History
The Space Jockey is fist seen in Alien when the commercial starship Nostromo sets down on the unsurveyed planet LV-426 to investigate an unknown signal. The crew finds a crashed derelict spacecraft with a fossilized the Space Jockey.
Alien (Film)
The derelict ship contains several thousand alien eggs. It is suggested that the Jockey's ship was a "bomber": alien eggs could be dropped on an enemy planet, and the aliens would proceed to kill the population as they spawned. According to James Cameron, the Space Jockey's craft picked up alien eggs and the pilot became infected by the dangerous cargo; the ship landed or crashed on LV-426 and the Space Jockey transmitted the signal as a warning. It is also suggested the Space Jockey encountered the aliens on LV-426 and that it was there home planet. It is also said space jockeys are the predators enemy as well as the aliens but the predators lost conflict when their mysterious trunked foe vanished ever since predators began taking alien eggs for hunting with no competition.
Novelizations
In Foster's Alien novelization, Ash describes the Space Jockey's race as a noble people and hopes that mankind will encounter them under more pleasant circumstances. It also states that they were larger, stronger and possibly more intelligent than humans. Foster's novelization states that the Jockey was trying to warn humans away from the aliens.
Theories
They are thought by some to be the creators of the Xenomorphs. They call themselves Mala'kak and are sometimes referred to as Pilots. The pilots also collected queens to avoid venturing deeper into alien territory but queens overtime got smarter and overwhelmed their tamers
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