the Aliens are not an intelligent civilization,((verry much Willing to edit to sentiant.)) but predatory creatures with no higher goals than the propagation of their species and the destruction of life that could pose a threat. Like wasps or termites, Aliens are eusocial, with a single fertile queen breeding a caste of warriors. The Aliens' biological life cycle, in which their offspring are violently implanted inside living hosts before erupting from their chests, is in many ways their signature aspect. Their design deliberately evokes many sexual images, both male and female, to illustrate its blurring of human sexual dichotomy.
~Name~
This creature has no specific name, and has been referred to most often to as a creature, a serpent, a beast, a dragon, a monster, or simply, a thing.The term xenomorph (lit. "alien form"—from Greek xeno- or "strange" and -morph, shape).The species' binomial names are given in Latin as either
~Internecivus raptus (meant as "murderous thief") or Linguafoeda acheronsis (meant as "foul tongue from Acheron")
~Appearance~
When standing upright, the Aliens are vaguely bipedal in form, though they adopt a more hunched, quadrupedal stance when walking or sprinting. They have a skeletal, biomechanical appearance and are usually colored in muted shades of black, blue or bronze. Aliens do not radiate heat, as their body heat matches the ambient temperature of the environment in which they are found. adult Aliens have the ability of running and crawling along ceilings and walls. They have great physical strength, to be capable of breaking through welded steel doors.
Aliens have segmented, blade-tipped tails. The sharp tip was initially a small, scorpion-like barb, but from adulthood onwards the blade design increased in size and changed in appearance to more closely resemble a slashing weapon. From Adulthood onwards, the tails have a flat ridge of spines at the base of the blade. This was to help them swim.As a weapon, the strength of the tail is very effective, having been shown to be strong enough to impale and lift a Predator with seemingly little effort. They are also adept at using their tails as blunt weapons, sometimes to deadly effect.
They have elongated, cylindrical skulls, but possess no visible eyes,at adolesants the top of the creature's head was translucent, with empty eye sockets of human appearance visible within. How the creatures see is uncertain. a fisheye lens is similer on how an alian see's. In the studies of the Alien, the creature can be held mesmerized by a spinning green light for several minutes. the adult creatures have a more textured head rather than a smooth carapace. In the commentary for Aliens, it was speculated that this was part of the maturation of the creatures, as they had been alive far longer than the original Alien. and as they they get older, although made narrower with a longer muzzle and more prominent chin.The Aliens' inner jaws are powerful enough to smash through bone and metal.
Throughout their appearances, human-spawned Aliens have been shown to have a fluctuating number of fingers. In Alien, the creature has webbed, six fingered hands. The number of fingers is reduced to three in Aliens, and are shown to be much longer and more skeletal. In Alien Resurrection, the number of digits is increased to four, with two long middle fingers and a pair of thumbs. This design is kept in the Alien vs. Predator films, though the hands were made bulkier in order to make the Aliens seem more formidable against the Predators.
Aliens have been both plantigrade and digitigrade organisms, usually in accordance to their host. Human-spawned Aliens were usually portrayed as having humanoid hind limbs, while, other Alien sported double-jointed legs due to its quadrupedal host. for the human-spawned Aliens. described the human-spawned as feeling more like a dog , despite having been born from human hosts.The human spawned Alien warriors would revert back to a plantigrade posture.
~Blood and secretions~
Alien blood is an extremely potent acid and is capable of corroding on contact almost any substance with alarming speed. It is dull yellowish-green in color, and seems to be pressurized inside the body so that it spurts out when punctured. if one were to use traditional firearms or explosives to attack it, its blood would eat through the hull of the ship. The Alien studies suggests that, at least at the "facehugger" stage, the acid is not blood but a fluid maintained under pressure between a double layer of skin. the Aliens are shown to be conscious of the effects of their acidic blood, and even use it to their advantage: one example documented was when two Aliens escape a cage by killing a fellow Alien so its acid eats through the cage floor;and a queen being held by chains apparently instructs several Aliens to slash and cut her, thus corroding the chains. Requiem documentary: "Science of the Alien", it is theorized that the Aliens' acid blood could be some type of "hydrosulphuric acid" composition due to its corrosiveness and the conspicuously toxic effects on living human tissue. The documentary also speculates that Aliens are immune to their own acidic and toxic liquids due to a endobiological build-up similar to the human stomach's ability to protect itself from its digestive fluids. The documentary takes this theory one step further and speculates that the Alien organisms' protection system against its own toxic hydrosulphuric acid is protecting the rest of the organism with what is basically a bio-organically produced Teflon isolation. this has shown to be the case, as a Predator uses Alien chitin to make armor for a human that protects her from their blood.
Aliens can produce a thick, strong resin (secreted from their maws, giving them the look of a slavering beast) that they use to build their hives and to cocoon their victims, and they can use the walls of their hives as camouflage. In documentaions, the facehugger is shown to be able to "spit" acid, melting the faceplate of helmets and allowing the creature immediate access to the inside. This ability is also exhibited by adults; much like a spitting cobra, they use it to blind and immobilize their victims.
~Intelligence and communication~
Events on the LV-426 colony and USM Auriga showed that the species excels at observational learning and problem solving. In both cases, the Aliens managed to learn how to operate the machinery of their mechanized environments at a very basic level. On LV-426, the Aliens were able to cut the power from a section of the complex to allow themselves access to the humans. The queen was able to learn how to operate an elevator simply by observing it once. The studies of the film notes that the queen establishing her 'nest' at the base's main power plant could equally be the result of her selecting the warmest part of the base to make her nest or her deliberately selecting a location where any attackers would be unable to destroy her without destroying the entire facility. In the Scientists commentary for Aliens documentary, noted that the creatures in Aliens had been alive for far longer than the Alien in the other alien colinies, and so had more time to learn how to manipulate machinery. On the USM Auriga, they were able to use blood from another Alien to melt through their enclosure and escape, with the Aliens in the Antarctic temple using a similar strategy to free the queen from her chains. With the exception of the "Newborn", Aliens have demonstrated little actual emotion, save for self preservation and maternal instincts toward their eggs.
~Life cycle~+
Aliens eusocial life-forms with a defined caste system which is ruled over by a queen. Their life cycle comprises several distinct stages: they begin their lives as an egg, which hatches a parasitoid larval form known as a facehugger, which then attaches itself to a living host by, as its name suggests, latching onto its face. scientests commented that this parasitoid would not likely be able to use a host any smaller than a cat, or as large as an elephant.((can change aopn request or what im looking for.))
The facehugger then "impregnates" the host with an embryo known as a "chestburster," which, after a gestation period of several hours, erupts violently from the host's chest resulting in the death of the host.
The chestburster then matures to an adult phase within a few hours, shedding its skin and replacing its cells with polarized silicon. Due to Horizontal gene transfer during the gestation period, the Alien also takes on some of the basic physical attributes of the host from which it was born, allowing the individual alien to adapt to the host's environment.
~Queen~
Queen Aliens are significantly larger and stronger than the warriors, approximately Template:Convert tall. Their body structure differs also, having two pairs of arms, one large and one small. The queen's head is larger than other adult Aliens and is protected by a large, flat crest, like a crown, and they vary from queen-to-queen. Unlike other Aliens, the queen also has high heel protrusions from its feet.
Egg-laying Alien queens possess an immense ovipositor on their lower torso, similar to a queen termite's. Unlike insect queens, there appears to be no need for drones to fertilize an Alien queen's eggs. When attached to its ovipositor, the queen is supported by a "biomechanical throne"that consists of a lattice of struts resembling massive insect legs.
In the initial studies, the Alien possessed a complete life cycle, with the still-living bodies of its victims converted into eggs. This allowed scietests to introduce a concept he had initially conceived for a theory called Mother, a massive mother Alien which laid the eggs and formed the basis for the Aliens' life cycle.
others queens differ in in appearance and its over-all size was increased to 6 meters (20 feet) tall. Other changes include the removal of the "high-heel" protrusions on its legs, including additional spines on its head and making its waist thinner.
a younger form of the full grown queen, albeit with traits inherited from its Predator host. Recalling the facehugger's method of embryo implantation, the Predalien uses its inner mouth to directly deposit multiple chestburster embryos into pregnant female hosts.This is explained by the Scietests as a means of quickly building an army of Aliens before the young queen evolves into its sedentary, egg-laying state.
~Egg~
The eggs laid by the queen are large, ellipsoidal leathery objects between two to three feet high with a four-lobed opening at the top. As a potential host approaches, the egg's lobes unfold like flower petals, and the parasitic facehugger extracts itself from the egg and attaches itself to the potential host. some rarely designed eggs are much more obviously vaginal appearance, complete with an "inner and outer vulva". Initially it was only thaught the egg remained totally stationary save for the hydraulic movement of the lobes; however as more people survived encounters the entire egg was made out to ripple as it opened.
~Facehugger~
A facehugger is the second stage in the Alien's life cycle. It has eight long finger-like legs which allow it to crawl rapidly, and a long tail adapted for making great leaps. These particular appendages give it an appearance somewhat comparable to chelicerate arthropods such as arachnids and horseshoe crabs.
The facehugger is a parasitoid; its only purpose is to make contact with the host's mouth for the implantation process, by gripping its legs around the victim's head and wrapping its tail around the host's neck. Upon making contact, the facehugger tightens its tail around the host's neck in order to render it unconscious through oxygen deprivation. The facehugger then inserts a proboscis down the host's throat, supplying it with oxygen whilst simultaneously implanting an embryo. Attempts to remove facehuggers generally prove fatal, as the parasitoid will respond by tightening its grip, and the facehugger's acidic blood prevents it from being safely cut away.
Once the Alien embryo is safely implanted, the facehugger detaches and dies.
some other forms for the facehugger are much larger creature with eyes and a spring-loaded tail
~Chestburster~
After implantation, facehuggers die and the embryo's host wakes up afterwards showing no considerable outward negative symptoms. Symptoms build acutely after detachment of the facehugger, the most common being sore throat, slight nausea, increased congestion and moderate to extreme hunger. In later stages where the incubation period is extended in preparation of a queen birth, symptoms will include a shortness of breath, exhaustion, and hemorrhaging (detectable through biological scanners and present in nosebleeds or other seemingly random bleeding incidents), as well as chest pains inflicted either in lack of chest space due to the chestburster's presence, or even premature attempts to escape the host. The incubating embryo takes on some of the host's DNA or traits, such as bipedalism, quadrupedalism or possessing the mandibles of a Predator and other body structure changes. Over the course of 1–24 hours, indeterminable in some cases, and sometimes up to a week, in the case of some queens, the embryo develops into a chestburster, at which point it emerges, violently ripping open the chest of the host, killing it.
~Growth and maturity~
:document A65:When a chestburster erupts from the body of its host, it is less than Template:Convert tall. However, it soon undergoes a dramatic growth spurt, reaching adult size in a matter of hours; in Alien the chestburster had grown to Template:Convert in height by the time the Nostromo crew located it again. The chestburster is shown to have molted before reaching maturity. Alien warriors are shown who are still growing, showing shedding skin, the Predalien is shown actively wiping off its final molted skin. A shed skin of a growing chestburster is also shown, showing that the creature's final limbs do not grow in the earliest stages.
~Alternative forms~
Aliens take on various forms depending on the characteristics of their hosts. Most of the Aliens seen to date have been human-spawned, but a number of Aliens born from other hosts have also been seen.
~"Dog Alien"~
The quadrupedal Alien variant.
The "Dog Alien" (also jokingly referred to as the "Bambi burster" or "Runner Alien" ) The creature itself shares the same basic physical conformation and instincts as the other Aliens, although there are several differences due to the host it was spawned from (a dog or ox). The Dog Alien in its Chestburster form is a miniature version of the adult, unlike the larva-like human spawned chestbursters. The adult is primarily quadrupedal, has digitigrade hind legs and lacks the dorsal tubes of the human-spawned variety.
~Newborn~
In Alien files due to significant genetic tampering in an attempt to recover DNA from the deceased Ellen Ripley and the Alien Queen within her, the resulting cloned Aliens show a number of minor human traits. The cloned Queen inherits a womb, and as a result it ceases to lay eggs and gives birth to a humanoid mutant. Physically, the human-Alien Newborn is very different from its brethren, being larger, with pale, translucent skin, a skull-shaped face with eyes, a human tongue and complete absence of a tail. The Newborn fails to bond with its Alien Queen mother, and kills it. Instead, the Newborn sees the Ripley clone as a surrogate parent.
~Predalien~
This variation is the result of a facehugger impregnating a Predator. The "Predalien" The Predalien shares many characteristics with its host, such as long hair-like appendages, mandibles, skin color and similar vocalizations. It is a large, bulky creature, and possesses physical strength greater than that of human-spawned Aliens. Like human-born Aliens, it is also shown to be stronger than its host species, as evidenced by its ability to pin, push, and knock a Predator away with ease. It also possessed the ability to impregnate human hosts with multiple Alien embryos.
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-just run everything by me ok..dont be shy im very nice..:second mouth smiles and snaps:
-prefer to play female or herm
-prefer playing sentiant versions
-prefer playing with other female charecters.