Why is the spaceship called prometheus

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In the latest Ridley Scott movie, we can probably take the name of the ship to be a subtle hint of what's to come. It's safe to say it's nothing good. A Chinese professor visiting Los Angeles early this month fought off an attacker using martial arts in an incident that has gone viral across Chinese media.

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Who knows where Weyland will go next or what our Prometheus crews will discover while traveling to each of our unique terraformed colonies and beyond, extending the reaches of the known universe? In , two archaeologists Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway discover a star map among several unconnected ancient cultures. The ship's crew travels in stasis while the android David monitors their voyage and studies linguistics such as Schleicher's fable. Arriving in , they are informed of their mission to find the Engineers.

Mission director Meredith Vickers orders them to avoid making contact without her permission. The Prometheus landed near a large artificial structure, which a team explores. Once they reach inside, David activates a hologram , leading to the discovery of a decapitated alien lifeform , leading to the even further discovery of a room with the statue of a huge head and several black urns inside. David steals an urn as the group leaves, but Millburn and Fifield get lost.

Later, Prometheus is almost breached by a horribly mutated Fifield, who manages to kill seven crew members before being burned to death by Janek with a flamethrower. The situation becomes worse when Janek accurately theorizes that the Engineers planned on wiping humanity out and that the recently awakened Engineer plans on completing their mission.

The expensive vessel was destroyed when Shaw convinced Janek to stop the Engineer's spaceship from reaching Earth. Janek successfully crashes the Prometheus into the Engineer's ship, destroying the former ship and killing everyone on board, and saving Earth. The Prometheus's propulsion system is four nuclear-powered ion plasma engines capable of VTOL thrust hybrid vectoring in atmospheric and interstellar conditions.

Individual cranes in the engine's outer shell lifted the heavy landing gear back into the engine. The ship carried over twenty vehicles in tow along with crew weaponry composed of flame units, pistols, shotguns and Weyland Storm Rifles used by mercenaries in charge of security. The main control room housed a primary table which received the signals fed by spectagraphs, which mapped out the Juggernaut as well as the Engineer temple.

It also carried seventeen hypersleep chambers.