what precisely was the humans/ the company hoping to "learn" from the xenomorph?... so much so that they were still obsessed with obtaining a specimen in the 24th century.
i love the franchise, but the alien in-universe was just a nasty parasite/spooky predator.
crazy medicine, zeno zip, biological weapons to control
xeno
They used some throwaway lines to build the sequels on. Don't overthink it
I think in alien 4 they have a couple of lines that go deeper then "evil company wants scary alien for bioweapons". Something about the biomechanical nature of the thing giving data which can be used to create new polymers, vaccines, material science etc. Cant remember the exact line but it was the researcher talking to Ripley clone in the cafeteria scene.
It's mankind's first encounter with extraterrestrial life. Of course they want to know more about it.
If an animal has the ability to combine DNA and produce offspring with any animal from different planets, that in itself is worth trillions for a space corporation.
the colonial marines asked if the mission to lv426 was "another bug hunt"
they meant these guys
what's a xenomorph's life span?
Depends on whether you’re talking about the movies or the franchise.
The franchise is absolutely retarded and has paranoid fantasies of an all-powerful yet idiotic company that risks billions for a spooky space bug
In the movies, characterization of the aliens and the characters differs wildly from movie to movie. Alien is a socialist film, while Aliens is liberal.
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About one mag dump.
Canonical answer is that the owners of the merged organization wanted the answer to life.
Supported by the fact that any organic life outside of Earth would most assuredly be made at a cellular level different than our animals and therefore would give us more technological advancement to rule the slave class and such.
After that it's kind of whatever you want it to be bro.
What about the ties to the Blade Runner? Just an easter egg or is there something more to it? Tyrell corp would love to invest in xeno research, assuming they are still alive in the future (Wallace corp?).
Humans are not very inventive, we just copy a lot of shit that's around us and repurpose and refine it to suit our needs. Imagine the technology that could be extrapolated from these things.
Also Waylan was stupid rich, the entire enterprise to catch and develop these things was just part of some larger R&D budget.
>silicon based lifeform
>hmmm why would anyone care
yeah what's so important about the only known living alien lifeform
I guess there are some thematic ties to blade runner, tyrell wanting to make the perfect slave (but ironically just reinventing wage slavery with extra dehumanization).
In Alien, Mother and the Android are profoundly curious about the Alien and view it as superior due to its lack of empathy, but the actual narrative is basically about a guy that dies in a workplace accident (caused by a callous management) and is transformed/comes back as a vengeful alien ghost.
where did it say it was the only known form of alien life?
In "aliens" the marines referred to other bug hunts they have been on. In Alien the nostromo crew seemed to think it was important that they found a non human signal, but totally surprised that one existed (there was even a protocol in place). In covenant the party had a biologist who was equipped to map the fauna of an alien world and in prometheus, fifield and milburn didnt seem too amazed when they found those worms...which was the first dipicted interaction between a human and a non earthling in the franchise.
It was unclear if there was a lot of contact with other civilisations and other intelligent life, but they didnt act like any of it was first contact.
we're incredibly inventive. we harnessed one of the fundamental forces in the universe over 80 years ago, simply because we wanted to fuck each other up ...
we had that down before color tv