This page is part of Asymmetric Spaceships: A shrine to ships that violate symmetry on one - or better yet, multiple - axes.

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First seen in 1979’s ALIEN, the derelict/crashed ship rises out of a low-contrast, monochromatic landscape, almost blending in with the (themselves asymmetric) rocks, and is an example of asymmetry but… for a purpose we don’t know.

ALIEN Derelict

 

 

Which is fine, good, in fact - it’s suppposed to feel ALIEN! The asymmetry does some, and then the “to what possible purpose” does more.

Later in the franchise - in Prometheus - we get a piece of promotional concept art that really shows the ship at a good angle:

Prometheus Concept Art of the ALIEN Derelict