Engineers & Assumptions

Deadgar
MemberOvomorphJuly 17, 2012700 Views10 RepliesI'm new to this message board, but I believe I have something to add to the discussion on engineers, let's just hope i've done my "search" right and this has not been discussed ( at least not from this angle ) yet.
I've been reading up on the relationship between engineers, xenomorphs and humans, and found that generally assumptions are being made that I find too simplistic. Let me elaborate:
1. A general concencus seems to be that the seed engineer is being forced/ sacrificed to spread his DNA on earth to jump start evolution and later on allow the xenomorphs to reproduc through us. I say jump start as the timing seems to indicate that this did not happen millions of years ago, but rather thousands.
2. Xeno's are generally believed to be a bio weapon built, or manipulated by the engineers, either for purposes that are beyond us, or to destory the human race.
3. The engineers are full of bad intentions towards us. ( well this is a horror movie after all)
Now, I might be simplifying discussion points at this stage, but please bear with me. I find these assumptions to be too aligned with dystopian sci fi conventions, and quite typical for our navel gazing. Yes, I'm labouring the point but what do I actually mean?
1. & 3. We barely know anything about the engineers. We know they are an ancient race capable of interstellar travel, and DNA engeneering. Does this mean they are out to get us? Not really, we don't really exist yet at least on their time scale. We're babies. Their babies. Does it mean they knew we were going to turn out the way we did?
Yes they could have tried to create us to propagate their bio weapon, or to allow them to reproduce after having gone sterile. But their control over our evolution must have been limited and it's quite far fetched to believe that they produced us with those goals in mind. I think we're more of an accidental bioproduct of scientific medelling. Really like it happens most of the time when do science down here on earth. How can we know that we are what they hoped would turn out of this experiment. It's just our natural reaction to believe we are meant to be, and created by a higher force for some purpose unknownst to us. We're not that great ...
Is it not far more likely tha the engineers live in a very complex society, with a multitude of beliefs, and political factions, that each have a variety of goals? Could the seed engineer be a visionary scientific that believes he is experimenting for the greater good? A sort of tesla of the engineer society if you would? Could the Engineers in the ship, be of a more conversavative notion that everything unequal to them is a threat and must be annihilated? Such Advanced beings surely have personalities and must have different opinions. I't sjust hard for me to believe they all want the same thing. Even on earth we don't all agree on nuclear weapons. Surely the creators of nuclear fission did not intend for the cold war.
Is that not why we are afraid of biogenetic engineering? For fear of what might happen to it? Could the xeno's be one of these bi=products that some seek to weaponize and others see as a cure ... for something?
What if there is a war in engineerland, and one faction is trying to create a weapon that is so clse to the bone it will give them a upper hand in an interstellar conflict?
Xeno's could also be a species they have come across, and much like the weyland corporation they sought to control it and failed. The awakened engineer would have been pissed that we unleashed the xenos, and that would be reason enough to kill the puny humans in his ship.
Any way these are just some thoughts, we don't know what the engineers are, are up to, or want. Why assume that we are even important to their plans.
What do you think ?