#metroid lore

[orsan1070]

Orsan's Metroid timeline

Reposting this from my old account, with updates to reflect Metroid Prime 4: Beyond news.

I've aimed to make as few assumptions as possible. Everything here should be reflective of canon information in as much detail as we know. (Although, admittedly, perhaps too many significant figures on the gaps between ZM/Prime 1/Prime 2 and Prime 3/Fed Force.) (If you want to know what order I think events go in, just read top-to-bottom, ignoring the ambiguity lines)

If you have any questions, critiques, or just want to talk, I'm always open to asks or comments asking me about any of my posts! I'm trying to post more lore stuff these days to have publicly available sources for various compilations and deep dives I've done.

Some sources:

Cycle calculation. I used this in conjunction with the logs from Primes 1 and 2 talking about the fall of Zebes to calculate the time gaps between those two games and ZM.

Zebes being settled only after SR388 was massacred comes from this interview with Sakamoto.

Samus's age at various points comes from Other M concept art for both Samus as a child and in the army, in addition to the same interview linked above.

Thanks so much for reading!

[ym-loreposting]

Who are the Elysians?

Elysia is one of the multiple planets visited in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. It is a gas giant in whose atmosphere floats the mechanical city of SkyTown, which was created by the Chozo about 1500 years before the events of the Metroid series. 50 years later, the Chozo also created the first of the Elysians: sapient robots made to help with the upkeep of SkyTown. 400 years after that, these Chozo left Elysia to live on Tallon IV (the setting of the first Metroid Prime game). Elysia was left in the care of the Elysians.

During Metroid Prime 3, Samus visists Elysia and encounters many robots there as enemies, because they have been corrupted by Phazon. It is never specified which robots are Elysians however, and which are some of the robots created by the Elysians to maintain SkyTown as they entered a deep slumber.

"By the year 600, we of Elysia were low on critical supplies and fuel. We created smaller mechanoids to process fuel from the atmosphere of Elysia, but they proved unable to produce a sufficient supply. Unable to secure the necessary resources to sustain ourselves, we entered a state of hibernation to preserve our remaining stores of energy and parts." -SkyTown Data entry: "Slumber"

This is the case in the English version at least. In the Japanese version, the scans of the robot enemies fought on Elysia does specify what counts as an Elysian and what doesn't. In the English versions, all inhabitants of Elysia are called "Mechanoid" at the start of each scan. For example, with the Tinbot enemy:

"Tinbot Mechanoid: Tinbot" -Tinbot scan

However, the Japanese version has this equivalent:

"ティンボット エリシアン：ティンボット" "Tinbot Elysian: Tinbot" -Japanese Tinbot scan

Elysians and Drones

The enemies described as "エリシアン" (Elysian) in the scans of Metroid Prime 3 are Tinbots, Steambots, Steamlords and Helios (the boss fought inside Elysia's Leviathan), which are pictured below.

Most of the other robots found in SkyTown are Drones (ドローン) created by the Elysians. These include the Repair Drones and Aerial Repair Drones created for maintenance work, Transportation Drones to carry resources, Databots to store the history of Elysia, Elysian Shriekbats, Swarmbots, Steamspiders built to carry out tasks in groups in hard to reach places, and finally "Dragoon" Battle Drones built to defend the city.

[razables]

medieval au or something

[m1dori-eyes]

[sibillascribbles08]

Truly one detriment to story telling in a long winded video game franchise is wanting to bring in an iconic boss from the series yet again, but you have to explain why this thing is around after it has been literally exploded like five times before in the franchise

[loregoddess]

oh, I do love that the entirety of Nintedo's "I want to make up a language, an actual language a la Tolkien" people seem to exist in the Metroid department

[postal-ech]

FELLAS

Holy FUCK THERE'S BEEN A NEW DISCOVERY

So get a look at this God damn mother fucking date for Prime 4

20X9

Why is that date so significant, you may be asking?

WELL YOU WONDERFUL LITTLE BASTARDS, BECAUSE THIS SHIT TAKES PLACE 2 WHOLE YEARS AFTER SUPER METROID (20X7)

THIS IS WHY YOU SEE SYLUX WITH MOCHTROIDS AND NOT REGULAR METROIDS

You can see there that these floating borbs have one fleshy core and not three. Metroid larvae ALWAYS have 3 cores, while mochtroids - especially in Super - have only one

WHICH MEANS, AND THIS IS WHERE MY AUTISTIC ASS COMES IN TO PREDICT SHIT:

>Sylux came in around 20X7 to steal a metroid, at the end of Fed Force

>He gives it to the Space Pirates, which in turn attempt to replicate it to make more

>In that time, 2 and Super have occurred, and likewise the knowledge that mochtroids can be made through the Gamma replication method is learned

>A few years later THESE MOTHER FUCKERS SHOW UP WITH SYLUX IN TOW TO BEAT THE SHIT OUTTA THE FEDS AGAIN

Now granted this may not be true, and has some inconsistencies between when the games actually take place but HOLY FUCK IF WE GET TO SEE SOME ADVANCED MOCHTROID FUCKERY

I WILL GOD DAMN DIE OF EXCITEMENT

HOLY FUCK

[iridescent-glitter-dragon]

Worst part of Metroid Prime Remastered is that it completely cut out the Chozo Lore entry that ends by saying that anyone who disrespects their relics "will know our wrath, unfettered and raw."

[wacktroid]

first look at my young ridley design🤑 i call him birdley bc...he's a bird...get it...

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

I love that there's one half of people who think Ridley should be this terrifying dragon demon who antagonizes Samus and moves quicker than lightning and that Dark Samus should be this strange organic being with hardly more than a skull who will stop at nothing to have her dead and then there's the other half with Goth Girl and Pathetic Pterodactyl.

[mu-te33]

.Baby's Cry.

[slaket-and-sprash]

Anybody else confused by the lore of this series?

[limitiz-nk]

I suddenly realize one thing: metroid are the pariahs of Chozo.

Once they must be something resembling hope, since their given name is "Ultimate Warrior" in chozo language. They are created to eliminate the terrifying X Parasite, but they were just abandoned by chozo after evolution. Indeed, they did become violent and even attacked their creators, but I still see it was somehow chozo's fault -- didn't ever consider the circumstances.

In manga, Old Bird and other thoha chozos once viewed metroids are their valuable children like Samus, which turns out to be so ironic that they were now treated like the X parasites, waiting for the doom as well as SR388.

The other creation--Elysian are much luckier than the metroid:They are faithful and stable. They also carried the mission from Chozos, but they had independence as a new species after chozo's leaving. Metroids were just innocent, and somehow born as a mistake. Even in Elysian Chozo's prediction on Tallon Ⅳ, they were described as "Parasite".

Finally we come to Samus-- the one who is granted the name "Ultimate Warrior". Personally, I think Samus somehow replaces the metroid's role, which is a reason complicates relationship of them.

At last the pariahs were doomed by the Newborn, except one small hatchling.At least it is comforting metroid regained a chance to get back to the "chozo", and the real Ultimate Warrior will born from both of them.

[luna-the-bard]

Te'rra Intermission - Half-year point

Act II p.1 <- x -> Act II p.2

About half a year after Skeet’s rescue, they’re finally fully done with physical therapy and Samus charts a course for Te’rra.

She’d never admit it to anyone, but she actually had Skeets stay a month longer than the prescribed physical therapy course. Skeets was the last one of the group to return to Te’rra; although she was in frequent communication with her friends & family, giving them updates on her recovery, so no one thought she’s disappeared. 

She was also not yet ready to admit, even to herself, that she’s gotten used to having the little bird alien around; to another’s warmth in bed, or to spending time in conversation with each other, or learning new cooking recipes from her (Samus has never been a great cook, she was much more adept at grilling, and trying new and unfamiliar terran cuisine was exciting).

Naturally, when Skeets suggests Samus stay on Te’rra for a week or so to explore, Samus agrees with quite the enthusiasm.

She would’ve said yes to the offer either way, just for a chance to step foot on a planet no one has really been on in a millennia, but having to spend just a little bit more time with Skeets before she has to leave has an undeniable weight in that decision.

Skeets has no trouble whatsoever admitting to herself that she doesn’t want Samus to go.

The first night they’re apart, and Skeets is back at her parents’ house in her old childhood bedroom, she can’t sleep.

It’s late when she knocks on Samus’s door.

Skeets got too used to the comfort of sleeping with another living being in the months she spent on the ship.

And Samus is so uncomfortably cold without the warmth of Skeets’s body.

Of course she lets her in.

They sleep closer to each other than usual that night. 

Next morning, when Skeets has to sheepishly explain her disappearance to her moms, the two exchange a look the meaning of which will dawn on Skeets only months later.

She gives Samus an amazing tour of the city and the surrounding jungle.

She takes her to all her favorite places, even goes out of her way to bring her to a little secret spot in the jungle that has an abundance of honey-nectar flowers growing - Samus is as interested in tasting them as she is in meticulously studying the bugs that the nectar flowers catch.

The day before Samus has to depart, Skeets takes her down to a mechanic shop. Turns out terranians have a multitude of accessibility devices built for those who lacked wings for one reason or another. One of those devices is a small-engine glider, which Skeets has made arrangements to rent out for Samus. 

Samus got around the jungle in and out of the suit just fine, but this time Skeets wasn’t taking her to another flower-filled grove. She was taking her beyond the jungle’s borders, over the grassy plain and out onto the white-sanded coast.

The beach is about an hour’s flight away. They spend the whole day chasing jewel lizards and playing in the sand. They steer clear of the predators, instead scavenging for interesting finds in the tidepools. Samus digs a big ‘ol hole-in-the-sand and they fill it with warm water and dip their feet - Samus isn’t one to go out swimming in an unfamiliar ocean, and Skeets can’t really swim because of the feathers, but that doesn’t stop them from enjoying the beach to the fullest.

Skeets waits for the right moment.

It’s a special day; a day on which Te’rra’s half-a-year-long cycle finally switches over, night replacing day and day replacing night. They came back right in time for the last week before the sun’s warmth was to be replaced with darkness illuminated by the planet’s bioluminescence.

The perfect moment that Skeets was waiting for comes at sunset. 

Samus is presented with perhaps the most beautiful pearl she’s ever seen.

It’s huge. She doesn’t know how Skeets managed not only to find one this big, but to also extract it without Samus noticing (it wasn’t hard. Samus was fully invested into some hermit crab drama precisely one tidepool over). The pearl glimmers with pinks and blues and purples, looking almost translucent with how the setting sun’s rays envelop it. Samus finds herself studying the way its color shifts under her gaze as she rolls the pearl around in her palm; she almost overlooks the warmth and slight coarseness of Skeets’s hands supporting her own. But the sensation is just too hard to miss…

By the time they come back from the beach it’s completely dark out. The city is glowing with crystal lights, hanging from branches and swinging gently in the wind above doorways and windows.

Skeets asks to stay in the ship again; just like she did every night before.

And as they’re laying in bed next to each other, almost asleep, a special kind of coziness than can only come from being tired, Skeets gathers her courage and quietly asks something she wanted to ask all week:

“Can I keep traveling with you?” 

Samus opens her eyes.

“I really liked seeing what life the universe holds beyond Te’rra…” Skeets pauses to breathe. Being so close to Samus’s face - as close as most nights, but why does it feel so different now? - does not help. 

She speaks her mind anyway. 

“I liked exploring it with you.”

If Samus’s eyes weren’t open and meticulously studying her, Skeets would’ve thought she fell asleep; this is how long the silence between them lasts. Until, finally,

“Yes.”

Skeets has the widest smile on her face when she tackle-hugs Samus and whispers her excited thank you’s. Samus weathers the attack formidably, despite not really being used to hugs - especially from other people and not just her bird dads or at least Kreatz and Mauk. 

It’s okay, she’s gonna have to get used to physical affection anyway.

They stay for an extra half-a-day so Skeets can pack some essentials (not like half of her new wardrobe was already aboard the ship anyway…) and say goodbye to her friends and moms; after that, they’re simply off to find new space adventures again, sightseeing and picking different corners of the universe to visit.

[whistlefrost]

Playing metroid prime 2 rn and this shit is PEAK

[volt-reblogs-n-rambles]

Came to a realization when I jumped back into my Metroid Prime playthrough: wow remastered is REALLY pretty on switch. I think I'll be fine with Switch 1's Prime 4 lol.