I figure a puncture wound probably wouldn't be that noticeable. Or it's a plot hole.
I expect David "crashed it" himself, to lend more plausibility to his story of not being able to control the ship, hence the "accidental" activation of the bioweapon.
I expect the events of the next movie will involve David completing the xenomorphs to the level of the original films, and an Engineer discovering it and loading up a ship with eggs somehow (after some manner of conflict, of course).
*shrug* Probably a plot hole, but there's a possibility the fungus bioweapon could be supplementing some of the natural processes necessary to keep everything running. Odds are that would only function as a temporary stop gap and not keep the planet going indefinitely.
And then there's that scene I mentioned before with the seemingly still active cloud of bioweapon particles flying around, as well as a potential neomorph hive.
Then again, we don't see the entire planet. Maybe it hasn't completely spread across the whole globe. The Covenant crew did zero in on Shaw's signal, after all.
No reason not to? Their ships have rooms that look like temples all over the place, with seemingly religious murals as well. Odds are the casual wear of the Engineers is very basic. This isn't exactly a new concept of very advanced aliens living very simple lifestyles with very simple comforts. It's probably meant to drive home the seemingly religious attitude the Engineers are implied to have towards their science, making them appear more like monks than scientists.
Fucking bingo. This pisses me off to no end. If facehuggers are capable of impregnating that quickly it makes the whole process of providing life support for hosts rather superfluous.
We have no reason to think that. They looked the same as the Engineers in the previous film. Them having only one city could be chalked up to any number of reasons… Maybe their race has never been all that numerous? Maybe they lost significant portions of their population in the war the bioweapon is presumably intended for?
I can't buy that. Maybe if the alien that got aboard the Covenant was different from the one that was birthed from Oram, but they appeared the same so they should require the same method of gestation.
Sorry, but after the announcement of this current trilogy being lead ups to the original film I fully expect them to do exactly that.
It looked about as intact as they always do, just overgrown due to ten years being out in the wilderness. I expect he crashed it on purpose to make his story more believable.