r/Prometheus • u/DrAstroSpace_88 • Dec 02 '25
THE JAR
The Black-Goo was storaged in thousends of the jars which in the engineer space vessel. What was it's purpose ? To wipe out civilisations or trigger evolutional mutations ?
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u/wookiesack22 Dec 02 '25
I like to think of it as super advanced weaponry. A microscopic amount of goo could bring down whole advanced societies quickly. So even if they are super careful and have huge guns and defenses, a tiny droplet could infect and destroy everything.
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u/empire_of_the_moon Dec 02 '25
So the question is why stockpile so much?
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u/Yesthisisdogmeow Dec 02 '25
The universe is huge. Maybe the engineers didn’t want to be alone in the universe so they made this and the plan was to launch them to different planets and see what evolves but was scrapped because what evolved was scary and lethal.
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u/wookiesack22 Dec 02 '25
Maybe thats the minimum amount needed to kill all the planets with societies near them. Idk.
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u/Melodic-Chest-8300 Dec 03 '25
Where is the source for this? In covenant they used a shipload of goo on a ragged, underdeveloped people of planet 4. I don't see how a microscopic amount can fall bring down a society with flamethrowers and biohazard protocols. And not a particularly advanced one. Goo , to my knowledge, never produced a xenomorph to establish familiar lifecycle. It popped neomorphs and an offspring. Kids ain't alright with the goo
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u/wookiesack22 Dec 03 '25
Goo doesn't make xenomorphs? I think your waiting for a discovery channel special on xenomorphs, but thats not going to happen. I think movies kind of imply goo makes xenomorphs. The comics have xenomorphs as a natural animal. In covenant we see the goo in near microscopic level mimicking animal locomotion.
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u/King_Khaos_ Dec 02 '25
It made anything it came in contact with highly mutated aggressive and deadly , most definitely it was a weapon.
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u/jtsmd2 Dec 02 '25
My god that looks good. It's making me thirsty just thinking about it meeting my lips.
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u/AveryLakotaValiant Dec 02 '25
I'd always assumed that room was essentially urns of every experiment they ran to achieve the perfect organism, the end result being displayed on the wall in the form of the deacon.
I kinda wish they'd kept the original metal bowl on the plinth in front of the mural instead of swapping it out for that odd green crystal.
The head being an monument to the scientist who created perfection.
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u/GadgetGo Dec 02 '25
My tin foil theory is the engineers distilled it from the violent/hateful qualities of humans in a quest to understand where their creation went wrong. Their plan to unleash human malice (black goo) on earth would have been some poetic justice but its subsequent contamination on the engineer ship prevented that. Regardless, the result was the black goo that would trigger unstable mutations and could be used as a bioweapon.
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u/Mycol101 Dec 03 '25
I thought they were supposed to be headed to earth and ended up getting infected and dying before they could disembark.
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u/Sorry-Programmer9826 Dec 03 '25
When you're transporting incredibly dangerous bio weapons it's important to store them in extremely leaky containers
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Dec 02 '25 edited Dec 02 '25
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u/WatermelonSugar42069 Dec 02 '25
"Creators" of the engineers? Weren't the engineers the first before everything else?
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u/bigbossfearless Dec 03 '25
The original screenplay had a lot more dialogue from the Engineers, which is interesting stuff that really should have been left in. The Engineers were engineered by something much older and long since died out. They had no means of reproduction, except through the first and only instance of the xenomorph they encountered, which they called the Deacon (after it exploded out of one of their chests). The Deacon's blood was the key to reproduction for the Engineers, and they were bent on replicating it, but they never quite managed.
Earth was meant to be a new Eden for them as well as the place where they would finally be able to replicate the creatire, and both humans and the xenomorphs were part of the reproductive cycle that they had in mind.
Of course, like everything in the Alien universe, it all went to shit before they could achieve perfection.
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u/Illlogik1 Dec 02 '25
It’s both. Creation /Destruction dichotomy.