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From the earlier drafts of the film:
>Aliens exist who are for all intents and purposes giant humans, and we call them Engineers
>They advance and evolve to great mental and physical heights
>However they lose the ability to reproduce
>A young Engineer stumbles upon the Deacon, something which resembles a more natural and somewhat benign version of the Xenomorph
>The Deacon is still a parasite, so this Engineer becomes impregnated and a Deacon chestburts out of him
>The Engineers worship the Deacon's host as a martyr and likewise venerate the Deacon as a symbol of fertility and life
>This is why there's a big statue of an Engineer head and a mural of something resembling a xenomorph in the black goo chamber
>The Engineers extract gold goo from the Deacon and use it to seed life throughout the galaxy (as we see in the prologue of Prometheus)
>Thus, humans are essentially hybrids of the Engineers and the Deacon
>Billions of years pass, and the Engineers continue to dwindle in numbers, as they are incredibly long lived but not immortal
>It is believed that many have simply ascended beyond the physical world
>The gold goo is being depleted so the Engineers try to create a synthetic substitute
>This results in the black goo
>Unfortunately, the black goo only creates horrible monsters so it is shelved
>Engineers watch the development of humanity, but are disappointed by our savagery
>They decided to take a young boy from Earth, educate him in their ways, and send him back to spread their teachings
>It is strongly implied that this student of theirs was Jesus Christ
>Following the crucifixion, the Engineers decide to destroy humanity with the black goo
>The black goo predictably causes a disaster so the lab is quarantined until the events of Prometheus
>Altogether, this means that xenomorphs are essentially a shitty demonic imitation of the Deacon
