Xenomorphs vs Necromorphs -Xenomorphs The horrific creatures created by the engineers, they are regarded as âthe perfect huntersâ. Ruthless, deadly, and with no goal beyond the propagation of their species, these creatures are pure in purpose. Their bodies are designed to be weapons, with acidic blood and extremely durable bodies, nearly immune to adverse environments. They reproduce via parasitism. Their ovomorphs, or eggs, are laid by a queen alien. These ovomorphs incubate facehuggers, who impregnate organisms with a xenomoroh embryo. This embryo develops within the host and then burst out in its larval stage, known as a chestburster. Adult xenomorphs are incredibly efficient hunters, and have no goals behind defending the huge and the queen, and infecting new organisms. -Necromorphs A form of alien life that is created by technology known as markers, the Necromorph infection turns necrotic tissue into horrific forms. The goal of most Necromorphs (aside from infectors) is to create new corpses for either infectors or markers to twist into new Necromorphs. There are many different varieties. They are capable of surviving without oxygen and in a vacuum, thus they terraform their environment into one that living beings are unable to survive in, filling the air with toxins and depleting it of oxygen. -Battleground: a human colony with a lab dedicated to researching xenos and bioweapons has created a marker and obtained a queen embryo. Both are unleashed upon the populace to study their effectiveness. -Winner: Necromorphs -Analysis: Although both are dangerous, the Necromorphs have an advantage with reproduction. The conversion of a humans into Necromorph would cut off the hiveâs method of reproduction, as while itâs very safe to assume that a human that was killed by an alien or a chestburtser would still be a fine host for the necromorph virus. In close combat however, a xenomorph, given its superior (to a Necromorph) intelligence and hunting ability, as well as Acid blood, would likely beat most Necromorphs in a straight fight. But the xenomorphs would not know how to destroy the marker, and would not be able to stop the creation of new Necromorph. Thus the necromorph infection would simply stop the hive from growing while still increasing their own numbers. This is assuming that the xenomorphs hostile internal environment would prevent infection. The xenomorphs would also likely be nearly immune to the toxins created by a necromorph infestation, they cannot survive in a vacuum for more than a little while, while necromorph can live in a vacuum indefinitely. Necromorphs themselves also do not die of old age (though neither do ovomorphs and facehuggers). It is safe to assume that after all adult xenomorphs had been killed, the ovomorphs/eggs would be left alone. But survival is not triumph. Both species would remain dormant until new humans arrived. But a xenomoroh infestation canât compete with Necromorphs.
