>>6089169>spaceship with mutant metastasising cancerous infection growth etcI have only completed Homeworld 1999 not the adjacent Homeworld Cataclysm (think it might be called Homeworld Emergence now for IP rights reasons) but I believe the plot in that separate universe is about a ship which infects others and converts / repurposes them into living biocircuitry...?
(apologies anon who hates fandom wikis, but this is the main link I could find)
https://homeworld.fandom.com/wiki/The_BeastThe idea of a spaceship that hijacks biomass / agglomerates and absorbs others is very cool. I remember Alastair Reynolds uses it in Revelation Space (the starship captain is slowly being absorbed into the mutant hull of the colossal vessel, they have to cryo freeze him to slow down the process) I guess you also have Geoffrey Rush in Pirates of the Carribbean with his lobster octopus hammerhead shark coral crew lol.
Perhaps the origin of this concept comes from the HR Giger / James Cameron Aliens (1986) film, the "kill me..." scene etc when they discover the colony inhabitants were being incubated and embedded into the xenomorph nest biomass wall. A thing I would say about the new Alien: Romulus, the visual audio experience is great but there is almost zero new conceptual sci-fi content to the film, it basically just recycles and regurgitates biomaterial from the existing corpus of Alien franchise films, a bit like a xenomorph. There are several high suspense / tension scenes but if you have played all the videogames, seen all the films, instead of being scared / tense / anxious etc, you will instead just watch the film with a sort of wry bemused smile "oh, I see this is happening again" etc lol So it is indeed very predictable in that sense
