Mala'kak

Space Jockeys, known as Mala'kaks or simply Pilots, are a race of sapient, extraterrestrial lifeform from the Alien series of movies and games. in the original mold. Pieces of this cast are owned by an annonymous collector in Moorpark, California. A third, partial casting, still exists intact. It is also owned by the same annonymous collector. However, trunk, and yellow, cross-shaped eyes. In the ; a common enemy. They intend to wipe out and/or enslave humanity once their war with the Xenomorphs is over. Later books never expand on the idea. IT VANTS LOTS OF MONEYZ!!!!!

In the more recent book, Aliens: Original Sin, the Space orical information

Physiology
The Book of Alien notes that the actors and crew felt instinctively that the Space Jockey was a benign creature, though they could not say why. In the novelization of Alien by Alan Dean Foster, Ash describes the Space Jockey's race as a noble people and hopes that mankind will encounter them under more pleasant circumstances. It also states that they were larger, stronger and possibly more intelligent than humans. The first Space Jockey was seen in the original Alien movie as a giant humanoid corpse sitting in front of a telescope-like device aboard the derelict craft. It had been there for an extremely long time, long enough for the corpse to become fossilized. The Jockey that the starship Nostromo's crew found aboard the derelict seemed to by the time the derelict was discovered due to the lack of food sources.

In the comics, the Jockey is shown to have an elephantine trunk. This is inconsistent with the original concept. An inspection of the cdepicting the Jockey with a "trunk" are considered canon - the only canon appearance of the Space Jockey is in Alien and its novelization and directly related works.manner to the top of a pyramidal structure, which was the top of an enormous subterranean temple containing the Xenomorph eggs. This is evident in the first Alien film, when Kane notices the hole torn in the bottom of the Pilot ship. It should also be noted that despite later rewrites and storylines, Giger and O'Bannon designed the Pilot so that it appeared to be a sympathetic and friendly lifeform.

Relation to the Xenomorphs, Predators and other races
Little is known of this race. The principal colay dormant on LV-426. For budgetary and story-telling reasons, the pyramid that would have housed these eggs, and its exploration by the crew of the Nostromo, was scrapped from the film. Thus in the final analysis both Alien and Aliens seethe former theory over Cobb's. (Viz. Ripley's place) or otherwise received them from the Jockeys, or else discovered them in somto warn humans away from the aliens while Mark Verheiden's graphic novel indicates that they planned on invading Earth after the Xenomorphs wiped out all the humans. It should be noted, in respect to that, that according to the comic book The Destroying Angels that the biomechanoids have been around from long before mankind even came to exist (their civilization having fallen 1.6 million years ago due to the Aliens), and that the warning beacon may have been to warn their own kind.

A lesser-known history of the Space Jockey's race comes from an older source than the DVDs. According to "The Alien Portfolio" by John Mollo and Ron Cobb, Cobb tells of Alien creator Dan O'Bannon's backstory where the Jockey's race had simply landed on the planet on a course of exploration and had encountered the eggs there. Since the planet was dying, and they didn't realize how dangerous the eggs were, they loaded their cargo hold with the eggs and prepared to lift off. Before they were to take off, one of the crew that was parasitized "gave birth" to an alien. The crew eventually killed the alien, but at the cost of hulling their ship. As they were dying out, one of them had set up a transmission warning other ships not to land there and suffer the same fate. In light of the famous egg-morphing scene deleted from the theatrical release, some explanations have it that a number of eggs in the hold may actually represent the original crew of the derelict; others still claim that there was in fact only one "Pilot" to begin with.

This is mentioned in the ds enconter with the aliens.

Lastly, it should be noted the basichumanoids. Wequiem have skulls of dinosaurs adorning their trophy walls. The Space Jockey in Alien had already begun to fossilize, and the presence of the Jockey skull in the same trophy room, already it does not prove it, does support the theory that they are of ancient age. The question then becomes, do these races share a common origin? Were the Jockeys, forJockeys are clearly a technologically powerful, star-faring race of advanced age. How the Predators--the only other known interstellar race--developed the capacity for space travel is still not known, but the ending of Requiem clearly implies that the advanced human technology seen in Alien and beyond, including FTL travel, is a direct result of our studying Predator technology. It is quite possilthat the Predators,inherited or stole it from the Jockeys.

The cargo hold of the Space Jockey's ship was filled with eggs of xenomorphs (the first stage in the Xenomorph life cycle), which were held in stasis beneath a blue mist. It has been speculated by fans that the Space Jockey's race created the xenomorphs because of the similarities in design between the spacecraft and the biomechanical xenomorphs.

The novelization by Alan Dean Foster, on the other hand, states that Space Jockey's race found them on LV-426, and there has been no conclusive evidence shown in the feature film series supporting that the Space Jockey's race created the xenomorph. Clearly, however, the Space Jockey's race have advanced technology, leaving open the possibility that they had a hand in the Xenomorph's creation.

Director Ridley Scott also makes note that he would like to make "an Alien 5 or Alien 6" where the audience would be privy to the home planet of the Xenomorphs, but makes no reference to whether this is the same planet that the Space Jockey's race hail from.