"Mother"- Where the eggs came from.

He is implying that these eggs need a host...which in this case would be a human and this would be Oram in this case. The "mother" of his creations that they are waiting on is whichever poor soul, male or female gets facehugged by the creatures residing in these eggs, as they will become "mother" to the organism that will eventually burst forth from them...in this case there are no chickens, just eggs...Ridley will not use the Queen concept in his movies trust me

from what I read he says 'all they need is a mother', suggesting a host to birth the embryo

@ Grinning & Linen

I wasn't talking about a queen, I was talking about one of David's experiments.

I think David created something that probably laid the eggs, hence why he said "they are waiting for mother"

Also: the phrase "they are waiting for mother" implies that "mother" is actually a name that David gave this thing.

seems to be some confussion as to what david actually says. iv read its 'need a mother', maybe wrong though

Could David been referring to MU-TH-UR, or AI, when speaking to Crudup?

David would be (I assume) familiar with programs in development at Weyland Industries at the time he was marooned on Paradise.

Could David anticipate corporate (Weyland-Yutani Corporation: MU-TH-UR) sending someone (to answer his distress signal) to provide exactly what he (David 8) needs to complete his biology work on Paradise. Walter seems to be a walking MU-TH-UR.  

@ ali81

Can you please tell me where you read that?

also if they were laid by something, why would they be waiting for its return? they need hosts not the thing that laid them no?

ill see if I can find it again and let u know. I could be mistaken but ill search

@ Ingeniero

Maybe but I highly doubt it, nice suggestion though :)

@ ali81

Thank you ;)

I haven't found it yet but this is a copy of what was printed on the alien SXSW news roundup thread

One of the crew somehow meets David (from Prometheus) who has been living on the planet for over a decade, experimenting with the black ooze from Prometheus. He tells the person how he’s been testing it with a variety of genetic techniques, in an attempt to create life. He shows the person all his failed attempts and tells him that he thinks he’s figured out how the create the perfect specimen. He just needs one more thing. He leads the person into another room and shows him some eggs. These eggs, of course, contain facehuggers. And one attaches itself to the man’s face.

I know it doesn't say 'all they need is a mother' or something to that effect but it does slightly support that I don't believe they r waiting on mother. its one of those 'I know I read it somewhere I just cant find it again' scenarios lol, I will keep trying though

Thank you Movie fan.

I didn't have much to go on but "Mother" is how the Nostromo crew (in the future I know) refers to the artificial intelligence.

David could be waiting for a response to his distress signal sent from Paradise from corporate AI. Corporate delivered a ship full of bright-eyed idealistic colonists.

What would be a better contribution to David's biology project on Paradise than a ship full of colonists and most likely a DNA sample from every conceivable life form on Earth?

The Covenant ship brings these:

Also, David would have a portfolio of plant life DNA from the Bio-Replicator Pods above (Weyland-Yutani Corporation technology) and I'm sure re-task any technology he could get his artificial hands on.

"The final preview scene starts on Michael Fassbender's android, David, who definitely is the Prometheus android, and not the new Covenant android, in this scene. David escorts Billy Crudup's character through what The Verge describes as a "personal workshop of biological terrors" David is explaining that, in an effort to fully understand the alien that they encountered in the finale of Prometheus, he has been experimenting with genetic mutations of these creatures, and that he has genetically engineered new versions of the Alien. David says that he has been waiting for one last piece of his genetic puzzle to fall into place, at which point he brings Crudup's character into a room that contains the four eggs that we know from Ridley Scott's original Alien. David's final puzzle piece is "mother," or a waiting host, and he wants Crudup's character to be that for him. Yikes!"

http://www.cinemablend.com/news/1634600/ridley-scott-revealed-some-serious-alien-covenant-spoilers-at-sxsw

im sure what I read was along the lines of...

david reveals he is in the process of creating the perfect organism then leading the person into the egg chamber. he then says all they need is a mother. egg opens etc etc

along those lines....

@ Ingeniero

I understand your point, but the article you posted might be wrong: they said that there were 4 eggs, the set pictures and trailer shows 7+ eggs so they could be wrong about other things too.

Just a suggestion ;)

@ ali81

Can you post the link to the article you read this at?

Movie fan, yes, we can't depend on the twitter based media that continues to "grab a detail and write an opinion essay" on it.

There are many holes in the coverage of the immaculate story that is Alien: Covenant. Great topic.

the article I read may be wrong aswell. I still cant find it yet but will keep searching. the point im trying to make is that david is waiting on mothers for the perfect organism, not the organism that laid the eggs to return. the creature that lays the eggs is of no use to the ace hugger inside. kane was a mother, to kanes son. it just a human term for that which births offspring as in human terms fathers cannot give birth. it would make more sense for the scene for david to refer to mother as the soon to be human hosts, which I believe is why he sent to signal. he got to this point and knew he needed mothers to birth the embryos. I could be wrong and there could be something else entirely but from the other movies, which yes r dated after AC, the next stage in the life cycle is a host. in aliens, other than physically being in the same room as the eggs, the queen doesn't seem to take much to do the eggs other than wanting them to be protected. they don't hatch as she is of no use to the hugger inside.

Indeed, Ingeniero some people don't understand what characters say and some people want to post fake news.

I'm just glad I found this website, one of the only websites I can trust :)

@ ali81

I think the reason why they wait for "mother" is because "mother" can make more eggs to help procreate the xenomorph species and lead to total victory, but then your theory could be correct too.

Only time will tell.