Description
Childhood of Samus Aran
- In Cosmic Year 2000, various species in the Milky Way Galaxy established the Galactic Federation to protect the galaxy and maintain peace. On the Planetary Colony K-2L, Samus's father, Rodney Aran, was the chief of mining operations for the mineral Afloraltite. When Samus was three years old, Chozo arrived at K-2L seeking Afloraltite to create Metroids to combat the X parasites. Rodney refused their request. Samus met a Chozo named Old Bird, who she called Oji-Chan. Later, Space Pirates detected the energy spike from Afloraltite on K-2L and invaded the planet. During the invasion, Ridley killed Samus's mother, Virginia Aran, who sacrificed herself to save Samus. Rodney Aran detonated the cargo ship by shooting the Afloraltite with a welding laser, sacrificing himself as well. The explosion injured Ridley.
Metroid/Metroid: Zero Mission
- Samus receives a distress signal from the planet Zebes and is sent to investigate. She battles and defeats the Space Pirate leader, Ridley, and the mother computer, Mother Brain, destroying the Space Pirate base on Zebes. However, in the remake Metroid: Zero Mission, it is revealed that Samus conducted a mission in the Zero Suit after the defeat of Mother Brain.
Metroid Prime Series
- Metroid Prime: After the events of the first Metroid game, Samus investigates the frigate Orpheon and is stranded on Tallon IV. She uncovers the mysteries of Phazon and the Space Pirates' use of it to create bioweapons. At the end of the game, she defeats Metroid Prime, but some of Samus's DNA is infused with Phazon.
- Metroid Prime Hunters: Samus and other bounty hunters are summoned to the GFS - Olympus by Admiral Castor Dane to investigate a distress signal from the planet Alinos. They discover that the planet is inhabited by the Luminoth, who are being oppressed by the Ing. Samus and the other hunters work together to defeat the Ing and restore peace to Alinos.
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes: Samus travels to the planet Aether, which has been split into Light and Dark modes due to a meteor impact. She eradicates the Ing from the planet and faces Dark Samus, the result of her DNA mixing with Phazon from the first Metroid Prime game.
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption: Six months after the events of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Samus and three other bounty hunters are summoned to the GFS - Olympus by Admiral Castor Dane to investigate a distress signal from the planet Elysia. They discover that the Space Pirates are using Phazon to create bioweapons and that Dark Samus is leading them. Samus and the other hunters travel to several new planets, including Bryyo, Elysia, and the Pirate Homeworld, to stop the Space Pirates' plans. At the end of the game, Samus defeats Dark Samus and destroys Phaaze, the source of Phazon.
- Metroid Prime: Federation Force: After the eradication of Phazon, the Space Pirates were weakened but still a threat. The Galactic Federation initiated Operation Golem to create Mechs for technical superiority over the Pirates. The Mechs are controlled by an elite group of marines known as the Federation Force. With assistance from Samus, the Federation Force discovers a significant Space Pirate presence in the Bermuda System and aims to destroy it across its three planets. They also discover a massive Pirate ship, the Doomseye, and destroy it. If the player grabs the Metroid Egg, a post - credits scene shows Sylux breaking into the Federated Force research station and hatching the baby Metroid.
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond: The timeline placement of this game is still unknown.
Metroid II: Return of Samus / Metroid: Samus Returns
- The Galactic Federation, deeming Metroids too dangerous, employs Samus to travel to the Metroid homeworld, SR388, to exterminate the entire species. After killing every Metroid, including their Queen, Samus finds an unhatched Metroid Egg, and a baby hatches from it. Samus prepares to kill it like the rest, but finds herself unable to destroy it as it imprints on her as its mother. She follows it back to her Gunship, and in the remake Metroid: Samus Returns, Proteus Ridley tries to abduct the infant but fails. Samus later hands it over to the Space Science Academy for research.
Super Metroid
- Samus receives a distress signal from the academy where she took the hatchling Metroid at the end of the previous game. She returns just in time to see that Ridley followed her after she left SR388 and is stealing the hatchling. After the research station self - destructs, Samus follows him to the rebuilt base on Zebes, to stop the Space Pirates in their new plan to clone the Metroids and use them as bioweapons. She kills the resurgent Pirates, including Ridley, Kraid, and Mother Brain, destroying Zebes and killing the last remaining Metroids.
Metroid: Other M
- With the fall of the last Metroid and Mother Brain, Samus was rehabilitated. Scientists removed the baby's particles from her Power Suit and genetically recreated the Metroid species. Samus intercepts a distress signal from a seemingly abandoned Galactic Federation space station, the BOTTLE SHIP. She meets the 07th Platoon headed by Adam Malkovich, her former commanding officer. Together, they explore the station and battle various aggressive lifeforms. Further exploration reveals that the ship's ringleaders had created a clone of Ridley, as well as Metroids without their weakness to ice. Adam sacrifices himself to take out the sector containing these Metroids, leaving Samus to take care of the rest of the site. Later, Samus finds another Queen Metroid and destroys the final Metroid in existence once again.
Metroid Fusion
- While acting as a bodyguard for Biologic's research team on SR388, Samus is infected by a creature known as an X Parasite, the original prey of the Metroids whose numbers have now run rampant in their absence. Doctors surgically remove Samus's Power Suit and cure the X infection with a Metroid vaccine, allowing her to survive the parasite infestation, and covering her body in cells able to absorb them. She is then sent to investigate a disturbance at the Biologic Space Laboratories research station, where researchers attempted to contain the infected Power Suit. It turns out that the infected suit became an X mimicking Samus, the SA - X. This released other X Parasites and allowed them to infect the entire station. Samus attempts to stop them, and while doing so, discovers a secret lab containing Metroids that the SA - X destroys. She eventually discovers that through the X's asexual reproduction, at least 10 SA - X have been created. She decides, with the help of the computerized Adam Malkovich, to crash the station into SR388, killing both the X on the station and completely destroying the planet.
Metroid Dread
- The timeline placement of this game is still unknown.
Upcoming Game
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond: The timeline placement of this game is still unknown.