lørdag den 16. juni 2012

Playing with Prometheus

Filling out the blanks are usually the best thing about recent scifi movies. Prometheus is no different if you want to play that game.

So let's make up the story....

The Engineers are an advanced humanoid race that travels across galaxies like you have breakfast. They are physically and mentally superior to human beings. They have been at war with themselves for tens of thousands of years. As they developed more and more advanced conventional weapons they discovered that they could manipulate their own creation process, by genetic engineering, to create super nasty clones of themselves. With an infinite amount of nasty creatures possible. Some count acid for blood, armor skin, super reflexes and ability to produce huge amounts of saliva... all at 100% berserker mode and with the ability to reproduce faster than chlamydia at a highschool pool party.

Basically the Aliens are a bomb that Engineers can unleash at each other either at genetic level, facehugger level or adult Alien level. If the enemy shows the least weakness in their defenses an Alien can always be introduced to them and trigger a cataclysm.

Since the Engineers create the Aliens from their own dna then having large caches of both ready-to-go dna and construction material is very useful if you planning a long war. The Engineers seeded thousands of planets with a, direct-to-video, physically and mentally diminished version of themselves, optimized for being very fast catalysts of Alien incubation. Let's call those creatures "Humans".

The Humans can then eventually rise and multiply as the dominant lifeform on whatever planet they are introduced to. Smart enough to win over anything else, but still supermarket meat stock. Once they have increased sufficiently in numbers they can either be infected at the genetic level for "birthing" Aliens or have facebuggers introduced to them directly. In either case the caterpillars will be turned into their respective butterflies. Once the Engineers have a planet with 100 million Aliens it's a simple matter of luring them on automated ships, hundred thousands at the time, freezing them on the journey to distant star systems where they wake up and destroy anything with the Engineer dna, including Humans, for the rest of their precious lives.

So from the Engineers perspective the Humans is a completely inferior lifeform - except for the fact that when they are infected they offspring into the unstoppable killing machines that the Engineers themselves plan to destroy their follow enemy Engineers with.

There... the backstory for Prometheus. Sounds like you can make some good action sequences out of it.

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