[Posher778]

Originally Posted by _____V_____

Basically, the humans are also engineered from the Space Jockeys' DNA, or Engineers as they are called in Prometheus, as one of their milder creations. They were planted on Earth and left to flourish, with periodic visits from the Engineers to Earth keeping a tab on their progress. Which explains the maps by different civilisations at different points of time in history pointing to the same star map - a star map undoubtedly left by the Engineers.



Bang on.

Planet LV-223 is a testing ground for the Engineers and their bio-weapons. The planet's pyramid was full of such bio-weapons, some of them resultants from experiments gone so awry that even the Engineers had to flee the scenes (as deduced from one of the chase sequences). The Hammerpede is one such example, the gooey, sticky stuff inside the egg-sized containers is another, etc.

The Engineers undoubtedly didn't want to leave a direct clue to their location - humans had to find them out from the ships they left underground in LV-223. That is, if humans were tough enough to survive inside the pyramid till they found the spaceship entrance inside them. Like it was shown in the end, the whole planet has several other ships underground. Any such ship had maps and directions to reach the Engineers' home planet.



They didn't want to destroy it all. They planted these bio-weapons and kept testing them further. The opening sequence is that of an Engineer who:-

A) Volunteered to be a subject for the sticky substance bio-weapon testing,

OR

B) Someone who raised their voice on the continuous production of bio-weapons and, as a result, was cast out and punished by making them forcefully feed themselves with the sticky stuff.

A sequence which might be more clearer in part 2.



Go ahead and post them. Others might also have the same doubts and they can be clarified for everyone's benefits.

That's the beauty of Prometheus. It leaves you with questions and makes you think.

I definitely thought when he drank the stuff at the beginning that it was how they created humans in the first place. Like he gave himself up to make a new race. I may have been a little tipsy at the start though.