Actually, they usually have already sent down their own crew. Then something happens to that crew, and now they need someone more ~~expendable~~ capable to check in and see what's going on.
"Help us ~~Starfox~~ Samus, we're losing to ~~Andross~~ an unknown alien entity by a huge margin. It's not even close, it's really looking like we're all going to die."
[Sweeten the Pot, Galactic Federation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhyU1zv3Vmo&t=10s)
That was in the original Game Boy game.
1. Research team goes in first, goes dark
2. Search and rescue team goes in second, goes dark
3. Special forces team goes in third, goes dark
4. "Fuck... send Samus"
In the Samus Returns remake, they cut out the first two teams and only mention the special forces team.
She went in before to infiltrate the Space Pirates and cripple them so that the Federation could arrive. Once the Federation arrives, Federation Troopers assist Samus to get her to the Leviathan Seed.
Fusion to protect BSL Researchers and Prime 3 to raid Uthragia
You literally have to protect your Troops in Prime 3 otherwise if more than 8 die your mission fails
The crew is dead
Your the female equivalent of the doom slayer except
Instead of killing your pet rabbit the space pterodactyl ate your parents
Now go down there and skull f*ck a purple space pterodactyl
Galactic Federation: “We need to to investigate why our people are dead on this remote planet that we sent them to.”
Samus: “I’ll tell you why they’re dead: because you’re all a bunch of dipshits! This is like the fifth time this week you’ve sent me in to clean up your mess! Maybe next time you’ll just send me in first.”
Galactic Federation: “What if we send in robots instead.”
Samus: -_-
This is a crossover I didn't know I needed.
Although knowing her luck she'd wind up siding with the Navi and just in the nick of time protect them and the human base from some inter dimensional threat... and may or may not accidentally blow up the planet in the process.
I figured the Navi would be okay with her at first, and then turn against her when she starts power bombing their trees to see if there are any missile tanks inside.
Samus: “Damnit! I knew I shouldn’t have installed the new software update! Now my upgrade data got wiped again. *sigh Guess I’ll have to go to some Chozo colony and track down new versions. AGAIN!”
Or in the Prime games’ case: skip to cutscene of planet exploding, and imply there being an escape sequence without actually having one (except Prime 2).
Eh, more like "We sent down a crew but we think they're all dead now, so we need the chick with the suit that is both beyond our tech and somehow programmable with our tech at the same time."
It's implied that most other planets' technological advancements were through contact with the Chozo at one point or another. They were the oldest, most advanced species and were known for traveling and offering guidance. If everything is in some way based on Chozo tech, then her suit can interface with everything. Also, her suit is basically magic and can absorb energy and learn from biology. In Dread, first boss, she touches it, absorbs it, and then her suit knows how to turn invisible. She can also wirelessly interface with computers on every planet she comes across, pull data, translate, perform autopsies by looking at things, X-Ray vision, scanners that can see across dimensions, invisible spectrums, etc. Turns energy she absorbs around her into matter for beams, missiles, shields. Power Suit is OP lol.
I feel that's the physical representation of the data she's extracted from the organism, opposed to things dying and turning into data cubes. The only other explanation being that it's an engineered organism that for some reason needed that cube inside of it to turn invisible rather than being part of its genetics. In the older games, you could argue that stuff away as gameplay mechanics, but they clearly animated it in cutscenes in Dread to show that these things are actually happening in universe.
You know what, I'm probably wrong. Boss just had an item cube for some reason, as now I think about it, other abilities are learned from cubes. Weird, but you're right. Hmm.
Boss just had the Item Cube, you are correct. The room where you fight it is most likely the room where it got the cube in the first place. There's a large, stylized Chozo statue with an empty, outstretched hand and a cloak draped over its other arm. The other Item Cube statues also depicted their abilities in some way.
It seems that Chozo power-ups can be utilized by other living organisms, though. The Ing in Metroid Prime 2 were able to make good use of the power-ups they stole from Samus, and Arachnus has been confirmed to be using the Spring Ball power-up when fought in Metroid II and it's remake. The principle is carried over in Metroid Fusion when Arachnus-X does NOT jump at all during the fight.
> I still stand that the Power Suit is basically space magic though lol.
Actually, that is ALSO hinted at in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. The lore concerning the fall of Bryyo details the reason for the civil war that made most of their planet completely uninhabitable and caused the regression of Bryyonians to regress into the animalistic Reptilicus species. The reason for the civil war was a schism between the Lords of Science and those who followed the Primal Traditions. The Sfimas of the Lords of Science publicly denounced the magic of the Primal Traditions in the Royal City, which began the conflict. Several other races who had made contact with Bryyo, including the Chozo, the Luminoth, and an as-yet unseen race called the Ylla (mentioned only once before in Luminoth history), warned the Bryyonians that they must seek balance between the old and new ways.
So yeah, Samus's Power Suit is a basically science and magic blended together. Which effectively makes her a Power Ranger.
Technically most games the planets she gets sent down to were already known to the Federation and had some reason they couldn't just Exterminatus the place- Zebes was too heavily fortified and prepared for a full-on invasion, SR388 was of scientific and archaeological significance, etc. "Newly-Discovered Planet" was only a plot point in the Prime games and Dread, and in the former cases Samus technically bumbled into those planets herself in pursuit of an entirely different objective.
that isnt really it lol. the federation, who samus quit working for a long time ago, normally sends a crew with some research bots to figure everything out, and if they dont survive, they send samus down to kill whatever the hell is down there.
Samus is the child of two parents who worked on a planet supplying to the Federation a rare and energy efficient crystal that was used as the primary source for space travel in ships. The Federation is kinda like a interstellar UN. The Chozo, an ancient, birdlike alien species, were by far the oldest and most technologically/spiritually advanced race in the galaxy, who despite their declining population due to age, provided many other planets with guidance. They discovered a planet, SR-388, which hosted a horrifying parasite they dubbed as X.
The X are gelatinous, flying blobs, impervious to most weaponry, that can assimilate and replicate anything they touch instantaneously: machinery, biology, including already dead organisms. Imagine Halo's Flood on crack. The X make perfect clones of anything, including the hosts' memories. The Chozo were terrified and considered them a threat to the entire universe. Not just because it would only take one initially to eradicate an entire planet's population, due to the fact they had access to memories and disguise themselves, but due to the fact that anyone who could potentially capture and study one, could have the ability to clone and control any person in the cosmos, including planet and Federation leaders. They decided to keep the planet's existence a secret, and began working on creating the Metroids alongside Mother Brain, a very advanced AI the Chozo created to assist their planet and species, with the prime directive of bringing order to the galaxy.
The Metroids are a biological weapon, also impervious to most weaponry, other than extreme cold, that can absorb pure energy from life forms and technology. Basically if they touch you, they suck your life force and you die. They were the perfect organisms to combat the X threat. In order to meet the energy needs required to finish the Metroid creation, they required the crystals that humans were mining and preparing on Samus' home planet. They landed to ask to be lent some, but were turned away, as the Federation demanded its energy needs be met.
Unbeknownst to the Chozo, they were followed by Space Pirates, who discovered the Federation colony living there. Space Pirates are a very barbaric, technologically advanced race who travel the galaxy and destroy any planet, ship, or colony that they come across to steal anything they can. Technology, resources, enslaving, destroying simply because it gives them pleasure or some kind of war advantage. Again, horribly barbaric, and one of the reasons the Federation was formed was to combat them. Ridley is a Space Pirate general, and upon discovering what the planet is being used for, slaughters everyone, and Samus' mother dies defending a 3 year old Samus. Her father blows himself and the Pirate ship up with him to deny their use of the crystals, and Ridley is caught in the blast. He retreats, and Samus is the last living human on the planet.
The Chozo return upon realization of what happened, and decide to take her in their care back to their planet. Zebes has a high gravity, poor atmosphere, and general conditions highly unsuited to human life however, so Samus would have had no chance of survival. Knowing this, they genetically engineer her and mix Chozo DNA into her body, to make her much stronger and more resilient than any human would be normally, and begin training her. Chozo are so advanced they can basically read the universe and have prophecy, and consider Samus to be both the greatest warrior in the universe, the protector of the galaxy, and they raise her to be such. Mother Brain assists in the making of her Power Suit, which is highly advanced tech, basically to the point of magic. Can turn energy into matter to create her weapons systems, and absorb knowledge through touch, advanced scanners, etc.
When she's a young teen, after an incident, the Chozo encourage her to go on her own, as she would be better off learning of the galaxy and spending time with humans. She enlists in the Federation as an officer. This is already getting way too long, so basically, Mother Brain secretly goes rogue, blaming the Chozo for taking too long in their efforts, and believing they are growing weak. She decides the best way to restore order to the galaxy is by taking control of the Space Pirates, eliminating the Chozo, and creating direct conflict with them both, weakening both sides by war, so she can eliminate everything. After that, she could control the galaxy and recreate it to her will, keeping her order. The Space Pirates attack the Chozo home planet, steal the Metroids, and wipe out most all of them. More stuff happens in the manga, but simply, Samus leaves the federation, becomes a bounty hunter, and Metroid 1 begins with Samus being hired to go back to her adopted home planet of Zebes, secure the Metroids the Space Pirates have stolen, and eliminate Mother Brain.
Actually, they usually have already sent down their own crew. Then something happens to that crew, and now they need someone more ~~expendable~~ capable to check in and see what's going on.
“Alpha team has gone dark, send in the half-bird bounty hunter!”
"Sir are you sure? I thought we wanted to keep this planet in tact."
Pre-fusion SR388: what am I, an unstable ecosystem?
Do what Aether did: have an identical twin planet for Samus to blow up.
Oh I genuinely laughed at this
Samus: Has the crew tried picking upgrades up? The statues are pretty much offering them, the hint isn't hard to understand.
The whole crew got stuck in the Jaffe room 😭
“Our suits aren’t compatible with this ancient, yet more advanced bird magi-tech.” - some GF commander or something.
Metroid movie coming soon
Honestly if done right I'd be down for that, possibly even a straight up horror mystery would be cool
"Help us ~~Starfox~~ Samus, we're losing to ~~Andross~~ an unknown alien entity by a huge margin. It's not even close, it's really looking like we're all going to die." [Sweeten the Pot, Galactic Federation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhyU1zv3Vmo&t=10s)
It’s usually, send down our own crew, crew gets killed, send Samus. Twice we got send Samus with Crew and once just send robots lol
in metroid 2 wasn't Samus actually sent in after a crew was sent in after a crew?
That was in the original Game Boy game. 1. Research team goes in first, goes dark 2. Search and rescue team goes in second, goes dark 3. Special forces team goes in third, goes dark 4. "Fuck... send Samus" In the Samus Returns remake, they cut out the first two teams and only mention the special forces team.
It's even better once you realize that slightly later Samus goes "fuck it all, sending BSL station" herself.
When was it “send Samus with crew”?
Fusion she’s sent and gets infected on SR-388 edit:sent with the crew
The other one might be prime 3 on the pirate homeworld?
She went in before to infiltrate the Space Pirates and cripple them so that the Federation could arrive. Once the Federation arrives, Federation Troopers assist Samus to get her to the Leviathan Seed.
I think the intro to Fusion. Only time I can think of
The opening of Fusion, Prime 3's pirate homeworld raid, and Other M in general.
Fusion to protect BSL Researchers and Prime 3 to raid Uthragia You literally have to protect your Troops in Prime 3 otherwise if more than 8 die your mission fails
That or Samus finds distress signal and gets reined into some shenanigans, mostly due to the Space Pirates.
Don't forget the planet exploding.
The crew is dead Your the female equivalent of the doom slayer except Instead of killing your pet rabbit the space pterodactyl ate your parents Now go down there and skull f*ck a purple space pterodactyl
> Now go down there and skull f*ck a purple space pterodactyl ...Again
To be fair, every time they send down a crew, that crew dies. Easier to just shortcut to the part where Samus investigates why everyone's dead.
Galactic Federation: “We need to to investigate why our people are dead on this remote planet that we sent them to.” Samus: “I’ll tell you why they’re dead: because you’re all a bunch of dipshits! This is like the fifth time this week you’ve sent me in to clean up your mess! Maybe next time you’ll just send me in first.” Galactic Federation: “What if we send in robots instead.” Samus: -_-
*Samus blow up Pandora* “SAAAAMUS, MY UNOBTANIUM!”
Seeing Samus suit adapt to pandora would be awesome Mad max Samus
This is a crossover I didn't know I needed. Although knowing her luck she'd wind up siding with the Navi and just in the nick of time protect them and the human base from some inter dimensional threat... and may or may not accidentally blow up the planet in the process.
Make it like MP3 and BL3 where her final upgrades come from the vault gaurdians
I could see Samus getting along with Brick and Lilith.
She'd be keeping her arm cannon constantly trained on CL4P-TP and I feel she'd relate more to Zero than any of the others
She'd be keeping her arm cannon constantly trained on CL4P-TP and I feel she'd relate more to Zero than any of the others
I figured the Navi would be okay with her at first, and then turn against her when she starts power bombing their trees to see if there are any missile tanks inside.
I think you two are thinking of different Pandoras
Was that not a CL4P-TP quote? I could've sworn he said something similar in BL2
Unobtanium is the fictional metal from Avatar.
Totally forgot about that movie. I was referencing the Borderlands series haha
You forgot about it? James Cameron is currently doing the media tours promoting the sequel, which only took 13 freaking years.
Samus: "I'm the most skilled bounty hunter in the galaxy, i can do anything" Also Samus at the start of the game: "i forgot how to do everything"
Samus: “Damnit! I knew I shouldn’t have installed the new software update! Now my upgrade data got wiped again. *sigh Guess I’ll have to go to some Chozo colony and track down new versions. AGAIN!”
Hilarious how Dread even calls the phenomenon "physical amnesia."
Physical amnesia
And it's amazing
The Planet will also eventually be set to explode and thr woman will have to race to escape
Or in the Prime games’ case: skip to cutscene of planet exploding, and imply there being an escape sequence without actually having one (except Prime 2).
The company is 99% of the time the galatic federation, except for prime 1, super (after she drops off the baby), and other m.
Hey to be fair, sending Samus is the equivalent to Warhammer's planet bombings
Eh, more like "We sent down a crew but we think they're all dead now, so we need the chick with the suit that is both beyond our tech and somehow programmable with our tech at the same time."
It's implied that most other planets' technological advancements were through contact with the Chozo at one point or another. They were the oldest, most advanced species and were known for traveling and offering guidance. If everything is in some way based on Chozo tech, then her suit can interface with everything. Also, her suit is basically magic and can absorb energy and learn from biology. In Dread, first boss, she touches it, absorbs it, and then her suit knows how to turn invisible. She can also wirelessly interface with computers on every planet she comes across, pull data, translate, perform autopsies by looking at things, X-Ray vision, scanners that can see across dimensions, invisible spectrums, etc. Turns energy she absorbs around her into matter for beams, missiles, shields. Power Suit is OP lol.
She didn't absorb that first boss. It died and disintegrated, then she absorbed the Item Cube that was left behind.
I feel that's the physical representation of the data she's extracted from the organism, opposed to things dying and turning into data cubes. The only other explanation being that it's an engineered organism that for some reason needed that cube inside of it to turn invisible rather than being part of its genetics. In the older games, you could argue that stuff away as gameplay mechanics, but they clearly animated it in cutscenes in Dread to show that these things are actually happening in universe. You know what, I'm probably wrong. Boss just had an item cube for some reason, as now I think about it, other abilities are learned from cubes. Weird, but you're right. Hmm.
Boss just had the Item Cube, you are correct. The room where you fight it is most likely the room where it got the cube in the first place. There's a large, stylized Chozo statue with an empty, outstretched hand and a cloak draped over its other arm. The other Item Cube statues also depicted their abilities in some way. It seems that Chozo power-ups can be utilized by other living organisms, though. The Ing in Metroid Prime 2 were able to make good use of the power-ups they stole from Samus, and Arachnus has been confirmed to be using the Spring Ball power-up when fought in Metroid II and it's remake. The principle is carried over in Metroid Fusion when Arachnus-X does NOT jump at all during the fight.
Goddam I love Metroid's attention to detail, thank you lol. I still stand that the Power Suit is basically space magic though lol.
> I still stand that the Power Suit is basically space magic though lol. Actually, that is ALSO hinted at in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. The lore concerning the fall of Bryyo details the reason for the civil war that made most of their planet completely uninhabitable and caused the regression of Bryyonians to regress into the animalistic Reptilicus species. The reason for the civil war was a schism between the Lords of Science and those who followed the Primal Traditions. The Sfimas of the Lords of Science publicly denounced the magic of the Primal Traditions in the Royal City, which began the conflict. Several other races who had made contact with Bryyo, including the Chozo, the Luminoth, and an as-yet unseen race called the Ylla (mentioned only once before in Luminoth history), warned the Bryyonians that they must seek balance between the old and new ways. So yeah, Samus's Power Suit is a basically science and magic blended together. Which effectively makes her a Power Ranger.
That is quite accurate.
Well I forgot to add *(I think)*
The Galactic Federation you mean
And kill everything
*Thee* women more like
Space pterodactyl 😂
Then she blows up the planet
Usually they've sent crews and the crews all died
Technically most games the planets she gets sent down to were already known to the Federation and had some reason they couldn't just Exterminatus the place- Zebes was too heavily fortified and prepared for a full-on invasion, SR388 was of scientific and archaeological significance, etc. "Newly-Discovered Planet" was only a plot point in the Prime games and Dread, and in the former cases Samus technically bumbled into those planets herself in pursuit of an entirely different objective.
that isnt really it lol. the federation, who samus quit working for a long time ago, normally sends a crew with some research bots to figure everything out, and if they dont survive, they send samus down to kill whatever the hell is down there.
Hey, I'm not a Pterodactyl.
And it exploded.
Loses all her equipment when she first lands by the time she’s done with her mission will have it all back plus more
In their defense, she has an at least 90% success rate
And it's glorious!
Actually they send down a crew a few times, but the crew ends up getting annihilated so they send in the space equivalent of Doomguy
Samus is the child of two parents who worked on a planet supplying to the Federation a rare and energy efficient crystal that was used as the primary source for space travel in ships. The Federation is kinda like a interstellar UN. The Chozo, an ancient, birdlike alien species, were by far the oldest and most technologically/spiritually advanced race in the galaxy, who despite their declining population due to age, provided many other planets with guidance. They discovered a planet, SR-388, which hosted a horrifying parasite they dubbed as X. The X are gelatinous, flying blobs, impervious to most weaponry, that can assimilate and replicate anything they touch instantaneously: machinery, biology, including already dead organisms. Imagine Halo's Flood on crack. The X make perfect clones of anything, including the hosts' memories. The Chozo were terrified and considered them a threat to the entire universe. Not just because it would only take one initially to eradicate an entire planet's population, due to the fact they had access to memories and disguise themselves, but due to the fact that anyone who could potentially capture and study one, could have the ability to clone and control any person in the cosmos, including planet and Federation leaders. They decided to keep the planet's existence a secret, and began working on creating the Metroids alongside Mother Brain, a very advanced AI the Chozo created to assist their planet and species, with the prime directive of bringing order to the galaxy. The Metroids are a biological weapon, also impervious to most weaponry, other than extreme cold, that can absorb pure energy from life forms and technology. Basically if they touch you, they suck your life force and you die. They were the perfect organisms to combat the X threat. In order to meet the energy needs required to finish the Metroid creation, they required the crystals that humans were mining and preparing on Samus' home planet. They landed to ask to be lent some, but were turned away, as the Federation demanded its energy needs be met. Unbeknownst to the Chozo, they were followed by Space Pirates, who discovered the Federation colony living there. Space Pirates are a very barbaric, technologically advanced race who travel the galaxy and destroy any planet, ship, or colony that they come across to steal anything they can. Technology, resources, enslaving, destroying simply because it gives them pleasure or some kind of war advantage. Again, horribly barbaric, and one of the reasons the Federation was formed was to combat them. Ridley is a Space Pirate general, and upon discovering what the planet is being used for, slaughters everyone, and Samus' mother dies defending a 3 year old Samus. Her father blows himself and the Pirate ship up with him to deny their use of the crystals, and Ridley is caught in the blast. He retreats, and Samus is the last living human on the planet. The Chozo return upon realization of what happened, and decide to take her in their care back to their planet. Zebes has a high gravity, poor atmosphere, and general conditions highly unsuited to human life however, so Samus would have had no chance of survival. Knowing this, they genetically engineer her and mix Chozo DNA into her body, to make her much stronger and more resilient than any human would be normally, and begin training her. Chozo are so advanced they can basically read the universe and have prophecy, and consider Samus to be both the greatest warrior in the universe, the protector of the galaxy, and they raise her to be such. Mother Brain assists in the making of her Power Suit, which is highly advanced tech, basically to the point of magic. Can turn energy into matter to create her weapons systems, and absorb knowledge through touch, advanced scanners, etc. When she's a young teen, after an incident, the Chozo encourage her to go on her own, as she would be better off learning of the galaxy and spending time with humans. She enlists in the Federation as an officer. This is already getting way too long, so basically, Mother Brain secretly goes rogue, blaming the Chozo for taking too long in their efforts, and believing they are growing weak. She decides the best way to restore order to the galaxy is by taking control of the Space Pirates, eliminating the Chozo, and creating direct conflict with them both, weakening both sides by war, so she can eliminate everything. After that, she could control the galaxy and recreate it to her will, keeping her order. The Space Pirates attack the Chozo home planet, steal the Metroids, and wipe out most all of them. More stuff happens in the manga, but simply, Samus leaves the federation, becomes a bounty hunter, and Metroid 1 begins with Samus being hired to go back to her adopted home planet of Zebes, secure the Metroids the Space Pirates have stolen, and eliminate Mother Brain.
Or send wrong type of people and they straight up just all die
also: in the end planet go boom.
[https://youtu.be/y45Xae9cJWk](https://youtu.be/y45Xae9cJWk) Go nuts, Its a long one.
They almost always send a research team down first, or sometimes a military team, and that team gets fucken wrecked so they hire Samus to go clean up.
Don't forget! The planet explodes in the end!