14th April 2004, 12:33 PM
There is a theory that the Chozo created the Metroid to be as watchdogs to protect them and then lost control of them - Sending all of them to SR388 where they cant be a threat. They considered it a horrible mistake and tried to forget about it (this would have been millions of years ago)
But that theory was pretty much shot down in Metroid Fusion where we discovered that the Planetary Federation unearthed the X-Virus while trying to find Metroid DNA for cloning purposes. Samus travels back to SR388 after the Federation ordered her to do so. So it could be that the Federation uneathed OR helped in the creation of the X-Virus and used Samus to test it. But in the various high-security areas of the space station and from what the ship's computer said, it would seem that the X-Virus was created to help control Metroid population. So a planet could be infected with Metroids kill off the enemy, then introduced to the X-Virus to destroy the Metroids so that the planet can then be taken over. but the X-Virus is so powerful that it turnes out to be just as great or maybe a greater threat than Metroids themselves that are ultimately just animals.
I remember in the Pirate Data that the Pirates were so amazed by the properties of Phazon that it attacks everything down to the cells and even molecules to re-create whatever it touches AND whatever anything that the host would then touch. So by exosing phazon to the Metroids (which they had since before Zero Mission and were found on SR388) it gave the Metroid everything it needs to protect itself and be more aggresive (thick outer shell and legs to attack with) but then that Metroid was exposed to different weapon fire when they tried to control it. It absored the weapons and brought them in to its body. The phazon altered the Metroid's design again to expel those types as its own. Just as the first boss, the Parasite queen could expel a weapon grade energy blast as an attack. That energy blast was something it acquired from the frigate's engine core.
So Phazon (itself only a mineral) acts like a wild, random version of the X-Virus (a sentient life form that can mimic anything) which is more controled. I bet they're connected. But I dont see how or why the Chozo would create the Metroids to counter the X-Virus. The X would replace all lifeforms with X-infected sentient creatures that the Metroid's cant "eat" since there's no longer a life force. But you're forgetting the biggest part of the puzzle; When Samus was given the vaccine created from Metroid DNA it immeadiately destroyed the X-virus inside of her and then made her immune to its infectious spread. Samus could then absorb the X without any negative results. Keeping that in mind, a Metroid could abosrb the X without any negative results. The X would be helping the survival of the Metroids, but the Metroids would then obliterate any and all life on the planet leaving nothing for the X to infect. So I dont see the logic in your theory.
But that theory was pretty much shot down in Metroid Fusion where we discovered that the Planetary Federation unearthed the X-Virus while trying to find Metroid DNA for cloning purposes. Samus travels back to SR388 after the Federation ordered her to do so. So it could be that the Federation uneathed OR helped in the creation of the X-Virus and used Samus to test it. But in the various high-security areas of the space station and from what the ship's computer said, it would seem that the X-Virus was created to help control Metroid population. So a planet could be infected with Metroids kill off the enemy, then introduced to the X-Virus to destroy the Metroids so that the planet can then be taken over. but the X-Virus is so powerful that it turnes out to be just as great or maybe a greater threat than Metroids themselves that are ultimately just animals.
I remember in the Pirate Data that the Pirates were so amazed by the properties of Phazon that it attacks everything down to the cells and even molecules to re-create whatever it touches AND whatever anything that the host would then touch. So by exosing phazon to the Metroids (which they had since before Zero Mission and were found on SR388) it gave the Metroid everything it needs to protect itself and be more aggresive (thick outer shell and legs to attack with) but then that Metroid was exposed to different weapon fire when they tried to control it. It absored the weapons and brought them in to its body. The phazon altered the Metroid's design again to expel those types as its own. Just as the first boss, the Parasite queen could expel a weapon grade energy blast as an attack. That energy blast was something it acquired from the frigate's engine core.
So Phazon (itself only a mineral) acts like a wild, random version of the X-Virus (a sentient life form that can mimic anything) which is more controled. I bet they're connected. But I dont see how or why the Chozo would create the Metroids to counter the X-Virus. The X would replace all lifeforms with X-infected sentient creatures that the Metroid's cant "eat" since there's no longer a life force. But you're forgetting the biggest part of the puzzle; When Samus was given the vaccine created from Metroid DNA it immeadiately destroyed the X-virus inside of her and then made her immune to its infectious spread. Samus could then absorb the X without any negative results. Keeping that in mind, a Metroid could abosrb the X without any negative results. The X would be helping the survival of the Metroids, but the Metroids would then obliterate any and all life on the planet leaving nothing for the X to infect. So I dont see the logic in your theory.