Samus__Aran

/Samus Aran/
Orphaned during a Pirate raid on her home of K-2L, Samus was adopted by the mysterious Chozo, and taken to Zebes, where she was infused with their DNA and raised to become a warrior. Once she reached adulthood, Samus joined the Federation Police, where she served under the Commanding Officer Adam Malkovich, but she ultimately left to become a bounty hunter. As a bounty hunter, armed in her cybernetic Power Suit, Samus has become famous for her accomplishments on missions thought otherwise impossible. Her most renowned achievements are the destruction of the Space Pirate base at Zebes, her role in ending the Galactic Phazon crisis, her extermination of the Metroid species, and her disobedience of orders at BSL where she chose to destroy the deadly X Parasite rather than turn it over to the Galactic Federation.
Samus Aran was originally a native of the Earth colony K-2L. She was living with her parents, Rodney Aran and Virginia Aran, when, at the age of three, the colony was visited by the Chozo. The Chozo had come in hopes of gaining some of the Afloraltite the colony mined there, but the colony was unwilling to give them any. Samus, however, caught the attention of Old Bird, one of the Chozo elders. The two of them went for a walk, where they began to strike up a friendship. Samus began to call him “Grandpa” and Old Bird introduced her to her new pet, Pyonchi.

However, a Space Pirate raid, led by Ridley, commenced on the colony. Samus herself had an encounter with Ridley, where she asked if they could become friends. Ridley was humiliated in front of his troops as a result, and attempted to kill Samus, before her mother pushed her out of the way. Virginia was subsequently killed by Ridley, while her father sacrificed himself to explode Ridley’s flagship. Little did Ridley know that, in killing Samus’s mother, as well as attempting to kill her too, he had succeeded in creating his enemy. Samus was the sole survivor of the attack. Eventually, the same group of Chozo found her alone and stranded on the destroyed colony. Old Bird decided to take Samus. They brought her to their planet, Zebes, and raised her with Chozo influence. She was infused with Chozo blood [3], and later given the powerful bio-mechanical Power Suit, built entirely out of Chozo technology.

Samus trained under the Chozo for many years. By the age of 14, she was already well past the physical limits of ordinary humans. The Chozo were unsure at first of her ability to become a true warrior, until they witnessed her compassion to a flock of Iona Faria that had gone insane as a result of exposure to the Bajar Grove. Old Bird told her that she had his confidence and she immediately left the planet for the Federation.
Samus joined the Federation Police, where she excelled far above any at the academy. Only one being in a million was cut out to be a member of the police force, and she rose above them all. She received cybernetic enhancements, enhancing her already high combat capabilities to nigh-superhuman levels. Eventually, she was promoted to the Star-Trackers, which only one out of a million police officers is qualified for.
After becoming the most famed and capable of all Bounty Hunters, succeeding in missions everyone considered impossible, Samus was summoned by the Galactic Federation. A Federation Planet Reclamation Devision had been sent to capture Metroid specimens for study, but the Space Pirates had swept in, killed all the crew, and stolen the Metroid. The capture of this creature was a disastrous blow to the Federation. The Metroid could leech life from victims, was impervious to most weaponry, and could be cheaply cloned by exposure to beta rays for 24 standard hours. The Pirates had already tested their potential in a three-way simultaneous act on several Federation worlds, which were a stunning success for the Pirates’, with no casualties to their side at all. This was a grave threat to the fate of the Federation. With hundreds of Metroids under their power, the Space Pirates would inevitably begin a campaign to conquer the rest of the universe. Galactic Civilization would end.
After a long and harrowing search, the Federation Police tracked the Pirates to Zebes. They launched an invasion but Pirate resistance was strong. After much debate, the Federation decided to turn to Samus to infiltrate the base at Zebes. She was given two objectives.

’’’Destroy all Metroid organisms.’’’ and
’’’Defeat the Mechanical Life-Form Mother Brain.’’’

Samus Aran during her mission at Zebes.Samus arrived on the Zebes and discovered that, to access Tourian, where the Pirate base was located, she had to kill the two Pirate leaders situated in the planet: her old foe, Ridley, and his partner Kraid. After discovering various Chozo artifacts located in multiple locations on the planet that served as upgrades for her suit, Samus was finally able to access the lower depths of Brinstar, where she discovered Kraid waiting for her. A fierce battle ensued, with Samus ultimately coming out the winner. Samus then headed down deeper into the volcanic regions of Zebes where she had several surprising encounters with Imagos, gigantic flies that formed from enormous grub-like larvae. By the time Samus arrived at Ridley’s lair, Ridley had just arrived moments earlier after being sent to inspect the planet. Samus fought him with a murderous lust, finally being able to avenge her parents’ death. Ridley was left nearly burned alive, but ultimately he did not die.
After defeating the two, Samus was granted access to Tourian, where she discovered that Space Pirates had underestimated the Metroids’ intelligence. A massive breakout had occurred, and all Pirate personnel present at the time of the breakout were dead. Mother Brain herself, meanwhile, was protected by her Chozo built facility and so was completely unharmed. Metroid cloning had proceeded as though nothing happened as a result and so the Metroid population had risen to an astonishing level. Samus proceeded to kill all the Metroids she encountered but found that the Metroid were in impervious to most weaponry. Only by exploiting their weakness to cold with the Ice Beam could Samus hope to overcome them. Samus arrived at Mother Brain’s chamber and proceeded to destroy her. The two entered an arduous duel but Mother Brain ultimately was defeated. Unfortunately for Samus, Mother Brain proceeded set off a countdown for the self-destruct of the entire Pirate base. Samus barely managed to make it out to her gunship in time.

Ambush
Samus faces off against the Hieroglyphic.Unfortunately, escape was not easy as Samus thought it would be. As soon she left the atmosphere, Space Pirate Fighters ambushed her, and Samus was shot down. Her ship crashed landed back on Zebes. Samus survived but the explosion had destroyed her Power Suit. The only weapon left available to her was a mostly-useless stun pistol. Her only option left was to sneak inside the Space Pirate Mother Ship, which had landed in the valley nearby, in hopes of hijacking a ship and escaping. The next morning, Samus climbed in through the ductwork and began infiltrating the ship. Unfortunately, her plans were quickly botched when she was spotted by several Pirates, who quickly set off the alarm throughout the entire ship for her capture. Though she managed to outwit them many times, Samus was ultimately forced to retreat to the nearby ruins of Chozodia.
In the ruins, however, Samus discovered a sacred Ruins Test which she had visited once as a young child. Upon their reunion, the statue summoned her to an immense battle, where Samus had to face a mirror image of herself, along with powerful lighting hurled by the statue. Ultimately, Samus succeeded in passing the test, and the statue rewarded with the Gravity Suit. Now more powerful than before, Samus stormed the Pirate Mothership, leaving many dead Pirates in her wake.

Eventually, Samus made it all the way to the bridge, where she discovered Mecha Ridley, a gigantic robot built in Ridley’s likeness. The robot engaged in a fierce battle, but Samus was easily able to destroy it. As it shut down, it unexpectedly began setting off an alarm for the self-destruct of the entire Pirate Mothership! Samus raced through the corridors of the Mothership, battling numerous Pirates along the way, until she managed to hijack a Space Pirate fighter. Samus quickly flew out of the ship and left Zebes, while the Pirate Mothership exploded behind her. Samus had fulfilled her Zero Mission.
Samus’s next mission led her to the next planet on the Zebesian system: Tallon IV. She intercepted a distress signal sent from the Space Pirate frigate Orpheon and immediately flew in to investigate. Once inside, she discovered a horrendous sight. Dead pirates were everywhere, and vermin ran amok in the ship. It did not take Samus a long time to discover the source. A Parasite Queen the Pirates had been performing experiments on had broken out and stationed itself in the Frigate’s Nuclear reactor core. Samus killed the creature, but the dying beast slipped inside the reactor, causing a malfunction that threatened to destroy the entire vessel. Samus ran for her life through the ventilation tunnels, but to her great surprise, she found herself reunited with Ridley, who had been given many cybernetic implants and been transformed into Meta-Ridley. Samus chased him through the ship, but along the way, an explosion occurred which rammed her badly into the wall, causing her Power Suit to malfunction. Of all its previous functions and upgrades, only the Arm Cannon remained functional. Samus quickly left the dying Orpheon and chased Meta-Ridley in her gunship, but he proved faster than expected and soon disappeared from her radar. Samus was forced to track him on foot, and so, even in her weakened state, she chose to land on the planet below: Tallon IV.

Samus faces off against Thardus.After passing through the jungles on the Tallon Overworld, Samus discovered an elevator, which led to deserted Chozo Ruins. There she discovered that, 50 years earlier, a colony of Chozo had come to the planet to regain their spirituality. Unfortunately, a mysterious meteor struck the planet, bringing with it a Great Poison and The Worm. The Great Poison quickly began spreading through the area, killing all life in its path, and corrupting any beings which it did not kill. The Chozo, now immortalized as ghosts, managed to seal off the Impact Crater within a seal called The Cipher, locking up the Metroid Prime with it. Most of Chozo there had gone insane and turned into menacing spirits and all the survivors fled to an unknown location. The Space Pirates fleeing the destruction of the base at Zebes had then landed on the planet and began mining the Phazon there after discovering it could be used a steroid for military use.
Samus journeyed through Tallon IV, regaining her lost weaponry and collecting sacred Chozo Artifacts, for the Chozo had prophesied that she was the one destined to destroy the Worm and the Phazon there. She also swept through the Phazon Mines the Pirates had set up, destroying the Phazon-infused experiments she found there, eventually coming across the most horrifying on of them all: the Omega Pirate. After a challenging battle, Samus managed to defeat the beast, but in its death throes, it fell on Samus and melted into pure Phazon. The viral radiation dramatically mutated her Power Suit, turning it into the Phazon Suit, which allowed her to safely come in contact and harness the power of Phazon.
Samus returned to the Artifact Temple, having collected all the Chozo artifacts and suit upgrades, and activated the Cipher so that she could enter inside the Impact Crater. Just before the statue seal deactivated, Meta-Ridley flew in and destroyed the statue. He then attempted to kill Samus, but Samus managed to burn off his wings then overload his life-support. Just as Meta-Ridley was brought at death’s door again, the Chozo statues there fired powerful lasers at his chest, causing him to topple off the mountain. The Chozo Ghosts within the statues then undid the seal themselves, allowing Samus inside the Impact Crater. Inside, Samus discovered the sleeping Metroid Prime, the source of all the Phazon. Samus managed to destroy its armor, forcing the creature to reveal its true form, then overloaded it by harnessing pure Phazon through her Phazon Suit. The Metroid Prime began to die, but in a last-ditch attempt to save itself, it shot out a tentacle and absorbed Samus’s Phazon Suit, then began to explode. Samus ran for her life as the entire Impact Crater burst into flames. Tallon IV had been cleansed but the Worm was not yet dead.

Samus and the other Hunters.Some time after, a mysterious telepathic message was sent out from the Tetra Galaxy saying, "The secret to ultimate power resides in the Alimbic Cluster." Samus was sent by the Federation in order to determine the truth about this message. Unfortunately, the message had also been sent to other recipients and soon many others hunters began heading to the Alimbic Cluster, each with their own reasons for the ultimate power. To gain the ultimate power, one had to find the 8 Octoliths which would power the Alimbic Cannon, allowing access to the Oubliette. The Octoliths were all under guard by robotic beings: the Cretaphids and the Slenches.
Between skirmishes with these beings and the other hunters, Samus discovered that the Alimbics, the former inhabitants of the Alimbic Cluster, had vanished when a monstrous being named Gorea had arrived in the form of a comet and began wreaking havoc upon their civilization. The Alimbics were forced to sacrifice themselves to seal away Gorea within the Seal Sphere, which was kept in the Oubliette. They also left a cryptic prophecy on how to possibly defeat Gorea.


Gorea.After collecting all 8 of the Octoliths, and using them to activate the Alimbic Cannon, Samus and the other hunters raced to the now accessible Oubliette. The other hunters got there first, and inside they discovered an immobilizing structure. They began firing at it, mistakenly believing it to be holding the ultimate power inside. To their great surprise, Gorea instead emerged from the broken structure. Samus arrived just in time to see Gorea shoot out massive tentacles and drain the other hunters of their powers. The defeated hunters vanished, and Samus alone remained to fight Gorea. She first activated the panels around the arena in accordance with the Alimbic prophecy, then began battling Gorea by exploiting its link to the Gorea Seal Sphere. Gorea then revealed its final form and continued the assault. Fortunately, Samus gained access to the Omega Cannon, which allowed her to defeat Gorea's second form. Gorea and the Oubliette exploded, while Samus and what is believed to be the other hunters escaped with their lives. Once she was back in the safety of space, Samus received a vision where three Alimbic spirits appeared to thank her.
Samus was given yet another assignment from the Galactic Federation, which was to track down a missing brigade of Federation Marines, GFMC Task Force Herakles. Samus headed to the planet Aether, located in the Dasha region of space, where the troopers’ distress signal was coming from. Samus flew to Aether in her gunship, but her ship was caught in the dimensional storms raging on the planet and was badly damaged. Very luckily, her ship landed not very far away from the troopers’ makeshift base. Immediately upon entering it, she could see that all the troopers had died in some sort of attack. Before she could discover the source, many of the dead troopers rose and began firing at her.

Samus fled the base, with the undead troopers in pursuit, but once she was safely outside, she discovered something very strange. A mysterious black and blue being that wore a suit similar to hers was entering a mysterious Portal to an unknown location. Samus followed the being into the Portal, only to find herself in a nightmarish replica of the room she had been in before. The being was absorbing a massive lode of Phazon before it. It began firing at her, but ultimately left her to be attacked at the hands of the savage creatures surrounding them both. Samus readied herself to fight, but before she could put up a fight she was exposed to the poisonous atmosphere of the region and began drowning as the creatures attacked her.

Samus managed to make it back to the portal, though now many of her suit upgrades had been stolen by the creatures that attacked her. She made her way through the catacombs of Aether until she discovered the source of the distress signal: the Federation troopers' damaged ship, the GFS Tyr. Accessing the ship’s log, she discovered that the Task Force had been stranded on Aether when they were pursuing a shot down Space Pirate frigate found in the area, only for the ship to be damaged by a dimensional lighting storm. Eventually, they were all killed after repeated assaults by Dark Splinters, though one of the troopers managed to send the distress signal. Scans of the individual troopers’ logs eventually showed that they were likely all dead.


The Temple Grounds.Samus’s ship was still damaged and so she went on a search to identify the cause of the attack, as well as to recover her stolen weaponry. She began finding signs of an intelligent civilization living on Aether and so she chose to investigate. Her search eventually led to the Great Temple where there were dozens of beings in cryogenic sleep inside of tanks. Before she could investigate further, she was immediately attacked by an Alpha Splinter, which was almost immediately transformed into Dark Alpha Splinter. Samus managed to kill it, but a strange glowing object emerged from the dead insect and entered her suit.

Samus continued up the building where she was encountered U-Mos, the Sentinel of the Luminoth. U-Mos informed her that his species, the Luminoth, had migrated to this planet, having been drawn to its unique energy, and had lived in peace until a Leviathan much like the one that impacted Tallon IV impacted the planet, straining the planet’s fragile dimensionality and thus creating two different dimensions of the same planet, the original Aether and a twisted, corrupted version: Dark Aether. A malevolent race called the Ing had come with the Leviathan, and was responsible for the death and possession of the troopers. The Luminoth had been involved in a long war with the Ing for the Light of Aether and were at the verge of defeat when Samus had arrived. Samus had gained the Energy Transfer Module that had stolen by the Ing years earlier. Now that she had it, she could transfer the Light of Aether from Dark Aether to light Aether, for without it the planet would collapse. Samus thus agreed to seek out the Energy Controllers to restore the Light of Aether to the Luminoth.


Samus battles Quadraxis, the penultimate Energy Guardian.Samus’ mission took her all through Aether and Dark Aether, where she faced many Ing attempting to kill her for assisting the Luminoth, as well as several skirmishes with Dark Samus herself. She also reclaimed her stolen weaponry from the various Ing Guardians who had made use of it, as well as Luminoth upgrades such as the Dark Suit. Once she had restored the three energy controllers to transfer the Light of Aether, U-Mos thanked her with the Light Suit, a suit that contained the Light of Aether within itself. Then, he told her of her the most dangerous mission: to obtain the final Energy Controller, hidden within the Sky Temple. To enter the Sky Temple, though, she had to find nine Sky Temple keys.


Samus faces the Emperor.Within the Sky Temple, Samus faced the Emperor Ing, a mighty behemoth that ruled the Ing Horde. Although she was almost defeated, Samus prevailed, killed the Emperor, and obtained the final energy controller. Without the energy, Dark Aether started to fall apart, and with only eight minutes to escape, Samus raced down to the Sky Temple gateway, where Dark Samus confronted her once more. The two dueled it out to the death, but Samus took advantage of her foe's sole weakness - an overload of Phazon. Using this Dark Samus was ultimately defeated. In her weakened state, she attempted to steal Samus’s Light Suit, but instead vanished into thin air. Samus then returned back to Aether, while Dark Aether was destroyed. The Luminoth, who had just returned from their cryogenic sleep, rejoiced and thanked Samus for freeing them from the Ing. Samus then gave them back the equipment she borrowed from them and returned to her gunship, where she flew off into the vast darkness of space.
Six months later, Samus was summoned to the battleship G.F.S. Olympus, in orbit with the rest of the Federation fleet above the planet Norion, receive her instructions for her next assignment. She, along with her fellow bounty hunters Rundas, Gandrayda, and Ghor were ordered to deliver a vaccine to the Federation’s Aurora Units, which were suffering from a Space Pirate-engineered virus. Just as their mission briefing ended, a surprise Pirate attack occurred, and all the bounty hunters, including Samus, headed down to their ships, fighting any Pirates they encountered in the corridors, to assist with the battle at Norion’s main base, Sector Zero. Once she had landed there, she was informed the Space Pirates had disabled the generators to Norion’s planetary cannon and thus she and the other hunters had the responsibility of restoring them while the Federation Marines held off the invading Pirate forces.

Samus and the other hunters raced through the base, turning on each generator they found to restore power to the cannon. The situation became direr than expected when the Federation fleet discovered exactly why the Pirates where attacking: a massive Leviathan was headed to Norion and the invasion was intended to stall until it could arrive and crash into the planet. Samus headed to the final generator, only to find her old nemesis Meta-Ridley waiting for her. In the ensuing melee, Meta-Ridley accidentally broke through the floor and the two of them hurtled down the 1600 meter shaft, dueling all the way. Just as Samus finished off Meta-Ridley, Rundas came down to rescue her and the two flew out of the tunnel together. Samus restored the final generator and she and the other hunters went straight to the control tower to activate the cannon. As soon they made it to the top, Dark Samus, who was responsible for the invasion, blasted them all with a massive Phazon laser to ensure that the Leviathan would not be destroyed. Luckily, Samus, though heavily wounded, managed to fire the cannon just before she fainted, destroying the incoming Seed.

One month later, Samus awoke to find that she and her fellow hunters’ bodies were self-producing Phazon with no negative side-effects to their health. The Federation medics working on her had thus equipped her with the Phazon Enhancement Device. Through this suit, she could take advantage of her own Phazon to enter Hypermode, a function trigged by the PED that would allow her to energize her suit and weapon systems with Phazon, giving her access to devastating powers. Samus was then informed by the Aurora Unit 242 that her fellow hunters had awoken two weeks before she had. They to had been given PEDs and dispatched to the planets Bryyo, Elysia, and the Pirate Homeworld, where Leviathans had also landed on. Unfortunately, the Federation had lost contact with all of them one week later. Samus was then ordered complete the missing hunters’ mission to destroy each Leviathan, as well as finding out exactly what caused the Federation to lose contact with them.


Samus encounters Rundas on Bryyo.Samus traveled to the planets Bryyo, Elysia, and the Pirate Homeworld to find upgrades to further enhance her abilities to destroy the seeds. However, she learned that the Phazon corruption, initially thought to be benign, could cause her body to overload with Phazon energy which she must expel to prevent total corruption. (If Samus stays in hypermode past an allotted time, she enters corrupted hypermode in which the Phazon meter rises up. If the meter maxes out, Samus will be utterly corrupted, transforming into another Dark Samus, which leads to an automatic "Game Over.") She learned that each of her fellow hunters fell to the Phazon corruption and to protect herself she battled each hunter in turn, killing them. As each hunter fell, Dark Samus showed up to drain the Phazon energy and their abilities from their bodies, with Samus powerless to stop her. With the help of her Phazon, Samus was able to successfully destroy the seeds at both Bryyo and Elysia. She also disabled the Pirate Homeworld’s planetary shield, allowing the Federation’s fleet to launch a full scale assault on the planet. Samus herself personally led a team of Demolition Troopers to destroy the security door to the Pirates’ cargo line leading to the Seed. All the Leviathans are destroyed but Samus had been corrupted to the point that she was now literally glowing with Phazon.


Samus ponders at Elysia.The Aurora Unit 217 then discovers the location of planet Phaaze, the source of all Phazon and Dark Samus's place of origin. Traveling with the Federation via a wormhole created by the Leviathan Battleship, Samus arrived and descended to the planet. As soon she arrived, Samus began absorbing dangerous amounts of Phazon energy, nearly corrupting her completely, but managed to prevent this by venting all her available energy tanks and locking herself in permanent Hypermode. After venturing to the planet's inner Sanctum, she encounters Dark Samus, who fuses with the stolen Aurora Unit 313 that is linked with Phaaze's core. Samus was able to defeat Dark Samus, which destroyed the Phazon in her own body and caused the planet to self-destruct. The Federation fleet escaped via another wormhole, but lost contact with Samus in the process. Eventually, though, her ship appears, and she reports that her mission is complete, then flies off into space.

After leaving the celebrating Federation fleet, Samus returned to Elysia, where she mourned the loss of her fellow bounty hunters on this mission. Eventually, she leaves Elysia and heads off on her next mission, but fails to notice a mysterious gunship following her.
Typically, Samus is depicted as a Byronic hero, who despite her great achievements, is deep down very lonely and brooding, and seeks revenge against the Space Pirates, especially Ridley, who is personally responsible for the death for her parents.

Samus Aran's first suitless appearance in the original MetroidSamus Aran is a Human. She is 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 198 pounds. Her hair color is blond, her eye color is blue and she appears to be Caucasian. Samus wears her hair in a ponytail, except for two locks on either side of her head, a hairstyle that is distinctive to her. Currently, it appears as though her infusion with neither Chozo nor Metroid DNA appears to have affected her appearance in any manner, except for perhaps her unusually tall height.
Samus Aran’s infusion with Chozo DNA, as well as her warrior training since her childhood, has turned Samus in a superior athlete. Her training began at the age of 3 and continued up until she was 14 years old. As a result of the Chozo’s influence, Samus is capable of running and jumping heights far past normal human ability, as well as surviving falls that would otherwise kill an ordinary human. Samus is also more adaptive to foreign alien environments that humans cannot survive in. For example, she was able to breathe normally without her Power Suit on Elysia, despite the atmosphere being toxic to humans. While Samus does not exhibit any powers that humans do not naturally have, all of the normal human limits have been exceeded to the max.

Samus also demonstrates good sharpshooting skills. She is an excellent marksman, with incredible aim, and is tremendously deadly in combat. She exhibits prodigious puzzle-solving and hacking skills. She also possess a limber figure that allows her to crawl through tunnels and gaps that would normally require usage of the Morph Ball. All of these are, of course, augmented further by her Power Suit.
Samus’s most notable piece of equipment is, of course, her Power Suit, which has become virtually synonymous with her own identity. This suit was given to her when she first began living with the Chozo, and was built to be fused with her mind, body, and soul. The original Power Suit was destroyed when Samus crash-landed on Zebes after an ambush by Space Pirates, but her duel with the Chozo Hieroglyphic gave her a new, upgraded suit, which is able to absorb dozens of upgrades of alien origin. The Power Suit's main purpose is to protect her from adverse environments and enemy fire. The suit itself can be upgraded to such dozens of other forms, each with its own different advantages. While some suits are stronger than others and have different abilities, all they all maintain the same basic shape and usage.

Beneath the Power Suit, Samus wears a skin-tight body suit known as the Zero Suit. Because of its negligible weight, this suit allows Samus to perform at top physical performance level, and gives some, albeit weak, protection from enemy fire. She also owns a pistol known as the Paralyzer, which auto-charges to fire stunning shots, though unfortunately, it has no lethal capacity.