Zeta II Reticuli, a weapons development facility?
Gavin
MemberTrilobiteJune 19, 201612639 Views36 Replies
Not too long ago I created a graphic novel called Prometheus: Absolution, in which I hypothesized how the derelict Juggernaut ended up on LV-426. Many of you appreciated the work, citing it as the most probable explanation as to the lone Engineer pilots fate. With Alien: Covenant having ignited a new wave of discussions into the Alien franchise many of us are again looking at the movie series with fresh eyes, noticing things we never realized before. As such I have looked back at the graphic novel and realized that unfortunately, it's all a load of rubbish, because of one inconsistency that has been a topic of debate since the first movie was released - the notorious egg silo or chamber.
Up until 2012's Prometheus the underside of the derelict Juggernaut had never been seen on screen. The measurements of the model used for the alien craft in behind the scenes material's showed that the egg silo could not be part of the vessel, leading some fans to theorize that the compartment was the interior of a structure hidden on the moon, echoing elements from the original script that were abandoned during production of the 1979 classic that featured a pyramid.
In Prometheus Captain Janek infers that LV-223 was a weapon storage facility built by the Engineers to store the deadly biological weapon, and the two Juggernaut's depicted in the movie, and the holographic mapping of the alien craft clearly confirm that the egg silo cannot feasibly exist beneath the platform used by the Engineer to pilot the craft, though it was shown that Juggernauts do carry a cargo of many thousands, possibly millions of urns containing the deadly biological weapon stored on LV-223.
It would seem highly likely, if not certain that the egg silo is part of an Engineer created structure on Acheron LV-426 used to store the Xenomorph eggs. With at least one of the multiple facilities on LV-223 containing urns carrying a biological agent "tainted" with Xenomorph DNA and at least one facility on LV-426 containing Xenomorph eggs, educated speculation would suggest that the two moons are part of a biological weapon factory, with each moon housing a different stage in the weapons development. With there being three moons in orbit around Calpamos, our speculation can reasonably suggest that the third, unnamed moon may likely have at least one Engineer created structure used as part of the development of the deadly biological weapon known by fans as the "Black Goo."
If we assume that the structure(s) on LV-426 was used to house the raw materials - the Xenomorph eggs, with the facilities on LV-223 known for being used to store the weapon developed from the eggs on LV-426. Logic would dictate that the facility we have speculated to be on the third moon is therefore used to create the deadly weapon. The Xenomorphs ability to metamorphose organic hosts into eggs incubating a Xenomorph Facehugger seems directly related to the deadly weapons ability to genetically infect victims with Xenomorph attributes. With the black goo developed from Xenomorph eggs it would suggest that the results of the black goo - the Trilobite and the Deacon, were not examples of the proto-form of the Xenomorph, but a weaponized variant of the creature, to be used to wipe out entire ecosystems and not just the hosts that inhabit them.
As to where the eggs come from still remains a mystery, and therefore, the Xenomorphs origin also remains unknown, maintaining the mystery. However, it is possible that there are other lunar systems throughout the galaxy used by the Engineers to store the Xenomorph eggs, the urns and whatever nightmarish facility exists on Calpamos' third moon.
Unfortunately, I realize that this realization only sheds light on the moons of Calpamos, and the Engineers presence there - everything else puts us all back to square one - we don't know what happened to the lone pilot on LV-426, we don't know where else to find Xenomorph eggs, we don't know where the Engineers come from nor why they intended to use the deadly weapon on us 2000 years ago. Though it does make me wonder what the facility on the third moon looks like (Gigers Homage to Bocklin, maybe - pictured below) and the nightmarish mechanisms and alchemy it contains.
Ridley Scott has always inferred and related that the egg chamber is the cargo hold of the derelict Juggernaut, yet the designer and creator of the derelict and the egg chamber H.R. Giger always saw them as separate entities and designed them as such.
Clearly as seen above the derelict was never designed with such a large cargo hold in mind. While one could argue that they would not do so in a scale miniature comparing the pilots room with the egg chamber beneath you can clearly see the vast differences in scale.
Even though Ridley Scott used his children to make the Space Jockey look bigger the pilots chamber is designed to be the center of the derelict, whereas the scale of the egg chamber dwarves Kane (two white dots on the right, pictured above). Comparing Kane in relation to the egg chamber and Kane, Dallas and Lambert entering the derelict (pictured below) an estimate, one would argue that the size of the egg chamber is at least five times the size of the derelict. comparing scales, the pilots chamber doesn't even cover the width of the egg chamber, and the egg chambers winding corridors don't even parallel the derelict above.
It is clear from Giger's designs, shown in the movie that the egg chamber is a vast cathedral-like structure not intended to be part of the derelict. If we are to believe Ridley Scott, the majority of the craft would be buried in the ground; unearthed and in orbit it would look akin to Falcon carrying an Elephant in its claws. While it could be argued to be a container, the surrounding landscape upon which the derelict Juggernaut sit's would favor the chamber being a subterranean structure.
The Juggernaut on LV-223 is rounder and flatter than the craft on LV-426, but the designs are too similar to not be considered the same class of vessel. Maybe the LV-426 craft, much like its pilot became misshapen and warped over a prolonged period - a simple and viable suggestion to address the ships differences which IRL came about through "creative license". Think of the LV-223 Juggernaught as brand new, out of the factory, with the vessel on LV-426 being the bent out of shape.
