Prometheus 2: 10 Questions The Film Needs To Answer
8. How Did The Murals Actually Get There?
This one is much more of a smaller note, and is a possible MacGuffin, but still how did the murals around the world get there in the first place? In Prometheus, Shaw and Holloway present documented symbols, glyphs and pictograms from across the globe that all share common factors, in particular a series of points that indicate a star system and planet, as well as humanoid figures pointing to it. However, even when the rest of the film and the surrounding fan theories are taken into account, no concrete way of confirming how these murals came to be has been verified. If every culture featured experienced the beings at one point or another, then not only would this suggest the possibility of the Engineers helping to bring about the human race, it would also suggest they also maintained contact with them for thousands of years. Now, if we're talking about the whole Xenoverse and not just the world of Prometheus, then human civilisation has long since been given a helping hand by extraterrestrials (as shown in Alien vs Predator wherein humanity helped Predators hunt Xenomorphs for sport in exchange for new technology). This might not be anything new to the Xenoverse, but it still requires that several factions of extraterrestrials had a hand in humanity's development at some point in time. Either way, the murals indicate a passage of knowledge from generation to generation and that the Engineers were somehow capable of demonstrating to older civilisations methods of finding them through a rudimentary ephemeris (star map), right before the Engineers decided humanity wasn't worth surviving and planned to have us all eradicated off the face of the planet. At quite what point the Engineers did this remains unclear, but if Scott and the team behind Prometheus 2 could give us a definitive answer somewhat easier given the film will probably be about the Engineer homeworld it'd clear up a big plot hole in the original film.
