Dont Count your Chickens! (Until they have Hatched).

@BigDave You have a lil' mistake. 7 has no conclusion but 8 has 2.

2 & 7 worst options ever.

8 - best mixed with 1. 8 - best mixed with 1

So, it's my 9 route. Juggernauts (Derelicts) it's final form of alien. They travel around space and search worlds suitable for them. But who is the Space Jockey? Or he a slave/servant of alien race, or he is... an intruder! Look - the pilot's platform completely metallic/mechanical. In second option - he stole (and subjugated) the Derelict... but not the cargo.

Thanks Ignorant Guy...

I have corrected it, what happened was i decided to add a 8th option that was NEVER any actual Draft idea or Movie, but just some of HR Gigers ideas/interpretation and i placed this Option above the Conclusion to 7 lol

@Leto

I agree i am glad we never had 2, and i am not pleased with the 7th route...   but i think its the intention, but then it needs some changing to make David merely the Middle Man.

When i saw ALIEN and the Franchise prior to the Internet Days (well widespread) i had the impression the Space Jockey had this Bio-Weapon for some kind of Unknown Conflict, or he had obtained them for some Experiment/Other Purpose.

The advent of DVD and Internet Use had allowed me to Study it more, where it then appeared to me like there was by NO Coincidence a Aesthetic Connection and the Space Jockey was some Bio-Mechanical being of similar construction to the Xenomorph... this does not mean the same... just as a Human is Constructed the same as a Horse but we are NOT the same... so they had that Bio-Mechanical Organism/Machine Aesthetic and this was a interesting Mystery to me.

I was drawn to the connection being the Space Jockey Race had Engineered a Weapon that they had Engineered from a combination of themselves and their Technology...

OR maybe the Eggs was how they would Procreate when used on a Certain Species.... but when used on Humans it Produced the Xenomorph instead. 

So i think Option 8 as far as using some of this could be a ideal way forward...

Your Option 9, is in essence taking Option 8 and expanding it..  because indeed HR Giger seemed to indicate the Xenomorph and Derelict sharing like a Aesthetic/Genetic Connection and the Ship acted as like a Queen.

The Xenomorph becomes a Derelict, is a interesting idea, its one that had been thrown about on here before... its a Question of does ONE become the Ship, does a Queen eventually become a Ship and HOW does the Queen fit with this idea?

I think for me the Biggest Problem with the Xenomorph being the Hierarchy of it all, as in they create the Ships or become them... is IF the Cargo and Mission is that Important it seems pretty Foolish to allow a Enslaved Race to Pilot the Ship when they can be infected with the Cargo and then where does that leave you as far as where you Off-Spring will now end up?

I think introducing something else thats Bio-Mechanical could work, that Enslave the Space Jockey in return for something... but then its a case of what relation are the Eggs to those Masters?

Exploring that those Eggs are NOT intended for Mankind, but something else that would Benefit or Procreate their Species (Master Race) but that when these Eggs infect Humans then the Off-Spring become something different and more Feral than intended.

And so NOT say the Ultramorph Species... as intended..

So yeah i think introducing the Starbeast Plot with a touch of HR Giger ideas is the way to go...

Everything sounds fine to me except for David or The Company creating the eggs. That makes it less Alien-y somehow.

I agree a mix of 1 and 8 seems best. Based on readings and Giger art, it seems the original Juggernaut landed on top of an egg silo and the magic began.  

David in my opinion is didn't create the xenomorph. He imitated, perhaps even attempted to perfect them.There was too much to much evidence in Prometheus to suggest a xenomorph outbreak on LV-223.

Well this seems the route they are taking (David) but i think you would be hard pushed to find a Fan who thinks this was the correct route...

Its about Damage Control right NOW... they either have to show Davids Xenomorph is his own Creation/Re-Creation and Evolve it, but also give clues to show that the LV-426 Eggs predated his experiments.

Conclusion: David Re-Creates his own Variant.

Or have the Engineers or those above them, take Davids Proto-Xenomorph and Evolve it to become those Eggs on LV-426...  

Conclusion: David is merely the Middle Man, the M of the A-Z Origins of the Eggs..

2 and 7 are horrible, the rest are alright.

Interesting post BD, thanks.

I think this shows a kind of agreement...

We have all had different likes/dislikes and wants and not wants....  we could all offer different takes on 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 or combinations..

The more people that PARTAKE in this... would shown any EYES at Disney/Fox... that a route like 2 and 7 would be seen as Blasphemous by the VAST Majority of Fans.

I am sure we could pick Bones at each others wishes... but i think we could accept them more than IF they gave us a 2 or 7.

You wont make everyone Happy with what ever we do...

But you sure as HELL wont make Many Happy with a David or Weyland-Yutani Create what becomes those Eggs on the Derelict.

A David or Weyland-Yutani Experiment with those Eggs or Black Goo to create something else, if DONE right i feel would be more accepting!

I think even having the Predator Create the Eggs would be more pleasing to Fans than 2/7 LOL

I think I would prefer that the xenomorph was a species which had evolved in a harsh environment. The engineers would then have found the eggs and transported them to different places (e.g. LV-223) to study them. The black goo was eventually the result of their experiments.

The other way around would be OK: The engineers create the xenomorph through experiments with the black goo.

The least appealing variant is David creating the xenomorph. This is, however, the path Ridley Scott has chosen so that’s probably what we’ll get in the final chapter. This doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t be interesting. David is a very interesting character and played magnificently by Fassbender.

If Scott would present us with the final link to Alien, it seems likely that David has used the 2000 colonists aboard USCSS Covenant and turned them into the eggs that we have in the cargo hold of the Derelict on LV-426.

A juggernaut would be easy to get on LV-223 but I wouldn’t want David as the Space Jockey. Perhaps an engineer in a heroic act trying to get rid of the eggs but falls prey to them? Not a good idea with the beacon, though. :)

Sorry if it is OT or if it has been mentioned before, but I think the egg morph scene- how it gradually altered the victims- may have been a result of a less concentrated version of the black goo.

Certainly chli

We all have our own wishes and interpretations, i know some dont agree with RS and what he had said, but if we look at this then it CONCLUDES that the Xenomorph was either USED as a Bio-Weapon and Experimented on it to Create others.  Or that the Engineers had Created the Xenomorphs (or it Evolved) from Experiments/Outbreak on LV-223

In Ridley Scotts eyes for 35 years the Eggs were a Cargo of the Derelict that the Space Jockey Race would use for Bio-Logical Weapons..

Prequels prior to Alien Covenant intended to explain this more deeper, and RS comments at this time even EXPLAINED what had happened.

Then 35 years of this.... they came up with the DAVID creates it U-Turn/Curveball.   I wonder if in Hindsight they think this was a mistake?

May be wishful thinking but i think if they FOX/Disney pay attention to Fan Reaction, then they would see that maybe a continuation with this Curve-Ball would be FOLLY and they would not want Fans to then Boycott the Franchise over it.

So things could be changed again!