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I did point out that the goo has to keep infecting more and different life forms until it finds a combination that works in accordance with that particular environment, right?
So, yeah. There will be some weird ass shit it will come up with until it finds a pattern that works well.
Hell, the six armed birds I mentioned being overtaken on planet buttfuck a billion lightyears from Earth, those Xenos would be fucking useless against humans because I forgot to mention that the birds are the dominant species there, and they're only a foot tall.
The point I was making is that the goo eventually infects the dominant species on a planet and starts it's cycle of making that creature nastier, stronger, and tougher than the dominant species there while also using that species as incubators and food.
Along the way of doing that, there will be failures. Like the Deacon with the Engineers, or the neomorph, or the starfish thing, or on a fucking planet with only plants, spores from mushrooms that pop, and then the spores float along to infect something else in the programmed desire to spread and evolve.
Which is why the Engineers sent the xeno eggs towards Earth. They wouldn't have to guess about what would happen.
