Pennywise the Frown posted:

Linux Pirate posted:

Sadly because the internet ruins everything, in my dives for the deviantart thread, there are people who sexualize aliens in the same manner as sparkle dogs. I can't decided if it's not at all surprising given the psycho sexual imagery of Giger's work, or completely bananas since it's such a cutesy furry sexuality. I'm not it's all sexual but, yeah.

The Zombie Guy posted:

Anyway I think I've put way more thought into this than some of the script writers.

Pennywise the Frown posted:

That's as intelligent as bugs are. Self preservation is what just about every living thing has and is why they continue to exist. Even bacteria.

They're obviously intelligent enough to know not to attack when the queen says so but they don't use tools or anything. I doubt they could fly/land/crash/disintegrate a spaceship willingly.

Lossy Compression posted:

I prefer this as well. They're dangerous enough already. If they could operate weapons/computers/ships/etc. they'd be unstoppable.

But ... what about Hudson: "How can they cut the power, man? They're just animals!"

The Zombie Guy posted:

One of the books goes way into the xenos as soldiers bit. Can't remember which novel it was, but the gist was (spoilered just in case) an army guy captures a Queen, and uses her to control the drones. By threatening to burn up the Queen's eggs, the Queen is pacified, and the drones are somewhat domesticated. It gets to the point where he spraypaints unit numbers on the drones in preparation for warfare. IIRC, as the first battle is about to begin, the Queen goes "nah, we're done now", and dude gets splattered.

Pennywise the Frown posted:

Huh? I don't see anything weird.

Shbobdb posted:

What if the alien and Geordi became "special" friends in a "special" episode?

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Pennywise the Frown posted:

Huh? I don't see anything weird.

Shbobdb posted:

That's fair. I just never really saw the jockey as a kid and LOL if you think the aliens didn't kill him before he could land. Why would he land?

Pennywise the Frown posted:

Well now I want to see a bunch of xenomorphs in Star Trek uniforms being all polite to each other and stuff.

Fan film anyone?

Sunswipe posted:

You'd really need to stay away from her at that time of the month. "AITA reddit? My girlfriend keeps throwing her used tampons in the regular trash can and dissolving it instead of using the acid-proof one I bought for her. She says I need to stop nagging, but it's costing me a fortune!"

Pennywise the Frown posted:

Huh? I don't see anything weird.

Oscar Wild posted:

Yrear end Queen!

Linux Pirate posted:

Oh god I remember that, I thought that was pretty cheesy imo. Not the home world part, but their natural predators. They looked vaguely like a cross between freddy freaker and a trandoshan that walked on all fours, and had cream of mushroom soup colored skin.

If xenos did evolve on their own you'd think they'd be the prime species of that planet. As for keeping them in check, they (I think) require hosts to survive, once a hive dies out the eggs are the only way to continue the species. That's what I gathered from Labyrinth anyway, but I'm not sure if that hive was just stick. I don't a ton about the AvP EU so I could very well be spouting nonsense.

evobatman posted:

In the series of short films that were released recently, one was about an artifical person who got stuck on a spaceship alone with an alien who didn't have any reason to kill her, and the shenanigans they get into together.

evobatman posted:

In the series of short films that were released recently, one was about an artifical person who got stuck on a spaceship alone with an alien who didn't have any reason to kill her, and the shenanigans they get into together.

Splicer posted:

Even if the xenomorphs were the top dog on their home planet the other things on the planet probably evolved resistances and defences alongside them. So maybe the prey species' immune systems can usually kill off the implanted embryo or it takes years to develop or it bursts out in a non-fatal manner. It's only something from outside that arms race where they go from facehugged to chestburstered in 24 hours, with the exponential growth that implies.

happyhippy posted:

Still not as bad as what happened to Doctor Church in the comic series.

Splicer posted:

Even if the xenomorphs were the top dog on their home planet the other things on the planet probably evolved resistances and defences alongside them. So maybe the prey species' immune systems can usually kill off the implanted embryo or it takes years to develop or it bursts out in a non-fatal manner. It's only something from outside that arms race where they go from facehugged to chestburstered in 24 hours, with the exponential growth that implies.

Linux Pirate posted:

That's a good point. Their home world could be filled with a bunch of hardcore critters.

I personally still like to think they're engineered bioweapons though. I like the idea of the jockeys designing an organism so deadly they accidentally wiped themselves out.

Beef Thief posted:

Nah Bro, Swimbots taught me only the strong survive.

Seriously though, this is an interesting theory. That would have to some badass organism due to how devastating Xenos are as a parasite. They lay waste pretty quick. Any organism that could evolve defenses would be just as terrifying. Like you stated, they would have to evolve to combat the implanting. They would also have to be pretty fearsome fighters to survive given how dangerous the Xeno is. They wouldn't necessarily have to overpower the Xenos, just withstand them.

Pennywise the Frown posted:

That's basically Prometheus and Covenant.

Android Apocalypse posted:

I do mind the way this theory is meted out in Prometheus and Alien: Covenant.

Mister Speaker posted:

God, Covenant was such a loving embarrassment. It took me a couple viewings of Prometheus to get what people were saying about its flaws, but I could tell Covenant was hot garbage like 20 minutes in.

Someone needs to hit Ridley Scott over the head and take the Alien franchise away from him before he does more damage.

frogge posted:

Until Prometheus and Alien Covenant I thought the xenomorphs were something that the Predators cultivated and hunted for the hell of it because of the AvP movies and comics, but I don't recall thinking of them having gone through bio-engineering. I pictured it more like dog domestication except starting at wolves and going even more feral and vicious instead of tame and playful.

Linux Pirate posted:

That's a good point. Their home world could be filled with a bunch of hardcore critters.

I personally still like to think they're engineered bioweapons though. I like the idea of the jockeys designing an organism so deadly they accidentally wiped themselves out.

Beef Thief posted:

Nah Bro, Swimbots taught me only the strong survive.

Seriously though, this is an interesting theory. That would have to some badass organism due to how devastating Xenos are as a parasite. They lay waste pretty quick. Any organism that could evolve defenses would be just as terrifying. Like you stated, they would have to evolve to combat the implanting. They would also have to be pretty fearsome fighters to survive given how dangerous the Xeno is. They wouldn't necessarily have to overpower the Xenos, just withstand them.