David

The Juggernaut was carrying the black ooze, David probably released the ooze on the population.

While the black ooze was causing total havoc, the only way the engineers could stop it was to wipe everything out thus why you see all the bodies all over the place.

Oops on the last one.Yes Movie Fan,quite possibly,some one told that they believed that the engineer's were likely destroyed through infected water.While i thought it may be possible,these new images suggest something else entirely.There's also the possible leaks from the set to consider.

To be honest,dissemination through water could still be a possibility.For one it could explain the spores.Secondly,were the water to be infected,it would have the potential to cause mass hysteria.Imagine thousands of engineers all fighting and killing each other.

Yes, i can imagine that. :)

Speaking of the body on the table, I would say its 50% Shaw and 50% someone else based on this picture below:

The Juggernaut was carrying the black ooze, David probably released the ooze on the population.

While the black ooze was causing total havoc, the only way the engineers could stop it was to wipe everything out thus why you see all the bodies all over the place'

Yes, very possible.  Especially if the population were located to one area, geographically.

It's harder to see that scenario over a whole world though.  We don't know yet the extent of life/habitats on Paradise yet . . .

I like the water idea as well - it could explain the fighting engineers/burnt corpses we have seen . . .

I just realized something...That design of the burst/cut ope, chest on that corpse/cadaver/dead dude is similar to the one on the new eggs. At first I thought it was one of the crew, but now I am convinced it is an Engineer (scale be damned!)

I really think David was experimenting with one of the Engineers that was possibly in one of the cryo-pod on the juggernaut he flew to Paradise.

Not sure what's the deal with the good Dr. Shaw, but chances are pretty good that she got screwed in this deal...

Dr. David Frankenstein looks hell bent on creating the perfect organism by all means necessary...

So my question is where have these engineers been this whole time? The ones on LV-223 had been dead for thousands of years right? And a lot of people think they were going to destroy life on Earth, so what stopped them? Why haven't they been seen? Why did they leave an entire planet abandoned, LV-223? If there were engineers there they would have seen and heard what was going on during the Prometheus mission. The set report says of a Pompeii like event that took place. An apocalyptic event? Some form of extinction plan to eradicate them? Genocide? The bodies may be stuck like that for thousands of years like Pompeii. I just don't think one person like David could wipe out an entire race. Why wouldn't they have just killed him? They sure as hell never would have trusted an android. I find it hard to believe he and possibly Shaw hid from them the whole time and created something to destroy the engineers.

Dr. Connors

My theory is those Engineers got zapped long before humans were thinking that Friday Night Fights at the ol' Roman Colosseum weren't in vogue anymore...

It's the only thing that fits...Are we to honestly believe that one individual droid could take out that many inhabitants that quickly to the point of they all died instantly where they stood...?

Would the engineers truly leave themselves that vulnerable to just one of their own Juggernauts with accompanying cargo...? Doesn't make total sense for any advanced race with half a engineer brain.

No that looks like advanced warfare to me...Some form of Nucleonic, Microwave, Thermal, or some other Hollywood made-up weapon that cooked these jokers. Maybe that Engineers were possibly at war with themselves, another race, or maybe even some Martians.

David just took advantage of the situation to use their temple to further his own goals....

Just my thought, anyways.

@suwhited  That's what I think too, it's the only thing that makes sense to me as well. Since the ones that are dead on LV-223 were thousands of years ago, I think these ones have been too. Awesome stuff as usual man!

@Dr. Connors

Maybe the Engineers as a race have "Seen their better days..."

A theory I was trying to wrap my head around is that David recognizes the limitations of both humans and Engineers as creator races and therefore want's to imrove upon the whole lot.

I believe he was experimenting/dissecting/butchering one our more of the Engineers which were probably in the Cryo-pods on the Juggernaut that they flew into Paradise on.

Using the Black-goo as a baseline, David is trying to take one or more races(humans) past genetic potential into something greater (transcendence...?) The Xenomorph is viewed as perfect organism by Ash in the original Alien movie...

Could it be that David's ultimate goal is to create the ultimate race that will not suffering a downfall like the Engineers... Or maybe he is trying to transform humankind into something greater? (And get the glory out of it, of course...)

Dammitt! Too much pontification, so now my head is hurting...I think I'll go watch "Barney" to reflect on all this...

@suwhited   Hahahaha on that last bit. Yeah I hear ya man, the ideas and theories are flowing through everybody on here since the new trailer debut. I heard some people on here rumbling about how there is nothing being kept a secret now, they've let us know too much. I think I know even less than I did before, they've got me second guessing myself all the time. Everything I think I piece together something else comes up. I think they have done an extraordinary job promoting this movie, just wait till all the TV spots start coming out!

@ninXeno426  Sorry to post this here but I just read a set report from Collider.com, a lot of interesting stuff on there to say the least, and I am fairly new here and don't really start topics but wanted to let people know about it. If you wanna start a topic about it be my guest. I know there are gonna be other set reports and visits, this one I came across and you're gonna wanna read it for sure.

This will probably change people's opinions on Walter and David even more to say the least. Also reading it Demian Bichir is the leader of the military part of the crew, there is tons and tons of new information on there. It's titled something like Alien: Covenant 70 things we learned about the sequel or something like that.

It's fine Connors.I'm intrigued by these set reports,the question is whether they are truthful or purposely misleading.The idea of a separate human race worshipping the engineers as gods is something i haven't considered yet.It's similar to our own history with the possibilities of alien races being worshipped as gods as seen in a lot of ancient cultures.

@ninXeno426  Yeah that's true, to me there wasn't really anything spoilery in it. Found out some things I didn't know.

Hard to say spoilers when the movie is 2 and half months off

Well nothing I read was like oh shit they just ruined something for me, nothing like that I mean.

I know what you mean.Collider you say?I might check it out 

Yep Collider