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Is the Covenant mission related to the ancient attack on LV-223?

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Covenant: The term "covenant" refers commonly to an agreement, a contract, an understanding, and/or a promise.

The Covenant mission consists of 2,000 colonists aboard what is described as humanity's furthest attempt to colonize a planet within our galaxy.

Video messages to family back home talk of how proud the Covenant crew is to begin something of such significance even with the spectacular success humanity has had so far at this time in planet colonization. 

Sergent Lope says "a six person squad might not be sufficient for a mission with so many variables" in his last status report before going into hypersleep.

The skeleton crew responsible for the 2,000 colonists going the furthest humanity has ever travelled to was not lost on Sergent Lope. He seems to have been set up for failure should any "variables" be outside of plan.

Was the Covenant mission an offering or the settlement of an agreement made 2,000 years earlier during the time when LV-223 was attacked?

QueenElizabethShaw proposed that there was depth to the meaning of "Covenant" here. I agree.

Multiple Walters

The origin of the name Walter is a Germanic name meaning "ruler of the army", composed of the elements wald "rule" and hari "army". 

waftlord made an unbelievably excellent point in regards to the amount of androids to support thousands of colonists.

Why wouldn't there be hundreds (or more) of Walters to support building the new world?

Androids build and repair androids.

Would the Covenant mission of thousands of colonists have a single product from the "We are Walter" campaign? I doubt it.

In summary, the Covenant mission consists of the best technology collected to start humanity on a new planet, 2,000 frozen colonists (hosts), potentially hundreds of androids, and countless resources outside of this protected by a security squad of six persons. 

Did David 8 Prepare a Place for an Event?

A bowl of judgement is poured above. The planet names of LV-223 and LV-426 may have deeper meaning as well in regards to this concept. 

jdvyne made this amazing connection below in regards to LV-223 and LV-426.

Levicitcus 4:26 (LV-426):
He shall burn all the fat on the altar as he burned the fat of the fellowship offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for the leader's sin, and he will be forgiven.

Leviticus 2:23 (LV-223):
Say to them: 'For the generations to come, if any of your descendants is ceremonially unclean and yet comes near the sacred offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the LORD, that person must be cut off from my presence. I am the LORD.

Is David 8 releasing what is depicted in the mural on LV-223 above in the below image in the place he prepared on Paradise?

Is the Covenant mission fulfilling a promise made long ago when someone interceded on behalf of humanity on Earth in stopping the attack plans of the Engineers on LV-223 made known by David 8 in Prometheus?

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As for the ship’s name, I would say that “Covenant” is the agreement made between the colonists (between themselves and the rest of humanity) to fulfill the mission of starting a new civilisation for mankind, just like The Mayflower and the pilgrim fathers. There might of course be lose religious symbolism intended since it’s also about “gods” and creators.

I don’t see LV-223 as being attacked 2.000 years ago. I see it as an outbreak of the pathogen due to carelessness/accident (but which also can hint at chance/fate/destiny since it is connected to the time of Christ). Janek also tells Vickers of a similar accident which he has experienced. The space jockey on LV-426 also seems to be from this time since its fossilised (crashed on its way to destroy Earth) and perished due to the result of the same outbreak (face hugged and chestbursted)..

But there is of course the possibility that the space jockey isn’t that old (it’s only been dead for a couple of years when The Nostromo lands there and is the result of David’s experiments). “Paradise” is LV-426 (after some kind of devastation). This scenario would perhaps make it easier to connect David’s creation (the xenomorph) with the eggs on LV-426 that Kane encounters? The alternative would of course be that David has nothing to do with the xenomorph and the eggs on LV-426. The xenomorph is a very old creature (suggested by the mural) and the engineers reinvented it? The eggs might have been created in another facility on LV-223?

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