@DuracellEnergizer: Ha! No such ridiculousness will be found in my draft. I looked to Giger's many paintings and picked out subjects that I thought looked cool to be the creatures that appear in Salient. I am doing my absolute best to avoid overlap with Prometheus. I was just as disappointed with that film as you appear to be.

Couple of notes on the setting: I may be changing the year to something a bit closer to the first film, perhaps even less than a year preceding. Salient is meant to tie directly into Alien, similar to how Alien tied directly into Aliens. Certain loose ends from Alien such as the nature of the distress signal on LV-426, the genesis of the Company's bio-weapons program, and the mystery of the Space Jockeys will be addressed in Salient...but hopefully not in a way that ruins the mystique and coolness of the Xenomorphs. You guys get to be the judge of that.