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Samus Aran is the main character of the Metroid games. She is a space bounty hunter, and is famous for her accomplishments on missions thought otherwize imposible. Much of Samus\' life and history remains a mystery. She was living with her parents as part of the Earth Colony on Planet K-2L and at 3 years old she was orphaned when Space Pirates attacked the colony, led by Ridley. The only known survivor, she was discovered by a group of Chozo and was transported to Planet Zebes, a Chozo planet, infused with Chozo blood and eventually given the famous Power Suit. Eventually she became a bounty hunter, which heralded the beginning of her real journey.

After becoming the most famed and capable of all bounty hunters (succeeding in missions everyone considered impossible) Samus was summoned by the Galactic Federation and given the orders to infiltrate Zebes, the formerly Chozo-dominated world which had since been overrun by the same Space Pirates that had attacked K-2L. She had two objectives: 1) To eliminate the threat of Metroids, which the Pirates had brought to Zebes, and 2) To destroy the Mother Brain - the \"mechanical life vein\" and central computer of Zebes\' ecosystem, which had been reprogrammed by the invading Space Pirates. Samus\' success in this mission led her to untold wealth and fame, but also cemented her destiny to battle Metroid menace.

Afterward, Samus discovered a distress call and upon investigation discovered the source to be the Pirate space station on which the pirates were studying phazon, a highly poisonous, mutagenic material. She destroyed the station and went to Tallon IV in pursuit of Meta Ridley, whom she spotted aboard the frigate. There she found that the planet had been damaged by phazon when a meteorite had struck it 20 years earlier. She soon destroyed Ridley and defeated the Metroid Prime. Samus\'s adventures were not over, however. After a short rest, she was once again asked by the Galactic Federation to locate Galactic Fede