Metroid

Dark Aether was apparently born when a Leviathan crashed into Aether, tearing something in the fabric of dimensionality or something.

So I've considered the atmosphere of Dark Aether to be like a toxic residue of phazon.

To me it looks to be ambient Ingstorms, just less dense than the ones that eat you alive in seconds in Dark Temple Grounds.

The little particles you see floating around Dark Aether, and all over you, look like the same floating bits you see more densely packed in Ingstorms.

It could be Phazon residue, but the Ing themselves are vulnerable to Phazon.

edited 30th Jun '15 4:06:56 PM by Anomalocaris20

Sure, but so is Metroid Prime, and it secretes the stuff.

Yeah, the Phazon meteor, (Not technically a leviathan yet, those didn't start happening until Corruption) is only half the equation. One hit Tallon IV and that never got split into two dimensions. Whatever happened to Aether happened because the Phazon had some wonky reaction to the Luminoth's light energy temples. I think. I mean, what other explanation is there?

Yeah, but that's more you overloading it with concentrated Phazon energy than it just being exposed to ambient Phazon in the atmosphere.

Aether split because they ran some shonky business what with drawing their planetary energy to those temples to stabilize it, and the Leviathan impact shook the planet up enough to punch spacetime in the face. I don't think being a Phazon meteorite had any bearing on creating a pocket dimension- any ol' meteor would have done -other than making Dark Aether even more of a hellhole than it would have already been.

edited 30th Jun '15 4:13:32 PM by Anomalocaris20

I'm not so sure of that. Phazon emits pretty weird radiation. It might have caused some kind of chain reaction when it interacted with the planet energy.

We're talking about a substance that was used to open wormholes and allows creatures to become intangible and pass through solid matter. I wouldn't write off it's significance in the creation of Dark Aether.

I think the Luminoth lore specifically attributes the dimensional flux to their wonky planetary energy system not taking well to a massive planet-shaking impact, rather than anything inherent to the meteor itself.

I mean, that could be a contributing factor, of course.

It's rather convenient that when the dimensions split, Dark Aether's the one that got the Leviathan, huh? Makes wiping it out much easier since you're gonna destroy Dark Aether anyway.

edited 30th Jun '15 4:56:51 PM by Anomalocaris20

The wiki at least says it was a Leviathan and not just a phazon meteor.

We knew it was a Leviathan. What we're debating is whether the Phazon had anything to do with the split.

If it was just a meteor, it probably wouldn't have released anything evil. The Ing aren't really a dark counterpart of the Luminoth. And the don't seem like they would have been born from their technology alone.

Corruption has creatures called Phaz-Ing. I think the Ing were just a variation of those that got altered by the planet energy.

Could they intangible through things?

They turned into puddles of Phazon. The Ing do something similar by turning into an unknown black substance.

I like to think of the stuff in Dark Aether like phazon radioactive waste. But more useful the regular radioactive waste.

Some Phaaz-Ing probably hitched a ride along on a Leviathan, and mutated into the normal dark Ing upon the creation of Dark Aether.

My personal theory was that Dark Aether was in subspace/hyperspace, the dimension ships enter to travel faster than light. The atmospheric damage was therefore caused by radiation, which black holes/wormholes emit.

edited 30th Jun '15 5:17:10 PM by Tuckerscreator

The interesting thing about Dark Aether is that it seems to entirely be a local phenomenon. If you exited the planet from Dark Aether you'd just wind up in regular outer space, not "Dark Outer Space".

I like to think Dark Aether is an antimatter universe.

The power suit is just that good at tanking hits.

And yet brushing up against a Zoomer one too many times will kill her.

I finally got all the Missile Expansions. Some of those were practically impossible to find without a guide.

Just beat the Boost Guardian. While it was definitely tedious, it wasn't as hard as people make it out to be.

http://nintendoeverything.com/metroid-prime-ff-not-just-an-fps-important-plot-meeting-samus-more-talk-of-wanting-to-continue-after-prime-3-more/

That does make the game sound more interesting. I hope Samus-Senpai notices me.

Samus-senpai will never notice you.

Ridley hopes Samus-senpai will notice him less.