Could the Space Jockey in the 'Derilict' be a benevolant 'hero' that was himself

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I began thinking of this when I was typing on another thread so much that I was compelled to create my own thread out of the idea. Please go with it as I think it is interesting concept to at least think about. It may seem a bit slim that this is the case but please offer your comments: Perhaps the Space Jockey was in fact a 'person' whom perhaps disagreed with whatever was in fact going on with his 'race' and perhaps tried to stop 'them' and got rewarded with punishment for his actions. A 'cruxifiction' of sorts, if you will, for his 'sins' or that of his 'people'. that he must now pay pennants for? Could the Space Jockey who is discovered fossilized in the 'Derilict' in fact be a 'Tragic Hero' as was posted on here a little while before that I read somewhere before? Makes you wonder...

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darthmongo
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darthmongoMay 08, 2012

What if the SJs got the same "invitation" and have been there for the same reasons that the Prometheus' crew are, but aren't exactly willing to share with another race. Perhaps the SJs are the ones who "stole fire from the gods" and the Prometheus' crew also gets in trouble for also taking part.

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1darkjediMay 08, 2012

OOOOkkkkk...........We really need to get a hobby............nice thought though......

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VaderTimeMay 08, 2012

Too complicated. SJ creating or discovering bio-killing-death-machine is much more feasible. Peter Weland already explained the Prometheus analogy and the ship is named based on that. Humans are going to steal alien technology, Price yet to be determined and paid for the theft from the "gods".

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1darkjediMay 08, 2012

I just trust in Ridley though........I just wanna be SO freaked out & jumping out of my seat.......

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Id Rather Be Eatin Something ElseMay 08, 2012

I know it was a hard idea/thread to sell to you but I just thought of it on a whim while I was typing away elswhere upon the site so forgive! PLEASE!!! lol!

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PredatordreadsMay 08, 2012

This is a Great theory! Why I say that is because if you recall in a couple of Dark Horse Aliens stories the "Mala Kak" are know to be benevolent but they hate the Xenomorphs. Also as far as we know this far about Prometheus we see the hologram of the one Space Jockey being chased or hunted down. Awesome name "I'd rather be Eatin Something Else"! By the way what happend to Snorkelbottom? that member had some great posts.

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GalzuMay 08, 2012

I think the sacrificed SJ is one that is Punished for his "betrayal" of making/helping humans.

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Forever WarMay 08, 2012

Victim of the Bald race....yeah those guys...not his own species...I clown around a lot on the board, I'm known for that, yes...but that's my view of the Space Jockey. Victim..ship grown around him, forcibly made to serve the Baldies

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paulrMay 08, 2012

"Tragic Hero" as in "Sacrifice Engineer?" And don't apologize. Your theory is pretty credible compared to the usual unfounded, totally unrelated theories found here everyday. Your problem is that you have to throw in something that completely contradicts what we already know as a fact (give or take). Then you would have a theory worthy of this forum. For example: "Perhaps the Space Jockey was in fact [i]an android[/i] whom perhaps disagreed with [i]Ripley's ancestor[/i] and got rewarded with punishment for his actions by [i]being impaled by a Predator.[/i]" See? Try again next time.

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NoXWordMay 08, 2012

Interesting theory. We don't know how many living engineers we are going to see (one, apparently), while we see three of them in the holograms (from the past, then), but this makes me think that perhaps one of those three is the one whose corpse we see in Alien.

Ridley Scott will eventually tell us how the Queen was born. Right now we have the Deacon; coming soon the Mercury, the May and the Taylor.

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Id Rather Be Eatin Something ElseMay 08, 2012

I tseems like a very simple almost too simple idea at first sight, but with a little bit of pondering upon the scenario that could be the about-face that Ridley Scott delivers us in Prometheus. It makes us think of the 'sacraficial lamb' within society, any society. Even Alien, or Space Jockey, or SP, or Bio-Engineers or... well you know what I mean!.

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David 1May 08, 2012

I'm fond of a "martyred" character.

[b]Ask nothing from no one. Demand nothing from no one. Expect nothing from no one.[/b]

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WindoodMay 08, 2012

ummm, no, this sacrifice means providing a host for the xeno to spawn itself into something bigger. a sacrifice woul have been blowing itself to bits, along with the ship etc. there maybe some kind of magic fossilisation potion, because fossils are only made underground, effectively they're a bust, made of minerals depsoited in water that seeps into a mould made by rock growing around the original skeleton/body. so i have a problem thinking dallas was correct in calling 'fossilisation'.

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Id Rather Be Eatin Something ElseMay 08, 2012

Thanks Predatordreads. Your name is cool too!!! Real Cool!!! Thank you for that. As for me: Typing on here or: Rather Be Eatin Something Else? I'D RATHER BE EATING SOMETHING ELSE!!! lol!

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takka_takka_takkaMay 08, 2012

My feeling is that the original Jockey was probably just some hapless non-union longhaul truck drivin' man who didn't know he was hauling dangerous cargo. That beacon we intercepted was actually an OnStar transmission.

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NoXWordMay 08, 2012

If the SJ from Alien is just "some hapless non-union longhaul truck drivin' man who didn't know he was hauling dangerous cargo" then I suppose that the acoustic beacon heard by the Nostromo is not a warning but just the Spacejockeyan language version of "Right!..."

Ridley Scott will eventually tell us how the Queen was born. Right now we have the Deacon; coming soon the Mercury, the May and the Taylor.

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Id Rather Be Eatin Something ElseMay 08, 2012

Windood, I meant the SJ's 'own people', for what ever reason, 'provided' the SJ as an offering for his potential turning against the bio-engineers or their 'supiriors'. And so maybe as a last act, as Darth Vader 'turned back into Anakin' to slay his Emperor for having allowed him to lead him down a misguided path and his misguided ways so too the SJ may in fact do something similar but maybe the Humans do not realise this and assume he (SJ) is out to destroy humans on the Earth. ASgain, just a thought experiment! What do you think too?

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Jdax8May 08, 2012

someone finally learned the correct meaning of benevolent (good) ..kudos yo :)

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Slipp_DigbyMay 08, 2012

Hopefully RS won't try to tie up all the loose ends about the SJs from alien. If he just gives enough back story to allow us to fill in the gaps ourselves, I would be satisfied. To do otherwise would make him no better than Lucas.

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Id Rather Be Eatin Something ElseMay 08, 2012

Maybe the Space Jockey was sacraficed because he was attempting to steal the contributions to the Tiatn Bio-God Engineer's benevolent funds in Xeno eggs! lol!