What We Know About The Engineers In The Alien Franchise Within the Alien franchise and universe conceived by Ridley Scott, the engineers, an ancient and technologically advanced extra-terrestrial species, play a significant role in the overarching mythology. First introduced in Scott’s 2012 science fiction film Prometheus and brought back in 2017’s Alien: Covenant, it’s revealed that the engineers are the creators of humanity. A band of explorers discover evidence of the engineers on a distant m