What if the LV-426 Xenomorphs from Aliens are a different strain of Alien and the Queen is a mutation?

Chris, I think that your right, although the fachugger can disperse a queen embryo if the host is female or male or anything in that matter in order for the survival of the species. As we know from Hadley's hope the scientists there gathered multiple eggs releasing fachuggers, so then at least one of them dispersed a queen embryo.

Or either simply any xenomorph (adult) can morph into a queen... so that the species is sure to survive.

I thought this was a new Topic and i was going to mention how the other day i posted in a thread how the Queen maybe could be a Mutation, a unexpected Evolution.

But then remembered this is a old topic and its nice to look back and so Chris yes its possible.

We have covered how a Egg Morph can make a Queen, as i feel it makes sense if we try and fit WHY the Xeno in Alien only used Two hosts.

But ultimately we dont know how the Eggs got on the Derelict, we always had 2 ways explored on film.

1) A Queen may have laid them, or the Space Jockey took them from another Place where Queens lay them.

2) A Egg Morph created them or similar, and a Queen came from one of these due to some circumstance of events, be it host type or maybe when the Alien's set up a hive and pheromones or royal jelly can then create a Queen.

The theory on Egg Morph = Queen Egg could play a role too.

But dont forget we had a alternative explanation by HR Giger all those years ago

3) The Ships (well Egg Silo but maybe also Ships) produce something that evolves into the Eggs, his idea was the Silo had pregnant bellies that produce Eggs and his Mural did seem show the ship which had Xeno DNA created the Eggs.

Then 33 years latter Prometheus gave us the Black Goo and so

4) The Black Goo could via some experiments of event create the Eggs or Organism that leads to the Eggs.

But now when i look at maybe what if the Queen was a Mutation a Genetic Freak, how could this happen?  Surely they would know its possible?

The only clear way to avoid some contradictions could be...

5) The Derelicts Cargo was a Weapon, Engineered for the Purpose of killing off wayward creation of some Ancient Race, these created the Engineers and they rebelled, maybe they tried some methods to destroy them on Paradise that took away the Females of there species?

Some escaped.... (how these fit with Mankind or Purpose of Mankind is for another debate).

So some of these Engineers escaped but lost the Females, they had to find other means to procreate maybe? who knows its for another debate.

So the beings who created the Engineers or wanted to destroy them and Engineered a Weapon, this weapon was the Xeno Eggs on the Derelict and they tried to destroy the remaining Engineers. Or the rebel cast...

This Weapon was Engineered to kill the Engineers but the Space Jockey got infected before he could deliver them...

The Engineers then was able to go and investigate and got infected and the result gave them a perverted way to give birth via Xeno Embryo Impregnation and they worshiped the result and Re-Engineered it to get the Black Goo.

BUT THE KEY POINT I AM MAKING?

What if the Derelict Eggs are intended and created to be used on a Race that can no procreate a Race where only Males survive and a Race that are different a little to Mankind.

The Face Hugger is Engineered for the Engineers maybe?

And so those who created them, never foresaw what would happen if one of these Eggs infected a HUMAN-FEMALE

This then leads to a Queen? or something to do with those Eggs and Hadleys Hope leads to a Queen that was never the intended outcome?

Maybe this is why then the Xenos born from those Eggs are different?

I think this is a good explanation, but it would have to mean indeed the Alien 3 Egg came from the Derelict.

Also i am not sure of the Engineer connection to the Space Jockey as far as any War etc....  it could still be that the Space Jockey was on the same mission as the LV-223 ones a outbreak happened, infections and the Space Jockey tried to get into Cryo-sleep like some Engineers in Prometheus... the last Engineer survived.. his 3 fellow crew did not..

The Space Jockey was not as lucky as the Last Engineer, he overslept too but he woke up 200 years after (the Last Engineer 2000 or so after) and then the Space Jockey set off but he got chest busted as he was on his way.

*This is what Spaights draft intended... the SJ was infected but Cryo-sleep helped to halt the infection but not stop it

i think of the directors cut scene less of "egg-morphing" cause personally i find that biologicaly having to morph one organism of a completely alien dna into another organism highly improbable and view the scene as a pantry of sorts for the alien creature, what is viewed as dallas morphing could be him being slowly digested into digestible food for the xenomorph while it needed the extra nutrition to complete a morph into a higher caste such as a praetorian or possible queen, the view of all the aliens actions as being "alien" actually follow one of the basic instincts of terrestial organisms and thats to reproduce and spread your genes, and on another note i find egg morphing very inefficient due to the time frame that it can take days for a single organism to be morphed into a egg then a organism that can morph into a form that can exponentially lay more eggs and with a higher hive intelligence, and to reading earlier questions about the ripley 7 clone if i remember correctly i believe that the xeno specimen died from another cloning failure after being removed from the host

Egg morphing takes a couple of hours.

Based on available knowledge, Queen gestation takes about 3 days, then another three days until she starts laying.

The Xenomorph until Alien 3 was the exact same strain: Xenomorph XX121, Alien Resurrection is a different story. There are differences because of how long each have been alive as well as multiple castes. In Alien, the Xeno was a Drone it does not require a Queen to live, however the Warriors in Aliens required the Queen since they can't even think for themselves aka their mindless, the one in Alien 3 is still a Drone but birthed from an Ox/dog. By the way the scientific name for the Xenomorph is Linguafoeda Acheronsis.