Incubator Device

The Incubator Device is a piece of Precursor technology located within the Aquarium of the Primary Containment Facility. It is designed to keep the five remaining Sea Emperor Leviathan Eggs alive.

Overview

The five eggs are unable to hatch naturally because the chamber they are contained within does not provide the correct environment for the babies. To hatch the eggs, the player must insert Hatching Enzymes into the Terminal. One bottle of Hatching Enzymes is sufficient for all five eggs.

An Ion Cube slot is present on the Incubator Device. Placing an Ion Cube inside will activate the Alien Data Terminal, trigger a response from the Sea Emperor Leviathan, and cause it to move to blow away the sand at the Arch behind the Incubator Device.

Data Bank Entry

The emperor specimen's eggs are attached to some form of incubator.

In a normal life cycle it seems likely that sea emperors would have buried their eggs in shallower waters, where different organic materials in the soil would have triggered a hatching response. The incubator suggests the aliens had resorted to developing artificial hatching enzymes which would simulate the eggs' natural hatching environment, but were unable to discover the formula.

With extensive information on the sea emperors themselves it may still be possible to fabricate an artificial hatching enzyme using indigenous ingredients, however the only surviving source of that information may be the sea emperor itself.

Source: Scan Incubator Device in the Primary Containment Facility's Aquarium