MadSnailDisease wrote:Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):
This adds some more in depth things into the lore. This
http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Engineer is their avp wiki page.
Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):
Adds a very interesting wing of the xenomorph, marine, predator lore.
Would be very fun and spooky to die in a 4 way battle.
Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):
If you don't want to look at the wiki, here it is summed up. First, engineers created both the xenomorph and the human races. At one point, they liked the humans, but 2000ish years ago they tried to wipe out the human race but fucked up and everyone on the ship died. It sounds from the lore like most of them are dead. In requiem, it is shown that a predator keeps an engineer's helmet as a trophy, and in fire and stone, the comic series, ahab the predator barely kills one and takes his skull as a trophy. They are pretty dang strong, and the predators plasma caster doesn't hurt it.
Edit: currently still reading up on lore, but they are definitely not all dead. You may see reference to a "last engineer", but this only refers to the last remaining one at LV-223, the engineer temple, which died to the trilobite.
I would propose that a crashed engineer ship have been housing an alien queen and whatnot. Hearing this, a few remaining members of a predator clan show up to settle some old debts. On top of this, marines show up because some marine scout ship got the shit beaten out of it by the engineer's ship. This would lead to an epic 4 way fight between the four factions.
Edit: Alrighty, here's what my research has yielded. The thing that overall killed the engineer was the detonation of a predators wrist gauntlet. What tore him up in a single shot was an engineer beam sort of rifle, although the spear gun went through his entire body, until the engineer tore it out of his body. Prior to this, the engineer spent his days tearing apart xenomorphs which were mutated by what I can guess was a late or finished prototype of agent A0 3959X.91 - 15, which is what killed off engineers at the temple and generally buffs the hell out of anything it infects via touch. It also makes them attack anything in sight. I now propose that the crashed engineer ship be carrying agent A0 3959X.91 -15 and for the crash site to be covered in pools of it. This would lead to increasing depth of story, as all 4 species present at the battle could be infected, but the predators and the engineer would be the only ones with prior knowledge of what it is. A few marines will probably die investigating it.
A0 3959X.91 - 15 can go in one of two directions. In the movie Prometheus, it's chest burster is the trilobite, which matures extremely quickly and in turn chestbursts a deacon from the engineer. Here it would make sense to diverge from standard lore and do a few interesting things. Here the queen which was in the hold of the engineer ship should have been experimented on with the agent, making it slightly buffed, but it's offspring is not hostile within the hivemind. Now bursters from marines will be standard and fall within the hivemind of the alien set up, giving the aliens a fighting chance. The engineer will probably never be bursted, so we don't need to bother with a deacon.
Note: this would not be against conventional avp lore, but merely add on a little bit.
Edits continue: At this point my research has gone on for hours, and I really should stop. I just discovered that the current CM timeline does allow for the existence of the engineers. In the timeline, an ancient species is mentioned, and it says they seed the existence of life on earth.
Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it):
I always get a little pissed when people just say "coding and mapping" for the implementation. That being said, I would have to spend a crap-ton of time explaining the intricacies of the heavy amount of coding. So...
A lot of coding and mapping, the former of which I would be delighted to help with.
Make agent A0 3959X.91 - 15 a disease that can only be transmitted by contact with the liquid.
P.S. If this has been done, tell me. I am not on the server a ton so I may have missed this already existing.
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