The Engineers, also called Pilots, Space Jockeys, Ossians or Mala'kak, are an ancient extraterrestrial species of unknown origin. They possess among the most advanced technology in the galaxy, this has made them masters of genetic engineering, such as seeding many primordial celestial bodies with life. The name "Engineer" was given by Elizabeth Shaw and Charles Holloway due to the lifeform being responsible for "engineering" the human race. Before the release of Prometheus, the Engineers were originally dubbed as the "Space Jockeys". The nickname was attached to it during production on Alien. Scott has stated he has no idea who christened the creature. People needed something to call this creature, and somehow Space Jockey stuck. But the creature has also had a host of other names including The Pilot (Giger's original nickname for it), Pilots, James Cameron called it the "Big Dental Patient," and later in the novel Aliens: Original Sin as Mala'kaks. Their "scientific" name is "Mundus gubernavi" (Universal Pilot). The Engineers are extremely pale-white, hairless and humanoid due to their subterranean nature, with two arms and legs, and said to have staring, "dead seeming" eyes. The veins underneath their skin are visible, and their pupils are in the shape of oblong plus-symbols. The Engineers are 7 feet tall and breathe oxygen just like human beings but are also able to survive on LV-223′s surface. Though not much is known about the Engineers, it is shown that the ...
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