Talk:Giant Cove Tree/@comment-2605:E000:A9A3:9200:451:AE04:EE0:E10B-20170706115138

My best guess is that it's the egg of a Precursor.

The Ancient Biological History data entry mentions how they were "born from seed"... and here we have a tree that appears to be growing eggs. Big eggs, and going by the size of the Presursor ruins we know that they're larger than humans, so that fits too.

Also, there's mention of a Presursor being called "youngest ever initiate, age 96" so we know they live for a very long time. Not much of a stretch to also think they have a long gestation cycle. Or simply held in stasis until a cure for Carar is found.

If this race was smart enough to download themselves into memory banks, then there was probably some sort of plan to aqcuire corporeal bodies once Carar was cured.