guys, I'm aware of the TV spots, I was asleep when they dropped and unfortunately I have to work a twelve hour shift at my day job today so I will get to doing a video analysis on them, just after work! hope you enjoy this video though!
Mr H Reviews I can tell you what it is. It's Kryptonite. The Engineers being multiversal had been in universes where Super Man came into power, sometimes the aliens would kill him and his people, sometimes in other universes Kryptons would win. more troubling was Kryptonmorphs, they were beyond too dangerous or controlable, especially when they evolved into kryptonmorph kings, queen mothers and so on. In some universes Zod and his people curb stomped the Engineers and took there technology, hence why in the new WB movie continuity the Krypton military were suits very similar to the Engineers. It was felt best, to keep kryptonite in sensitive areas, like were eggs or goo / royal jelly was kept to kill krypton intruders so they couldn't destroy there weapons AND to kill them so they wouldn't have a chance of accidently being infected, making ultrahyper dangerous kryptonmorphs. Also with the off chance they had to deal with the Kryptonmorph it was jopef it would have the same weaknesses as Kryptonians, sadly this was not the case... There only relef was that Krypton didn't exist in this universe, though ones universe hoping was still a possible danger after there own universe hoping tech was stolen from the Engineers.
The crystal containing vital information about the Xenomorph would be an interesting theory. I always thought that this rock must have significance because in the holograms of the black-goo outbreak, we see some engineers heading towards the head room, even though that room too is full of the black goo canisters. My guess is they were heading there because the green crystal or maybe something behind the mural was going to help them deal with the situation.
or because it was one of the few places inside the temple with a door to lock the monster out. Ridley or one of the writers have said that's why but yeah could be deeper
Motherlover of course , this could be a scene like in Jurassic park . The Crystal contains DNA fossilised in rock from the xenomorph home world and then engendered ! The plot Thickens
Perhaps thats a door, and behind there is Ovamorphs or eggs.. Perhaps Xenomorph -facehugger eggs are already on board. It is a weapons R&D planet after all. That Green crystal has to represent something of importance. Also Ridley has to incorporate the Queen into his story somehow. In a trailer we see a Xenomorph watching David. David may have led a victim to the eggs to see what would become of that creature.
I stop watching another TH-cam video to watch yours. Now, the green crystal has been one of the biggest questions I had from Prometheus. I think it has something to do with the queen. I love hearing ppl theories the unanswered questions of Prometheus. Thanks for the video and keep up the good work!!!
Yeah Xeno dna in from millions of years ago in their evolution - kinda like jurrasic park does with the amber rock for dino dna inside the entomobed mosquito..
There's a scene in Prometheus when David opens one of the black chemical canisters on board the ship(before exposing Holloway to the chemical) and pulls out green glass like cylinders that contained the black chemical/goo within. So it is possible that the large crystal could've also contained something within. Though there wasn't much precaution in storing whatever the crystal possibly houses compared to the black chemical/goo.. Which is kept in multiple layers or safety barriers : First, the outer canister shell that looks to be metal, a goo like substance, then the glass cylinders containing the black chemical/goo and there are more than one of these glass cylinders within each of the canisters(I counted 4)- but could be wrong. The chemical can only be released or put to use once the top seal is broken off.
goo.gl/images/u27p1M There's a picture of what I'm talking about, But basically what I'm saying is there's a possible a connectivity with the crystal and the green glass cylinders.
Now I'm just wondering if that purposeful imagery, or just a coincidence... Anyway, I agree with your original point. That or it's some kind of data crystal housing the digital blueprint of the Xenomorph's DNA.
Sean Kavanagh if you didn’t even notice it, then that means you’re unobservant. You provided zero insight. That’s like crashing into a pedestrian at 100mph and as you regain control of the car saying yeah I didn’t notice anything. It’s still massively significant lol
Changes always has relevance. It is a way to leave a door open to explain future events. During writing and production, as scenes progress, they tend to recognize that certain things need to be explained and were not, so my making a change on the script/video footage, leave the door open for future explanation. That is my opinion.
Fortunately Ridley Scott is directing Covenant. Despite the hate Prometheus got, I liked all the mystical elements, it would be neat if it turns out the temple on Paradise has more of these crystals, hopefully David can open some like he did with the goo canisters.
I never saw the cuneiform Sumerian texts on the bowl before.. it changes nothing but it is something I appreciate seeing. can't wait for the next chapter
The green stone is a fossilized/crystallized xeno egg Reasons: 1. The green colour is very reminiscent of the green in the classic Alien movie poster featuring the egg. 2. When Kane visits the egg chamber in Alien, we see the eggs behave in a similar way to the canisters in big head room - sweating, esp sweating black goo like substance, and while there are no puddles of black goo in Kane's chamber, there is a real oily look about the chamber floor. 3. Point 2 means the xeno eggs could be the origin of the black goo and the fossilized green egg performs a religious function by representing the origins of the goo and its importance to the big white guys. The canisters can be seen as synthetic eggs, used to produce black goo. See Zoe's movie house below.
I'm getting a starcraft feel from all this. Aliens playing the role of Zerg as the Engineers/Xelnaga weren't happy with their first creation. In this case Humans take the place of the protoss.
Chekhov's gun - "Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there."
I think the engineers are just merely meant to seem egyptian like, old world with high technology, statues, obelisks, pictures depicting things, etc. Everything about their creations were ornate and functional. It's all meant to be mysterious. We have to come back to the real world and realize that most of the time, writers/producers/directors are telling the underlings "give me something cool to look at". A lot of people see the alien in the mural, but there's actually more going on in it though. It appears as if the alien itself is bound, and there is a representation of a set of seemingly smooth gemstones set in something above it. You can see that the aliens arms seem bound, but there is a lot more going on with the sides of the alien. It's hard to say if that's a depiction, or an ornate representation, you see these kind of large claw like hooks on either side and other things around its head. For all we know, it's possible that the black goo is designed to succeed the engineers by basically taking all their knowledge and creating extreme evolution, a new ultra hardy creature, that could eventually grow to sentience and pretty much have no match in the galaxy.....the engineers legacy, as cruel and vicious as it may seem.
Interesting thoughts, thanks for sharing them through this video. I still can'r help finding resemblance between the green "crystal" and the ampules David pulled out of the urn. They are both green and transparent. Although different in shape, I think the contents is the same. So to me the green crystal is just an ampule with a sample of the black goo or whatever was in the ampules. And the tomb , I believe, is not a tomb but rather a museum.
Mr. H, could your voice get ANY more deep, dignified and effective?! I have a pretty deep, articulate voice, and you're impressing the hell out of me. Also, a great theory, BTW. I did find it vexing that we couldn't clearly see much of anything in that "Head room". It, along w/ a multitude of other questions, better be answered somewhere/sometime between Covenant and Awakening.
lol thanks dude! people come for the topics and seem to stay due to the voice. i think anyway! surprised even myself, wasn't sure anyone would wanna hear me drone on
Mr. H, it's a golden voice...keep it up. Now, believe it or not, some fans are claiming that Alien: Awakening "can't" be a prequel to the sequel of a prequel, because it's not "linear"...tell that to the Star Wars Universe, esp. the PT, Rogue One, and TFA...that's part of the fun of being a fan/devotee of expansive, detailed, legacy, creative worlds...Lol!
i love the comics, books, movies and games, as they provide interesting insight on these creatures of nightmares! i was thinking, what if this gem is a fossilized form of royal jelly? I know most don't like the expanded universe, but what if they were trying to create something similar to the queen mother? one more docile and easier to control? the gem does look like an egg and we know the queens are incredibly protective of their eggs, so it would make sense in a way, thanks for another great video!
I like prometheus and have seen it multiple times but i didn't even know there was a green crystal. Looking forward to watching it again and trying to spot it this time.
The Xenomorph DNA makes a lot of sence to me, it would explain how everything the goo touched became more and more like a Xenomorph and even all the things that the Good did in theFire And Stone comics. Even all the life that the Goo created on the planet seemed to have biomechanical features like Xenomorphs.
My opinion is that at some point the filmmakers decided that the LV-223 Engineers would be a different faction from the Creator Engineers from the beginning of the film. Realizing that the presence of the ceremonial bowl in a revered setting might not make sense if they were an opposing group, they replaced it with the green crystal. Whether or not the crystal will turn out to actually be anything of importance, I got no idea. This is just my thoughts for why they decided the bowl had to go.
From the first time I watched Prometheus I thought the mural on the wall was of an Alien Queen and the green vial (you see as a crystal) contained pure Queen DNA. It was what the Engineers used to do their experiments. That's why I love to read other people's thoughts and feedback.
Because it seems like the crystal is some sort of offering at an alter, it could be concluded that the crystal itself has some sort of value or significance to the engineer's culture or way of life. In chemistry, rarity does not necessarily correlate to value. So, I think that the green crystal might be some element or compound that the engineers have based their entire technology on and could possibly be a precursor to manufacturing the black goo itself.
Hey I was thinking, maybe the destroyers faction of the engineers was trying to stop the creators from making an actual xenomorph that’s why the base at LV-223 was abandoned/destroyed. Or maybe it was the other way around. In the movie it is suggested that the engineers left on LV-223 were planning to travel to Earth with the black goo. Maybe they were trying to make the perfect organism which the xenomorph is. The “alien” creature was their end game and the human race was an essential part or a milestone in achieving this, some sort of experiment of the engineers to create xenomorph organism. It would explain why the engineer tried to kill the humans that came to LV-223. Or maybe the last engineer was just from the opposing faction that tried to destroy the creators work.Hey i was thinking, maybe the destroyers faction of the engeeners was trying to stop the creators from making an actual xenomorph thats why the base at LV-223 was abandoned/destroyed and maybe this is why the last engeener tryed to kill the humans.Hey i was thinking, maybe the destroyers faction of the engeeners was trying to stop the creators from making an actual xenomorph thats why the base at LV-223 was abandoned/destroyed and maybe this is why the last engeener tryed to kill the humans.Hey i was thinking, maybe the destroyers faction of the engeeners was trying to stop the creators from making an actual xenomorph thats why the base at LV-223 was abandoned/destroyed and maybe this is why the last engeener tryed to kill the humans.
To be honest i just watched the ted talks part again and thought " it does look like there were two factions of engineers and possibly the engineers (who would represent prometheus) that took the black goo, used it to create life on earth. The engineers death at the start would mirror prometheus' torture by the gods and the reaction of the engineer they met at the end, would make more sense (the gods feared what man would do with the fire)"
The crystal containing the DNA of the xenomorph makes a lot of sense. If they idea that the engineers threw off the yoke of their creators, who are what we would call spase jockeys, by using the Xenomorphs it makes sense that they would worship or revere the Xenomorph.
There may be a even simple Answer, at the time of Lindeloff's Drafts the Engineers were revised down to 10ft Tall... the Engineer Head (that exploded) is at a Scale that would make that Engineer 9-10ft tall. The Sacrificial Bowl Originally on the Altar was also at a Scale that compared to Holloways Hands vs the Sacrificial Engineer would make the Engineer about 10ft... but in the Movie we can see the Engineer (Ian Whyte) was NOT like 10ft Tall and so they decided to replace the Bowl with the Crystal as those who paid attention would be like so hang on the Sacrificial Engineer was like a fair bit Taller... but then there could be another reason for the Change.. but it has been given no explanation but had spawned some interesting theories
I honestly did wonder about the green crystal and what purposed it served, but sadly Prometheus had far too many plot holes, and asked more questions than it answered being frustrating all around. I still like the movie for its visuals, concepts, and ideas. But it left me dissatisfied and angry in general. I hope it all gets cleaned up and I still hold out hope though its not earned at this point sadly. Thanks for making the video though, again bro go into voice acting lol you got a identifiable voice and would make exceptional villain or anti-hero :D
Definitely didn't notice that from trailer to theater... loose ends; that's what it smacks of to me... Sir Ridley rushing in every direction, switching screen writers and not tying up the loose ends. They could likely go back and make something up to tie it in now in hindsight, but I've got a feeling it's just one of those things that Scott left open ended to play with later, kind of like the Space Jockey in the original Alien film.
Considering that a fantastic number of terabytes can be stored in quartz crystal I'm thinking it's far more than just the dna that's stored in it. Perhaps the entire history of the subject and perhaps more items related to the xenomorphs. That was my initial thought when I saw it with all that was going on around it. And I'd say it's in a well protected place too.
I did not notice the difference between the trailer and the film, but I just re-watched Prometheus and had the same thought about the green crystal; gotta be xenomorph DNA.
What about this: Shaw and David get to said planet. Overtime, they work together and even interact with the Engineers. This prompts Shaw into giving herself to the engineers as a vessel. Thus, we get a new version of the Queen-Shaw mix.
The green "crystal" may be a gem...an emerald. King Solomon was given four precious stones by God...one of which was an emerald...which, as the legend goes, endowed the king with power over all creation. Just a thought.
I was thinkin very similar man that the green gem houses the pure DNA codes for the Xeno and further might be a sort of hard drive like Kryptons crystals for data storage and it contains the entire history of the Xeno itself
I agree with you regarding this might be containing the Xenomorphs DNA as long extinct creatures the Engineers are trying to re-create and they might be hoping to use humanity as test bed for it and infact that might be the real reason for them to create humanity as womb for breeding or recreating this long extinct creatures Or during a civil war between Engineers factions; some tried to use humanity that way. The title Awakening of the next movie might mean the creature has been awakened.
I noticed the glass from the first time I watched the movie. I related it to the type of glass that contains the seeds from where David took to be introduced into the cup of liquor that he offered to Dr Holloway at billiard room. Glass blister container has the same shape and the same color. My theory is that a blister was accidentally broken and this gave the beginning of the end of the engineers that were projected by the holograms. It's my theory...
Now it wall makes sense. They created humanity and let it evolve to become a host for the creation of the xenomorphs. This is why they wanted to return to earth, but something got wrong before they could do that.
Surely, I've always thought, that the whole room is a recipe, an instruction manual. The large stone head is clearly human or engineer, the tanks of the black liquid are the catalyst, and the mural on the door is the end product, human + alien goo = xenomorph
No, I do not think it is a minor object. The mural and this altar are teasing me ever since I watched Prometheus. I think they are the key to understand everything. Sure, we know the Black Goo is a mutagen, but the mural and this green object were placed for a purpose and when we know it we know everything else. Why that giant head, why that pattern of urns placed around it? Their religion is the key to understand their actions. And this is a great connection to our own societies. This can indeed lead to interesting thoughts.
These movies are way less thought out than you seem to think. If it didn't have a purpose within the movie it was shown, then it didn't have a purpose at that time. They could make up a purpose for it later, or never show it again.
MR. H..... you are THE BEST!!!! I LOVE YOUR ANALYTICAL VIDEOS! I too, deeply contemplated the mysterious GREEN CRYSTAL and it's intriguing allure (great minds think alike)....... by the way, I absolutely LOVE that dark, ambient soundtrack to this video..... it blends PERFECTLY w/the title subject.... Do you know WHO the artist is? THANK YOU, SIR KNIGHT MR. H~~~ EXCELSIOR!
I believe the motion detectors picked up movement by the captain more than just a snake... we never get to see or know what exactly but there was something in that ship alive
I had no idea, it was switched out. I might of watched the trailer for Prometheus maybe twice.. Or thrice. Anyway. I wasn't even aware of this switch-a-roo. Good call.
Mr H, will you ever do a video on the old comic Aliens: Labyrinth? I'm curious as to what ideas you and your other viewers have on just WTF was going on with the Xenos in Dr. Church's flashback sequence.
It's not a gem, it's a mineral. The contents of the bowl the engineer drank from, apart from a black fluid, also contained a crystal like structure. Those are one and the same. It could be used as a stabilizer or power supply.
I had a theory that this cult of engineers had a second from of causing chaos. like if the black goo didn't work they would use the chamber with the crystal which inside would contain some form of eggs. or xenos. I also believe that the room could be a pretty important point in Alien covenant,
What if the facility was originally built and controlled by the engineers who created life on earth and they were later supplanted by the militarised engineers? That would explain the religious symbols along side the weapons. It would also explain why the creator engineers left a star map for the facility.
ok, here is a theory I havnt heard yet and explains WHY the engineers would almost seem to worship the xenomorph. what if, the xenomorph was used by the engineers to clean a planet of its current inhabitants, so the engineers could in turn come to seed it with "their" form of life? what if this is why the xenomorph is carried by the engineer ships, its all part of their process of seeding life on a planet, what if this is also why david kills them with the black goo, what if he found out that the engineers werent these great creators of life, what if in reality they were the great hijackers of planets, and murders of entire species across world. this also lines up with why the objects were changed, as the ceremonial bowl being in the same chamber as the black goo that mutates creatures into forms of xenomorphs, (the protomorph from engineers, the xenomorph from humans, the bull-xeno from dogs, etc..) would imply that the xeno and the ceremonial drink were connected in some way, and as any wise man knows, "it is only out of the ashes of destruction that the seeds of creation are sown"
It's going to be interesting at the end of this series to sort out the fluff from the fundamental. I believe we benefit from both a good 'book', or proto-plot for the series as well as artistic free reign whereby obscure elaborations like the murals are allowed whether they are applicable to the plot or not. On the other hand, woe unto those who allowed in plot blunders, such as the entire justification for a master cartographer getting lost and a master biologist playing cute with a foreign species in Prometheus. Who is more stupid? The two bumbling characters or the writers and producers who perpetrated them? That harp is not going to be silenced. There is no such thing as absolute perfection.
Yes I remember the change being a big deal and the theory about a Jurassic Park/Twohy's Alien III-style alien dna extraction from alien amber was more or less the only real theory back when Prometheus was fresh and people still gave that piece of flaming shit the benefit of the doubt because there was so much story there, and we still believed that, long before it became apparent that Ridley has no fucking idea what he's doing and nothing in Prometheus meant anything to anyone and - just like Lost - was only there to confuse and piss people off. BUT, here's something really interesting I heard from the forums on that scified alien forum that is so ingenious and simple and adds nothing that isn't explicitly shown in the film that it seems obvious in retrospect that this was the intention from the beginning: Do you remember the version of the black goo in Alien Engineers? Where it was a swarm of microscopic organisms described as "scarabs?" In this script there was no ambiguity, the goo in the opening script and in the pyramid were one in the same. So, how is that possible? The scarabs inject DNA into what they're exposed to and mutate it, but - and this is crucial - they carry their dna with them. In A:E, they break down the Engineer's DNA and its brought to early humans from more or less the time of "behavioral modernity." The Engineers have been giving us "upgrades" periodically, and the goo was carrying their DNA from them to us. So, what does this mean for the finished film? The same sequence of events unfolds. In Prometheus it's a little ambiguous, but I think it has become very, very clear by now that the "sacrificial goo" and the black goo are different things. We know for sure that the dissolution effect would never occur with the black goo under any circumstances, it ALWAYS mutates, even the Engineers on Paradise were in the process of mutating while they died. It is also - maybe you noticed - something of a plot point in the film that we DO have Engineer DNA in us and the similarity is not a coincidence. And if that opening sequence wasn't just a red herring, then the sacrificial goo is how they pass down DNA. *ahem* the sacrificial goo passes the DNA of what it is ingested by down to the next thing with genetics it encounters. The sacrificial goo takes the DNA of one creature *and carries that DNA so that it becomes a mutating agent.* Is it clicking yet? The answer has been IN THE FILM the whole time and it's really quite elegant and brilliant, and if this isn't being read wrong then it's the only good thing about Prometheus other than the Hammerpede. Basically, the black goo still IS the sacrificial goo, but only after it was come into contact with alien DNA. After that, it carries those genetics and becomes a mutator, which is why instead of turning Sehalanthropus into Orrorin thanks to Engineer DNA, it turns the cute little Millbworms into Hammerpedes, probably the second coolest alien ever. Everything the black goo touches because a kind of alien in the same way the Engineers actually went about "creating" us. Which EASILY explains both the bowl of sacrificial goo and the green "alien amber" ideas in context. So, assuming that rock IS alien amber, what's the significance of the change? Well from a writing perspective all it served to do was confuse and piss people off, but as to why anyone could have possibly thought it was a good idea, it was probably more direct. Unless we're just TOTALLY wrong and the object on the altar has NOTHING to do with the origin of the black goo, the change actually makes the possible connection more straight forward. The prevailing idea back in 2012 was that the black goo was just straight up extracted from the rock with no middle man, and perhaps they thought it would be clearer to draw the line from the alien mural to the alien amber to the black goo. Maybe they changed their mind about the role the sacrificial goo played in the black goo's creation. Personally, I strongly believe that the black goo is sacrificial goo + alien DNA as this is consistent with the story and themes and the MOST obvious implications of the films to the point where it seems like it's the actual answer that's just hidden in a shitty script, and for that to be the case the clear green rock really must be some kind of alien amber after all. You know what I think the "alien amber" actually IS? Olivine and/or Pyroxene. It's a plutonic, mafic to ultramafic rock, meaning it's high in iron content and comes from magma that cooled beneath the crust. I think the way that alien fossil was preserved was that the alien was fucking frozen in lava, because that sounds bad ass. The breed of xenomorphs from the first three films has been shown to be capable of surviving in fucking MOLTEN LEAD so it's not as crazy as it sounds. Just an idea though.
Not sure if anyone said so but, the crystal seems to resemble the back of an Alien's cranium. In Prometheus and Covenant the (Xeno)morphes use the back of their heads to burst from the host organism. He crystal could represent that somehow. That all I got so far
This is a reference of the Emerald Tablet who contain all secrets and how create philosopher's stone from The Hermetic society. The Stone exist, but you know were to find it or not potter?
Ridley is all about small details and he makes movies for people who pick up on these small details. Could be a bomb to nuke the place in case of an accidental out break as one of the Engineers was attempting to enter this chamber when he got pummeled. Could be a nuetralizer/ antidote to kill the biological agent at work just as well. Or the button to push to let Hell break loose...
good theory if it was xenemorph dna it could tie into the upcoming film and how david is able to recreat new xenemorphs in his lab, interesting video with plenty to think on most appreciated sir.
I thinks it might have something to do with the creation of the Xenomorph like the bowl that was drank from in the beginning of Prometheus. Hence why they put the bowl on the shrine as an artifact to be worshipped or admired since the bowl and its contents is what started human life and initiated it and then later maybe with the same idea they changed it to a green crystal in reverence of the creation of the Xenomorph. The enery source in that could be the driving force behind the black goo and the ulitmate creation of the Xenomorph.
guys, I'm aware of the TV spots, I was asleep when they dropped and unfortunately I have to work a twelve hour shift at my day job today so I will get to doing a video analysis on them, just after work! hope you enjoy this video though!
love the vids
+MA1N1AC _1O1 thanks buddy!
your quit welcome
Mr H Reviews I can tell you what it is. It's Kryptonite. The Engineers being multiversal had been in universes where Super Man came into power, sometimes the aliens would kill him and his people, sometimes in other universes Kryptons would win. more troubling was Kryptonmorphs, they were beyond too dangerous or controlable, especially when they evolved into kryptonmorph kings, queen mothers and so on. In some universes Zod and his people curb stomped the Engineers and took there technology, hence why in the new WB movie continuity the Krypton military were suits very similar to the Engineers. It was felt best, to keep kryptonite in sensitive areas, like were eggs or goo / royal jelly was kept to kill krypton intruders so they couldn't destroy there weapons AND to kill them so they wouldn't have a chance of accidently being infected, making ultrahyper dangerous kryptonmorphs. Also with the off chance they had to deal with the Kryptonmorph it was jopef it would have the same weaknesses as Kryptonians, sadly this was not the case... There only relef was that Krypton didn't exist in this universe, though ones universe hoping was still a possible danger after there own universe hoping tech was stolen from the Engineers.
+lancer737 lol
Wait...... Long extinct..... Trying to recreate it..... Dinosaurs.... Amber....
THATS IT
THEY WERE TRYING TO CREATE..... Xenomorph park!
+Domantas Miliauskas lol god no
Mr H Reviews its all starting to make sense....xenomorphs vs dinosaurs :3
Xenomorphs vs zombies vs dinosaurs vs hitler vs zombie dinosaurus vs jesus vs predators.
Life, uh..finds a way.
loch ness. That's not good enough, it's gotta be a Russian Nazi zombie dinosaur. With hacking skills.
The crystal containing vital information about the Xenomorph would be an interesting theory. I always thought that this rock must have significance because in the holograms of the black-goo outbreak, we see some engineers heading towards the head room, even though that room too is full of the black goo canisters. My guess is they were heading there because the green crystal or maybe something behind the mural was going to help them deal with the situation.
agreed!
MrMartechi it has the anti life equation
or because it was one of the few places inside the temple with a door to lock the monster out. Ridley or one of the writers have said that's why but yeah could be deeper
That crystal is the holy grail to the Xenomorphs. Most likely containing queen DNA.
+Motherlover potentially! Great idea!
Motherlover of course , this could be a scene like in Jurassic park . The Crystal contains DNA fossilised in rock from the xenomorph home world and then engendered ! The plot Thickens
Motherlover its was planted by the one above all
very smart you are
Perhaps thats a door, and behind there is Ovamorphs or eggs.. Perhaps Xenomorph -facehugger eggs are already on board. It is a weapons R&D planet after all. That Green crystal has to represent something of importance. Also Ridley has to incorporate the Queen into his story somehow. In a trailer we see a Xenomorph watching David. David may have led a victim to the eggs to see what would become of that creature.
It's Tiberium!
+CommanderWookiecop C ooooo
CommanderWookiecop C obviously.
CommanderWookiecop C thats glorious glow
P Mason unobtanium is crap, Tiberium is cool.
I would hope it wouldn't be what it looks like. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman/Aliens
I like your clear speaking Darth Vader like voice.
Chris Jordan lol thanks
***** not quite. But still a deep voice.
I stop watching another TH-cam video to watch yours.
Now, the green crystal has been one of the biggest questions I had from Prometheus. I think it has something to do with the queen. I love hearing ppl theories the unanswered questions of Prometheus. Thanks for the video and keep up the good work!!!
haha thank you man! thats a massive compliment, id like to think i bring you guys good content, but thank you!
Kryptonite? Sorry,wrong movie.
+mrdaz68 lol
Not really, you guys got it all wrong. I know what it is.
What is it???@@RedFlagSaid
I was always more curious about what the Engineers were running from than what the temple was.
Yeah Xeno dna in from millions of years ago in their evolution - kinda like jurrasic park does with the amber rock for dino dna inside the entomobed mosquito..
d3nv1 holy crap I just wrote the same idea before I saw your post 😂
good timing. I haven't been able to sleep tonight, needed a new vid!👌
Thanks Mr H, I've never read elsewhere about this ! Great find !
+Miguel H you're welcome!
There's a scene in Prometheus when David opens one of the black chemical canisters on board the ship(before exposing Holloway to the chemical) and pulls out green glass like cylinders that contained the black chemical/goo within. So it is possible that the large crystal could've also contained something within. Though there wasn't much precaution in storing whatever the crystal possibly houses compared to the black chemical/goo.. Which is kept in multiple layers or safety barriers : First, the outer canister shell that looks to be metal, a goo like substance, then the glass cylinders containing the black chemical/goo and there are more than one of these glass cylinders within each of the canisters(I counted 4)- but could be wrong. The chemical can only be released or put to use once the top seal is broken off.
goo.gl/images/u27p1M There's a picture of what I'm talking about, But basically what I'm saying is there's a possible a connectivity with the crystal and the green glass cylinders.
You know...I've noticed that those ampules arranged as they are kinda look like a stylized glass Alien/Xenomorph egg that's opening.
Oooh I can see that too hmmm.
Now I'm just wondering if that purposeful imagery, or just a coincidence...
Anyway, I agree with your original point. That or it's some kind of data crystal housing the digital blueprint of the Xenomorph's DNA.
Krypton confirmed
its the Time Stone....
time for a Avengers crossover!!
+Brandon Carroll lol
always a great way to finish my Sunday Evening/Monday Morning; with a Mr. H Reviews video. Keep up the superb work Mr. H!
+RagingRivoth Cooper thanks man :) appreciate all the support!
Mr H Reviews Your Very welcome.
That is a wild theory, man! I loved it. Keep up the tremendous work!
I never noticed it but personally think its just visual, lol you have better ideas for things than the creators!
+Sean Kavanagh lol
Sean Kavanagh if you didn’t even notice it, then that means you’re unobservant. You provided zero insight. That’s like crashing into a pedestrian at 100mph and as you regain control of the car saying yeah I didn’t notice anything. It’s still massively significant lol
the front cover of the original alien film showed a face hugger egg with green light coming out from it
I am fairly sure the original Alien film displayed a chicken egg. That is something we have decided not to talk about.
MR H:
Keep up the analysis.
You've a keen insight on the probable.
It's why I subscribe.
This something me and my friend have been discussing. Glad to see a video about the crystal
Changes always has relevance. It is a way to leave a door open to explain future events. During writing and production, as scenes progress, they tend to recognize that certain things need to be explained and were not, so my making a change on the script/video footage, leave the door open for future explanation. That is my opinion.
This is why I love this channel. Theories are so good.
+John Reynolds :)
I always thought it looked like a crystalline version of a xenomorph egg.
Kinda like it fossilized?
Great video, really enjoyed this. I've always wondered about the green crystal. I always thought it was some sort of shrine.
+Magnus Bradley glad you liked it buddy :)
this video is a gem in itself,great job dude
The green crystal was kryptonite to keep those pesky Kryptonians off the damn set!!!!!
hmm i wonder what's everyone's take on this. well time to read their theories!
lol always some good theories in the comments :)
yep Mr H Reviews 😁, well take care in your job time.
I know I did Not notice these changes at all. Until you have presented such. Interesting... Indeed.
I feel the green crystal is a "foreshadowing" for something that ties in to later movies. Good theory Mr H.
Fortunately Ridley Scott is directing Covenant.
Despite the hate Prometheus got, I liked all the mystical elements, it would be neat if it turns out the temple on Paradise has more of these crystals, hopefully David can open some like he did with the goo canisters.
I never saw the cuneiform Sumerian texts on the bowl before.. it changes nothing but it is something I appreciate seeing.
can't wait for the next chapter
love your channel Mr h
thanks mr mode!
The green stone is a fossilized/crystallized xeno egg
Reasons: 1. The green colour is very reminiscent of the green in the classic Alien movie poster featuring the egg.
2. When Kane visits the egg chamber in Alien, we see the eggs behave in a similar way to the canisters in big head room - sweating, esp sweating black goo like substance, and while there are no puddles of black goo in Kane's chamber, there is a real oily look about the chamber floor.
3. Point 2 means the xeno eggs could be the origin of the black goo and the fossilized green egg performs a religious function by representing the origins of the goo and its importance to the big white guys. The canisters can be seen as synthetic eggs, used to produce black goo. See Zoe's movie house below.
I'm getting a starcraft feel from all this.
Aliens playing the role of Zerg as the Engineers/Xelnaga weren't happy with their first creation. In this case Humans take the place of the protoss.
Every thing in Alien films is for shadowing for later films so I think it is a xenomorph dna crystal
Chekhov's gun - "Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there."
I think the engineers are just merely meant to seem egyptian like, old world with high technology, statues, obelisks, pictures depicting things, etc. Everything about their creations were ornate and functional. It's all meant to be mysterious. We have to come back to the real world and realize that most of the time, writers/producers/directors are telling the underlings "give me something cool to look at".
A lot of people see the alien in the mural, but there's actually more going on in it though. It appears as if the alien itself is bound, and there is a representation of a set of seemingly smooth gemstones set in something above it. You can see that the aliens arms seem bound, but there is a lot more going on with the sides of the alien. It's hard to say if that's a depiction, or an ornate representation, you see these kind of large claw like hooks on either side and other things around its head.
For all we know, it's possible that the black goo is designed to succeed the engineers by basically taking all their knowledge and creating extreme evolution, a new ultra hardy creature, that could eventually grow to sentience and pretty much have no match in the galaxy.....the engineers legacy, as cruel and vicious as it may seem.
wow I did not notice that change, and the crystal better hold some significance since they changed it
Prometheus is full of desperate inconsistencies, and this is a perfect example.
SpeedoJoe and thats why i fucking love it lmao
Interesting thoughts, thanks for sharing them through this video. I still can'r help finding resemblance between the green "crystal" and the ampules David pulled out of the urn. They are both green and transparent. Although different in shape, I think the contents is the same. So to me the green crystal is just an ampule with a sample of the black goo or whatever was in the ampules. And the tomb , I believe, is not a tomb but rather a museum.
Mr. H, could your voice get ANY more deep, dignified and effective?! I have a pretty deep, articulate voice, and you're impressing the hell out of me. Also, a great theory, BTW. I did find it vexing that we couldn't clearly see much of anything in that "Head room". It, along w/ a multitude of other questions, better be answered somewhere/sometime between Covenant and Awakening.
lol thanks dude! people come for the topics and seem to stay due to the voice. i think anyway! surprised even myself, wasn't sure anyone would wanna hear me drone on
Mr. H, it's a golden voice...keep it up. Now, believe it or not, some fans are claiming that Alien: Awakening "can't" be a prequel to the sequel of a prequel, because it's not "linear"...tell that to the Star Wars Universe, esp. the PT, Rogue One, and TFA...that's part of the fun of being a fan/devotee of expansive, detailed, legacy, creative worlds...Lol!
i love the comics, books, movies and games, as they provide interesting insight on these creatures of nightmares! i was thinking, what if this gem is a fossilized form of royal jelly? I know most don't like the expanded universe, but what if they were trying to create something similar to the queen mother? one more docile and easier to control? the gem does look like an egg and we know the queens are incredibly protective of their eggs, so it would make sense in a way, thanks for another great video!
I like prometheus and have seen it multiple times but i didn't even know there was a green crystal. Looking forward to watching it again and trying to spot it this time.
The Xenomorph DNA makes a lot of sence to me, it would explain how everything the goo touched became more and more like a Xenomorph and even all the things that the Good did in theFire And Stone comics.
Even all the life that the Goo created on the planet seemed to have biomechanical features like Xenomorphs.
Well Done, OLE Chap, Bravo. DNA and a catalyst. Their technology is similar to Kryptonian science that created Superman
Comics Plus Of Macon
My opinion is that at some point the filmmakers decided that the LV-223 Engineers would be a different faction from the Creator Engineers from the beginning of the film. Realizing that the presence of the ceremonial bowl in a revered setting might not make sense if they were an opposing group, they replaced it with the green crystal.
Whether or not the crystal will turn out to actually be anything of importance, I got no idea. This is just my thoughts for why they decided the bowl had to go.
From the first time I watched Prometheus I thought the mural on the wall was of an Alien Queen and the green vial (you see as a crystal) contained pure Queen DNA. It was what the Engineers used to do their experiments. That's why I love to read other people's thoughts and feedback.
Another awesome video from mr H ❤️
Because it seems like the crystal is some sort of offering at an alter, it could be concluded that the crystal itself has some sort of value or significance to the engineer's culture or way of life. In chemistry, rarity does not necessarily correlate to value. So, I think that the green crystal might be some element or compound that the engineers have based their entire technology on and could possibly be a precursor to manufacturing the black goo itself.
Nothing is ever a throw away piece with Ridley Scott.
" _One of the many questions, was, WHAT THE F- WAS RIDLEY SCOTT THINKING?!_ "
+Zeithri lol
I could watch MR H allllll day long.
Hey I was thinking, maybe the destroyers faction of the engineers was trying to stop the creators from making an actual xenomorph that’s why the base at LV-223 was abandoned/destroyed. Or maybe it was the other way around. In the movie it is suggested that the engineers left on LV-223 were planning to travel to Earth with the black goo. Maybe they were trying to make the perfect organism which the xenomorph is. The “alien” creature was their end game and the human race was an essential part or a milestone in achieving this, some sort of experiment of the engineers to create xenomorph organism. It would explain why the engineer tried to kill the humans that came to LV-223. Or maybe the last engineer was just from the opposing faction that tried to destroy the creators
work.Hey i was thinking, maybe the destroyers faction of the engeeners was
trying to stop the creators from making an actual xenomorph thats why the base
at LV-223 was abandoned/destroyed and maybe this is why the last engeener tryed
to kill the humans.Hey i was thinking, maybe the destroyers faction
of the engeeners was trying to stop the creators from making an actual
xenomorph thats why the base at LV-223 was abandoned/destroyed and maybe this
is why the last engeener tryed to kill the humans.Hey i was thinking,
maybe the destroyers faction of the engeeners was trying to stop the creators
from making an actual xenomorph thats why the base at LV-223 was
abandoned/destroyed and maybe this is why the last engeener tryed to kill
the humans.
To be honest i just watched the ted talks part again and thought " it does look like there were two factions of engineers and possibly the engineers (who would represent prometheus) that took the black goo, used it to create life on earth. The engineers death at the start would mirror prometheus' torture by the gods and the reaction of the engineer they met at the end, would make more sense (the gods feared what man would do with the fire)"
Awesome work Mr H..👍
+Mad One thanks man :)
the whole movie is a throwaway piece
The crystal containing the DNA of the xenomorph makes a lot of sense. If they idea that the engineers threw off the yoke of their creators, who are what we would call spase jockeys, by using the Xenomorphs it makes sense that they would worship or revere the Xenomorph.
There may be a even simple Answer, at the time of Lindeloff's Drafts the Engineers were revised down to 10ft Tall... the Engineer Head (that exploded) is at a Scale that would make that Engineer 9-10ft tall. The Sacrificial Bowl Originally on the Altar was also at a Scale that compared to Holloways Hands vs the Sacrificial Engineer would make the Engineer about 10ft... but in the Movie we can see the Engineer (Ian Whyte) was NOT like 10ft Tall and so they decided to replace the Bowl with the Crystal as those who paid attention would be like so hang on the Sacrificial Engineer was like a fair bit Taller... but then there could be another reason for the Change.. but it has been given no explanation but had spawned some interesting theories
I honestly did wonder about the green crystal and what purposed it served, but sadly Prometheus had far too many plot holes, and asked more questions than it answered being frustrating all around. I still like the movie for its visuals, concepts, and ideas. But it left me dissatisfied and angry in general. I hope it all gets cleaned up and I still hold out hope though its not earned at this point sadly. Thanks for making the video though, again bro go into voice acting lol you got a identifiable voice and would make exceptional villain or anti-hero :D
I gasped when you said "alien DNA".
Definitely didn't notice that from trailer to theater... loose ends; that's what it smacks of to me... Sir Ridley rushing in every direction, switching screen writers and not tying up the loose ends. They could likely go back and make something up to tie it in now in hindsight, but I've got a feeling it's just one of those things that Scott left open ended to play with later, kind of like the Space Jockey in the original Alien film.
Considering that a fantastic number of terabytes can be stored in quartz crystal I'm thinking it's far more than just the dna that's stored in it. Perhaps the entire history of the subject and perhaps more items related to the xenomorphs. That was my initial thought when I saw it with all that was going on around it. And I'd say it's in a well protected place too.
I did not notice the difference between the trailer and the film, but I just re-watched Prometheus and had the same thought about the green crystal; gotta be xenomorph DNA.
I never spotted this. Your explanation makes the most sense though.
Thanks. I can't believe that people thought it was just an energy source.
Finally !!!! Nice vid dude !
What about this: Shaw and David get to said planet. Overtime, they work together and even interact with the Engineers. This prompts Shaw into giving herself to the engineers as a vessel. Thus, we get a new version of the Queen-Shaw mix.
They definately tried to recreate the form of the gods.
...and I shall shed my light over dark evil.
For the dark things cannot stand the light,
The light of the Green Lantern!
The green "crystal" may be a gem...an emerald. King Solomon was given four precious stones by God...one of which was an emerald...which, as the legend goes, endowed the king with power over all creation. Just a thought.
I was thinkin very similar man that the green gem houses the pure DNA codes for the Xeno and further might be a sort of hard drive like Kryptons crystals for data storage and it contains the entire history of the Xeno itself
Starlord us going to make an appearance at the end of Covenant and steal that sucker.
I agree with you regarding this might be containing the Xenomorphs DNA as long extinct creatures the Engineers are trying to re-create and they might be hoping to use humanity as test bed for it and infact that might be the real reason for them to create humanity as womb for breeding or recreating this long extinct creatures Or during a civil war between Engineers factions; some tried to use humanity that way.
The title Awakening of the next movie might mean the creature has been awakened.
I noticed the glass from the first time I watched the movie. I related it to the type of glass that contains the seeds from where David took to be introduced into the cup of liquor that he offered to Dr Holloway at billiard room. Glass blister container has the same shape and the same color. My theory is that a blister was accidentally broken and this gave the beginning of the end of the engineers that were projected by the holograms. It's my theory...
Now it wall makes sense. They created humanity and let it evolve to become a host for the creation of the xenomorphs. This is why they wanted to return to earth, but something got wrong before they could do that.
Surely, I've always thought, that the whole room is a recipe, an instruction manual. The large stone head is clearly human or engineer, the tanks of the black liquid are the catalyst, and the mural on the door is the end product, human + alien goo = xenomorph
No, I do not think it is a minor object. The mural and this altar are teasing me ever since I watched Prometheus. I think they are the key to understand everything. Sure, we know the Black Goo is a mutagen, but the mural and this green object were placed for a purpose and when we know it we know everything else.
Why that giant head, why that pattern of urns placed around it? Their religion is the key to understand their actions. And this is a great connection to our own societies. This can indeed lead to interesting thoughts.
These movies are way less thought out than you seem to think. If it didn't have a purpose within the movie it was shown, then it didn't have a purpose at that time. They could make up a purpose for it later, or never show it again.
MR. H..... you are THE BEST!!!! I LOVE YOUR ANALYTICAL VIDEOS! I too, deeply contemplated the mysterious GREEN CRYSTAL and it's intriguing allure (great minds think alike)....... by the way, I absolutely LOVE that dark, ambient soundtrack to this video..... it blends PERFECTLY w/the title subject.... Do you know WHO the artist is? THANK YOU, SIR KNIGHT MR. H~~~ EXCELSIOR!
it makes sense the engineers would want to bring back the xeno. we'd love mammoths, Dodos and dinosaurs to come back
I believe the motion detectors picked up movement by the captain more than just a snake... we never get to see or know what exactly but there was something in that ship alive
I had no idea, it was switched out. I might of watched the trailer for Prometheus maybe twice.. Or thrice. Anyway. I wasn't even aware of this switch-a-roo. Good call.
Mr H, will you ever do a video on the old comic Aliens: Labyrinth? I'm curious as to what ideas you and your other viewers have on just WTF was going on with the Xenos in Dr. Church's flashback sequence.
It's not a gem, it's a mineral.
The contents of the bowl the engineer drank from, apart from a black fluid, also contained a crystal like structure.
Those are one and the same.
It could be used as a stabilizer or power supply.
I had a theory that this cult of engineers had a second from of causing chaos. like if the black goo didn't work they would use the chamber with the crystal which inside would contain some form of eggs. or xenos. I also believe that the room could be a pretty important point in Alien covenant,
What if the facility was originally built and controlled by the engineers who created life on earth and they were later supplanted by the militarised engineers?
That would explain the religious symbols along side the weapons. It would also explain why the creator engineers left a star map for the facility.
ok, here is a theory I havnt heard yet and explains WHY the engineers would almost seem to worship the xenomorph. what if, the xenomorph was used by the engineers to clean a planet of its current inhabitants, so the engineers could in turn come to seed it with "their" form of life? what if this is why the xenomorph is carried by the engineer ships, its all part of their process of seeding life on a planet, what if this is also why david kills them with the black goo, what if he found out that the engineers werent these great creators of life, what if in reality they were the great hijackers of planets, and murders of entire species across world. this also lines up with why the objects were changed, as the ceremonial bowl being in the same chamber as the black goo that mutates creatures into forms of xenomorphs, (the protomorph from engineers, the xenomorph from humans, the bull-xeno from dogs, etc..) would imply that the xeno and the ceremonial drink were connected in some way, and as any wise man knows, "it is only out of the ashes of destruction that the seeds of creation are sown"
It's going to be interesting at the end of this series to sort out the fluff from the fundamental. I believe we benefit from both a good 'book', or proto-plot for the series as well as artistic free reign whereby obscure elaborations like the murals are allowed whether they are applicable to the plot or not.
On the other hand, woe unto those who allowed in plot blunders, such as the entire justification for a master cartographer getting lost and a master biologist playing cute with a foreign species in Prometheus. Who is more stupid? The two bumbling characters or the writers and producers who perpetrated them? That harp is not going to be silenced.
There is no such thing as absolute perfection.
To open the door beyond... one must turn the stone.
Yes I remember the change being a big deal and the theory about a Jurassic Park/Twohy's Alien III-style alien dna extraction from alien amber was more or less the only real theory back when Prometheus was fresh and people still gave that piece of flaming shit the benefit of the doubt because there was so much story there, and we still believed that, long before it became apparent that Ridley has no fucking idea what he's doing and nothing in Prometheus meant anything to anyone and - just like Lost - was only there to confuse and piss people off.
BUT, here's something really interesting I heard from the forums on that scified alien forum that is so ingenious and simple and adds nothing that isn't explicitly shown in the film that it seems obvious in retrospect that this was the intention from the beginning:
Do you remember the version of the black goo in Alien Engineers? Where it was a swarm of microscopic organisms described as "scarabs?" In this script there was no ambiguity, the goo in the opening script and in the pyramid were one in the same. So, how is that possible? The scarabs inject DNA into what they're exposed to and mutate it, but - and this is crucial - they carry their dna with them. In A:E, they break down the Engineer's DNA and its brought to early humans from more or less the time of "behavioral modernity." The Engineers have been giving us "upgrades" periodically, and the goo was carrying their DNA from them to us.
So, what does this mean for the finished film? The same sequence of events unfolds. In Prometheus it's a little ambiguous, but I think it has become very, very clear by now that the "sacrificial goo" and the black goo are different things. We know for sure that the dissolution effect would never occur with the black goo under any circumstances, it ALWAYS mutates, even the Engineers on Paradise were in the process of mutating while they died. It is also - maybe you noticed - something of a plot point in the film that we DO have Engineer DNA in us and the similarity is not a coincidence. And if that opening sequence wasn't just a red herring, then the sacrificial goo is how they pass down DNA.
*ahem* the sacrificial goo passes the DNA of what it is ingested by down to the next thing with genetics it encounters. The sacrificial goo takes the DNA of one creature *and carries that DNA so that it becomes a mutating agent.* Is it clicking yet? The answer has been IN THE FILM the whole time and it's really quite elegant and brilliant, and if this isn't being read wrong then it's the only good thing about Prometheus other than the Hammerpede. Basically, the black goo still IS the sacrificial goo, but only after it was come into contact with alien DNA. After that, it carries those genetics and becomes a mutator, which is why instead of turning Sehalanthropus into Orrorin thanks to Engineer DNA, it turns the cute little Millbworms into Hammerpedes, probably the second coolest alien ever. Everything the black goo touches because a kind of alien in the same way the Engineers actually went about "creating" us.
Which EASILY explains both the bowl of sacrificial goo and the green "alien amber" ideas in context. So, assuming that rock IS alien amber, what's the significance of the change? Well from a writing perspective all it served to do was confuse and piss people off, but as to why anyone could have possibly thought it was a good idea, it was probably more direct. Unless we're just TOTALLY wrong and the object on the altar has NOTHING to do with the origin of the black goo, the change actually makes the possible connection more straight forward. The prevailing idea back in 2012 was that the black goo was just straight up extracted from the rock with no middle man, and perhaps they thought it would be clearer to draw the line from the alien mural to the alien amber to the black goo. Maybe they changed their mind about the role the sacrificial goo played in the black goo's creation. Personally, I strongly believe that the black goo is sacrificial goo + alien DNA as this is consistent with the story and themes and the MOST obvious implications of the films to the point where it seems like it's the actual answer that's just hidden in a shitty script, and for that to be the case the clear green rock really must be some kind of alien amber after all.
You know what I think the "alien amber" actually IS? Olivine and/or Pyroxene. It's a plutonic, mafic to ultramafic rock, meaning it's high in iron content and comes from magma that cooled beneath the crust. I think the way that alien fossil was preserved was that the alien was fucking frozen in lava, because that sounds bad ass. The breed of xenomorphs from the first three films has been shown to be capable of surviving in fucking MOLTEN LEAD so it's not as crazy as it sounds. Just an idea though.
I wish these movies would take more time with the myths and backstories than the action & gore.... its so much more interesting!
good video man, interesting stuff
Not sure if anyone said so but, the crystal seems to resemble the back of an Alien's cranium. In Prometheus and Covenant the (Xeno)morphes use the back of their heads to burst from the host organism. He crystal could represent that somehow. That all I got so far
This is a reference of the Emerald Tablet who contain all secrets and how create philosopher's stone from The Hermetic society. The Stone exist, but you know were to find it or not potter?
Ridley is all about small details and he makes movies for people who pick up on these small details. Could be a bomb to nuke the place in case of an accidental out break as one of the Engineers was attempting to enter this chamber when he got pummeled. Could be a nuetralizer/ antidote to kill the biological agent at work just as well. Or the button to push to let Hell break loose...
good theory if it was xenemorph dna it could tie into the upcoming film and how david is able to recreat new xenemorphs in his lab, interesting video with plenty to think on most appreciated sir.
I thinks it might have something to do with the creation of the Xenomorph like the bowl that was drank from in the beginning of Prometheus. Hence why they put the bowl on the shrine as an artifact to be worshipped or admired since the bowl and its contents is what started human life and initiated it and then later maybe with the same idea they changed it to a green crystal in reverence of the creation of the Xenomorph. The enery source in that could be the driving force behind the black goo and the ulitmate creation of the Xenomorph.
with your voice, it would be a viral hit to read call of cuthulu as an audio book,
and remake the war of the worlds radio show
Obviously the crystal is there because the engineers must construct additional pylons.