-Bloo-,
Xenomorph,
10 years ago
@DW & SR: PERFECT.
@SR: (SHIT this turned out really long, sorry.)
Technically all of this starts around 2200, just after Alien 3. I'm still wondering whether or not I should ignore Resurrection. It started with something called "The Invasion." Then, 1000+ years later, that's when the actual story begins (which would put the current story at around the year... 3500?).
There's this whole thing where the human plane of existence was created during this whole "Engineer Versus Everybody Else" war, in which the native intelligent species of each Attractor Field tried and nearly failed to fight back against the Engineers. One of those intelligent species was the Predators, whose technology, while much different from the Engineers', was advanced enough to combat them (the fact that they're a combat/hunting-oriented race didn't hurt).
The Engineers created the human universe by mistake, and they didn't create humans the way we think they did. The beginning of Prometheus did NOT show them creating humans, was NOT showcasing Earth, and that was NOT a good representation of the Engineer race as a whole - the ones we saw (in the ritualistic clothing) were part of an obscure cult that the "big wigs" of their race used as sacrifices in an event called Instrumentality.
Basically, Instrumentality is what happens when the black goo, infused with DNA from one or multiple sacrifices, merges with another liquid weapon (the Spirits I mentioned a few pages back), as well as with the "spirit of the planet" (which is a lot less supernatural than it sounds), in order to "purify" the planet's surface and turn it into a new world. It's their way of "creating" new worlds, and they'd successfully performed Instrumentality on every planet before meeting with the Predators.
The reason they perform Instrumentality in the first place is because they need to clean out the Xenomorph hives. Merging the two liquid weapons with the energy of the planet's "spirit" begins an event that wipes the Xenomorphs (and any other Black Liquid Weapon) out while leaving the planet's natural organisms alone (however many may be left, which is admittedly close to zero). That's the reason they can't just skip to Instrumentality - it wouldn't do anything to the planet's native animals. It'd be like spraying everybody with cold water.
With THAT stuff out of the way, now I can explain how the Predators came into the universe:
Our universe was created when the Predators fucked up Instrumentality by inserting their own goo, called Medical Mechanica, into the process. The Engineers jumped into this universe through some wacky science bullshit, and so did the Predators. Some of the Engineers appeared in our World Line at different points in time - some of them billions of years ago, some of them at around the year 12, etc.
They've technically been in our universe for a long time. Many Engineers ended up in the past, while only a few (10) Predators, who all died by the year 2000, also ended up in our past. The Engineers who showed up in our past appeared billions of years ago, while the Predators who ended up in our past showed up in around the year 700.
The Engineers that showed up in our past had no way to get out of our Attractive Field, so they settled and eventually turned into the ones seen in Prometheus and Alien, which means the Past Engineers eventually died out. The same thing happened to the 10 Past Predators, who were all Jungle Hunters or City Hunters. In fact, they were in the same clans as The Doctor's and Pv2's, which explains why The Doctor has the same appearance as Jungle Hunter and why Pv2 has the same color scheme as City Hunter. (Sorry, I'm ignoring Predators for now. I might revise this to include it somehow.)
Since humans looked like Engineers, they didn't want to perform Instrumentality on us - at first. Then, when they got mad at us (for whatever reason), they started sending Derelict-like cargo ships to Acheron-like planets surrounding us. Their new home planet in our universe ended up getting covered in their cargo (that is, the black goo was released), and they pretty much fucked up.
It was the Past Engineers who established the legends behind Christianity (some Engineers even inspired the biblical Archangels, Angels, and even God), while the Predators established the legends behind Demons. It should be noted that, while 7 of these Predators influenced the 7 Princes of Hell (the demons who are most associated with the 7 Deadly Sins), it was, in fact, an Engineer that influenced the figure Lucifer.
Also, to clear things up - "Past Engineer" refers to the canon Engineers, and "Past Predators" refer to the canon Jungle and City Hunter movies. These two clans were on good terms with each other, of course, because their Elders, before being separated from them when the Predators jumped into our universe, were The Doctor and PREDATORv2.
So, I guess you could say we've had Predators in our universe for a very long time. However, a majority of the Predators did NOT appear until The Invasion, which took place at around 2200. I'll refer to these ones as the Future Predators. Likewise, the Engineers that appeared in 2200 will be the Future Engineers.
It was the Past (canon) Engineers who were responsible for the events of the Alien movies, but it's the Future Engineers who finally decided to just unleash the black goo all over Earth and any other human-controlled planet. It should be noted that the Past Engineers didn't actually know how to create the black goo - luckily for them, they had reserves. The Future Engineers, however, created a massive fucking shit ton, much more than the Past Engineers had ever used.
To clarify, the Future Predators, whose numbers are at about 100+, include your RPG characters. The Future Engineers only had a group of 8, 7 of which died during the Invasion. Or rather, they were turned into Spirits (red goo) by the last remaining Engineer, who is the antagonsit of the story.
EVERY human planet fell and went under Instrumentality, and Earth was very close to falling, had it not been for the Future Predators' intervention. Similarly, every Predator planet EXCEPT the home world fell to Instrumentality. The home world is still covered in a planet-sized hive.
Anyway, The Future Predators started bombing the world because the black goo was spreading faster than wild fire. THIS looked like a terrorist attack, so humans fought back. The Predators decided to group up the remaining human population (which was, at the time of The Invasion, close to only 90,000) and put them on Australia. Then, using Hard Light technology that the Past Predators didn't have access to, they created an impenetrable wall around the entire goddamn continent.
The Hive, as it was known, couldn't get in, and each of its Shadow Serpents went into hibernation.
Then, over the course of 1000 years, the Future Predators, from the shadows, nudged mankind's growth into a better society. The only reason they did this was because they knew what it was like to have their entire planet swallowed by the Xenomorphs.
Also, the Predators had never seen a Xenomorph before the Engineers attacked their Attractor Field. Xenomorph kills are considered one of the most prestigious achievements of their culture, as opposed to "Basic Training." And, actually, Predators ARE taught how to kill a Xenomorph as part of basic training, because they're one of the hardest things they're ever going to fight and they need to be prepared. Before jumping into our universe, many Predators had managed to kill some Xenos, which explains why the Past City Hunters had a Xenomorph skull.
20 years before the beginning of the story, many Predators, under the influence of the last Future Engineer, begin killing humans. 18 Predators rebel and form The Seven Headed Dragon clan, and a civil war begins. The Badbloods, as the SHD calls them, released the black goo into the human society the Future Predators have spent 1000+ years building. The DBO is born to combat these new Black Liquid monsters. The attacks become controlled thanks to the DBO, and humanity enters a new Calm.
19 years and 11 months after that, Xeuss's 1st General, a man called Lucifer, is killed by an "invisible demon" that had never been seen before. A month after that is January 1, the beginning of the main story.
OBVIOUSLY there are some kinks to work out. BUT, this is the general outline, and that's how the Predators came into our world.
SO BASICALLY:
- There were 10 Past Predators who did nothing but orbit our world from a distance. Sometimes they hunted us. They came into our universe at around the year 700.
- They didn't leave because they were afraid of running into the Past Engineers, who outnumbered them greatly.
- The past Engineers have been in our universe for billions of years as of 2000. All of them died out eventually.
- The Past Engineers and Past Predators are the canon ones.
- The Past Engineers are responsible for the Alien movies and Prometheus.
- The rest of the surviving Predators entered our universe around the year 2200, a few decades after Alien 3.
- 8 Engineers also entered our universe at the same time. They were being chased by the Future Predators.
- The Future Predators have been in our universe ever since, watching us for about 1000 years. They began murdering us (not for sport, but for other reasons). Some of them didn't like this, so they entered a civil war.
- Engineer Jesus is NOT a thing.