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What the Engineers were REALLY doing with the Black Goo (and why it explains the entire franchise)
Alright... here goes. Perhaps this is an already established theory or narrative and I've just missed it. Regardless, I’ve been rewatching Prometheus and Covenant and I think they can be neatly tied together with the rest of the Alien universe but we've been too fixated on the black goo without considering what it actually is.
At the start of Prometheus, the Engineer drinks a solvent and disintegrates. That wasn’t the “black goo,” it was simply a substance perhaps made by the Engineers that reduced his DNA into base components that washed into the environment and seeded Earth. Used on themselves, the Engineers could scatter the ingredients of life across worlds.
At some point Engineers may have encountered the Xenomorph. Faced with this terrifyingly efficient perfect organism, they must have asked the question: what happens if we apply the solvent to this creature? The result was black goo, the building blocks of the Xeno, liquefied and unstable. Unlike the Engineer’s sacrifice, this didn’t seed calm evolutionary life. It mutated whatever it touched. That’s why in Prometheus we see worms become hammerpedes, Holloway collapse into infection, Fifield mutate into a berserk monster, Shaw give birth to the Trilobite, and eventually the Deacon emerge. The goo was literally made from the smallest building blocks of the Xenomorph, and that’s why it mutates everything into something in that direction.
This also explains the split between LV-426 and LV-223. The Derelict wasn’t a warship that just happened to crash; it was a cargo run carrying eggs as raw material. The plan was to bring them to LV-223 (or somewhere else), where the Engineers had facilities to refine them with the solvent and distill the goo into urns. Eggs were too dangerous and unwieldy to store in bulk, but goo was portable, weaponizable, and could be dropped like bombs. The Derelict never made it, the pilot was facehugged and it crashed, leaving the eggs behind. That’s why LV-223 has urns but no eggs, and LV-426 has eggs in the Derelict but no urns.
This makes David’s role in Covenant much clearer too He wasn’t the creator of the Xenos at all. He was experimenting with the building blocks of the Xenos that the Engineers had already distilled, tinkering with how the goo rewrote organisms, cataloguing outcomes, and seeing what direction it was heading in. He saw the path to perfection hidden in the mutations, and he was working backwards to replicate the perfect organism that could come from those building blocks.
When you line it up this way, the whole saga suddenly clicks. The solvent breaks organisms down. Applied to Engineers, it seeds life. Applied to Xenos, it produces black goo. LV-223 was a refinery or goo storage, LV-426 a lost supply run of raw materials. David was never the creator, just the one who pushed what was already there close to its endpoint. Prometheus and Covenant don’t contradict Alien, they actually in an indirect way show us the chain of events that leads to it.
//reddit