Samus Aran

Samus Aran was born on the planet K2-L. She was the daughter of Virginia Aran and an unnamed father. Her family ran the local mining operation of Afloradite. When she as three years old, a Chozo (a bird like race of creatures with incredible intelligence) came to the mine to ask for Afloradite. Samus met the old bird, and the two became close friends, despite Samus being only three years old. She affectionately came to name him "Bird Granpa". Unfortunately, the Chozo were turned down because of regulations, and left the planet. A day later, a fleet of Space Pirates-a sinister criminal organization in the galaxy-caught a scan of the leaving Chozo ship, and discovered the Afloradite mine. Afloradite was a unstable mineral, but was an incredible source of fuel and explosives. Immediately the planet was raided, and in the process, Samus's mother was killed. Unwilling to die by the Pirate's hands and sacrifice the Afloradite, Samus's father intentionally detonated the whole payload, which killed many of the Space Pirates, save for their leader, the dragon-like Ridley.

Ridley, the Space Pirate commander

A few hours later, the same Chozo detected the explosion and came to investigate, finding the young Samus as the only survivor.

The Hatchling

After the raid of K2-L, the Chozo returned Samus to their own planet, Zebes. It was uninhabitable by humans, and Samus could only survive a few days in her current condition. Bird Granpa, becoming emotionally attached to Samus, did the only thing he could. She was put into an incubator and infused with the blood of the Chozo, giving her abilities far above any human, and enabling her to survive on the harsh conditions of Zebes. For eleven years she lived with the Chozo uneventfully, training to be a soldier. As a gift to her, the Chozo gave Samus her most efficient weapon: the Power Suit.

The Power Suit

It was a suit of incredibly efficient armor that increased her power and granted her extraordinary abilities. She trained long and hard with the Power Suit, trying to become proficient with it, with slow gradual success. After a particularly frusterating day of training, Samus stumbled upon a group of flowers. Thinking them as beautiful things, she gathered them and began showing them to the Chozo. It was immediately realized by Bird Grandpa that they were the poison species of flower that grew on the planet called "The Bajar Glove". They were incinerated by Chozo defense robots, but the poison had spread to some local species of giant butterfly. The insects grew hostile, and began to attack anything in sight.  Fearing that the Chozo's A.I. advisor, Mother Brain, would order the butterflies exterminated, she fended them off in her first showing of skill with the Power Suit. After calming from the effects of the toxin in the flower, Mother Brain still ordered the butterflies to be incinerated, to Samus's horror. After her showing of skill with the situation, it was then that Bird Granpa knew that Samus had the skills to leave Zebes. He sent her off-to her dismay- stating that she was ready to protect the universe. She travelled the universe, taking on small jobs, but also applied to the Galactic Federation, and received extra years of combat training from them (The Galactic Federation is the government of the Metroid Universe). She worked under a C.O. named Adam Malkovitch for a time, until a event caused her to leave the job and become a permenant bounty hunter.

After her leave of Zebes, something disastrous occured. The Space Pirates assaulted the planet full-scale, and exterminated the peaceful Chozo. Samus would not be aware of this event for some time, however, as she did not contact her adopted family.

Zero Mission

Years passed with Samus doing simple tasks for various customers. However, she was contacted by the Galactic Federation once again. It seemed the Space Pirates were back, and had begun a vicious campaign of destruction across the universe. Their main weapon was the Metroid, a creature capable of draining the life-force from living creatures. With thousands in their possession, the Space Pirates posed a serious threat to the galaxy, and could annihilate entire planets. Immediately accepting the job, Samus headed back to her home planet and the new base of the Space Pirates: Planet Zebes. After destroying the Chozo, the Space Pirates made one of their main bases in a section of Zebes called Tourian. Once landing, Samus searches the planet, discovers the base, and hunts down the Space Pirate forces. She kills one of the generals of the criminals, the massive Kraid, and eventually finds Ridley, extracting vengeance upon him also. Gradually working her way down into Tourian, she rampages through the base, destroying Metroids and Space Pirate forces, until finding the true mastermind behind the organization-Mother Brain, the former Chozo A.I. Essentially helpless to attacks, Samus easily destroys the being. However, upon her destruction, Mother Brain activates the self-destruct mechanism of the base, leaving Samus moments to escape. As Samus was flying off-world in her ship, however, she took anti-air fire from the Space Pirate mothership, and crashes. She survived, but her suit was damaged beyond repair. Samus left the armor behind and then left to infiltrate the mothership in her Zero-Suit.

The girl behind the armor, Zero Suit Samus

Sneaking through the mothership and past its forces, she found a old Chozo temple. Inside, she was attacked by a glowing orb of energy, but destroyed it. The burst of energy that followed reconstructed the Power Suit. It was a fail safe devised by the Chozo should Samus ever need a replacement. Going on a rampage through the mothership, Samus damaged much of it and destroyed a large amount of Pirate forces. However, one more foe blocked her path-a robotic version of Ridley, much more powerful than the actual creature. After a battle, Samus destroyed the robot, but once again, a self-destruct device was activated and she was only given moments to escape. After hijacking a Pirate fightership, she finally managed to escape the planet, and the "Zero Mission" was complete.

Metroid Prime

Cruising the galaxy, Samus picked up a signal and discovered a seemingly abandoned Pirate frigate called the Orpheon. Upon further investigation, she discovered that the frigate had been badly damaged from the inside. By scanning the Pirate data left in the consoles, she found out that the Pirates have been experimenting on creatures with a dangerous chemical called Phazon. By giving the captured life-forms on board freakish strength and abilities, they had rampaged through the frigate and killed almost all Pirates on board. Delving deeper into the facility, Samus was then attacked by a large creature, a mutated Parastie Queen. After mortally wounding the creature, it falls into the frigates power reactor, causing it to spin wildly off axis and begin exploding. During her escape, she discovered that the Pirate had been rebuilding Ridley with cybernetics. The monster awoke, and flew out of the frigate. Samus also escaped, but her suit was badly damaged during the frigates explosion, and she lost some of it's abilties. Following Ridley onto the nearby planet of Tallon IV, she discovered that the Pirates has been rebuilding their forces in a new base. She also found out that Tallon had once been inhabited by the Chozo-but they had been wiped out by a Phazon meteor which corrupted much of the planet. She took cleaning this up as her responsibility, and so, headed out to destroy the Pirates once more. She explored the planet long, and exterminated many hostile creatures that had been infected with Phazon. She regained her lost abilties, and also earned the Gravity Suit and the Phazon Suit (the latter after a particularly hazardous battle with a giant Space Pirate). After obtaining Space Pirate data, she read that a Metroid had been mutated into something extremely powerful and threatening-the Metroid Prime. It's home lay in the Impact Crater of the Phazon Meteorite. Deciding that she had to exterminate the creature, she collected 12 Chozo artifacts that would open a secret doorway to the Crater. Upon collection and gathering of the twelve in the designated area, she was attacked by Ridley. Burning off his wings, she wounded him badly, but the final blow was struck by the 12 Chozo statues, which used a defense system to knock Ridley off of a cliff. The passageway was open, and Samus entered the Impact Crater, a hellish place poison, fire, and danger. She made her way to the centre, and confronted the Metroid Prime. After a initial battle, she knocked the beast down a tunnel, and into the core of the planet. She followed it, and found that the creature had abandoned it's outer casing, reavling it's true form. Unable to do normal damage to the Metroid, she used her Phazon Suit to channel the pools of Phazon into her arm-cannon, and finally defeated the monster. As it's sole inhabitant lay dieing, the Impact Crater began to collapse. She began to leave the crater, but the Metroid grabbed a hold of her, and stol the Phazon essence out of her suit-effectively taking away the Phazon Suit. Nevertheless, Samus escaped the deadly environment, and flew off planet.

The Ultimate Parasite - Metroid Prime

Aether

Weeks later, Samus received a distress call from Planet Aether. Flying through the planets unstable atmosphere, a lightning bolt hit her ship, forcing her to land for repairs. It was here where she learns the origin of the distress call-a Galactic Federation transport ship. It crashed in the same manner as her's had. Unlike her, all of the crew was dead, killed by some unknown source. She checked the ships log files, and watched a video-tape of the crew's last moments. Hundreds of creatures had attacked the crew, and killed them all. She investigated, and discovers that the planet is really two planets. Another Phazon meteor collided with Aether, and the disturbance split the planet into two planets inhabiting the same space, but in different dimensions-one being natural, and the other being composed of darkness. She then found the one true indigenous species of Aether: The Luminoth. Only one remained awake, the rest being in cryo-stasis. U-Mos was the sentinel of the Luminoth, the only remaining awake. For long, the Luminoth had waged a war with the inhabitants of the dark side of Aether, a race of vicious creatures called the Ing. The beasts could possess other creatures, and use them for their own bidding. Samus first realizes this when she entered Dark Aether, for the Ing possess the bodies of Space Pirates. However, as she explored the dimension, she was ambushed by a doppelganger of herself, which destroys the only thing protecting Samus from the Ing and the hazardous environment-a bubble of light created by a crystal. A horde of Ing attacked her, and through the combined damage she lost most of her abilities. She barely escaped Dark Aether, but returned later, as the way to destroy Darrk Aether and return the planet to it's original state was to steal the gathered energy from the planet and return to it the light side. Once it was all gathered, Dark Aether would collapse on itself. She then journeyed throughout Dark Aether, collected all of the energy, and returned it to Aether. However, she would have to travel to one more place-the Hive of the Ing. She entered it, defeated the Emperor Ing, and was escaping the crumbling dimension as Dark Samus returned for a final attack. With seconds left, the two foes engaged in a duel. Before it ended, Samus would realize that her clone was really the Metroid Prime reborn from teh fragments of her Phazon Suit. After defeating Dark Samus, she escaped as the dimension collapsed, and was greeted by the grateful Luminoth. Waving off their thanks, she flew off the planet, and left Aether forever.

Metroid Prime Hunters

A group of special units within the Galactic Federation who had long range telepathy received a telepathic message stating that the key to the ultimate weapon in the universe was located in the Alimbic circle of planets. However, several other organizations also became aware of this, and hired mercenaries to find it for them. The Galactic Federation, seeing the competition, turned to Samus for assistance, deploying her to find this weapon. When Samus arrived at this complex system, she found that this civilization was destroyed, and Samus started to investigate 2 planets that were orbiting the Sun of Alimbic.

The society of Alimbic was very spiritual, but one day a meteor fell into the planet, and inside there was a terrible creature named Gorea by the inhabitants of the Alimbics. Gorea took the cellular structure of the Society, and mimicked the Alimbic weapons and then destroyed the society.

The last act of the civilization was to try and trap Gorea, so the danger would be put to rest. All the Alimbics fusioned themselves together into telepathic energy, and created Gorea a "Seal Sphere" and sent it into a dtarship named "Oubliette", which was flown into the center of the Infinity Void, a dimensional rift.. The Oublitte would launch out if the Infinity Void was closed down, only when eight artifacts called "Octoliths" were assembled. Samus traversed the planets, engaged in the other bounty hunters, and gathered the eight Octoliths to open the Infinity Void, with the other hunters in hot pursuit.. However, unaware of the history of the Void they were unprepared for Gorea, and thus were all defeated, and their power was drained.  Samus, alone, used a conjunction of her gathered weapons to turn the monster into it's true form, which prompted the recreation of the Omega Cannon, a ancient weapon once used by the Alimbics. Fighting Gorea with the cannon, Samus manages to free the other hunter's from the beast's grasp and eventually destroy it. It would appear that the original psychic signal sent out was from Gorea itself, manipulating the events so it would be freed from it's prison in the starship. As the hunters go their separate ways, three spirits of the Alimbics come and thanks Samus with a salute.

The other hunters involved in this event were....

• Sylux: Sylux is much like Samus (from methods to weapons), but has a deep hate for the Galactic Federation. Oddly, his suit, weapons, and ship were all stolen from the government. His Alt-form is the Lockjaw, a small craft that, like Samus, can drop bombs. However, if three bombs are arranged in a circle, it creates a field of high-voltage electricity. His special weapon is the Shock Coil, which is an electric weapon that drains the energy of his enemies, and transfers it to himself.

• Kanden: Kanden is a Federation bio-experiment gone insane. He investigates the Alimbrics to have the ultimate power and prove to the Federation that he is the ultimate life-form. Kanden can morph into the Stinglarva, a robotic worm that releases his tail to create explosions. Kanden prefers a rare electric weapon-the Volt Drive, which distorts his enemy's vision.

• Weavel: Weavel was a pirate general, whom Samus almost killed on Brinstar. He was repaired and upgraded by the other Pirates, and in doing so, gave him many robotic systems that he needed to live, which made his into a advanced cyborg. The only organics in Weavel's body is his brain and spinal cord. Weavel's Alt-form is the Half Turret. This Alt-form is very unique, as he splits into two separate parts. One is a turret that shoots his enemies-this half is his legs, transformed-and the other half has him moving quickly using his arms, and slashing his enemies with a energy sabre connected to one of them. This Alt-form makes him very vulnerable, as he is in two weaker sections. His special weapon is the Battle Hammer which is a fast shooting energy weapon, much like the Power Beam. It is very popular among Space Pirates.

• Noxus: A rare Vhozan that is a "law enforcer" hunter. He wanted the Alimbics power to keep in a safe place. His Alt-form is Vhoscythe, a top with a blade that extends to damage enemies. He prefers the Judicater weapon. This weapon is like the Ice Beam that Samus uses, but the Judicator fires missiles which bounce everywhere, and when fully charged the Judicator freezes anything it touches.

• Trace: Trace is from the Kriken empire, a race of malicious insect-like warriors. He is actually searching for planets that the Empire can invade, which would make him ruler of said planet. His Alt-Form is the Triskelion, a large insect that slashes with claws. If Trace stays still for long enough, he will turn invisible-a natural defense mechanism of the Krikens. Trace is-and his species-are hated throughout the universe for their twisted conquests.

Corruption

Approximately six months after the incident on Planet Aether, Samus ws contacted again by the Federation. She boarded the G.F.S. Olympus, and met Admiral Dane, the commander of the Federation fleet. Samus also met three other hunters, Hunter Ghor (who has the ability to control and join with machines), Hunter Rundas (who has the ability to generate and control ice), and Hunter Ghandrayda (who has the ability to shape-shift). Dane hired them all to solve a massive problem concerning the Federation. For twenty years, the G.F. had been using organic supercomputers known as "Aurora Units" to co-ordinate and serve the G.F. But, mysteriously, a virus spread among the AU's, which numbered in the thousands. The G.F. cut off the infected AU's from the rest, essentially crippling the entire Federation from maintaining important contact. In the process, a training ship, the G.F.S. Valhalla, was attacked and presumably destroyed. The Admirable hired the four Hunters to go to the infected AU's and purge them of the virus. Without the system online, the Federation was in serious danger of Pirate attacks. Samus and the other Hunter then meet the Olympus's AU, AU 242. As the briefing ends, a red alert signals throughout the fleet, warning the soldiers of a impending Pirate attack.. The planet the fleet had been orbiting was Norion, which was the main center for the Federation Navy. If it was destroyed, then the universe was helpless from attack. Sensing this, Dane orders the four hunters to touchdown on Norion and defend the planet from attack. Samus makes her way down the flagship, but is attacked several times by Pirate boarding parties. Eventually, she passes through the hazards and reaches the docking bay, when-out of nowhere-Samus is attacked by a Berserker Lord, a Pirate trooper mutated to giant size through Phazon. Samus defeated it, and knocked the Berserker Lord out of the docking bay and into space, where it collides with a Pirate fighter. Unhindered, Samus flew down to Norion. Upon her landing, she learns that a giant bioform, a "Leviathan Seed" has appeared approaching the planet on a direct collision course. If it were to collide, untold destruction would spread across the planet. Samus and the other hunters are tasked with with getting the three main generators online and reactivating the Orbital Defense Cannon. With assistance from Gandrayda, Samus activates one generator. While moving to activate the next, Samus is attacked by several Pirate carriers and troopers. As she begins to become outnumbered, undas appears and destroys several. The two went their separate ways to activate the last generators. Just as she is abot to get hers online, Ridley flies down and tackles her down into the gaping chasm underneath the generator. Samus and Ridley engage in a fierce battle while plummeting down the 2000 meter long pit. Getting the upper hand, Samus pries open Ridleys mouth and fires a blast into it, knocking the dragon out. Rundas-using one of his ice slides-goes down the pit and grabs Samus, taking her back up to the top, and leaves her to activate the generator. After the generator was online, the four hunters converge to the Control Tower to activate the Cannon. Arriving at the top, the group is surprised attacked by a revived Dark Samus. After a short skirmish, Dark Samus defeats the hunters with a large Phazon beam, and departs. Gandrayda, Ghor, and Rundas are all down, but a severely wounded Samus manages to activate the cannon before slipping into unconsciousness. The cannon successfully fires, and destroys the giant Leviathan Seed before it can collide with the planet.

Hypercharged - The PED Suit

Samus awakes a month later on the Olympus. It is revealed to her by a Federation scientist that her body has been self-generating Phazon-a side effect of the beam from Dark Samus. It is also revealed that the Federation outfitted Samus's armor with a PED, a Phazon Enhancement Device (which Samus had seen Federation Troopers using earlier on Norion, to outstanding effect), which allows Samus to temporarily enter "Hypermode", a powerful state where Samus is invincible and deals destructive Phazon weaponry. The other Hunters had awoken two weeks earlier, and were sent on their missions to destroy Levianthan Seeds that had collided with other planets. Contact with all the Hunters ceased seven days earlier. Samus is then sent to accomplish the tasks that the other Hunters seemingly failed. She first went to planet Bryyo, a primeval planet once inhabited by a genius race. However, all that remains of the society are ruins.  She discovers that the Leviathan Seed on the planet has a energy shield guarding it-she cannot destroy the Seed while the shield is online. Samus deactivates one of the shield generators, but while deactivating the other, she is attacked by Pirates. While fending them off, Rundas appears and quickly dispatches the remaining forces. He was not in his right mind, though, and attacks Samus, who defeats him. He is then killed by his own ice-powers going wild, as three icecicles impale him. Suddenly materialing, Dark Samus absorbed the defeated hunter, despite the best efforts of Samus. The apparition disappears, and Samus deactivates the shield generators. She also destroys the anti-air turrets guarding the other shield generators, and bombs them with her ship. With the Seed vulnerable, Samus enters it. Making her way deeper in, she finds the core of the Seed, and it's keeper, the giant golem Mogenar. Samus defeats it, and destroys the core by overloading it with Phazon, but in the process has even more phazon enter her body. She flies away from Bryyo as the Seed explodes.

The next planet that has a Seed on it is planet Eysia. Skytown, a giant, deserted research station in the sky, in the closest area to the Seed, and Samus touches down there. She soon finds another Aurora Unit in the installation. Samus purges the AU of the Phazon Virus, and reactivates it. It is still cut off from the main system, so Samus enters its processing area to connect it. She is suddenly attacked by Ghor-also seemingly mad-and in the ensuing short fight, the mechanics that allow the AU to connect to the system are damaged. Ghor retreats. The only thing that could repair the AU would be Ghor's Nova Cannon. Samus sets off the hunt him down, but does not need to search far as she receives a distress call from her ship. Returning, Samus finds Ghor, back into his mech. After a battle, Ghor is defeated.. Again, Dark Samus appears to absorb the Hunter, and Samus tries to-in vain-stop her. Samus retrieved Ghor's Nova Cannon, and returned to the AU. She then repairs it and connects it to the system. The AU adivises Samus on how to destroy the shield to the Seed, as the shield generator is inaccessable. Samus must assemble a Theronian Bomb, a weapon capable of destroying the Seed. Samus gathers the neccessary parts and assembles them. Transporting the bomb over the Seed, she is attacked by Pirates, whom she fends off. Dropping the bomb, Samus escapes as a massive explosion destroys the shield guarding the Leviathan seed. Samus, once again, enters the Seed, makes her way to the core and battles it's guardian, the robotic Helios. She defeats the guardian, destroys the core, and escapes, flying off of planet Elysia. Again, her body is more corrupted by the Phazon.

While floating above Elysia, Samus receives a transmission from Aurora Unit 242. The ruins of the traiing ship Valhalla had been found. She is also informed that the Federation is preparing for an attack on the Pirate Homeworld. Landing on the Homeworld, Samus is stopped from advancing by a perpetual fall of acid rain. However, she receives a transmission from a G.F. Trooper, captured during the attack on Norion. He had escaped confinement, and had vital information on how to bypass the acid rain. Meeting the trooper, Samus defends him from Pirates. However, the soldier was really Gandrayda, who had been planning a sneak attack.  The two have a battle, where Gandrayda mimics Berserker Lords, Ghor, Rundas, and Samus herself, but she is defeated and subsequently absorbed by Dark Samus. Samus then flies off world back to Elysia, and retrieves the Spider-Ball, which will allow her to enter the Hazard Shield building area. Retrieving the hazard shield back on the Homeworld, she traverses through the acid rain. Contacted again by Admiral Dane, Samus is instructed to deactivate the planet's orbital shield which will allow the Federation ships to attack. Successfully disabled, the Federation launches a full-assault on the planet. Samus protects G.F. Demolition Troopers, as they are the only ones with the neccessary explosives to bypass several Pirate areas. After a prolonged battle, the way to the Seed is blown clear. Entering the bioform, she meets the Homeworlds guardian, a new and Phazon enhanced Ridley. She destroys the dragon, in a apparent final duel. Overloading the core, she successfully destroys the Seed, and  is then even more corrupted, a full 75% of her body infected by the poisonous Phazon. The AU from Elysia then discovers-by figuring out the trajectory and speed of the Seeds-where the Leviathans came from. A planet, composed almost entirely of Phazon, had been spawning the Seeds. The Federation discovered that the only way for the Leviathans to move such a far distance away would be to open a wormhole, and it is deduced that the Leviathans have this ability. One is found orbiting the Pirate Homeworld, but the Federation have no way to control it and attack the Phazon planet, named Phaaze by AU 242. Samus investigates the Valhalla, and not only finds the command codes to control the Leviathan, but finds that the AU for the Valhalla had mysteriously disppeared. Nevertheless, Samus uses a warp on the Homeworld to board the Leviathan, and orders it open a wormhole to Phaaze. It does, and the entire Federation fleet goes through and launches a full-scale attack on the planet, where Dark Samus (who had been in control of the Pirates this entire time by Corrupting them. It was also discovered that she had Corrupted the other Hunters with the Phazon inside of them, taking control and attacking Samus with them) and the main Pirate Force are stationed. A massive battle occurs in orbit of Phaaze, and Samus slips by and lands on the planet. As soon as her feet touch the surface, she is overloaded by massive amounts of Phazon. The only way for her to survive was to vent all of her Energy Tanks, putting her in permanent Hypermode. As long as she did not have too much more Phazon enter her body, she would survive. She makes her way down the Sentient planet, and drops down several long tunnel/pits to reach the core, where she destroys a infant Leviathan while battling Phazon Metroids (also noted is, inside crevices in the walls are husks of many Metroid Primes). After the infant is destroyed, a final, massive tunnel appears in the ground, and Samus jumps down. Slamming into the bottom, Samus encounters Dark Samus, and the two opposite beings dual for one last time.

The mad doppelganger - Dark Samus

Samus repels the creature, but just then, the stolen Aurora Unit from the Valhalla emerges out of the core of the very planet, corrupted by Phazon. Dark Samus merges with it, and attacks Samus. Prying open it's weak spot, Samus blows apart the joints connecting the AU to the core. Then, after a final long and blistering battle, Samus destroys the AU. Dark Samus reemerges, and explodes is a final shower of Phazon by Samus, ending the menace of the Doppelganger once and for all. Samus appears to be finished, but the Phazon is purged from her body. The Pirate Fleet battling the Federation all self-destruct as the control established by Dark Samus fails. Opening a wormhole, the Fleet manages to escape just as the Planet explodes, with the last Leviathan Seed destroyed in the blast.

The Federation fleet suffered 37% casualties, but for the most part, survived. No contact between Samus and the rest of the Fleet had been established. It is assumed that Samus died in the explosion. But, finally, Samus flies by the G.F.S. Olympus, and sends one message to the Flagship.

Mission Complete.

With a thumbs up and a salute passing between Samus and Admiable Dane, Samus flies off. She lands on Elysia, and thinks back to the three Hunters that she served beside. Removing her suit, she enters her ship, and speeds o