Why does prometheus look like alien

David leads a party comprised of Weyland, Shaw, and two other members of the Prometheus crew to the Engineer ship, with the intention of reviving the surviving Engineer so that Weyland can converse with it. They pass through the Engineer ship's cargo bay in which are stored thousands of canisters of pathogen.

Upon reaching the bridge, David wakes the surviving Engineer and attempts to speak to it. However, the Engineer turns hostile, decapitates David, bludgeons Weyland with the head before killing the rest of the party, all except Shaw who manages to escape. The Engineer reactivates the ship and sets course for Earth, presumably to carry out the original mission of wiping out the human race. With Shaw still on the planet, the remaining crew of the Prometheus sacrifice themselves to prevent the Engineer ship's departure from LV, jettisoning the vessel's lifeboat for Shaw to use, before ramming the Engineer ship at full thrust, causing the alien craft to fall back to the planet.

Shaw enters the lifeboat and begins gathering supplies, when she hears thumping noises. She moves towards the noise which is coming from the medical bay she used earlier. Peering into the room, she is startled by an enormous tentacle slapping against the window from the other side--the Trilobite she removed earlier has grown to massive proportions. As she backs away, David or rather his head signals Shaw from the Engineer ship, warning her that she needs to leave as the Engineer is coming to find her.

However, she only manages to move a few steps before the Engineer breaks into the lifeboat and pins her against the doors of the medical bay. Shaw activates the door controls releasing the Trilobite, which proceeds to ensnare the Engineer, while Shaw just about makes her escape. The Engineer and Trilobite grapple with each other, the Trilobite gradually wrapping more and more of itself around the Engineer.

It moves its central mass forward, flowering open to reveal a toothed maw surrounded by what look like eyes. The eyes turn out to be slender tentacles which it shoots forward and wraps around the Engineer's head, holding it in place so that the proboscis inside the maw can ram into the Engineer's mouth to begin impregnation. Shaw returns to the Engineer's ship after David tells her of second vessel they can use to leave LV Together they activate the other ship which is last seen powering away from the planet.

Back aboard the lifeboat, the corpse of the Engineer twitches before its chest bursts open, spilling a newly born Deacon onto the floor, which stands to release its birthing cry. The fossilized corpse of an Engineer in The Derelict. The Book of Alien notes that the actors and crew felt instinctively that the Space Jockey was a benign creature, though they could not say why. In the novelisation of Alien by Alan Dean Foster, Ash describes the Space Jockey's race as a noble people and hopes that mankind will encounter them under more pleasant circumstances.

It also states that they were larger, stronger and possibly more intelligent than humans. The first Space Jockey was seen in the original Alien movie as a giant humanoid corpse sitting in front of a telescope-like device aboard the derelict craft.

It had been there for an extremely long time, long enough for the corpse to become fossilized. The Jockey that the starship Nostromo' s crew found aboard the derelict seemed to be growing out of the chair of the telescope, as if it had fused itself into it. Its rib cage was bent outward; it is evident that a Xenomorph escaped from the creature, though no adult Xenomorphs were encountered on the derelict.

It is mostly likely any adult xenomorph would have been dead by the time the derelict was discovered due to the lack of food sources although the Xenomorph eggs, we learned, can survive for at least 57 years as was Ripley's long hypersleep and the facehuggers inside are probably in some kind of stasis until contact. In the comics, the Jockey is shown to have an elephantine trunk. This is inconsistent with the original concept.

An inspection of the concept art done by H. Giger, shows that the "trunk" is supposed to be an air hose and there is a helmet surrounding the Jockey's head. This is also supported by the fact that soft tissue such as elephant trunks do not fossilize. Auriga crashes into Earth's atmosphere and blows up. The Ripley clone, meanwhile, escapes aboard the Betty with the android Call.

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In those sequels, it would be an all-out war with the Xenomorphs, Luke would spend half the movie training with a green Muppet and the ultimate baddy would become the protagonist.