Samus Aran's Bio

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“ In the vast universe, the history of humanity is but a flash of light from a lone star. Thelife of a single person should be lost in space and time. But among the stars, there is one light that burns brighter than all others. The light of Samus Aran . Her battles extend beyond her life,and etch themselves into history. "

—Metroid Prime intro

Prologue ~

Samus Aran was originally a native of the Earth colony K-2L. She was living with her parents,Rodney Aran and Virginia Aran, when, at the age of three, the colony was visited by the Chozo.The Chozo had come in hopes of gaining some of the Afloraltite the colony mined there, but thecolony was unwilling to give them any. Samus, however, caught the attention of Old Bird, one of the Chozo elders. The two of them went for a walk, where they began to strike up a friendship.Samus began to call him “Grandpa” and Old Bird introduced her to her new pet, Pyonchi.

However, a Space Pirate raid led by Ridley soon commenced on the colony. Samus herself hadan encounter with Ridley, where she asked if they could become friends. Humiliated in front of his troops, Ridley attempted to kill Samus, but her mother pushed Samus out of the way at thecost of her own life. Meanwhile, Samus' father sacrificed himself to destroy Ridley’s flagship.Little did Ridley know that, in killing Samus’ mother and attempting to kill Samus, he hadsucceeded in creating his greatest enemy.

Samus was the sole survivor of the attack on K-2L. Eventually, the same group of Chozo foundher alone and stranded on the destroyed colony, and Old Bird decided to take custody of Samus.

The Chozo brought her to their planet, Zebes, and raised her with Chozo influence. Samus wasinfused with Chozo blood in order to boost her chances of survival on Zebes; she was later giventhe powerful bio-mechanical Power Suit built entirely from Chozo technology.

Samus trained under the Chozo for many years. By the age of 14, she was already well past thephysical limits of ordinary humans. The Chozo were unsure at first of her ability to become a truewarrior until they witnessed her compassion for a flock of Iona Faria that had gone insane as aresult of exposure to the Bajar Grove. Old Bird told Samus that she had his confidence and sheimmediately left the planet for the Federation.



A brave Samus, only 3 years of age facing the leader of the Space Pirates, Ridley. After whatshe said, Ridley took it as an insult, and to not let his band of Space Pirates think he is a softlifeform, Ridley snapped at her, and was going to rip her apart with his mouth, until the braveinterference with Rondey and Virginia Aran, her parents.

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Federation Army ~

Eventually, Samus soared through the ranks in the Federation police, and placed onto theStar-Trackers; an elite force that only one out of a million police officers are qualified for. --Between the age of 15 and 17 Samus worked on the VIXIV under General Adam Malkovich. Here

she met Anthony Higgs and Adam's younger brother, Ian Malkovich. It is unknown how long sheserved with Adam’s unit, but long enough to develop a strong relationship with Anthony, Ian and

Adam. Adam would always finish his orders with the question, "Any objections, Lady?" as a wayof cementing the trust between the two of them. Samus felt like Adam was the only person whotruly understood her, Samus grew to view him as her best friend and surrogate father figure.Samus left the the VIXIV after the death of Adam's brother, Ian, whom Adam sacrificed to save300 innocents on the Lusitania.



Teenage Samus in her Federation outfit.

After The Federation ~

Samus vanished completely, abandoning her post in the GF Police. Samus did not resurfaceuntil a few years later; by this time, she had become universally-renowned as a Bounty Hunter bysingle-handedly hunting down numerous Space Pirates, including stopping an assassinationattempt at the inauguration of Chairman Keaton. So much of her life during this time is shrouded

in mystery that the public believes her to be a male cyborg, not the same woman who graduatedfirst in her class at the GF Police.

Return To Zebes ~

Planet Zebes.



After becoming the most famed and capable of all Bounty Hunters, succeeding in missionseveryone considered impossible, Samus was summoned by the Galactic Federation.Previously, a Federation Planet Reclamation Division had been sent to capture Metroidspecimens for study, but the Space Pirates had swept in, killed the crew, and stolen theMetroids. The capture of this creature was a disastrous blow to the Federation. A Metroid could

leech life from its victims, was impervious to most weaponry, and could be cheaply cloned byexposure to beta rays for 24 standard hours. The Pirates had already tested their potential in athree-way simultaneous attack on several Federation worlds; the attack was a stunning successfor the Pirates, who had suffered no casualties at all. With hundreds of Metroids under their power, the Space Pirates would inevitably begin a campaign to conquer the rest of the universe.Galactic Civilization would end.

After a long and harrowing search, the Federation Police tracked the Pirates to Zebes. Theylaunched an invasion, but Pirate resistance was too strong. After much debate, the Federationdecided to turn to Samus to infiltrate the base at Zebes. She was given two objectives:

● ’’Destroy all Metroid organisms.’’

● ’’Defeat the Mechanical Life-Form Mother Brain.’’



A Metroid.



Mother Brain.

(Metroid Prime) The Distress Signal ~

Three years later, Samus’ next mission led her to another planet in the Zebesian system: TallonIV. She intercepted a distress signal sent from the Space Pirate frigate Orpheon andimmediately flew in to investigate. Once inside, she found dead and dying pirates everywherewhile vermin ran amok in the ship. It did not take Samus long to discover the source: a Parasite

Queen the Pirates had been performing experiments on had broken out and stationed itself in theFrigate’s Nuclear reactor core. Samus killed the creature, but the dying beast slipped into thereactor, causing a malfunction that threatened to destroy the entire vessel. Samus ran for her lifethrough the ventilation tunnels, but to her great surprise, she found herself reunited with Ridley,who had been given many cybernetic implants and been transformed into Meta Ridley. Samuschased him through the ship, but along the way, an explosion rammed her into a wall, causingher Power Suit to malfunction. Of all its previous functions and upgrades, only the Arm Cannon



remained functional. Samus quickly left the dying frigate and chased Meta Ridley in her gunship,but he proved faster than expected and soon disappeared from her radar. Samus was forced totrack him on foot, and so, even in her weakened state, she chose to land on the planet below:Tallon IV.

The Space Frigate Orpheon

Meta Ridley

Tallon IV ~

After passing through the jungles in the Tallon Overworld, Samus discovered an elevator which



led to some deserted Chozo Ruins. There, she discovered that 50 years earlier, a colony of Chozo had come to the planet to regain their spirituality. Unfortunately, a mysterious meteor struck the planet, bringing with it a Great Poison and The Worm. The Great Poison quickly beganspreading through the area, killing most life in its path and corrupting any beings which it did notkill. Many of the Chozo were driven insane and became menacing spirits; much of the others

soon fled to an unknown location. The remainder of the sane Chozo, now reduced to mereghosts, managed to seal off the Impact Crater within a seal called The Cipher, locking up TheWorm and most of the Great Poison with it. The Space Pirates fleeing the destruction of thebase at Zebes had then landed on the planet; they began mining the Great Poison (which theynamed Phazon) after discovering it could be used to enhance the fighting potential of variouscreatures, including themselves.

Space Pirates (As seen in Metroid Prime, appearance seems to change throughout the Primegames.)

Phazon

Tallon Overworld



The Impact Crater's location, where the seal lies needing all the artifacts to delve into the crater.The status are called the, "Chozo Totem."

Samus journeyed through Tallon IV, regaining her lost weaponry and collecting sacred Chozo Artifacts, for the Chozo had prophesied that she was the one destined to destroy the Worm andthe Phazon there. She also swept through the Phazon Mines the Pirates had set up, destroyingthe Phazon-infused experiments she found there. Samus eventually confronted the mostpowerful of these mutated Space Pirates: the Omega Pirate. After a challenging battle, Samusmanaged to defeat the beast, but in its death throes, it fell on Samus and melted into purePhazon. The viral radiation dramatically mutated her Power Suit, turning it into the Phazon Suit;fortunately, this mutation proved beneficial as it allowed her to safely come in contact with andharness the power of Phazon.



Chozo Artifact.

The Phazon Suit

The Omega Pirate (Personally, one of the hardest bosses in Metroid Prime. >:I)

Endgame ~

Having collected all the Chozo artifacts and suit upgrades, Samus returned to the Artifact



Temple and activated the Cipher in preparation for entering the Impact Crater. Just before thestatue's seal deactivated, however, Meta Ridley flew in and destroyed the statue. He thenattempted to kill Samus, but Samus managed to burn off his wings then overload his life-support.Just as Meta Ridley was brought to death’s door again, the Chozo statues there fired powerfullasers at his chest, blasting him off of the mountain. The Chozo Ghosts within the statues then

undid the seal themselves, allowing Samus inside the Impact Crater. Inside, Samus discoveredthe sleeping Metroid Prime, the source of all the Phazon. Samus managed to destroy its armor,forcing the creature to reveal its true form. Unable to damage it further with conventionalweaponry, Samus was then forced to overload it by harnessing pure Phazon via her PhazonSuit. The Metroid Prime began to die, but in a last-ditch attempt to save itself, it shot out atentacle and absorbed Samus’ Phazon Suit before exploding. Samus ran for her life as the entireImpact Crater burst into flames. Though Tallon IV had been cleansed of Phazon, The Worm wasnot yet dead and would soon be reborn as Dark Samus.

Metroid Prime

Metroid Prime Core (Phase 2)



The game's 100% Completion ending, though this is the concept artwork for the clip, and "TheEnd?" was also added in the artwork.

(Metroid Prime 2: Echoes/Dark Echoes) Aether And The Federation ~



Samus was soon given yet another assignment from the Galactic Federation; this time, she wasasked to track down a missing brigade of Federation Marines, GFMC Task Force Herakles.Samus headed to the planet Aether located in the Dasha region of space, where the troopers’distress signal was coming from. Samus attempted to land on Aether, but her gunship wascaught in the dimensional storms raging on the planet and was badly damaged. Very luckily, her

ship landed not very far away from the troopers’ makeshift base. Immediately upon entering it,she could see that all the troopers had died in some sort of attack. Before she could discover thesource, many of the dead troopers rose and began firing at her.

Aether

Dark Federation Troopers, possessed by the Ing.

Samus fled the base, with the undead troopers in pursuit, but once she was safely outside, shediscovered something very strange. A mysterious black and blue being wearing a suit similar tohers was entering a mysterious Portal to an unknown location. Samus followed the being into thePortal only to find herself in a nightmarish replica of the room she had been in before. The beingwas absorbing a massive node of Phazon before it. It began firing at her, but ultimately left her tothe claws of the savage creatures surrounding them both. Faced with overwhelming odds andexposure to the poisonous atmosphere of the region, Samus was quickly overcome by the darkcreatures.

Samus managed to make it back to the portal minus many of her suit upgrades, all of which hadbeen stolen by the creatures that attacked her. She made her way through the catacombs of

Aether until she discovered the source of the distress signal: the Federation troopers' damagedship, the GFS Tyr. Accessing the ship’s log, she discovered that the Task Force had beenstranded on Aether when their ship was damaged in pursuit of a downed Space Pirate frigate.Eventually, they were all killed after repeated assaults by Dark Splinters, though one of thetroopers managed to send the distress signal before his death.



The Ing that was encountered, expect in a swarm.



Dark Samus (First Encounter)



GFS Tyr

Dark Splinter, one of many in a huge swarm that attacked and eliminated all GFS Troopers. Verysmall, but deadlier than the unpossessed minor Splinters.

Samus' New Mission ~

Samus’s ship was still repairing itself, so she went on a search to identify the cause of the attackand to recover her stolen weaponry. She began finding signs of an intelligent civilization living on

Aether and chose to investigate. Her search eventually led to the Great Temple where she founddozens of beings suspended in cryogenic hibernation. Before she could investigate further, shewas immediately attacked by an Alpha Splinter, which was almost immediately transformed intoDark Alpha Splinter. Samus managed to kill it, but a strange glowing object emerged from thedead insect and entered her suit.

Samus continued exploring the building until she encountered a being known as U-Mos, theSentinel of the Luminoth. U-Mos informed her that his species, the Luminoth, had migrated to theplanet after being drawn by its unique energy. They had lived in peace until a meteor much likethe one that impacted Tallon IV impacted the planet, straining the planet’s fragile dimensionalityand thus creating two different dimensions of the same planet: the original Aether and a twisted,corrupted version called Dark Aether.

A malevolent race called the Ing had come with the Leviathan; it was the Ing who wereresponsible for the deaths and possession of the troopers. The Luminoth had been involved in along war with the Ing for the Light of Aether and were at the verge of defeat when Samus hadarrived. U-Mos also revealed that, after her battle with the Dark Alpha Splinter, Samus hadrecovered the Energy Transfer Module that had been stolen by the Ing years earlier. Now thatshe had it, she could transfer the planet's energy from Dark Aether to Light Aether; without it theshadowy dimension would collapse forever. Samus agreed to seek out the Energy Controllers torestore the Light of Aether to the Luminoth.



U-Mos, an Energy Controller behind him.

Samus’ mission took her all through Aether and Dark Aether, where she faced many Ingattempting to kill her for assisting the Luminoth, as well as several skirmishes with Dark Samus,the creature she had seen absorbing Phazon in Dark Aether. She also reclaimed her stolenweaponry from the various Ing Guardians who had made use of it, and she received Luminothupgrades such as the Dark Suit. Once she had restored the three energy controllers to transfer the Light of Aether, U-Mos thanked her with the Light Suit, a suit that contained the Light of Aether

within itself. Then, he told her of her most dangerous task: to reach the final Energy Controller,hidden within the Sky Temple. To enter the Sky Temple, though, she had to find the nine SkyTemple keys scattered about Dark Aether.



Dark and Light Suits.

Endgame ~

Within the Sky Temple, Samus faced the Emperor Ing, a mighty behemoth that ruled the entireIng race. Although she was almost defeated, Samus prevailed, killed the Emperor, and obtainedthe last of the planetary energy. Without the energy, Dark Aether started to fall apart, leaving her with only eight minutes to escape. Samus raced down to the Sky Temple gateway, but beforeshe could flee the crumbling dimension, Dark Samus confronted her once more. The two dueledit out to the death, but Samus took advantage of her foe's sole weakness -- an overload of Phazon -- and defeated her doppelganger once again. In her weakened state, Dark Samus

attempted to steal Samus’ Light Suit, but instead dissipated into thin air. Samus then entered theportal, leaving Dark Aether to collapse behind her. The Luminoth, who had just returned fromtheir cryogenic sleep, rejoiced and thanked Samus for freeing them from the Ing. Samus thengave them back the equipment she had borrowed from them, returned to her gunship, and sheflew off into the vast darkness of space.



A concept of the Emperor Ing's first phase.



Samus bids farewell to the Luminoth, having completed her mission, the Luminoth now out of stasis, will remember Samus as a hero.

(Metroid Prime 3: Corruption) The Great Invasion ~

Six months later, Samus was summoned to the battleship G.F.S. Olympus in orbit with the restof the Federation fleet above the planet Norion, where she would receive her instructions for her

next assignment. She, along with fellow bounty hunters Rundas, Gandrayda, and Ghor, wasordered to deliver a vaccine to the Federation’s Aurora Units, which were suffering from a SpacePirate-engineered virus. Just as the mission briefing ended, the Pirates launched a surpriseattack; all the bounty hunters, including Samus, headed down to their ships to assist with thebattle at Norion’s main base, fighting any Pirates they encountered in the corridors. Upon landingthere, Samus was informed the Space Pirates had disabled the generators to Norion’s planetarycannon; thus, she and the other hunters were given the responsibility of restoring them while theFederation Marines held off the invading Pirate forces.



The Other Hunters

Samus and the other hunters raced through the base, turning on each generator they found torestore power to the cannon. The situation soon became dire when the Federation discoveredexactly why the Pirates where attacking: a massive Leviathan was headed to Norion. Theinvasion was intended to stall the Federation fleet until the Leviathan could arrive and crash intothe planet, spreading Phazon everywhere. Samus headed to the final generator only to find her old nemesis Meta Ridley waiting for her. In the ensuing melee, Meta Ridley accidentally brokethrough the floor and the two of them hurtled down the 1600 meter shaft, dueling all the way. Justas Samus finished off Meta Ridley, Rundas came down to rescue her and the two flew out of thetunnel together. Samus restored the final generator and she and the other hunters went straightto the control tower to activate the cannon. As soon they made it to the top, Dark Samus, whowas resurrected through high Phazon exposure and was responsible for the invasion, blastedthem all with a massive Phazon laser to ensure that the Leviathan would not be destroyed.Luckily, Samus, though barely conscious, managed to fire the cannon just before she fainted,

destroying the incoming Seed.

One month later, Samus awoke to find that she and her fellow hunters’ bodies wereself-producing Phazon with no negative side-effects to their health. The Federation medicsworking on her had therefore equipped her with a Phazon Enhancement Device. Through thissuit, she could take advantage of her own Phazon to enter Hypermode, a function that wouldallow her to energize her suit and weapon systems with Phazon, giving her access to



devastating powers. Samus was then informed by the Aurora Unit 242 that her fellow huntershad awoken two weeks before she had. They had also been given PEDs and were dispatched tothe planets Bryyo, Elysia, and the Pirate Homeworld, which had also been struck by Leviathans.Unfortunately, the Federation had lost contact with all of them one week later. Samus was thenordered complete the missing hunters’ missions to destroy each Leviathan, as well as finding

out exactly what caused the Federation to lose contact with them. Samus traveled to the planetsBryyo, Elysia, and the Pirate Homeworld to find upgrades to further enhance her abilities todestroy the seeds. However, she learned that her Phazon corruption, initially thought to bebenign, could cause her body to overload with Phazon energy which she must then expel toprevent total corruption. She also learned that each of her fellow hunters had fallen to their ownPhazon corruption; to protect herself, she battled each hunter in turn, killing them. As eachhunter fell, Dark Samus showed up to drain the Phazon energy and their abilities from their bodies, with Samus powerless to stop her. With the help of her Phazon, Samus was able tosuccessfully destroy the seeds at both Bryyo and Elysia. She also disabled the PirateHomeworld’s planetary shield, allowing the Federation’s fleet to launch a full scale assault on the

planet. Samus herself personally led a team of Demolition Troopers to destroy the security door of the cargo line leading to the Seed. There, she encountered and defeated her old nemesisonce again, now reborn as Omega Ridley. All the Leviathans had been destroyed, but Samushad been corrupted to the point that she was now literally glowing with Phazon.

The Aurora Unit 217 then uncovered the location of planet Phaaze, the source of all Phazon andDark Samus' place of origin. Traveling with the Federation via a wormhole created by theLeviathan Battleship, Samus arrived and descended to the planet. As soon she set foot onPhaaze, Samus absorbed dangerous amounts of Phazon and was nearly corrupted completely;fortunately, she managed to prevent this by venting all her available energy tanks and locking

herself in permanent Hypermode. After venturing to the planet's inner sanctum, she encounteredDark Samus, and, after a long battle, Dark Samus fused with the stolen Aurora Unit 313 that waslinked with Phaaze's core. Her efforts ultimately proved futile as Samus was able to overpower and destroy both her doppelganger and the Aurora Unit. Since the Aurora Unit was linked to theplanet's core, its destruction caused a chain reaction that resulted in the destruction of Phaazeand the erasure of all traces of Phazon from the universe, including the Phazon inside Samus'body. The Federation fleet escaped via another wormhole, but lost contact with Samus in theprocess. Just as the Federation had given up all hope of Samus' survival, she flew in andreported that the mission had been completed, closing the curtain on the Phazon saga. After leaving the celebrating Federation fleet, Samus returned to Elysia, where she mourned the lossof her fellow bounty hunters on this mission. Eventually, she left Elysia and headed off to find her next mission, but failed to notice a mysterious gunship following her.



The strange ship that followed Samus at the end, in the secret ending.

Samus thinking about the recent events in MP3.

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I'm surprised if you read this far, even if you skimmed it just a little bit. I only did thisbecause it should be here, but I never really expect people to read it even if I tag, sokudos to you, you deserve a cookie. --

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