The ship then crashes on the moon, setting up the events of Alien. However, he is killed by a Chestburster as he attempts to leave LV-426. In this script, the Pilot is revived by David aboard the Juggernaut and attempts to carry out his mission to unleash the Xenomorphs upon Earth. The Pilot was also a major character in Jon Spaihts' original script for Prometheus, titled Alien: Engineers, which was intended to be a direct prequel to Alien. Originally, a rescue team sent out in response to Anne Jorden's distress call from the derelict (seen in the extended Special Edition of the film) would enter the ship and find the Pilot, now partially buried by volcanic debris, before going on to discover the Egg chamber and being swarmed by Facehuggers. When James Cameron began writing the sequel Aliens, he initially planned to have the Pilot return, although the entire scene featuring the character was dropped before filming (likely for the same budgetary reasons that almost caused the Pilot's appearance to be cut from Alien). For some shots in the scene featuring the Pilot, the Nostromo crew members were actually played by children, namely Scott's sons Jake and Luke and cinematographer Derek Vanlint's son, in order to make the set appear even larger than it was. However, Scott insisted it was an important part of the film, necessary to elevate the picture above lowly B-movie status, and the studio eventually relented. As production costs continued to mount, 20th Century Fox pressured Ridley Scott to scrap the large Pilot set altogether, complaining that it would be very expensive to build and yet would only feature in one brief scene. The Pilot very nearly did not make it into the film at all. The set walls, minus the Pilot chair, later doubled for the walls of the Egg chamber that Kane is lowered into. The entire piece was 26 feet tall when completed, and mounted on a swivel so that it could be quickly rotated to capture different camera angles. The Pilot and his chair in Alien were built around a steel and wood frame, shaped using ribbed tubing, plastic and Styrofoam molds and plaster. It seems the Pilot's body itself was also the subject of intense research. Later still, the Origin Facility was set up around the Pilot's ship by Weyland-Yutani, who began studying Xenomorphs created from the Eggs found on board. The following information has been classified as non-canon and thus should not be taken as a part of the Aliens universe. Owing to the difference in size between the Space Jockey and other Engineers, some xenobiologists have suggested that the Pilot is not actually an Engineer, but in fact a creature that the species based their technology on. While the Nostromo crew left it on, the Anesidora crew shut off the beacon. The Pilot's fossilized remains were later found by the crew of the Nostromo and the USCSS Anesidora, in 21, respectively, who were both ironically lured to the site by the very beacon that was supposed to keep them away. The crew of the Nostromo discover the Pilot. However, Thomas Kane theorized that the openings the Nostromo crew members used to enter the ship were in fact airlocks, possibly left open following an emergency evacuation of the ship. It is unknown if the Pilot was the sole crew member aboard the derelict ship. The Pilot later activated a warning beacon in an attempt to prevent anyone else from stumbling across his ship and its deadly cargo, before being killed when the Chestburster inside it hatched as it sat in the vessel's cockpit. However, the ship was carrying a large cargo of Xenomorph Eggs, and at or around time of the crash the Pilot was impregnated with a Chestburster it is possible this event played some role in the crash itself. The reasons behind this crash are not known. At an unknown time period, the Pilot's ship crash-landed on LV-426.
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