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Mar 29, 2013 · The Space Jockey is there as a form of world-building, while also establishing some foreshadowing. By including an unknown alien there, it shows that the in-universe situation is larger than the characters or audience is aware, that there is something more that's happened there.
May 27, 2017 · In the derelict ship, the crew of the Nostromo find the Space Jockey. Apparently, he was infected by a Facehugger, so an Alien chest-buster had made his way out of his torso and bio suit. What ha...
May 28, 2017 · Though given the bio-mechanical nature of their technology and how it seems to connect with the Jockey's suit, "seat" may be an oversimplification. "Control interface" may be closer to the mark. Share
Apr 9, 2021 · The name also has a precedent in a 1947 Robert Heinlein story, titled, of course, Space Jockey, which is about “a rocket pilot who pilots a commercial passenger spacecraft”. The Shepperton crew, who were given copies of the Alien scripts to read prior to production, seem to have been responsible for making the name stick after its excision from one of the drafts.
May 28, 2017 · When some of the crew of the Nostromo discovered the space jockey and the alien eggs, they didn't seem too surprised. It kind of seemed normal to them that yes, a corporation like Weyland-Yutani would want them to bring back whatever they found by responding to the signal.
Mar 12, 2017 · From Prometheus, we find out that this is an "Engineer" inside the "Space Jockey" suit. By-the-way this should not be a spoiler since the movie has been out for a month now. Go see the movie so that we will get a Ridley Scott sequel which is apparently already titled as "Paradise".
Note that all in-universe aliens seem roughly humanoid with a notably humanoid head; the Xenomorphs, the Space Jockey and the Predators (if in universe) all have humanoid faces. The Space Jockey had a mouth under the trunk (it appears) though I'm not sure if the facehugger would be able to reach it as it was obscured by the trunk. –
the "Space Jockey" in a similar ship with his chest cage exploded from the inside, obviously killed by an alien "hatching" (or whatever you call it). Isn't the crashed alien ship the same ship that the crew of the Nostromo found? If so, then where is the Space Jockey?
Now that Prometheus is out on DVD, it seems obvious that the larger "human" skull is a "Space Jockey" or "Engineer" skull. It's about the right % larger than the human skull, and is close enough in shape to fit the "DNA-match between human and engineer."
Jul 28, 2012 · In The comic Aliens: Apocalypse, it is said that circa 3.2 billion B.C the Space Jockeys control most of the galaxy, including Earth. About 1.6 billion B.C they are almost wiped out by an Alien outbreak. Only a few of the Space Jockeys survive. The comic also includes a "Space Jockey Alien", who is huge.
