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The Alien; Ripley's nemesis
Topic Started: Sep 7 2009, 05:46 AM (7,876 Views)
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You know the alien. That face hugging, acid dripping, stomach bursting, cantankerous creature of HR Giger's fantastic imagination. We're talking about Ellen Ripley's nemesis and Ridley Scott's meal ticket.

Terrifying and slightly resembling your boss, she has made an indelible impression on movie-goers for 30 years. Unfortunately that impression has been watered down as this ferocious beast of deep space has never been explaned. For this we want how it works. Is the facehugger, chestbuster, monster a working idea? Could it evolve? What good is it? So here is where to post ANYTHING that has to do with this space monster.
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That could be it, like the weird shooting out jaw thing of Dragonfly larva. Or of Xenomorphs for that matter.
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No, no, we've seen their mating rites in comics. *eyebrow wiggle, tee-hee*

They're a primarily matriarchal race in a very weird way. The females are nearly twice as large as the males (who, as humanoids, stand about seven feet all) and are highly aggressive, territorial, and solitary. Their mating rites seem to involve a lot of getting the crap beaten out of them by other suitors and females until only the strongest man is left standing.

Just like with humans! XD Or not.
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I'm a bit of a Xenophile, but I don't think I want to see that.

Kind of like Hares, the females beat up the males until one kicks her ass.
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...Yeah, kinda like that.

It's easier being a Xenomorph. Just pop out a few million eggs...
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Yeah that sounds reeeal easy. Actually it probably is given the size of the eggs.
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Hey all of you! This foma is about aliens not predators. However I just made a forma on the Yutani so you can get to work there.
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Hey all of you! This foma is about aliens not predators. However I just made a forma on the Yutani so you can get to work there.
YAUTJA. They're called YAUTJA. Yutani is the human company, sweetums. And I already posted there.

Plus, remember, Lamna. The eggs themselves may be an entirely engineered trait.
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I know, like little artificial wombs.
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Plus, the facehuggers aren't necessarily related, either...
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I know it seems more and more likely those things are along for the ride like mitochondria. I mean their body plan is so different.
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LIke I said earlier, I imagine it's like the relationship between certain species of bot fly and mosquitos. Bot flies lay their eggs on mosquito bodies, and then whent he mosquito lands on a warm-blooded host, thebot fly eggs hatch and burrow into the host...
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That is what I meant by the mitochondria. It's like that but so integrated into the Xenomorphs it is hard to tell if they are 2 separate things now.
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Which brings up a new thought, what would the individual species of facehuggers be like?
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or what was the life cycle of the facehugger before the xenomorph
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It really depends on who they came about. I doubt the Xenomorph could have cooperated with something that well without wanting to kill it.
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