The Space Jockey wasn't meant to leave the derelict

Speculation has always been part of my MO when we aren't in possession of all the facts.

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the derelict and juggernaut are completely different designs so what may be the case for prometheus may not be the case for alien

Indeed.  The pilot chamber for the Juggernaut was not only round, it had cryotubes and a control station.  The Juggernaut is substantially bigger, but wasn't as tall if we assume the egg chamber is part of the Derelict and below ground level.

I still believe, this is only theory but, i mentioned this in a previous topic that the derelict was a short range cargo vessel(absence of cryo-pods) running eggs from 223 to 426, the cavern under the derelict is massive and eggs can be seen as far as the eye can see, kane says "what the hell is this" the next scene shows the expanse of the cavern it snakes off in the distance, so heres what i believe the SJ was placing his next batch of eggs in the cavern

for some reason he had his elephantine helmet open, got facehugged came too, made his way back to the bridge, set up the warning beacon, after he got told by the engineers not to come back to 223.

Another theory i have for the shaft next to the pilot chair, is in prometheus the chair rises out of the floor and obviously retracts back into the floor, the derelict would be no different in other words maybe thats how the SJ entered the subterranean cavern by the same means, the chair would be like a lift, and the eggs get lowered down into the chamber by some other method somewhere else on the derelict, just a theory.

This is why i HOPE the 10 Page book that they will reference off in future, they have thought about all this stuff every detail... no stone left un-turned...

who knows now however... we dont know 100% what direction they are going and if they are going with David created the Eggs and the Derelict never existed before Alien Covenant then i hope they have every other inch figured out.

I think a problem has been that every person who has taken on a Alien movie had not througghly thought out continituity.

I did when i was working on my own Fan-Made draft but the whole Engineer, Xeno, Mankind and why Agenda i was at a stumbling block so i aborted the project... but if there was NO Prometheus Sequel and i was asked to restart it now i think i could have done it a bit more justice with very little contradictions.

@airshaft_surprise

Indeed thats kind of a good explanation and the point i was pondering about ;)

The derelict in ALIEN appeared more organic than the juggernaut.

The corridors of the derelict looked like the insides of a giant creature with it's bony textures and what looked like, to me, a large vein.

The pilot chamber and egg silo are similar in it's Bony interior design.

I think that's where people get the impression that it's organic from.

During the creation of the derelict set they had big cattle bones brought in and even Giger was repulsed by the stench.

It obviously meant a great deal to the overall feel and aesthetic of the piece.      

@Necronom 4, yes the mystery thats what i liked about the first alien movie the not knowing and the hesitation and probably fear of the unknown that the three nostromo members were about to encounter. 

"Another theory i have for the shaft next to the pilot chair, is in prometheus the chair rises out of the floor and obviously retracts back into the floor, the derelict would be no different in other words maybe thats how the SJ entered the subterranean cavern by the same means, the chair would be like a lift, and the eggs get lowered down into the chamber by some other method somewhere else on the derelict, just a theory."

Good point.  Never really considered the Jockey chair on the Derelict rising up like the Juggernaut and where it was rising up from.

@BigDave yes i can see the conundrum of the whole thing, here in the forum we can all speculate till the cows come home but until fox releases something official that says this is how it all goes, until then we are only grasping at straws. lol 

Maybe, in the next instalment, Noomi Rapace will wake up and it will all have been just an Hollywood dream?

I know, wish-full thinking 

@S.M after watching both movies umpteenth times(lol) little things make sense even though i could be wrong, the shaft next to the chair that kane abseils down, could be a airshaft that runs parralel to the chairlift well or it could be a heat vent

Kane said it was like the goddamn tropics down there,

or it could be where the SJ's chestburster exited after it birthed? this is only speculation.

The hole Kane went down looks melted by acid. I was always under the impression it wasn't something built as part of the ship.

I'll have to have another study of both scenes.  What a chore. :)

@Necronom 4 lol!

@S.M oh i was going to mention the acid burn at the shaft entrance ya beat me too it! lol.

that could only mean that the SJ chestburster was injured after birthing or released acid blood as a fight or flight mechanism and burned a hole in the plating to escape down the shaft?

or a facehugger burned a hole coming up the shaft from the cavern to get to the SJ, but was there more than one engineer on board of the derelict?, you think there would be hmmmmm, this is getting very interesting.