Thread:Jaxterhammer/@comment-35876453-20200201094005

Hello again Jaxterhammer, I've seen the recent activity on Xenopaedia's dorsal spines article and I would say that whilst the increasing amount was implemented in Aliens versus Predator: Extinction simply as a visual indicator of in-game upgrades (I would say in-universe as an indication of caste maturity), I honestly don't see how this conflicts with anything preexisting in the lore and the source that Leigh mentioned with the Queen having no more spines than a Warrior, is just an irrelevant/obsolete and superficial design element, made by someone who had not yet considered that the element of Xenomorph dorsal tubes could be used indicate caste maturity by increasing their number.

And besides, Xenomorph XX121 is clearly a very mutable organism which would make it less necessary to omit the reference from Aliens versus Predator: Extinction, that was only in soft conflict with other sources, and a wiki article should really feature information from all official sources anyway.

So no I personally wouldn't see anything wrong with that reference being on the dorsal spines article and with regard to canon priority, I honestly think it is a feasible element that serves to increase the complexity of Xenomorph biology, also those two are a bit nutty with some topics from the franchise, or at least get their kicks baiting other editors by bringing up dull, minor controversies and then trying to stir them up by talking to each other as if they're going to go wild on the wiki and change official canon with some pisspot lore.

They kept talking about wanting to merge the Drone and Warrior articles because they want to follow some oversimplified source which hypothesises that they are the same caste with Drones being juveniles of the Warrior caste, so I had to explain to them exactly why that school of thought does nothing to enhance the franchise. 