Super secreted resin

You mean the secreted resin the "Aliens" make in the movie "Aliens" that is not cannon as far as this movie goes ? Ridley is not using the work of others in his movie. The Bone ship is Biomechanic not secreted by Aliens

Can we please start calling it the bone ship now. I am tired of calling a clearly occupied and functional ship the derelict.

I always assumed they weren't being transported but were "laid" or placed there after the crash. I assumed the crash was a result of a chestburster of some kind...followed by the familiar process. And the blue haze over the eggs was a protective barrier..that's why I feel the eggs were "fresh". However, after reading about this movie and various posts I'm not so sure. Guess we will have to wait.

i hate the fly like a U idea and glad i was right, that would just look completely ridicules. and if anybody still thinks it does, then why would the eggs be on the wall? and as for calling it the bone ship......... no, i don't like that :( besides, i think i have only heard the word derelict used like once not referring to alien, at this point (in my opinion anyway) that's not a descriptive, its its name. and yes aliens IS cannon. did you read the timeline? there are more references to aliens then there are to alien.

The eggs have "roots". The idea that the ship is biomechanical also leads me to believe that it's possible the eggs' roots can "grow" into the floor of the ship. It's been theorized that the eggs are actually underground beneath the Derelict. I don't think they are. That odds of it landing right above them on a random planetoid would be astronomical. Billions to one, I would think. I'm not qualified to quantify that number, but, whatever. I think the SJ put the ship down on auto pilot or something to that effect. It didn't seem to have any exterior damage and considering the landscape, it would have been a devastating landing if it came in hot and slid to a halt.

I always assumed the eggs were lain after the ship crashed. I see no reason to assume that the Aliens are bloodthirsty but not marginally intelligent. Maybe their species was on the brink of destruction and LV-426 was strategically chosen to play host world. It makes sense to spread your 'wild oats' as the case may be. I don't see why the Queen couldn't lay her eggs and hightail it out of there to lay eggs on some other otherwise 'empty' planet. We keep assuming that because they're virtually the quintessential killing machine that they don't have an actual thought process. Maybe they're the universe's Rain Man.

We still dont know if the eggs were in the ship...... I still reckon they are in the subteranian cavern which the ship is on top of... I stand to be corrected only by the film... LOL

The queen pops out of the space jockey at the end of the movie, and then lays the eggs sometime between Prometheus and Alien. The movie about the queen laying the eggs in the derelict, etc, would be Prometheus 2.

First, the scene where she is in the egg room, is before the crash. Of that, I'm almost certain. Second, crash is caused by Prometheus ramming the Derelict mid air. You can actually see that in one scene during trailer.

The urns are not eggs, there is no egg room in Prometheus.

@Ebugogo you make a lot of sense with you statement. A queen bursting from the SJ after or during the ships crash, then laying the eggs.

i have two theories on the eggs in the ship A) the space jockey had flown his ship to LV426 (quite possibly a planet, with just a queen on it and no drones due to no other life on the planet just a rock) loaded them into his ship, but the blue force field over the top to preserve life and ensure they don't hatch during transportation. its well theorized that the SJ used the eggs to bomb planets to make them extinct. eg - if they needed the resources on earth, they would bomb them onto this plant so everything would die, because the SJ's could deal with aliens easier than a war with nukes etc OR the ship crashed (quite possible that promethus rams it to stop it from reaching earth) the space jockey gets infected with alien DNA (think about the med lab and the possible C-Section coming up in promethus) or more realistically the crash of promethus on the alien planet awakens the queen who lays more eggs that attach to SJ creating some star beast