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One major question many of us had after watching Alien: Covenant was concerning the motives behind David and his relationship with Engineers and Mankind. What could be better than getting the answer from the creator of Alien Franchise Ridley Scott him-self? So In The Crossing prolog video, David voice-overs, explaining that while Shaw slept, he learned of the Engineer ways. it kinda hard to tell what exly David meant by Engineer way, their history. philosophy or science. Following this, we then see David approach the Engineer city and proceed to bomb them using the Black Goo. Many of us speculated as to why David felt the need to destroy Engineers and many wondered what he might have learned about their culture to instigate such a reion. Fortunately, during a podcast with Empire Magazine, Ridley Scott explained the motives behind the Engineer race and why David bombed them. If you want you can listen to the entire podcast, the link in the description but Im gonna summarize the main point in this video.\r
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what alien covenant means for the alien franchise.\r
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According to Scott, the Engineers periodically visit worlds theyve seeded with life and occasionally will wipe the planet clean if they discover their offspring have lost their way. Much like the catastrophes described in biblical times when God grew tired of Mankind, just like Engineers, he would eliminate entire generations of species if they proved to be a disappointment. If you remeber, in Prometheus, the crew discovered the Engenerr ship in 2093 and they determined that the ship is about 2000 years old. So for some reason Engeneers wanted to destroy humanity but changed thier minds around the time when people discovered faith and Christianity. It is a major theme in the , Elizabeth really cares about her cross necklace and at some point asks David to give it back to her.\r
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Also Scott has said that the more specific details he had in mind, was that the Engineers tried to set us back on the right path. First by sending a missary to Earth about 2000 years ago to help guide us. That missary would be Jesus Christ. Unfortunately we end up crucifying him, but we obtained a faith in return, so Engineers decided to give humanity another chance and did not send the deadly virus. This is why a timeframe of 2000 years is specified in the s.\r
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If the planet went wrong, they would want to wipe it clean. But that could take 500 years. When they revisit – because different visitors would come back and see were not doing so well – they would look at these human beings that are jerks, that are killing the planet, killing themselves, not able to settle down, theyre like a bunch of children. We should wipe it clean.\r
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Following on, Ridley explains that David has no respect for Engineers or Humanity and ually have developed a hatred of their species collectively:\r
He hates them. He has no respect for Engineers and no respect for human beings.\r
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Davids quate fron Alien Covenant seems to confirm what Ridley talked about.\r
“They are a dying species, grasping for resurrection. So they are leaving the earth forever.”David continues, “But their power is an illusion. They dont deserve to start again, and Im not going to let them.” o At first I thought that David adresses to humans, but its more likely the reference to the Engineers and their many visits in the past to Earth. thats why David says leaving the Earth forever” so hes not speaking about humans, he clearly implies Engeneers. The word forever is key here, since humans are not close to leaving the Earth forever even though they are colonizing other planets. I think it is possible that when he says they are leaving the Earth forever that he means they meant to wipe it clean as they see Earth as a failed experiment and will never return. \r
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Another interesting moment in Alien Covenant is when David looks at dead Engineers covered in Black Goo he says\r
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Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!\r
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This is a reference to Shelleys proverbial sonnet Ozymandias \r
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