Explain Alien Covenant to me!

[Paul Farquhar]

I believe bees and ants do something similar, although with a different color scheme.

In bees consuming royal jelly transforms regular larvae into queens. I don’t think ants do the same though. I think weather conditions cause them to produce a great many queens (flying ants) most of which do not survive.

 

[Epic Meepo]

In bees consuming royal jelly transforms regular larvae into queens. I don’t think ants do the same though. I think weather conditions cause them to produce a great many queens (flying ants) most of which do not survive.

Well, now I want a sequel to Aliens in which weather conditions produce a swarm of winged Xenomorph queens which descend upon civilization like locusts. (For thematic reasons, I'm assuming the necessary weather conditions are "perpetually dark and gloomy.")

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Well, now I want a sequel to Aliens in which weather conditions produce a swarm of winged Xenomorph queens which descend upon civilization like locusts. (For thematic reasons, I'm assuming the necessary weather conditions are "perpetually dark and gloomy.")

Just taking xenomorphs and then going through the ways that real life hive insects differ from them seems like a really good jumping off point for Alien RPG/Mothership GMs.

 

[pukunui]

As an aside - something that just occurred to me is that The X-Files borrowed heavily from the Alien series in Fight the Future by having its magical black goo be capable of gestating an alien lifeform inside a human host only for the Alien series to borrow heavily from The X-Files by making it so its aliens were created by a magical black goo in Prometheus.

The circle goes round and round!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

As an aside - something that just occurred to me is that The X-Files borrowed heavily from the Alien series in Fight the Future by having its magical black goo be capable of gestating an alien lifeform inside a human host only for the Alien series to borrow heavily from The X-Files by making it so its aliens were created by a magical black goo in Prometheus.

The circle goes round and round!

All future Alien movies need to be shot in and around Vancouver.

 

[MGibster]

All future Alien movies need to be shot in and around Vancouver.

This scene was filmed in Vancouver during the rainy season.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

This scene was filmed in Vancouver during the rainy season.

That doesn't exactly narrow things down.

 

[MGibster]

That doesn't exactly narrow things down.

It's from Brett's death scene in that room where it was raining. On the ship. The ship in space.

 

[pukunui]

It's from Brett's death scene in that room where it was raining. On the ship. The ship in space.

Yeah, that scene is weird. Is it meant to be really humid and thus the "rain" is just lots of moisture dripping down or what?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It's from Brett's death scene in that room where it was raining. On the ship. The ship in space.

Why did Weyland-Yutani send them to Vancouver, then?