LV-426 is the engineers quarantine

Or until after the company in Prometheus finds the location of all the engineers' quarantine sites in the star map.

not sure what you mean by the "until" there mate. Please expand (good idea)

"i think people just need to sit tight, wind each other up (gently), and wait. 23 days now, am going to have the day off and go to the fist available showing :-)" .....sooooooo, misfit of vagabond? ;)

@windood that is def a possiblity. I am with you with dallas's whole fossilisation line also. I have stated before in another thread that it was clear that the passengers on the Nostromo were not scienctist. That accompanied with what we dont know about the genetic make up of the creature they found leaves it feasible that the comment about being there a long time and the rhetoric about millions of years was just uneducated jargon. The film was made in 1979 folks so....I must say though from some of what we have uncovered can steer us in the right direction. the credits saying surviving engineer lets us know that something took place for him to survive. And there is a synopsis that says this engineer interacts with our human characters at some point. So that says alot and none said that there is only one ship.

@Windood I think you'r onto something here.To add to that the company is more monstrous than any body could had imagine, not only they sent the Nostromo and it's crew to basically die, they settled Hadly's hope on LV-426 I think fully knowing what could happen and who knows what secret dark agenda awaits the crew of Prometheus.

i'm a ne'er do well lol. Not sure how many days it is now, but tonight when i got home i really fancied watching it on dvd. Weathers too crap to go running in and i can't think of anything else to watch. Might rewatch my game of thrones boxset.

someone had a post on here somewhere talking about the merged company and so on earlier today, made me think. what is obvious about this film, but not on here, is that none of the speculations add up coherently. Which I like, because it means there is still lots we don't know, or small events that have a huge effect on the context of the scenes we do know about. its like being partially sighted. Wish i could find the thread about the company now, it had some good posts.

My thoughts go to the fact that the derelict had a warning beacon going...to me that's a display of concern and empathy for others. And I'll go with Dallas' observation, maybe not millions of years old but by no means fresh. This is a captain with no lack of experience, evidenced by his being in command of probably one of the most sophisticated vehicles yet built by mankind. I can't dismiss that level of recognition by the Company. If Dallas says "bones bent outward", observing from a foot away....those are bones. I do think the derelict's position was probably known by his or its peers..and considered by them a quarantined vessel. I don't think the last few minutes are going to tie directly to the derelict in Alien..I think what Scott was referring to was a generalization...how those ships were created or their routine role in their civilization...you have to depict and visualize concepts and ideas without reading a lecture to the audience...the film must have a flow....there are a great many wonderful incredible ideas, so creative online...but complicated to depict and dialogue cannot bridge every gap. Just my cheap ass 2 cents here..

@ Windood to alaborate on that: My reason for that line of thinking it's my believe that the company would NEVER send such an expensive and well equipped expedition half way across the galaxy withou thinking on the BOTTOM LINE. They've got an agenda and sending a bunch of "kids" who BELIEVE as Fifield so eloquently put it is not the company's sole interest. It's funny how you have to spell the word LIE in order to complete the word BELIEVE.

I think i get your point now, you mean the planet is intended by the engineers as a quarantine but either the nostromo provides a way off the planet for the alien OR the weyland company later send a ship for it? I could see either of those happening. Interesting talk on some of the other threads about a weyland/yutani merger. there doesn't need to be one, yet. they could just as easily be involved in a joint venture for mutual gain, companies do it all the time, even apple and microsoft.

I agree the derelict is not fossilized (even if i liked the idea that it was there for millions years). Particularly on this very active lv426 planet we saw in alien. It should have been either underground or not so intact. Besides (no connection:), how do the facehugger know their actual subjects (human) need O2? lv223 or lv426 have a very different atmosphere, which means their habitants live from that. Maybe the xeno we see in alien are adapted to humans somehow (maybe after the events we'll see in prometheus)

The face huggers are an omni-diversant "thing" as they naturally sense by their own self regulatory 'bervous systems' if they have one ane more primal instinct to 'adapt' to the current 'host conditions' present. If they were under water awaiting a dolphin to happen by they would be so prepared. If they were upon the hostile surface of LV-426 they would equally be so prepared yet again. They have the ability to shed their outer layers of 'skin' and replace them with polarized silicon so as to cope with the external conditions currently in place there upon that world.

I doubt they're adapted to humans, they'd be a better technology if they could use anything living as a host. we're carbon based and they're silicon, so far as we know, and they didnt have trouble with that, i doubt they need oxygen. but could be. i just think it'd weaken them as a species/threat/tool.

They could lay dormant for an eternity id that were so required until some hapless other life form happened by to be attacked and smothered by the latching-on face-hugger process.

I think they try to quarantine the Xeno and take it somewhere safe and land on LV426 but i am not sure thats the target. LV223 i think is the Engineers Outpost/Research Lab!