The Titania turned out to be an amazing creature after all. The giant astral was not a single biological entity, but rather a collective of multiple cooperating organisms that had bonded together in a single gigantic form.
Although these kinds of superorganisms were not that uncommon in places where there was life, Ves and many Larkinsons never encountered a creature that grew to this size!
The entire creature must have led a long and difficult life as it slowly grew up in the Red Ocean. As the Lifer exobiologists kept investigating the Titania's enormous carcass, they gathered more clues about its nature, its biological mechanisms, and its life trajectory.
This allowed them to construct a plausible story about the Titania's life from birth to its demise at the hands of the Golden Skull Alliance.