually a laboratory the whole planet in a quarantined part of space. The engineers were actually conducting very unethical experiments and were shut down we are prob like lab rats to them but obviously over millennia they have forgotten about us. The cave pattings were warnings these big scary monsters live here and they come and collevt humans every now and then. Also the sj elite prob figured some way resurecting themselves inserting their genes into whatever /whoever...a step beyond cloning. But what was they working on the ultimate weapon/lifeform.... And was the eggs found in alien just templates of sj's embryos..that were changed by our meddling.

@kay The big problem I have with anything that contains the, "Warning", interpretation, is that those paintings look nothing like a warning. A bunch of humans gathered around a big fella who is pointing to his house? If he wants them to stay away from his house, why point it out? The humans would be none the wiser and they'd go about their business and leave him in peace...

@allinamberclad Indeed.

What if the reason Earth is so run down at the end of Alien4 is because of the events that happen in this movie?

I am reading At the Mountains of Madness. The plot seems similar. It describes an ancient race on earth that was given a boost by aliens. Scientists explore an ancient but apparently abandoned city. People have died, and the remaining scientists are being stalked. I haven't finished the story yet, but the ancient one's appear to have been dormant and have woken up to kill the lower life forms that cause problems for them. There is a link posted here that has the actual short story, just runa search.

@abordoli - Interesting. Except its LV-426, not LV-246.

There is so much focus on David, that I would imagine we will have some sort of alien android scene to show what sort of final destination to expect for this kind of technology.