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** Okay but that still doesn’t answer another part of the question. “X” is a term penned by the Chozo. And yet, the Federation seems to know that they are called X somehow despite having not encountered them until this game.
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** Okay but that still doesn’t answer another part of the question. “X” is a term penned by the Chozo. And yet, the Federation seems to know that they are called X somehow despite having not encountered them until this game.game.
* How does Samus traverse those handholds on the ceiling when one of her "hands" is her arm cannon?
** Samus' cannon arm could have a magnet. Or maybe it's a left over of the grapple beam.
* What were the Space Pirates doing in BSL? Clearly they were up to something... at least before the X took them over.
** Knowing the space pirates, chances are good they got bit in the butt with karmic retribution. They discovered through some means about either the X parasite (something they could have encountered before on [=SR388=]), or about that small lab module stuck off all on it's lonesome on the station, with its supply of goodies, and decided to raid pillage and plunder it. Plus, it's a Federation Science Lab, out in the open without escort. Easy pickings, it would seem to the casual pirate: Lot's of salvageable tech and information for Science Team, and a space station to create a Space Pirate base of operations that could sail through Federation Space without getting shot out of the sky. This idea held true and was panning out, right up until they got eaten by the X. See also: Metroid Prime (Parasite Queens), Echoes (the Ing), and whatever shot them in the face in Corruption.
*** What shot them in the face in ''Corruption'' was them returning to Aether after the Federation had been there to collect Phazon samples. According to a Pirate data log, they quickly went in with a small team to scoop up as much Phazon as possible before the Federation came back. This went surprisingly well. But not long after takeoff, Dark Samus reformed from stray Phazon particles in their cargo bay (see Corruption's intro scene) and wreaked havoc upon the ship. After restoring its body with the Phazon and brainwashing the crew, Prime/Dark Samus went to the Pirate Homeworld to take it over. Later she went to Phaaze and kicked Corruption's plot into high gear.
** Alternate theory: The BSL researchers devoted Sector 1 to reproducing the atmosphere, flora and fauna of Zebes as closely as possible. Then someone said "Hey, didn't Zebes also have Space Pirates?" ''That'' guy didn't last long once everyone else found out.
*** Nope. Sector 1 was a replica of [=SR388=], not Zebes (hence the map code SRX). However, there is a way Pirates could have wound up in [=SR388=]'s ecosystem - see below.
*** This is true, but what about the fact that ''every other sector on the space station'' is carrying organisms from Zebes? Isn't that extremely suspicious? When did BSL get all of these samples? When the planet was a Space Pirate hive? Or when it went from being a Space Pirate hive to a slightly charred asteroid field?
*** I kinda like this theory. Besides, somewhere out there there is a scientist who would go that far for accurate reproductions.
** Less stupid theory: Ridley was held captive there. Can't the Space Pirates go on their own rescue mission every once in a while? Especially after losing their bases and possibly access to their cloning methods?
*** Nope, still a stupid theory; Ridley was not held captive there; their leader(?) Ridley was dead. The Federation cloned him. That's not their leader, unless his genetic memory ever becomes canon.
*** That wasn't established until ''Other M'', which was released after this headscratcher was written. Even with that game in mind, considering how many problems stemmed from Ridley accidentally being cloned, would they really want to do it deliberately? Despite this group's Zebesian work, their goal wasn't to recreate the Space Pirate organisation as a whole (At least, it shouldn't have been. The plot is sounding more and more like a HandWave to recreate all of Samus's classic threats in an effort to prolong the series, isn't it?).
** Alternate, less stupid theory: The Pirates knew that Metroids originated on [=SR388=] from the first Federation survey ship way-back-when. (That was the catalyst event for the original ''Metroid,'' as quoted in the manual. The Feds had just discovered [=SR388=] and sent a survey expedition, which got hijacked en route back to Earth along with their research specimens - including a handful of Metroids in stasis). Samus exterminated the Pirates' original Metroid stash on Zebes, but the High Command wasn't about to let Metroids go so easily and mounted their own expedition to [=SR388=] to capture more. This was the origin of the Tallon Metroid line, and may explain why the Tallon Metroids (as seen on Tallon IV and Aether) look strikingly different from the Zebes version (smaller, more colour variance, get killed by lots of weapons instead of ice+ missile only, etc). During that mission, some hapless Pirate trooper got attacked by X; Pirate command never noticed because they were losing troops left and right to the local wildlife. Since X reproduce asexually and retain the genomes of all their past victims, it's plausible that at least one clonal line retaining the Pirate genome made it to BSL. When Samus started kicking all their lower-order forms around, the X switched to forms with better combat capability, including that of the Space Pirate. Voila.
*** That could work, but shouldn't all the little scrubs in the entry hall change to ferocious combat forms as well? It looks like they can only mimic one creature at a time. With the Big Bad of the games final transformation being the exception, probably due to how many signatures were present in the original host.
*** The Ridley-X battle begins with [[http://Metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Ridley-X1.png the corpse]] becoming [[http://Metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Ridley-X3.png the one you fight]]. Also, the Fish and Pirate X combining in a [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Merman Pirate]]. The X ''can'' change the shape of their "hosts".
** I thought it was established that the Federation was secretly working with them.
** Working with mixing the events in the game with manga here, but the Metroid were developed to destroy the X parasite by the Chozo, under Mother Brain's surveillance. Since Mother Brain was siding with the Space Pirates in the end, they might have heard something about X from her along with the Metroid. Since one of the reasons for destroying BSL and [=SR388=] against Federation orders was to keep the Federation, or anyone else, from using X as a biological weapon, it's possible that the Pirates got intel that X could be useful to them, and the station was a more controlled environment than trying something so dangerous as to track it down something that no longer has a natural enemy in its own environment.
** A lot of the Pirates you meet are in the station's reactor area. Perhaps their true intention was to sabotage the station, causing it to crash into the planet below, destroying all life! Because seriously, even Space Pirates should be able to tell that the place is a shithouse.
*** Aren't these the same Space Pirates that designed their own ships and bases with doors that they themselves cannot open quickly in an emergency? Space Pirates are generally portrayed as dumber than a space sack of space bricks, ''especially'' the command wing (Ridley excluded). Someone high-up could've given the order to sack [=BSL=], the {{Red Shirt}}s grumbled and complained and saw just how risky attempting to loot an obviously compromised research station would be, but still went through with their orders as an alternative to [[http://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic1-101308.php being launched into the nearest sun.]] Common sense isn't the SP's stock and trade.
** Theory from a fanfiction I once read (which can be found in the fanfic rec's): BSL was built as a training ground for what would essentially be more Samuses. It would have everything Samus had faced so far, so the trainees would end up as strong as Samus. Then the X invaded, and they decided that using the X as an unstoppable bioweapon worked just as well.
** Alternate Alternate Theory: The researchers had some intact Space Pirates in storage to eventually study. BSL had retrieved Ridley's corpse, so grabbing some Pirates while they were at it isn't out of the question.
** My best guess is that the X on [=SR388=] somehow got ahold of Pirate DNA, or possibly the Feds had samples on the BSL. As for Ridley... we know that the one you fight is just a copy, but I've always believed that the frozen one wasn't the real one either. Maybe the Feds were studying a clone they had made? Then again, we know he's in Other M, which is between Super and Fusion, so we may get to see how they got Ridley into the BSL.
** Other M might have explained this one. It's revealed that the Galactic Federation had been experimenting on Zebesians, cybernetically enhancing them to be used as bioweapons. As one would expect, this went horribly wrong, mostly due to Ridley's unexpected appearance. So it might be that they were continuing said experiments on BSL... since Ridley wasn't going to be an issue, seeing as how he was dead and (just in case) frozen solid, they probably thought they would succeed this time around. Then the X Parasites came.
*** The Federation isn't exactly a shining pillar of ethics. They probably captured some more Space Pirates after the bottle ship went under and started experimenting on them and Ridley's corpse at BSL.
* What happened to the remaining eight SA-X that were onboard the station? They couldn't have all been on the super happy fun compartment, we only saw the one. Then there was the one that got blown up in the control room... So we're missing like, eight of the buggers, according to ADAM.
** Unless one of them smuggled inside Samus' ship(which didn't happen due to the ship being able to detect them), they were blown to smithereens. It's hard to survive a space station crash. Followed by it self-destructing. And taking the planet it crashed into with it.
*** Simple. They weren't there. Adam was lying about how many there were in order to scare you and get you off the station (after hearing this, you pretty much have free reign to explore the rest of the station, but you'll never see any more SA-X until the endgame. If there were really so many of them, it would be possible to run into them).
*** [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat How long have you]] [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife been on this website]]?
*** SequelHook?
*** No, they're definitely gone. One got nom'd by Metroids. One of them was absorbed by Samus, and the other eight were blown up with BSL, [=SR388=], and the rest of the X.
*** Or, they could just be stranded in space. The only way to destroy X that has been shown is absorbing it's energy. The Chozo created the Metroids specifically for that purpose. Samus having Metroid DNA is able to do it too. Why would an explosion kill all of the X at the end of the game, when they are not shown to be affected by explosions anywhere else?
*** Because Adam says an explosion the size of the BSL will kill X parasites caught in it and one big enough to take a planet will kill all of them in the area. Individual X are shown to be slightly affected by the power bomb. Not damaged but they are still moved about by the blast, maybe once the bangs get too big their defences just can't take it? Draining their energy just seems like a ''much'' preferred and safer method than planet sized explosions.
*** Maybe the X are vulnerable to radiation. A station that size probably ran on one or more nuclear reactors of some description. The ColonyDrop turned those reactors into makeshift nuclear weapons, potentially irradiating the entire surface of the planet and roasting the X (and everything else on SR-388) into radioactive glass (could that be what they meant by "destroyed" when talking about SR-388? Ecologically ruined as opposed to physically destroyed?).
* How ''exactly'' did the X infect Samus? The suit is airtight and protected by an energy shield. So far, Samus's suit seems to have a crippling weakness to plot.
** Where does that fit in ElementalRockPaperScissors?
*** Assume it beats PlotArmor and is weak to [[PlotHole Plot Holes.]]
** I don't think the suit ''is'' entirely airtight. It likely has some sort of pressure system, where it seals up automatically in the increased pressure of being underwater or the decreased pressure of vacuum, but if you'll recall, poison gas hurts Samus in the Prime series, so in regular environments with breathable atmosphere, there are apparently some openings, probably filtered, for breathing air. The X probably got in through there.
** It's said above that the suit is partly organic, the X might not have even needed to penetrate it. Alternately, they assumed microbial form and snuck in through the smallest cracks.
*** Except that it was acidic gas, and the suit has an energy field around it. So it somehow got past the shields, through the armour, into the organic parts, and then got to Samus herself?
*** The X are shown to go intangible, to the point where Samus can't absorb them if they're phased out. They probably phased past the shield when they attacked Samus.
*** Also, the energy shielding may only protect against energy weapons, while the armour is designed to handle everything else that gets thrown at her. Note that all of the ''Prime'' games feature all kinds of materials getting on Samus' armour, notably her helmet's faceplate (water, bug guts, trash-disposal... um, liquids), which indicates that the shielding isn't deflecting those materials away. Thus the X, being organic and not affected by the shielding, would only have had to get through the armour at some previously mentioned weak point.
*** This then raises the question of why physical attacks still drain energy from the shield. Samus takes nearly the same amount of damage from a high-powered beam as a punch from the Omega Pirate. The only way this is possible is if the shield blocks them, too. In addition, the shield has blocked such things as ghostly attacks and demonic possession, and that Omega punch should have tossed Samus across the room, but didn't. The materials themselves don't damage Samus, but merely obscure the visor and seem to cover the entire suit. Perhaps the shield essentially "hardens" when hit by a physical attack, and those substances can stick to it when this happens. Maybe the X simply wasn't registered as a threat, and the shield didn't react. They are microscopic, after all.
*** About that demonic possession: Samus's armour wasn't initially able to resist Ing possession on its own. Samus needed to acquire the Luminoth's Energy Transfer Module from the possessed creature sent to steal the last of Aether's energy to be able to resist. Strangely, I don't think it was ever explained just what in the module itself would prevent possession. During the short time before she gets it, I don't think the Ing had even bothered attempting to add her to their forces.
*** The Ing never bothered to possess her because the Ing couldn't take a physical form in Aether, and just attempted to possess what they knew. When that didn't work, and she made her way into their home, they tried to possess her, which didn't work either. Also, I always assumed that because, as far as the inventory descriptions say, it's essentially a giant ball of light, and the Ing hate the light...
*** If that were true, and I don't think the module protecting Samus was ever said to do that, the Ing would not have been able to steal it or possess the Alpha Splinter, since his Dark form had it. The more likely explanation is that either Samus or the suit is simply unable to be possessed due to Chozo foresight/wizarding or sheer willpower.
*** It was specifically stated in the log book entry for the transfer module that its core contains the Light of Aether which prevents Samus from being possessed.
*** I think the transfer module doesn't do anything to the Ing. If it did, they wouldn't be able to use it to steal Aether's energy. Since it's made of light, though, when Samus added it to her suit, it basically made it impossible for Ing to possess her. I imagine the light has a [[WeakenedByTheLight burning effect]]...
*** It is stated in-game that holding the transfer module immunises you to possession. The Ing can take it and use it just fine, such as the one leading the final attack on U-Mos that possessed an Alpha Splinter, they just can't possess whatever being is holding it. [[RecursiveReality Which means that particular Ing couldn't be possessed by its fellow Ing]], because I heard you like Ings but we can't put an Ing in your Ing.
*** So, no [[IncrediblyLamePun Ingception?]]
* How does Samus traverse those handholds on the ceiling when one of her "hands" is her arm cannon?
** Samus' cannon arm could have a magnet. Or maybe it's a left over of the grapple beam.
* What were the Space Pirates doing in BSL? Clearly they were up to something... at least before the X took them over.
** Knowing the space pirates, chances are good they got bit in the butt with karmic retribution. They discovered through some means about either the X parasite (something they could have encountered before on [=SR388=]), or about that small lab module stuck off all on it's lonesome on the station, with its supply of goodies, and decided to raid pillage and plunder it. Plus, it's a Federation Science Lab, out in the open without escort. Easy pickings, it would seem to the casual pirate: Lot's of salvageable tech and information for Science Team, and a space station to create a Space Pirate base of operations that could sail through Federation Space without getting shot out of the sky. This idea held true and was panning out, right up until they got eaten by the X. See also: Metroid Prime (Parasite Queens), Echoes (the Ing), and whatever shot them in the face in Corruption.
*** What shot them in the face in ''Corruption'' was them returning to Aether after the Federation had been there to collect Phazon samples. According to a Pirate data log, they quickly went in with a small team to scoop up as much Phazon as possible before the Federation came back. This went surprisingly well. But not long after takeoff, Dark Samus reformed from stray Phazon particles in their cargo bay (see Corruption's intro scene) and wreaked havoc upon the ship. After restoring its body with the Phazon and brainwashing the crew, Prime/Dark Samus went to the Pirate Homeworld to take it over. Later she went to Phaaze and kicked Corruption's plot into high gear.
** Alternate theory: The BSL researchers devoted Sector 1 to reproducing the atmosphere, flora and fauna of Zebes as closely as possible. Then someone said "Hey, didn't Zebes also have Space Pirates?" ''That'' guy didn't last long once everyone else found out.
*** Nope. Sector 1 was a replica of [=SR388=], not Zebes (hence the map code SRX). However, there is a way Pirates could have wound up in [=SR388=]'s ecosystem - see below.
*** This is true, but what about the fact that ''every other sector on the space station'' is carrying organisms from Zebes? Isn't that extremely suspicious? When did BSL get all of these samples? When the planet was a Space Pirate hive? Or when it went from being a Space Pirate hive to a slightly charred asteroid field?
*** I kinda like this theory. Besides, somewhere out there there is a scientist who would go that far for accurate reproductions.
** Less stupid theory: Ridley was held captive there. Can't the Space Pirates go on their own rescue mission every once in a while? Especially after losing their bases and possibly access to their cloning methods?
*** Nope, still a stupid theory; Ridley was not held captive there; their leader(?) Ridley was dead. The Federation cloned him. That's not their leader, unless his genetic memory ever becomes canon.
*** That wasn't established until ''Other M'', which was released after this headscratcher was written. Even with that game in mind, considering how many problems stemmed from Ridley accidentally being cloned, would they really want to do it deliberately? Despite this group's Zebesian work, their goal wasn't to recreate the Space Pirate organisation as a whole (At least, it shouldn't have been. The plot is sounding more and more like a HandWave to recreate all of Samus's classic threats in an effort to prolong the series, isn't it?).
** Alternate, less stupid theory: The Pirates knew that Metroids originated on [=SR388=] from the first Federation survey ship way-back-when. (That was the catalyst event for the original ''Metroid,'' as quoted in the manual. The Feds had just discovered [=SR388=] and sent a survey expedition, which got hijacked en route back to Earth along with their research specimens - including a handful of Metroids in stasis). Samus exterminated the Pirates' original Metroid stash on Zebes, but the High Command wasn't about to let Metroids go so easily and mounted their own expedition to [=SR388=] to capture more. This was the origin of the Tallon Metroid line, and may explain why the Tallon Metroids (as seen on Tallon IV and Aether) look strikingly different from the Zebes version (smaller, more colour variance, get killed by lots of weapons instead of ice+ missile only, etc). During that mission, some hapless Pirate trooper got attacked by X; Pirate command never noticed because they were losing troops left and right to the local wildlife. Since X reproduce asexually and retain the genomes of all their past victims, it's plausible that at least one clonal line retaining the Pirate genome made it to BSL. When Samus started kicking all their lower-order forms around, the X switched to forms with better combat capability, including that of the Space Pirate. Voila.
*** That could work, but shouldn't all the little scrubs in the entry hall change to ferocious combat forms as well? It looks like they can only mimic one creature at a time. With the Big Bad of the games final transformation being the exception, probably due to how many signatures were present in the original host.
*** The Ridley-X battle begins with [[http://Metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Ridley-X1.png the corpse]] becoming [[http://Metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Ridley-X3.png the one you fight]]. Also, the Fish and Pirate X combining in a [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Merman Pirate]]. The X ''can'' change the shape of their "hosts".
** I thought it was established that the Federation was secretly working with them.
** Working with mixing the events in the game with manga here, but the Metroid were developed to destroy the X parasite by the Chozo, under Mother Brain's surveillance. Since Mother Brain was siding with the Space Pirates in the end, they might have heard something about X from her along with the Metroid. Since one of the reasons for destroying BSL and [=SR388=] against Federation orders was to keep the Federation, or anyone else, from using X as a biological weapon, it's possible that the Pirates got intel that X could be useful to them, and the station was a more controlled environment than trying something so dangerous as to track it down something that no longer has a natural enemy in its own environment.
** A lot of the Pirates you meet are in the station's reactor area. Perhaps their true intention was to sabotage the station, causing it to crash into the planet below, destroying all life! Because seriously, even Space Pirates should be able to tell that the place is a shithouse.
*** Aren't these the same Space Pirates that designed their own ships and bases with doors that they themselves cannot open quickly in an emergency? Space Pirates are generally portrayed as dumber than a space sack of space bricks, ''especially'' the command wing (Ridley excluded). Someone high-up could've given the order to sack [=BSL=], the {{Red Shirt}}s grumbled and complained and saw just how risky attempting to loot an obviously compromised research station would be, but still went through with their orders as an alternative to [[http://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic1-101308.php being launched into the nearest sun.]] Common sense isn't the SP's stock and trade.
** Theory from a fanfiction I once read (which can be found in the fanfic rec's): BSL was built as a training ground for what would essentially be more Samuses. It would have everything Samus had faced so far, so the trainees would end up as strong as Samus. Then the X invaded, and they decided that using the X as an unstoppable bioweapon worked just as well.
** Alternate Alternate Theory: The researchers had some intact Space Pirates in storage to eventually study. BSL had retrieved Ridley's corpse, so grabbing some Pirates while they were at it isn't out of the question.
** My best guess is that the X on [=SR388=] somehow got ahold of Pirate DNA, or possibly the Feds had samples on the BSL. As for Ridley... we know that the one you fight is just a copy, but I've always believed that the frozen one wasn't the real one either. Maybe the Feds were studying a clone they had made? Then again, we know he's in Other M, which is between Super and Fusion, so we may get to see how they got Ridley into the BSL.
** Other M might have explained this one. It's revealed that the Galactic Federation had been experimenting on Zebesians, cybernetically enhancing them to be used as bioweapons. As one would expect, this went horribly wrong, mostly due to Ridley's unexpected appearance. So it might be that they were continuing said experiments on BSL... since Ridley wasn't going to be an issue, seeing as how he was dead and (just in case) frozen solid, they probably thought they would succeed this time around. Then the X Parasites came.
*** The Federation isn't exactly a shining pillar of ethics. They probably captured some more Space Pirates after the bottle ship went under and started experimenting on them and Ridley's corpse at BSL.
* What happened to the remaining eight SA-X that were onboard the station? They couldn't have all been on the super happy fun compartment, we only saw the one. Then there was the one that got blown up in the control room... So we're missing like, eight of the buggers, according to ADAM.
** Unless one of them smuggled inside Samus' ship(which didn't happen due to the ship being able to detect them), they were blown to smithereens. It's hard to survive a space station crash. Followed by it self-destructing. And taking the planet it crashed into with it.
*** Simple. They weren't there. Adam was lying about how many there were in order to scare you and get you off the station (after hearing this, you pretty much have free reign to explore the rest of the station, but you'll never see any more SA-X until the endgame. If there were really so many of them, it would be possible to run into them).
*** [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat How long have you]] [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife been on this website]]?
*** SequelHook?
*** No, they're definitely gone. One got nom'd by Metroids. One of them was absorbed by Samus, and the other eight were blown up with BSL, [=SR388=], and the rest of the X.
*** Or, they could just be stranded in space. The only way to destroy X that has been shown is absorbing it's energy. The Chozo created the Metroids specifically for that purpose. Samus having Metroid DNA is able to do it too. Why would an explosion kill all of the X at the end of the game, when they are not shown to be affected by explosions anywhere else?
*** Because Adam says an explosion the size of the BSL will kill X parasites caught in it and one big enough to take a planet will kill all of them in the area. Individual X are shown to be slightly affected by the power bomb. Not damaged but they are still moved about by the blast, maybe once the bangs get too big their defences just can't take it? Draining their energy just seems like a ''much'' preferred and safer method than planet sized explosions.
*** Maybe the X are vulnerable to radiation. A station that size probably ran on one or more nuclear reactors of some description. The ColonyDrop turned those reactors into makeshift nuclear weapons, potentially irradiating the entire surface of the planet and roasting the X (and everything else on SR-388) into radioactive glass (could that be what they meant by "destroyed" when talking about SR-388? Ecologically ruined as opposed to physically destroyed?).
* How ''exactly'' did the X infect Samus? The suit is airtight and protected by an energy shield. So far, Samus's suit seems to have a crippling weakness to plot.
** Where does that fit in ElementalRockPaperScissors?
*** Assume it beats PlotArmor and is weak to [[PlotHole Plot Holes.]]
** I don't think the suit ''is'' entirely airtight. It likely has some sort of pressure system, where it seals up automatically in the increased pressure of being underwater or the decreased pressure of vacuum, but if you'll recall, poison gas hurts Samus in the Prime series, so in regular environments with breathable atmosphere, there are apparently some openings, probably filtered, for breathing air. The X probably got in through there.
** It's said above that the suit is partly organic, the X might not have even needed to penetrate it. Alternately, they assumed microbial form and snuck in through the smallest cracks.
*** Except that it was acidic gas, and the suit has an energy field around it. So it somehow got past the shields, through the armour, into the organic parts, and then got to Samus herself?
*** The X are shown to go intangible, to the point where Samus can't absorb them if they're phased out. They probably phased past the shield when they attacked Samus.
*** Also, the energy shielding may only protect against energy weapons, while the armour is designed to handle everything else that gets thrown at her. Note that all of the ''Prime'' games feature all kinds of materials getting on Samus' armour, notably her helmet's faceplate (water, bug guts, trash-disposal... um, liquids), which indicates that the shielding isn't deflecting those materials away. Thus the X, being organic and not affected by the shielding, would only have had to get through the armour at some previously mentioned weak point.
*** This then raises the question of why physical attacks still drain energy from the shield. Samus takes nearly the same amount of damage from a high-powered beam as a punch from the Omega Pirate. The only way this is possible is if the shield blocks them, too. In addition, the shield has blocked such things as ghostly attacks and demonic possession, and that Omega punch should have tossed Samus across the room, but didn't. The materials themselves don't damage Samus, but merely obscure the visor and seem to cover the entire suit. Perhaps the shield essentially "hardens" when hit by a physical attack, and those substances can stick to it when this happens. Maybe the X simply wasn't registered as a threat, and the shield didn't react. They are microscopic, after all.
*** About that demonic possession: Samus's armour wasn't initially able to resist Ing possession on its own. Samus needed to acquire the Luminoth's Energy Transfer Module from the possessed creature sent to steal the last of Aether's energy to be able to resist. Strangely, I don't think it was ever explained just what in the module itself would prevent possession. During the short time before she gets it, I don't think the Ing had even bothered attempting to add her to their forces.
*** The Ing never bothered to possess her because the Ing couldn't take a physical form in Aether, and just attempted to possess what they knew. When that didn't work, and she made her way into their home, they tried to possess her, which didn't work either. Also, I always assumed that because, as far as the inventory descriptions say, it's essentially a giant ball of light, and the Ing hate the light...
*** If that were true, and I don't think the module protecting Samus was ever said to do that, the Ing would not have been able to steal it or possess the Alpha Splinter, since his Dark form had it. The more likely explanation is that either Samus or the suit is simply unable to be possessed due to Chozo foresight/wizarding or sheer willpower.
*** It was specifically stated in the log book entry for the transfer module that its core contains the Light of Aether which prevents Samus from being possessed.
*** I think the transfer module doesn't do anything to the Ing. If it did, they wouldn't be able to use it to steal Aether's energy. Since it's made of light, though, when Samus added it to her suit, it basically made it impossible for Ing to possess her. I imagine the light has a [[WeakenedByTheLight burning effect]]...
*** It is stated in-game that holding the transfer module immunises you to possession. The Ing can take it and use it just fine, such as the one leading the final attack on U-Mos that possessed an Alpha Splinter, they just can't possess whatever being is holding it. [[RecursiveReality Which means that particular Ing couldn't be possessed by its fellow Ing]], because I heard you like Ings but we can't put an Ing in your Ing.
*** So, no [[IncrediblyLamePun Ingception?]]
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*** Both the ending battle with the Omega Metroid and the remake of the second game show that the Metroids later forms retain their weakness to cold, so it would've been very useful.
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** Samus explicitly never encountered the X until the game's intro. Hence why she thought nothing of one infecting her at first. It's likely the Feds only realized the X's true nature after they started the surgery on Samus.
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** Samus explicitly never encountered the X until the game's intro. Hence why she thought nothing of one infecting her at first. It's likely the Feds only realized the X's true nature after they started the surgery on Samus.Samus.
** Okay but that still doesn’t answer another part of the question. “X” is a term penned by the Chozo. And yet, the Federation seems to know that they are called X somehow despite having not encountered them until this game.
** Okay but that still doesn’t answer another part of the question. “X” is a term penned by the Chozo. And yet, the Federation seems to know that they are called X somehow despite having not encountered them until this game.
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** The power suit being organic tech was foreshadowed previously. In VideoGame/MetroidPrime, for example, it becomes the Phazon Suit after being "corrupted by viral exposure". More subtly, the original Metroid instruction manual stated that the suit absorbs the power of Samus' enemies, presumably in the form of life energy and ammo you pick up from fallen enemies. Also, VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption implied that organic compmuters similar to the Mother Brain were common within the Federation.
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* How did the Galactic Federation know what the X were prior to Samus encountering them in the game, since the Chozo are absent? Did Samus know about them from her childhood?
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* How did the Galactic Federation know what the X were prior to Samus encountering them in the game, since the Chozo are absent? Did Samus know about them from her childhood?childhood?
** Samus explicitly never encountered the X until the game's intro. Hence why she thought nothing of one infecting her at first. It's likely the Feds only realized the X's true nature after they started the surgery on Samus.
** Samus explicitly never encountered the X until the game's intro. Hence why she thought nothing of one infecting her at first. It's likely the Feds only realized the X's true nature after they started the surgery on Samus.
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*** This is a case of LostInTranslation. In the original Japanese version, Adam explicitly says that BSL's self-destruct device is powerful enough to destroy an entire planet. Still doesn't explain why such a powerful device is needed to destroy a relatively small station, but there you go.
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*** This is a case of LostInTranslation. In the original Japanese version, Adam explicitly says that BSL's self-destruct device is powerful enough to destroy an entire planet.planet during the emergency in PYR. Still doesn't explain why such a powerful device is needed to destroy a relatively small station, but there you go.
