Drone Egg

[Jarl_Elbow]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): In some cuts of the original Alien film, and in the novelization I believe, there was a scene where Ripley discovered that the Alien on-board the ship had started turning some of the surviving victims into eggs through a very slow process. It is now commonly believed that Xenomorph drones can turn a single host into a single egg in case they do not have immediate access to a queen. I believe that feature like this could add for an interesting gameplay element.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): One scenario that is often interesting to both watch and play in on the server, is when a single larvae is able to get onto the Sulaco, weather through being created on the ship, or being smuggled on the pod. It is very fun to watch how the Xeno usually becomes a drone and builds up a small base fort itself within the more secluded rooms of the ship. It then might start picking off solitary members of the crew. However, if the drone was able to create a single egg onboard the ship, where it has no access to the rest of the colony, it might have a slightly better chance of surviving longer on-board, and there adding an extra gameplay element where the MPs and ship crew will have to manage the hostiles on-board, all while protecting the bridge, where the officers are focused on the situation on the planet. This feature could give the ship's crew more to do while on-board, as many complain about those jobs being boring at times.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): I believe that this could work in a very simple way. If a Xeno Drone (Possibly only at a certain age) manages to capture and subdue a human, it could use some sort of one-time ability which will slowly turn the human into an egg sack, which would work in the same way as a regular egg. This can only be used once in a Drone's life, so as not to be overpowered. As well as this, the drone would have to sacrifice a possible host in order to create the egg, therefore causing the need for a second human to be captured. The process itself could take around 5-10 minutes, so the drone would have to protect the location the human was in until the transformation was complete. This feature makes sense in a lore standpoint, as well as from a gameplay standpoint, and would only make the rounds more interesting.

This is only an idea I had, and I would love to hear some constructive feedback about what you guys think about it. Thank you for taking the time to read this suggestion.

[Rain7x]

This is kind of a cool idea. I'll wait to see what others say.

[Martzin]

Sounds pretty good mate, it can result in some genuine Alien-feeling rounds. +1

[TheMaskedMan2]

+1 Simply for being the poor marine literally being turned into an egg, bonus points if they get horrifying messages like

"you feel your skin melting.."
"you thoughts become fragmented.."
"your organs meld and rearrange themselves, shifting painfully.."

and so on.

Also all of this for one facehugger seems almost, not worth it? Though I suppose it makes the drone have to be awfully strategic. Neat idea.

[Crab_Spider]

What everyone else says. +1

[Imperator_Titan]

This sure does seem like this scene in one of the Halo games and for that alone, I'll be giving a +1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o8IFVW11YE

[xeno366]

1+ now dead bodys wont be usless anymore

[Snypehunter007]

I don't see why this would happen when there is an active Queen. If there isn't and you have a drone to do something like this, then why doesn't it just become a Queen?

-1

[Crab_Spider]

I don't see why this would happen when there is an active Queen. If there isn't and you have a drone to do something like this, then why doesn't it just become a Queen?

-1

Queens have egg sacks which allow them to mass produce eggs, drones, who are an early stage of a Queen, have this ability to expand their Hive and if they're away from a queen, can create a Hive themselves with this process. Drones on the Sulaco have a pretty hard time getting around and picking people off, this removes the urgency the Marines need when it comes to exterminating xenos on the Sully.

There's also a matter of atmosphere, there's a xeno onboard that isn't a Queen and it takes 2 people to be captured and the xenos can have minor control of the Sulaco. This is what the drone in Alien did to Samuel Brett. And it turns out the Drone doesn't need a living victim for this process.

[Snypehunter007]

Queens have egg sacks which allow them to mass produce eggs, drones, who are an early stage of a Queen, have this ability to expand their Hive and if they're away from a queen, can create a Hive themselves with this process. Drones on the Sulaco have a pretty hard time getting around and picking people off, this removes the urgency the Marines need when it comes to exterminating xenos on the Sully.

There's also a matter of atmosphere, there's a xeno onboard that isn't a Queen and it takes 2 people to be captured and the xenos can have minor control of the Sulaco. This is what the drone in Alien did to Samuel Brett. And it turns out the Drone doesn't need a living victim for this process.

I am not looking at this from a lore standpoint, ATM I am looking at this from a gameplay standpoint.

[Jroinc1]

I am not looking at this from a lore standpoint, ATM I am looking at this from a gameplay standpoint.

Seems both interesting, and balanced to me, as long as you don't allow this in the vent nexuses (nexi?).

[Tristan63]

On a lore standpoint its aight, and gameplay its solid too (If it takes a fuckwhile).
Even on eris this is how drones reproduce, they nest hosts and they become eggs sooner or later.

[phil235]

This feels like adding an ability for a situation that will be rarely successful, and the benefit of it very little. IF the larva survives onboard and grows into a drone (of a certain age), IF it manages to capture a live human and survives til the egg transformation is finished, IF it manages to subdue and infect another crewmember with a single hugger, then a second larva is born... and the cycle ends here with just two xenomorphs. Unless the second larva chooses to become a drone and continues the very slow and risky cycle.

[Snypehunter007]

Going to run through this with BMC, tomorrow. Please do not post until after Monday (07/03/17).

[Tidomann]

Just as a FYI, as far as I recall from the lore- there was a thought that captured victims could be turned into eggs.

http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Eggmorphing

[Boltersam]

Well, actually, the official response from the director was that he was being turned into food for eggs that the Drone would lay (Queen didn't exist, only drones, eggs, huggers and bursters) much like the wasp it was based on.

It's not an ability they're known to possess in the lore since the director debunked it, and mechanics wise it's a fairly arduous process when you'll end up wasting a host you painstakingly captured just to try capturing another. -1.

[Butterrobber202]

Suggested Before and was shot down.

But Hey I was for it then, and I'm for it now. For reasons stated above, +1