Inferance from Prometheus: The Real Plot
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MemberOvomorphNovember 17, 2016The truth is that the Engineers are 100% human (shown in the lab of the ship). My guess is that the Engineers (humans) evolved on Earth 300,000 years ago (from Homo Ergaster just like the rest of us), but a civil war over the ethics of gene manipulation divided them during pre-history (obviously a former industrial age took place and the evidence was eradicated). The ‘ubermensch’ types, who favored the alteration of the human genome, left Earth and began playing around in space (basically a 250,000 year head start to spacefaring). The space borne humans altered their genes and ended up becoming the Engineers but technically, they’re still human, just upgraded. They left the natural human populace on Earth, in a primitive bronze age without the technology that they’d once had. But the Engineers continued to interfere with Earth’s natural human population in the form of false deities and miracles. When the Romans killed Jesus who was an engineer (2000 years before present day as Shaw said) a RADICAL group of Engineers were going to go and kill the Romans but they were sabotaged from within due to politics. You see, Earth is an Engineer PRESERVE, a natural and physical account of their human origin, a control like in an experiment. They generally do not want to hurt Earth, they want to protect it. The weapons factory on the Prometheus moon is a crime scene essentially. Engineers from within that military stronghold had defected upon news of Jesus’ crucifixion and were going to break policy and go slaughter some Romans, but certain engineers would not allow it to happen and by any means possible, unfortunately using their own dirty weapons, they sacked the defectors before they could carry out their plan. This explains the potential hostility from the Engineers that the movie hints at and also preserves Darwinism. Lets be real, if the franchise wants to deny our origins with dozens of hominids over the last 4 million years, or worse yet, they want to insinuate that the Engineers are Billions of years old and personally directed 1 billion years of Earth's evolution to perfectly match their own DNA......its going to look very stupid. No, the Engineers evolved on Earth.
The black goo is the real story. The goo is one of two things, or both. It’s either purely for warfare against enemy aliens or it’s used to sterilize genetics on an alien world. They do this so that they can rebuild the environment to suit mammals and Earth originated species of plants and animals. Alien worlds contain lifeforms and plant compounds that are poisonous to other life so they have to be 100% neutralized so they use the black goo. Once the mutagen has done its job and produced monsters and erased the natural environment, they somehow neutralize the products of the goo (various Xenomorphs). Xenomorphs aren’t a species, they are just mutagen infected native species who themselves will continue to evolve because they keep taking more hosts. Once the host supply is exhausted, the mutagen’s path of destruction ends. At that point, it may not be that hard to get rid of the mutagen’s products (eggs, facehuggers and remaining Xenomorphs). They wipe up the mess and start introducing desirable life compounds, DNA and plant forms. This is how paradise is built on new habitable worlds that the Engineers are managing. But the Engineers are not immune to political differences and rogues who would act alone or in rebel sects.
