A:C Novel, David's insight into the pathogen...

I think you may be right. It also seems to debunk the idea many of us had to send androids to the surface first. An android wouldn't seem to activate the pathogen so the crew probably would have still been the same way.

Bumped for worthiness imo

They did not send Walter down to the planets first, but they did send him outside the ship first to scan for pathogens in the book. That's the 'follow up' Daniels was referring to.

YESSS!!!

The book explains this and SO MUCH that people were wondering after watching the movie. Everyone's questions will be answered if they read the book!

I love the book SO MUCH!!!

Be warned, Lawrence of Arabia , quoting the book becomes addictive!!

So, Unbeknownst to David and his captured guests,   a really nasty virus is aboard the Covenant and that entity is finally free of Planet 4.

David isn't concerned with quarantine protocols.....But losing valuable specimens might be one?

David may be the least of the crews worries!

 "    David examined the dead colonists. Their skins were covered with dark fungus, gravity sloughing it from their skeletons.  he could only imagine what was happening to their internals! He didn't dare release them, or bring them to life. Losing five subjects was enough, the infection had to be stopped!

David was in a race to save the colony, he started by jettisoning the five into space. "

@MonsterZero

OMG, do you write fan-fic!? Please say that you do, because I would just love love love to read one about this, and one about your idea where David downloads his consciousness into Ash.

I am like...begging you right now. I need to read this stuff, lol.

Lol! Would be fun!

I'll give it a go...but no guarantees!

Oh man, no pressure but...PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! Lol, ok, ok...well if you do write it, your story already has one guaranteed fan because I already know it would be awesome! :)

I think this kind of does give us some indication of what the Black Goo was intended for... but this now adds to why those Engineers was seemingly not even one bit cautious of the returning Engineer Ship that David was on.

Its a bit of a NOD that the Engineers had created this Pathogen to destroy...  But then surely dropping Sacrificial Goo would also destroy life on a World and Re-set a World that they had invested Millions of years to prepare and evolve.

The Black Goo just seems a very flawed Method of Cleansing.

Unless it was the creation by a Faction of Engineers to be used in some form of retribution where only Destruction was their Agenda.

I was always draw to such a Faction seeing the Xeno-strain DNA i.e Mural Organism being more Perfect DNA/Creation than the Engineers themselves and so they decided to use its DNA rather than their own to Seed/Evolve Worlds.

So i was drawn to the Original intention for those Urns was to contain Engineer DNA which would explain the whole Paradise Set up and how they did not appear to have any fear of the returning Juggernaught.. but that this ship would take part in a Sacrificial Ceremony where some of these beings would be Sacrificed to allow for Seeding Goo within the Urns.

I don't believe the planet we see is the engineer homeworld. to me its a world which was seeded by them but where this civilisation differs from humanity is these creations have evolved in an agreeable way that does not require the engineers to return and destroy them. the engineers, like earth, return every so often to give their creations a boost in their evolution, either a spiritual boost or a technological one. to the inhabitants we see in AC, this is simply their creators returning which is why the ship is welcomed. they don't know WHO is onboard or what their agenda is until it is too late.

Indeed ali81  i conclude this too...

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