Theory lessons.
"Research has proven that creatures have stress just like humans. And this has often nothing to do with genetics. A mouse that was raised by a very stressful mother will be more stressful in it's future life. So it doesn't depend on genetics, that is a fact. It is interesting to see what happens to a xenomorph's type of stress after leaving the host and becoming fullgrown. Tests show that most mammals, including humans, that did not get enough care from their mother in the first two weeks will be more stressreactive and be shocked more quickly. As the xenomorph, erhm, never keeps it's mother or host alive when it is not tempered with it was interesting to see that when the xenomorph doesn't kill it's host - because we tempered with it - it can still recognize and remember who that host was and will respect that being. We have never had any experiments with how a xenomorph reacts to a fullgrown xenomorph queen. It would be almost logical to think that the xenomorph will always respect a queen like all ants serve their queens. But the xenomorphs probably don't see their queen as a mother, more of a leader or as something they must guard with their lives."
"We were pretty sure that xenomorphs in captivity would have more stress than otherwise. Even though free xenomorphs, like any other xenomorph, have never had care from a true mother.
The secretion that usually is strong enough to cover walls and imprison unwilling hosts in, is very weak when it comes from xenomorphs in captivity. But we suspected that this was because there simply is no need for secretion to stick on hosts when imprisoned. But after some tests we have been able to prove that the secretion became stronger when the xenomorph was brought close to the still living host. We believe that if we can get permission to keep the living host closeby the xenomorph more often on a daily basis, we can get secretion strong enough to run proper experiments on."
"Permission denied."
"Er, excuse me?"
"Permission denied. Ripley is already going nuts. If we stuff her in that little cage with the alien too often one day she'll just snap! We need her mentally stable for the psychiatric report and we don't need the goddamn secretion anyway. What were you gonna do with it, build a house?"
"Ripley was just getting used to it sir. She understands that the alien respects her and-"
"Permission denied! End of discussion! Somebody get me a cup of coffee..."
"Research has proven that creatures have stress just like humans. And this has often nothing to do with genetics. A mouse that was raised by a very stressful mother will be more stressful in it's future life. So it doesn't depend on genetics, that is a fact. It is interesting to see what happens to a xenomorph's type of stress after leaving the host and becoming fullgrown. Tests show that most mammals, including humans, that did not get enough care from their mother in the first two weeks will be more stressreactive and be shocked more quickly. As the xenomorph, erhm, never keeps it's mother or host alive when it is not tempered with it was interesting to see that when the xenomorph doesn't kill it's host - because we tempered with it - it can still recognize and remember who that host was and will respect that being. We have never had any experiments with how a xenomorph reacts to a fullgrown xenomorph queen. It would be almost logical to think that the xenomorph will always respect a queen like all ants serve their queens. But the xenomorphs probably don't see their queen as a mother, more of a leader or as something they must guard with their lives."
"We were pretty sure that xenomorphs in captivity would have more stress than otherwise. Even though free xenomorphs, like any other xenomorph, have never had care from a true mother.
The secretion that usually is strong enough to cover walls and imprison unwilling hosts in, is very weak when it comes from xenomorphs in captivity. But we suspected that this was because there simply is no need for secretion to stick on hosts when imprisoned. But after some tests we have been able to prove that the secretion became stronger when the xenomorph was brought close to the still living host. We believe that if we can get permission to keep the living host closeby the xenomorph more often on a daily basis, we can get secretion strong enough to run proper experiments on."
"Permission denied."
"Er, excuse me?"
"Permission denied. Ripley is already going nuts. If we stuff her in that little cage with the alien too often one day she'll just snap! We need her mentally stable for the psychiatric report and we don't need the goddamn secretion anyway. What were you gonna do with it, build a house?"
"Ripley was just getting used to it sir. She understands that the alien respects her and-"
"Permission denied! End of discussion! Somebody get me a cup of coffee..."