plantman
MemberOvomorphAug-19-2013 11:50 AMOn Earth we are at a rally with Weyland. He is giving a speech about the future of humanity, how we are are all to become immortal. How in the stars the answer to humanity's problems exists and we are the gods now. Overpopulation starvation, disease, all these things need will be in the past. This Weyland is actually a 'memorial' to the original human Weyland. He is an android like David.
Outside we see that the rally is not in a conventional auditorium, it is a secret venue and the participants are sneaking out, and blending into the crowds. Some are street sweepers, some are lawyers etc, most live alongside humans, integrated in all levels of society. They are all androids like David.
Aboard the Juggernaut David has set a course for Earth but Shaw doesnt know this. David has no way of surviving the journey and in a moving scene we see him pass away in Shaw's arms. David trys to explain the Shaw that the Engineers may not been trying to exterminate us. He tries to explain that it may not be possible for humans to fathom the mind of Gods. David hopes Shaw will find Paradise. Shaw gets into hypersleep.
Back on Earth the existence of the Engineers has become known. Weyland corporation stages a return of the Magellan and onboard is a Christ like Engineer. However, he looks similar to an Engineer but different. [[ spoiler ] He is a fabrication made by the androids, not a different race of true Engineer.]
This leads to a huge surge in religious practice world wide. The arrival of the fake Engineer seems to prove that the Christian religion is the only true faith. All religious conflict ends and the human species becomes devoutly Christian. Churches are built, and the Eucharist practices in particular are promoted. At the head of the churches are androids, who appoint themselves there as this is the Engineer's willing. The ultimate goal of participants of the faith is to become immortal, and Weyland fulfils this by making androids of the leading figures in humanity whilst secretly killing the original human.
Humanity is split. Most worship this new incarnation of Christianity with androids at the head. A minority are in rebellion and retreat to enclaves. These enclaves are the last resort for humanity. The Androids are so intelligent that they outsmart humans in all levels of society. They have become rulers if humans like it or not. In fact most humans are oblivious, or are faithful, attend this new Church etc.
The human enclaves begin covert genetic experiments to try and boost they physical and mental strength but with limited success. They're plan is to try to make themselves the dominant species again. When all hope seems lost the juggernaut with Shaw arrives back at Earth.
There is a huge upset because the now devoted humans don't understand where this strange spaceship has come from and it shocks their heightened faith. Weyland and his control of Earth is facing a rebellion. When Shaw steps out she is shocked to see Weyland and David greet her. She doesn't understand that this is Weyand's replicant and it is David mk2. David retrieves the head of David mk1 and downloads his memories and experience thus upgrading his consciousness. He also finds that David mk1 has hidden some black goo somewhere which he then finds and retrieves. Weyland is very pleased about this because it will solve the human problem finally. It is his 'final solution'.
He says his new religion to preach that this alien ship is a curse from God but the humans believe themselves now to truly be God's chosen ones and in their arrogance do not believe they could be sinful or in need of punishment. The androids build huge fortified sleeping chambers, we don't know why.
In the meantime Shaw is imprisoned where she is reunited with another captive. However, it is not a human, it is secretly an android. Weyland has a plan. He lets this android help Shaw escape but this android is programmed to find and dissolve the revolutionary factions Shaw will try to escape to. Because he is so smart he can reason with Shaw and the rebels that their fight is futile.
He leads her to a Mayan ruin. He is not being honest and explains with lies by saying that the star maps were fakes, planted their by replicants to lead them to that planet and retrieve the black goo. He explains that sometimes faith leads you to believe things that even science tells you are false. In the jungle he is bitten by a bug where his white blood gives him away as an android. He squashes the bug. He explains to her and the rebels they now have the goo on earth. He lies by saying that they found many other planets that were happily populated with Engineers and other species but that humanity will never see them, because they the androids are now the dominant species, and that is all that matters to the Engineers. He is killed by the rebels and his head roles down the stairs like a Mayan sacrifice.
The final solution is for the androids to slip the black goo into the water at the Eucharist services. This blood of Christ will turn all humans into xenomorphs. The androids plan is to turn themselves off for a few hundred years until the fire of xenomorphs has burnt itself out, and all life has been destroyed. They would then repopulate earth with their new 'living space'. The services begin, xenomorph outbreaks begin to ravage cities.
When all is apparently lost a comet is seen to streak across the sky. We see a desert scape, not unlike an alien planet. But there is an old tumbledown church their. A very tall cloaked figure approaches the church. This is somewhere very remote and rural on Earth. He walks down the aisle in the middle of the communion ceremony and reveals himself to be a true engineer. But different to the ones in Prometheus 1. He is dark skinned, more like a xenomorph but still clearly human. He is the next evolutionary stage of Engineer, one that has adapted to be stronger in every sense than the Xenomorphs that result in the Deacon or the Alien from the original 'Alien' film. He adds his blood to the cups (it is actually a vial of new updated black goo. ) They drink his new water/blood goo.
The end. (for now)