new title - Alien Abducted (human traffic)

I realise Prometheus has been made and bonds us (genetically) to the Engineers but... did it need to? Imagine this pre-Alien one-shot flim idea: the giant Space Trucker's priority cargo isn't the EGGs, its the precocious Peter Weyland. Seriously, have the young lad as some sort of galactic experiment* or space soldier* and have him be the covert hand-over deal on LV-426 - or just have him as a stowaway. Get him back on Earth (using some narrative device like a gap in spacetime caused by the derelict's malfunctioning control system once chestburster explodes through Space Trucker's carapace), get him an ID then a family then a business empire (sorta like what happens to David Bowie in The Man Who Fell To Earth). Then your post-Alien Franchise is intact and can flourish as it did without parallel hitch. In fact, this'll be why he sent Sulako to LV-426, to finish off the deal that went wrong, or to merely exploit the alien EGGs only he knows are there. You could then have the Yutani Corporation discover his galactic origins and BLACKMAIL him into later coalition. * yeah, kinda like the film Hanna. :) As you'll see, I've only recently changed the title of this post from 'alternative alien prequel' to 'alien abducted (human traffic)'. Reason? I think I want the (whatever they are) Space Truckers to be traders OR PIRATES i.e. abductors/resellers of fleshvessels i.e. Humanoids. I want Peter Weyland to be THE ONLY ONE WHO'S EVER ESCAPED THEIR CARGO HOLDS in 2001. All the other 'children' got Egg-ified. Derelict installed on LV-426 with 'do not land' priority all over it. Weyland would 'know' what the beacon meant when he sent the Prometheus/Magellan out into the stars. That's our REAL HERITAGE, not that we were created by 3m bald blue aliens but that we're a GALACTIC COMMODITY traded like gold, silver or copper. And still could be today.