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a) Later in the 2000s, my scenario evolved to being one about the derelict ship being a sort of a bastardized hospital ship that was also a slaughter house. The ship landed with the idea of saving the dying inhabitants of the planetoid from a weapons factory disaster. I had always been inspired by the idea that Giger had imagined that there had been a technological civilisation upon the planetoid that was somehow destroyed. There isn't any known connection with the novel Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
b) The vessel landed to have the victim's remains processed and they become food for the thing we know as spores. However the are not allowed to leave the planetoid because they have become contaminated. The planetoid is considered to be "on lockdown" (which is a term that I have picked up from the Prometheus commentary). Their DNA will be harvested from the remaining life forms in aeons to come.
c) Another concept that I had was that they couldn't return to their home world because the necessary Stargate or wormhole leading to their place of origin was shut. Perhaps this concept reminds me of the Harkonnen Castle concept for Jodorowsky's Dune. So the spores represent a remnant of a civilisation to be revived. If they become the aliens, then a much more intelligent civilised species of alien life form might come out of it later.
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| Giger's Dune II Castle Harkonnen that shreds its visitors and then digests them in its bowels |
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