-Bloo-,
Xenomorph,
10 years ago
WAIT WAIT.
@DW/DH/DD: WHOA THERE. I guess I sounded like I was too hard on myself (or you guys), but that wasn't it at all, I guess I should have made it sound... lighter.
It's really not because I don't think you guys care - I've spoken to enough of you offline to see that you think this is a cool idea. It's just, when I DO give really a long explanation when no one's asked for it, I feel like I"m talking to a brick wall. On Skype or e-mail, though, it feels like a real conversation, and I'd rather be going back-and-forth with small details (that would eventually add up to the large description), if that makes sense.
In the past I'd bring up a lot of things that no one seemed to respond to, and at first I thought you guys didn't care, but now I know it's just so much to take in that you probably don't know where the hell to start. I mean, I'm basically rewriting the goddamn rules of the universe, here.
But when I give you guys a little at a time through Skype or e-mail, you guys respond back at these specific things (and some of you have actually helped me fix a lot of things, too, which is another reason I like the back-and-forth more).
Here: I know I ramble a lot, but I'm just super excited. FIXED.
@DH: "So you said the empresses are the "original" black creatures, right? Like where they all came from? I just don't understand if they come from the black liquid, or are the origin of it."
ALRIGHT. They're neither produce Black Liquid, and they didn't come from it, either.
They're the original type of biomechanical weapon, made by the Engineers.
First and foremost, the Empresses are made of two things: SHELL BODIES, and HUMAN SPIRITS. (LET ME FINISH.)
SHELLS are created by the Engineer's perfected biomechanical science, which sprouted from mixing HARD LIGHT TECHNOLOGY and HYBRID BODY TECH (like in Avatar).
The name "Human Spirit" is kind of misleading. You should know that there aren't any supernatural forces at work in this story - just the TRUEST SCIENCES.
Instead, a SPIRIT is a human brain that's been converted into data (somehow). Its physical form is that of a red goo (which looks kinda like blood). The goo itself always stabilizes to take the form of a sphere, which is then placed into the Shell to power it up. The human is immortal this way, and he or she can see everything happening around them. As you might have guessed, Humans don't become Spirits voluntarily, and the first Spirits were made from Engineers who didn't know any better.
In fact, the Engineers never made more than seven Spirits, all of which were (illegally) made using Engineers. The idea to use Humans as Spirits doesn't come up until after the war with races like the Predators (yes, it wasn't just Predators Vs. Engineers, but that's for a different post). This war killed off every Engineer except one. ANYWAY.
The first time a Shell Body is created, it's made from random machine parts and the dead bodies of... whatever. All of this is held together by the Engineer's Hard Light tech. If this first body is destroyed, they're capable of "regenerating" or even enhancing their current body with Hard Light, which can take the form of any inorganic material. Even if nothing is left but the Spirit, the Spirit can summon an entirely new body in a split second (kind of like the TITANS WOW) because of the way the Engineer's Hard Light tech works.
The Shells essentially PILOTED by by dead human's immortality, but the human can never take control of the body's actions - s/he's merely fuel that lasts forever, and they witness everything the Shell Body does.
The red liquid that makes up the Spirits was the forerunner to the Black Liquid. Creating Spirits was banned FOREVER.
SO, the next logical step was this: Rather than use themselves* to make weapons, they should just make their enemies kill each other. Use the enemy to make weapons. This resulted in the creation of Miracle Matter (the black liquid), which is easier to produce than a Spirit's red liquid, and it didn't require any precise fine-tuning - all you had to do was drop it on a planet and watch its population go down.
Obviously, Miracle Matter works different from the red liquid in that it doesn't use Hard Light tech at all, and it doesn't convert its hosts into Spirits, either. Instead, it mutated the population into monsters that were reminiscent of the Empresses, but were weaker. Interestingly, the one thing that always happened was that, no matter how the creatures started out, they would always end up taking the form of Xenomorph/Deacon-like creatures that were hostile to the previous generations of monsters. Thus, the final stage of a doomed world was a planet-sized Hive run only by Xenomorphs and their Queens.
One plan to try and clear a planet of any Xenos was to use the Empresses to kill them. The creation of Empresses was banned, but using them was legal.
To their surprise, the Xenomorphs weren't hostile to the Empresses. They didn't listen to them, either. They just... didn't really mind them.
That's because Empresses technically aren't living things. Also, they're not viable hosts, but I like that first thing more.
It was clear to the Engineers that they could take advantage of this, so they tried (and succeeded) in making it so that the Empresses could override the Hive Mind. (I'm still working this part out.)
EXTRA STUFF:
The Predators were one of the races that could match the Engineer's Tech level, and they were the only race left at the end of this big war in space. The Doctor eventually captured an Empress and, after studying it, derived his OWN liquid weapon: MEDICAL MECHANICA. This liquid was the opposite of Miracle Matter: It could purify anyone infected by the black liquid that wasn't already "too far down the road." Even better yet, The Doctor managed to imitate the red liquid's Hard Light tech, so Medical Mechanica could even CREATE things (just not organic things).
The creation of Medical Mechanica also has a lot to do with Concrete Hunter and the Predator blood types, but that's also for a different post.
At first, Medical Mechanica was used to purify the Spirits. This only destroyed the Shell Body's fuel - the Shells were perfectly capable of functioning on their own, but they became zombies that didn't really respond to anything, so, for some reason, the Predators didn't kill them (since they weren't viable trophies, I guess).
The last living Engineer, the creator of the Human's Universe (LONG STORY FOR ANOTHER POST), who was also very human himself (he's a rare type of Engineer that the others consider "an abomination," ALSO FOR ANOTHER POST), decided to use some of his creations to fuel the Shell Bodies. These seven Spirits led the assault on the Predator homeworld that led to the Predator race's demise, with only 100 of them left.
The Doctor then purified these ones, but gave them new bodies rather than destroy them as he did with the previous Spirits. By doing so, The Doctor split up Medical Mechanica into 7 pieces - not only to give these humans a second chance, but to hide Medical Mechanica from the Badbloods that believed humans should be killed for being the "children of the enemy." (...Also for another post.)
These seven humans are The Doctor's Companions, and each of them will eventually have to "die" to make Medical Mechanica whole again.
These seven humans' new bodies weren't immortal or everlasting - each time one of them "died," their piece of Medical Mechanica would transfer to the closest newborn human.
SHIT that was long. And I know what I just gave you is very much outside the realm of AVP, but there's even more that will place it BACK into the AVP Universe. This is just the gist of it.
