Awakening, Vickers, Engineers, Space Jockeys and Biomechanoids

your post did not come up. 

strange I'm seeing a lot of posts not showing are they hidden ? 

What the hell... I have tried posting this topic twice, but it never shows up. This is the closest thing i have come to starting the topic lol.

LOL Glad this has posted now..

Nice Topic to debate....  i am not sure we will know what happened to Shaw and all those Questions.. well we will but only via a Book..

Its looking Shoe-horned for David to go to LV-223 and the results of the next movie set after the year 2105 leads to the Derelict... But i know some will be disappointed with this because of the whole Timeline and how the Ship looked Ancient and the Timeline..

I have a idea which i may start to work into a Draft, that can bring back the Space Jockey being Large and Ancient, but i wont post it here as this is your Topic for you ideas and so i dont want to try and Steal any Thunder ;)

Absolutely the Derelict looked more Organic than the Juggernauts, the Space Jockey (13-15ft) is larger than the LV-223 Engineers 8ft (in Space Suits) and slightly less Organic.

So it does appear, and we can assume (but may be in-correct) that maybe the LV-223 Engineers had Stolen, or Re-Engineered the Technology.

Shaw asked who created them as far as the Engineers, Ridley said he did not want to meet GOD in the first movie.. So indeed we can speculate that their is a Hierarchy above the Engineers.

We could maybe even see a Parallel kind of Story to David's, in that the Engineers was indeed a Creation by some other Race (Space Jockey) who are Taller and use similar Space Suits but it could be left open to how Human they would look.

Like David, the Engineers Rebel against their creators and wish them destroyed and then they Re-engineer their Technology.

There is a Story to be Told right there.

i sure hope so!!

if prometheus is going to have more input in the franchise remains to be seen

so if you have some ideas for potential scenarios or stories then that could turn out to be all we have.  i would be very interested to hear anything anyone has on prometheus/engineer stories.  i have some ideas myself and have spent a lot of hours theorising potential background and mythology connected with what we see on 223 in prometheus.

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I would definitely like to see the Deacon in action, although I'm not sure if we'll see it again. In the Prometheus Fire and Stone comics it is implied that it became a huge organic mountain due to exposure to the black goo, and thus I'm not sure if he can still have this fate if he appears in Awakening. Although I don't think Ridley would care too much, he's probably not afraid to retcon a couple of things.

I dont think the fire and Stones comic is Canon. Doesnt that include Predators? 

@Working Joe

Fire and Stone is canon even though it has Yautja.

My god please tell me thats not the case. I like predator as a standalone movie but i hate the " AVP" idea. I think its horrible. Even Ridley himself has stated he hates the predator/Alien mashup. 

I doubt it the comics hold much value canonwise.

Fox owns it and Fox says what is canon. Even some of the newer novels involve predators and they're sold as canonical. 

As for Mr. Scott, I've chosen to ignore him. He changes his mind more often than my neighbor changes her undies.

My literary works might not be, and may never be, Canonical but I suspect you'll enjoy the directions I explore.
Unlike FOX, I listen to the fanbase, and aside from a buncha bratcats I have no one kibbitzing in my works.

The ALIEN franchise might belong to FOX, but the realms of FanFiction are open to all.

I will say this, at risk of being spoilery:

1; I ONLY base things off Movie Canon, and extrapolate off such as need be, but am careful to try to work within the 'Ridley Scott Frame' of things.

2; I'm not doing this as a summer-box-office-cash-in, obviously. The Novel is well over 60,000 words and the tie-in short story is building rapidly.

2; I don't care what David does, he didn't create the eggs found aboard the Derelict on LV-426, which is Ancient and at least a few centuries old. It is also a quite different model of ship from the juggernauts seen in PROMETHEUS and seen in the trailers for ALIEN: Covenant.

3; David as Space Jockey is too simplistic and violates the temporal Canon.

4; LV-426 has a story all it's own.

5; I will be addressing the Deacon's fate, it takes a turn I think folks will find satisfyingly different.

6; The Big Chap does appear, I mean The Alien, not a drooling aggro space-ant or some bastardized creation by a mad android.

7; There's a more thorough, intelligently conducted and carried out exploration of the buildings on LV-223. There is yet one Engineer to be awakened.

Then ill just ignore the comics, as long as they dont make it to the big screen..

Just as resurrection and A3, avp doesnt exist in my head. It worked as a videogame, nothing more.

I cant imagine which Alien fan would like the predators to live in the same universe, just ruins the the credibility and realistic feel imo.

How do u know so much about your neighbours underwear btw

Blackwinter:

I do not think it was THE big chap we saw in Covenant, it looks way too different than the one in Alien and it begraves quite different as well. Hell even the chestburster was completely different. 

Im also wondering what info you might have about the deacon? 

SPOILERS FOR Alien:Covenan

I haven't seen A:C yet but another member who (can't remember the name) has stated that the movie doesn't show what David uses to create the Morph. It leaves room for interpretation. Maybe he uses pre-existing material, knowledge etc. If that's the case the whole "David created him" debate is only based on an interview with Sir "I'm done with the dragons". Like I said before I'm ignoring him.

I go with the stuff that is officially released. Personally I don't mind crossovers since i like both franchises. I however do not like the AVP movies. They're a pile of wasted potential to say the least.

*chuckles* My neighbors.... That's just a german expression i translated. ;)

It doesnt really show you how he created the xenomorph, but implies it heavily through visuals and dialouge. 

Working Joe

Exactly right!

When I mention 'The Big Chap', I mean The Alien. :D

The critter seen in the ads for ALIEN: Covenant, well, that's a David created beastie, as we all know. It's cool, but it ain't The Big Chap. ;)

I have no 'inside' info, but based on what little is canonically known of the Deacon I am making some careful extrapolations as to it's nature and such.

As I said I haven't seen it yet. Maybe it's implied but that would "plot hole" Scott's own Alien movie in terms of the jockey. Well, I'll see then, I suppose. ;)

How do you know that will plothole Alien? For what it looks like, David will be heavily involved with the derelict and its cargo on LV-426. Not to spoil anything but the ending in Covenant + what is shown of David and his creations and actions in the film, heavily implies he is responsible and foreshadows what will happen in the next film and how everything ties into the first Alien

Plot hole in so far that the derelict is said to be older than David, thousands of years older even. Further the WY-Report (Canon) states that Weyland knew bout the LV-426 signal before Prometheus.

When you say it i actually remember reading that in the "Weyland files" on the Prometheus Blu-ray extras. Interesting. The only logical explenation for me then is that it is a ship that took off from LV-223 2000 years ago and crashlanded on LV-426 due to the obvious Alien burst. This means then that the engineers had already created the xenomorph. Would explain its more biomechanical look (engineer biosuit) in Alien.

So David was pehaps trying to recreate it? Idk.. 

Interesting indeed

Working Joe

I dunno what direction this franchise is going in anymore, but I plan to enjoy A:C. :)

BUT, I'm gonna have to deal with a pretty big schism between Franchise Canon and what's rapidly becoming (by default) My Canon.
C'est la Vie. :)
I'd hoped to be able to keep my works perfectly-aligned to Franchise Canon, but that's becoming more and more difficult.

I wasn't sure if it was the WY-Report or the DVD-Extra. I own neither. But I know the info is there.

The "derelict vs David"-debate is going on for months now. I believe the general consensus here is that David indeed just recreated it. Perhaps without even realizing it. Reverse breeding so to say. Unless A:C undoubtedly states otherwise. 

What do you guys think about the idea of Vickers being an android, which a prometheus rescue team finds on LV-223 (parallell story with shaws journey in awakening) and "resurrects" her so they can speak to her? Too far fetched? 

Vickers being an android, no, given what we know of her personality I doubt she'd have trusted an android to be her doppleganger.

Interesting idea.

There have been rumors her being an android. Caused by an interview with, surprise, Ridley Scott if my memory serves me right.

Vickers, she hated David, and likely all synthetics. She also seemed to have this absolute drive to protect her Inheritance...I can't see her trusting a doppleganger UNLESS it was programmed off her own brain, a 'copy' of her personality and didn't know it was an android...then, maybe.

I would assume she didnt know she was an android, that it was some kind of experiment on Peter Weylands part. 

Btw is the general consensus here (for those who have seen it) that David is taking the Covenant to LV-223 rather than Origae-6?