Spoilers Alien: Earth Spoiler Thread

[Aellic Mornbringer]

Great read, thanks for posting the link! Definitely interesting when they're talking about the Eye's potential long term plans.

One thing I just remembered, given that the facehugger continues to implant the embryo into Bronski while he is in the cryo-sleep chamber, and the embryo gestates to become a chestburster, can we safely assume that Burke's plan in Aliens to get Ripley and Newt's implanted bodies into the sleep chambers to bring back to Earth would have also gone spectacularly wrong?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

One thing I just remembered, given that the facehugger continues to implant the embryo into Bronski while he is in the cryo-sleep chamber, and the embryo gestates to become a chestburster, can we safely assume that Burke's plan in Aliens to get Ripley and Newt's implanted bodies into the sleep chambers to bring back to Earth would have also gone spectacularly wrong?

Canonically, I think so.

 

[kermit4karate]

We know the ovomorph (Alien egg) can tell the difference between human and synthetic. Presumably xenomorphs can tell the difference as well. I wonder if the Eye attacked Nibs under the assumption that she was human based on physical appearance and it only learned during the attack that she wasn't. It will be an interesting twist if we find out that the Eye can turn a synthetic/hybrid into a host body. That would certainly upend the perceived near-invincibility of the hybrids/synthetics. Interesting thought...what if the 5th unknown species ends up being deadly to synthetic/hybrids and that's a big reveal later on?

If the Eye can turn a synthetic into a host body, what an interesting proposition! On the one hand, much more RAM and processing power. On the other hand, mammals probably underutilize their biological potential, and so perhaps the Eye is able to do more with that, whereas a synthetic brain is probably highly efficient and already optimized. One could argue that the Eye could do more with less when it comes to controlling a biological brain and body.