The Lore Of My Alien Campaigns
Hi! So I'm about to start GMing the Alien RPG for my friends and I've already been working on the lore and such. I've decided to modify aspect of the established lore and confirmed for the setting my games will occur in. It's all heavily inspired by the comics and the expanded universe, and I wanted to share it with you all, both for fun and in hopes of hearing your opinions!
So in this universe, the Xenomorph themselves are an immensely ancient specie. I really want to hammer home their "Alienness". I also wished to have some cosmic horror aspect with them, so essentially in this universe, they're *The Fermi Paradox*, aka the reason for why the galaxy is seemingly devoid of other intelligent life. It's kind of an unending cycle, an intelligent specie evolves, discoveres space travel, encounters the Xenomorph and inadvertently spread the specie around the galaxy. In this way, they're the perfect organisms as well as the perfect parasite, not only because they're able to adapt to most if not all environments and other alien species to use as host, but also because they've managed to colonize the galaxy without even developing space travel themselves.
So, in this universe the Engineers are essentially the last poor saps to have encounters the Xenomorphs. Using them they've managed to perfected the plagiarus praepotens into the Black Goo (so in this universe, they did not create the Xenomorph). They would use the Goo to boost their Biotechnology, the way plagiarus praepotens allows for such fast growth rate and metabolic processes is incredible, by all known science nothing should be able to grow this fast without literally burning itself out, so for a biomechanical based civilization this would be a massive game changer, imagine growing massive structures in meer weeks or days instead of years! They used this to also modify their own biology, so yes the people we see David whiped out in Covenants were Engineers, more precisely an non altered version of them, while the ones seen in Prometheus are more like soldiers or something along those lines. They also used the black goo to seed the galaxy with their own specie, which eventually gave birth to humanity. While in this universe the reason why they wanted to whipe use all out isn't confirmed, the most likely reason is because they didn't wanna make us in the first place. They wanted to make more engineers but when they saw us evolving into a different specie they decided to get rid of us, perhaps to avoid future competitions. It is suspected that the cave paintings seen in Prometheus were warnings left by a more compassionate group of Engineers. However, the Engineers didn't have get the chance to whipe us all out as their interstellar civilization got whiped out, either by the xenomorphs infestation or by products of their meddling with xenomorphs, like perhaps a plague infected their biotech, rendering most of it inoperable? That would explain why the Engineers in covenant seemed a bit more primitive technology wise... Or maybe a virus which triggered something in their genome which had been already modified by their black goo... Whatever it was, the Engineers are now a dying specie.
The Engineers being a dying specie certainly wasnt helped by David, who unleashed a black goo based bioweapons on Paradise, which in this universe is the Engineer's homeworld as well a the genetic template of all life on Earth. This is why the planet as vegetation so similar to Earth. While we only see a single city in the movie, in this universe at least, the planet had much more cities all over it which all got whiped out by David's initial release of the Pathogens, which went into the atmosphere and essentially sterilized the entire planet. The very few Survivors were killed by the abominations birth of the pathogens. When David studied and explored the city, he learned all about the Xenomorph and decided to try and recreate the specie.
Anyway, this is pretty much the rough base of my ideas for the lore. Hope to hear what you all think of it!
