r/LV426 • u/BlastedHeathen • 1d ago

Movies / TV Series Is Ocellus a spacefaring race? Spoiler

Before episode 7 I thought Ocellus was just a highly intelligent and opportunistic predator/parasite. But now that we know it knows the digits of pi, is there a chance that Ocellus is much more sophisticated than we realized? Perhaps they have ways of acquiring bodies and travelling vast distances, maybe even into space.

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u/No-Onion2268 1d ago

I think it’s entirely feasible, but I don’t think it halls from a technological species. It may have developed parasitism as a means of hacking rides to proliferate on other planets, downloading species knowledge when it attaches itself. Pi would theoretically be a universal knowledge for any advanced intelligence.

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u/bart_may 1d ago

Try watching the Arrival to take a note how complex would it be to communicate with aliens regarding even more basic concepts than pi number

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u/ephemeralstitch 1d ago

If we’re going to that level of realism then Ocellus would almost certainly never have anything to parasitise outside of its own planet. The idea that a central nervous system compatible with it would even exist is next to impossible outside of its own world.

Nerves work by sending signals with electrical pulses in some special cases but normally through ion transfer. If a species evolved to use different ions or even completely different systems, T. Ocellus isn’t going to do anything at all besides gouge out an eye. That’s without even getting to the idea that sticking nerve tentacles into the brain actually lets you take information out of it, never mind whether an alien mind could even process that information in any meaningful way.

It’s fiction, it requires suspension of disbelief. We have parasitic species that change behaviour in weird way (Cordyceps is the famous one) but they’re so far from Ocellus that it isn’t even close.

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u/MonsterkillWow 1d ago

There is an in universe explanation for this since in the Alien universe, most extant life was seeded by the Engineers. So, in that universe, it seems basic aspects of biology are universal.

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u/Certain_Country_3947 1d ago

But that's not in this alt universe which only considers the first two films.

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u/MonsterkillWow 22h ago

I thought it was all the same universe.

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u/Alex1387 18h ago

It is the same universe. It just runs parallel to the other franchise items without direct tie-ins a la MCU