Name: Xenomorph

Scientific name: Internecivus raptus (murderous thief)

Other names: Bug, alien

The xenomorph is a large black parasitic animal. The adult form is pure black with occasional shades of color. They are easily recognizable by their elongated heads and skeletal appearance. They have a stinger tipped tail. Their primary offensive weapon however is their tongue which can either knock a victim unconscious with a blow to the head, or at its most lethal punch through the victim’s head. The xenomorph also possess highly corrosive blood.

Any xenomorph may morph into a praetorian with the Queen's permission. In the lack of a Queen, or Queen egg, the dominate female drone can morph into a praetorian by itself and then into another Queen. The dominant male will also undergo the change into praetorian and will become the new Queen's mate, if another male praetorian is not already present.

Xenomorphs can change from male to female, but most never undergo any such change. For example, there is no record of a male praetorian morphing into a female and becoming Queen.

At any time a Queen feels that its life is threatened, it will usually lay a Queen egg. This egg is not produced through the egg sack that the Queen grows when reproducing, but rather inside her body. The Queen facehugger that hatches carries two alien embryos inside it, one a Queen, the other a male drone. This ensures that the new Queen will have an available mate. Queen embryos take longer then drones to hatch from their hosts and the drone will usually guard an implanted animal that holds the Queen.

A Queen usually chooses the dominant male praetorian, usually the oldest and strongest, in the hive to mate with her. If there are multiply desirable suitors there will usually be a fight to determine who is stronger. The resulting offspring will share DNA with its xenomorph parents and also the DNA it absorbs from its host. This sometimes motivates the Queen to mate with a male other then its selected mate to pass on certain characteristics that that male might have to the next brood. Such as if the Queen wants several "Runner" drones it will mate with a "Runner" praetorian, or if none is present in the hive, will settle for a drone.

All aliens communicate through telepathy. The Queen's large ornate crest houses a very large telepathic emitter and gives her great telepathic and other similar abilities. Some Queens are even able to communicate limitedly with humans.

Most drones that grow up outside of a hive develop distinct personalities, but most loner drones go insane because of their lack of a purpose to serve. Such drones are usually killed if encountered by hive drones.

Sometimes a praetorian, or “smart” drone will resist being integrated with the hive mind. When this happens the xenomorph in question usually becomes timid and develops a battle lust that may take over. The affected individual usually avoids other xenomorphs. If the xenomorph does not accept the hive mind it will eventually become completely feral and attack other xenomorphs and flee the hive. When this happens the defecting xenomorph may drag several others into insanity with it through the hive link.

If there is any other things you would like to know, or something I missed, let me know.

All right, the xenomorphs that are born from humans possess a human like skeletal structure, these drones are somewhat smarter then your average drone, not by much, but a little and very easily adapt individual personalities. Sonar was born from a human.

"Runner" aliens are a large caste of drones that come from dogs, or similar animals. Runners lack the back spins and tend to be more feral then human born drones. They are also most often quadrupeds. Komosloth spawned aliens are similar to Runners, but are somewhat larger and stronger and not as fast. Half-Jaw and Chaos were born from Komoslothes.

There are rare cases of winged xenomorphs, but more often an avian host will simply pass along something like a hollow bone which makes the xenomorph light and faster, but more vulnerable to broken bones. If a line of xenomorphs continue to use flying hosts, eventually somewhere down the line, the xenomorphs will develop wings and possibly flight.

This raises some questions such as if xenomorphs can grow wings what can’t they adapt? Well, xenomorphs have been known to take on amphibious qualities and even grow gills and adapt to a completely water environment. Imperia’s host was a marine animal and as such she has fishlike qualities such as her rudder like tail.

Chances are if a xenomorph uses a large amount of telepathic hosts, the xenomorphs own telepathic power will increase.

Due to the various possibilities for xenomorph personality and physical characteristics. It is no wonder that there is no established “norm” for a hive. Depending on what host is used throughout the lines, some hives are completely animal-like and do not show much semblance of the xenomorph intelligence while the opposite is also true, where there may be extremely intelligent and be able to lay out battle strategies that are on par with any military commander. But no matter what differences a hive has, they are all still dangerous and their adaptive ability only makes them more so.

Hopefully, I’ve answered your question and maybe raised some new ones.

Or perhaps soemtihng like what happens in Jurasic Park could've happened where the Queen's DNA was not complete and they filled in the holes with fish DNA.

Also, depending on the source, Runners can be described as a normal variation that sometimes occurs between the Chestburster and Drone stages, assuming of course that we are referring to the stage that occurred between the Dogburster/Oxburser and adult forms (remember that the Xenomorph in Alien3 molted twice before its adult form was revealed, unlike those in the previous two films)

regarding the Queen, I found the science behind Alien: Resurrection to be largely flawed. First of all, even if they did successfully clone Ripley, there would be no logical reason for the queen to be growing inside the clone, because only one organism's DNA was used in the cloning process. Second, it's highly improbable that enough of the Xenomorph genome would integrate with Ripley's blood to produce the hybrid that is Ripley#8. Third, there is no concrete evidence to suggest that a clone can retain the memories of the original; their genetic make-up may be identical, but they're still two separate organisms.

Jurassic park, awesome film though it was, is also largely inaccurate by today's standards. Recent findings suggest that Therapod and Ornithopod dinosaurs had feathers, not the scaly skin of the animals seen in the movie. Velociraptor was much smaller than the raptors portrayed in the film, which are closer to Deinonychus, but lack the creature's trademark thumb claw. And based on their skeletal structure, their fingers extended straight out from their forelimbs, rather than curling down like those of the creatures in the film, which would only be possible if the poor animal's wrists were broken. The DNA extraction technique, which involves extracting blood from a fossilized mosquito encased in amber, is largely impossible, because even if the exoskeleton were perfectly preserved, the micro-organisms and bacteria within the insects body would have caused it to deteriorate from the inside, leaving no intact tissues.

Anyway, yes, the Space Jockies were the elephant creatures.

As for the Space Jockeys, Whatever the tube is, it is almost certainly an internal part of the anatomy. Perhaps it was surgically implanted, but it's internal nonetheless.

You know, until now I never realized how enjoyable an argument could be; whenever my father starts an argument (several times a day) he goes off on a twenty minute rant, refusing to allow his opponent to explain their own opinions, insisting that he's right and anybody who disagrees with him is wrong and/or stupid. It's nice to have an argument with somebody who doesn't resort to insults and suppression to get their point across.

This is one of the nicer arguements I've gotten into aswell. Down at IMDB everthing turns into a flame war between on guy and like 50 people who disagree with him.

I have a question for Drake Dragonsoul. What's your opinion on the cocooning scene that was cut out from ALIEN cause it gives a totaly different veiw of their life cycle?

I never really liked Hudson, his whining "we're all dead" attitude annoyed me.

Anyway, getting back to the original topic. Here's a little info on what happens when a predator gets infected with a facehugger.

Ocasionally, a predator has been infected with a facehugger and been unable to initiate its self-destruct weapon before the new xenomorph was born.

The resulting alien possess mandibles similar to the predators, but most of its other features do not differ too much from standard xenomorph biology. The predalien is larger then human borne drones and also more violent. They also have a penchant for indivduality and intelligence like human drones.

and which was the one who asked Vasquez if she had ever been mistaken for a man (and subsequently was asked the same question)?

Regenerating limbs? Well, if a certain line of xenomorphs continued to use hosts with those characteristics, they would evantually be able to develop them permanently.

What do you think the xeno resulting from this "metamorposis" would be like? Would it be different from othes, would it be the same, or would it be like Scar and Snarl?

I'm also guessing that maybe the host will retain some of its own DNA, like if it were a predator, it would become a predalien. Also the DNA from the xenomorph that began the mutating thing would also become a part of the new xeno.

In the original movie they wanted the xeno to have a life span of 24 hr., but then Cameron changed it. Since ALIENS is cannon there has to be an alternative to why at the end of the first movie it seemed so much weaker. What else could it have been doing when it was in the escape pod? (My friend think it was just checking out Ripley)

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