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Self-Sacrificing Engineer
An Engineer stands at the waterfall with a small bowl. A ship recedes over the landscape. The prologue shows a separate episode of the distant past, without naming the hero or explaining the structure of his civilization.
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About the dossier
Life begins with disappearance
Motive
The ritual links the destruction of one body with the emergence of a new life; personal motives are not stated.
Role in history
Unnamed participant in the Prometheus prologue.
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Bottom line
He drinks the liquid, his body disintegrates and falls into the water. The DNA sequence shows the beginning of a biological process. It is impossible to equate this liquid with all subsequent varieties of the pathogen without reservations.
Dossier boundaries
"Prometheus": theatrical prologue. The exact date and name of the planet in the scene are not indicated; the date 2093 refers to the associated expedition, not the ritual. Sources: movies, deleted scenes and Alien: Isolation; comics and other games are not included.