No More Hosts, What Next?

Gavin

MemberTrilobiteMay 01, 20122619 Views23 Replies

A theoretical question for you all, here's the scenario... A planet, somewhere out there, full of life. Not intelligent life like us (an exaggeration I know), but wildlife, much like Earth was during the Cretaceous period (last era of the Dinosaurs). There is only one continent on this planet. Down through the clouds a Derelict/Juggernaut descends, and hovering silently above the ground it deploys its cargo of Xenomorph/Alien eggs before ascending back above the clouds and leaving the system. The contents of the eggs do their thing... Facehugger - Chestburster - Alien and Queens - Hive - Eggs. The cycle continues, on and on, hive after hive is established and the number of indigenous lifeforms from this planet that are suitable as hosts for the Xenomorph/Alien grow smaller and smaller in number. My question is, what happens when all suitable hosts are used up? What are your theories as to what happens next...

funkopotamus
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May 11, 2012

i'm with the planned self-termination scenario. eggs last forever. face-huggers seem to live for a short time outside of the eggs. aliens, however, are designed to hunt, kill, reproduce and die. The acid for blood is not just a defense mechanism. it's an extraction medium. when they die and decompose, the acid dissolves them from the inside out. That explains the hole in the floor next to the SJ in Alien. The SJ's xeno died and dissolved there. I'm working from the belief that the xenos are meant to be a pure weapon. They kill until they can't kill anymore and then they die and dissolve, leaving the conquered area completely cleansed.

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October 18, 2012

Well my theory is that once they made a fully operational hive they will balance. I think the hive wants to reach a certain number of xenomorphs. If that number is reached the Xenomorph will only hunt for prey to eat. A prey to eat can be shared with other Xenomorphs and because the Xenomorph is very social it will share. In the time the hive doesn't need any hosts the other animals on the planet can balance their number again. If a lot Xenomorphs die of age or other reasons the hive will need hosts again. Then the animal population will lower again but because they need no more hosts after a while the animal population will become stable again. Of course when a hive has reached it's highest number a small group of Xeno's will abandon the hive to make a new one and so on. I think the population of the planet will become stable if a Xenomorph hive can spread. I do think the animal population will decrease but not so far to extinct all other life forms on the planet.

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October 29, 2012

The biological weapon thing sounds about right...there are many theories which suggest adult aliens dont live very long, which makes sense because, as far as i can tell, they don't eat - humans are generally coccooned then left to rot after impregnation. The bodies aren't eaten, and when no impregnation takes place they are just killed outright, and still don't get eaten. But then again if this were true, the hive on LV-426 should all have died out by the time ripley and the marines got there.