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The Engineers, also known as Space Jockey, are the main antagonists of the 2012 film Prometheus and minor characters in its 2017 sequel Alien: Covenant.
They are an elusive race of large, sapient, extraterrestrial lifeforms that are known for propagating all life on Earth and have some of the most advanced technology in the entire galaxy, particularly with Genetic Engineering. Due to their actions as creators of various forms of life, they are worshipped as gods by many species. For indeterminate reasons, they have decided to wipe out humanity, a creation of theirs, by any means necessary.
Biography[]
Prometheus[]
The Engineers were a mysterious race of aliens that were more than a billion years old. By this point, their civilization had developed advanced technology including starships and biotechnology. During this time, they visited the primordial planet Earth where one of their kind infected themselves with a vial of Chemical A0-3959X.91 – 15, a bioweapon which can create and destroy life, that killed him. His dead body later fell into a waterfall where the biological agent disassembled his body that was spread into the water thus bringing about the spread of DNA on Earth.
As a result, this act led to the rise of human life derived from the Engineers. Ancient human cultures were noted to had seen the gigantic Engineers who pointed them towards a sequence of stars that were so far from Earth that it was impossible to see them. Around 2,000 years ago, the Engineers established a facility on LV-233 that contained numerous vessels along with their supply of bioweapons. This bioweapon later turned on them and killed many Engineers. The facility's personnel intended to take one of their vessels to travel onto Earth where they would wipe out the planet to re-engineer the world once more. However, the few surviving Engineers instead entered hypersleep where they remained undisturbed for several millennia.
By the 21st century, Elizabeth Shaw discovered similar pictographs from seven different civilisations that had no contact with one another. The pictographs were believed by Dr Shaw to be an invitation to Humanity to arrive on the world of the Engineers. Their discovery was brought before the Weyland Corporation which intrigued the interest of its head, Peter Weyland. As a result, an expedition was launched to explore the world in the pictographs which saw the Interstellar Research Vessel Prometheus launched on a two-year voyage through space in cryo-sleep on a secret mission to LV-233. Upon their arrival, the crew began exploring the world and uncovered mound-like temples along with the dead remains of numerous Engineers.
This saw David take one of the bioweapon urns and infect Holloway. The infected Holloway later had sexual intercourse with Shaw thus impregnated through the bioweapon even though she was sterile. In the meantime, the android David had secretly explored the Engineer temple under orders from Weyland who was alive in stasis on a secret part of the Prometheus. His mission was to find one of the Engineers, hoping to ask him to prevent his death from old age.
An Engineer was discovered in hypersleep where David uncovered their desire to destroy Earth. He later brought Weyland and Shaw at which point he awakened the Engineer. David then tried to speak to the Engineer to explain what Weyland wanted. The Engineer responded by decapitating David and brutally murdering Weyland's team.
Afterwards, the Engineer began the activation process of the ship located beneath the temple mound where he plotted a course for Earth. Shaw managed to escape from the Engineer and revealed the alien's intention to Captain Janek who commanded the Prometheus. Despite possessing no weapons, the Captain sent the Prometheus on a suicidal crash trajectory to the Engineer ship thus causing it to crash back to the surface of the planet. With his plan stopped, the vengeful Engineer travelled to the lifeboat of the Prometheus to kill Shaw.
Just as he was about to do so, she opened the medical bay that contained an alien organism that was born from Shaw as a result of her impregnation by Holloway. The creature attacked the Engineer and grasped him within its tentacles where it engulfed his body while putting a tendril through the humanoid's mouth. Shaw later took the damaged David to use the android's knowledge to operate another Engineer ship to find the alien races homeworld and find out the reason for their desire to eliminate humankind. After the ship departed, the defeated Engineer on LV-233 died as the organism had impregnated him with a Xenomorph-like creature that burst through his body and took its first steps as it became fully formed.
Alien: Covenant[]
In the meantime, Elizabeth Shaw was on-board the Engineer ship with David where she began to repair the Synthetic. She completed rebuilding him but as the journey time was unknown Shaw entered into a hibernation pod as the vessel went towards the Engineer homeworld. David managed the ship as he studied the Engineers and their history where he concluded that they were a threat. As the ship reached the planet, David brought it into docking procedures on the surface where a large crowd of Engineers was present. David then decided to unleash the content of the ship namely the pods containing the black liquid which detonated in the lower atmosphere and dispersed over the population.
It instantly killed the Engineers where it turned many of their bodies into black stone with any survivors becoming incubators for the liquid that spawned deadly lifeforms that erupted from their hosts. The ship later crashed near the mountains where David was not stranded on the planet and he later ended up killing Elizabeth Shaw as he used her as part of his experiments on the black liquid based creatures as he sought to create the perfect organism. He remained on the world for many years where he ran out of subjects to experiment on and had concluded that mankind needed to be wiped out.
Alien[]
At some point, another Engineer vessel contained an entire cargo of Xenomorph eggs filled with electrical mist. A Facehugger impregnated and killed its pilot while the ship crashed on LV-426. Despite being killed, the Engineer managed to send out a distress signal from his vessel that continued to be broadcasted afterwards. It was this transmission that attracted the Nostromo, a mining ship of Weyland-Yutani Corporation. The Company later redirected the mining ship to investigate the crashed derelict on the world which led to humanity's first encounter with the Xenomorphs.
Fire and Stone[]
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Life and Death[]
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Trivia[]
- According to Ridley Scott in an interview, the Engineers decided to slaughter humanity because Jesus Christ was an Engineer. He also claimed that there were two main factions of the Engineers, with half focusing on creating life, and the other on destroying life when it's judged as flawed - with the one in the Prometheus being of the latter.
- Up until Prometheus, The Engineers were thought to be a towering humanoid with elephant-like features as per the unnamed corpse's appearance in Alien. The depiction would later revealed to be a specialized biomechanical suit of their design.
- However this creates a contradiction since the Unnamed Pilot was far larger Than an engineer,and also possesed a tongue and teeth.
- When the Nostromo scouting team wonder where the rest of the Derelict's crew were, the original intention was that the crew's biomass was converted into the Xenomorph eggs throughout the ship, thus tying into the deleted scene of Dallas and Brett being mutated into new eggs. However, due to the introduction of the Xenomorph Queen by James Cameron in Aliens, it was changed that the Space Jockey was the lone pilot, transporting all of the eggs.
