This is a piece of fan art i created based on the Alien/ Prometheus movie franchise. A human scoutship encounters a second Alien derelict adrift in a nebula. What horrors lay within its strange hull.... A pen line drawing, digitally watercoloured using Art Rage Pro. Click pic for large version.
The scene is based on a short piece of Alien fan fiction I scribbled years ago called Alien: Infinity. Its set around 50 years after Alien 3.
Alien Infinity: fan fiction synopsis.
The scoutship above finds this Alien ship after a tip off. The crew go aboard where one of the crew finds the pilots chair empty. He gets into the chair where by the ship tries to physically merge with the hapless crewman. The crewman is torn apart by this machine but somehow hes still alive, fused with the ship. The rest of the crew tow the ship back to a space station to huge press publicity where scientists and military begin to probe the vessels secrets.
The Alien Crewman is found to be alive, this 'Space Jockey' is in suspended animation, he is awoken and after much alarm at his awakening as he attempts to escape, he is captured. Using telepathic communication he tells the protagonists in the story he was part of a convoy to deliver Alien eggs to the homeworld of another alien race the Space Jockeys are at war with. A war they are losing.
It turns out the Alien was genetically engineered as the perfect weapon of war. Its spores were meant to be delivered to the enemy homeworld where they would multiply and destroy the population. The Space Jockey ship, part of a convoy, was attacked and the pilot had to hide in a nebula in suspended animation where he remained for thousands of years due to ship malfunction. The Space Jockey recognises the human race and tells them an awful secret. In creating the Alien, various DNA traits were sampled across a thousand worlds. Part of the Alien structure was based on the DNA of primitive humans abducted thousands of years ago.
At this time Alien eggs are found onboard the space jockey ship but are quarantined. However an agent of the Weyland Yutani Corporation steals an alien egg and smuggles it away. However it breaks open and the Facehugger inside infects the agent. Hours later the chestburster bloodily emerges and the Alien gets loose. In the intervening hours the Alien multiplies. The space station security police and the military fight a losing battle to kill the aliens. The station is evacuated as military warships arrive to torpedo the station and destroy it to stop the Alien getting loose.
Eventually in the fighting, the Space Jockey and the protagonists find themselves trapped on the Space Jockey starship. The Space Jockey says he intends to complete his origonal mission. The warships try to stop the ship from leaving but the Space Jockey destroys them using his ships advanced weapons before destroying the station himself. However he is killed when an Alien spore infects him during a three way fight between the heroes, the Space Jockey and a number of Aliens that get on the ship. What emerges from the infected Space Jockey is an Alien ten times more lethal than an ordinary Alien.
This super Alien kills much of the remaining heroes however its killed when a crewman lures it outside the ship where its blown away by the ships weapons at point blank range.
The story ends in a twist when the crewman from the beginning of the story, still fused into the ships systems gets his desire to go home to earth confused with the ships origional orders in his deranged state. He seals off the heroes from the bridge area as he jumps into hyperspace back to Earth, not to go home, but to bomb it with the Alien spores thinking its the enemy homeworld of the Space Jockeys...
The follow up to this synopsis would have seen the survivors of the above incident joining an expediction to the Space Jockey Homeworld. Information obtained from the Jockey ship. The mission would be to find information which could help in the fight against the Aliens which are now loose on earth. The mission would have seen the protagonists enter basically a Gigeresque hell...
This fan fic was written about 5 years ago, it's not based on anything to do with Prometheus. It would be interesting as a fan, to see if the new Prometheus movie is anything like my own hopes and ideas.
I'm looking forward to Prometheus!
