#Metroid prime chozo artifact series#

#Metroid prime chozo artifact series#

Keep in mind, when Metroid Prime was being developed, the only games we had in the series were Metroid, Metroid II, and Super Metroid. This whole situation is actually a result of Continuity Drift.Upon landing on Tallon IV, the PAL/Trilogy version of events happened. For all we know, it plowed through a space pirate ship somewhere along the line, and some weaponry was embedded into the leviathan, as well as a Metroid. We don't know what the leviathan's journey was like. Further the pirates do talk about encounters with ghosts, they don't realize those 'ghosts' are the returning Chozo. The Chozo just left because they couldn't handle being around phazon too long. Except the Chozo came back briefly to seal away phazon and their own logs detail the pirate's failures.Nah, the Pirate Logs show that the Chozo were long gone by the time the Space Pirates arrived, with the Temple and Artifacts already identified as blocking the Impact Crater prior to the encounter with Metroid Prime.Then the Chozo sealed it away under the temple that contained the bulk of Phazon. The easiest explanation to the North American is that the pirates found it but it escaped.That would explain why they never logged about finding it: they never survived the encounter. Could just be that a few Pirates got lucky and stumbled across it, but were killed and had their weapons stolen.That's why this particular JBM discussion is even taking place. The problem is that that log was changed in the EU version and Trilogy, which means that canonically, no, the Pirates never directly encountered it and thus it couldn't steal their weapons.Wasn't there a log that said it assimilated their weapons? And since they were developing Beam Troopers at some point, and the pirates with packs have missiles. The first form you see isn't the first form they saw.This opens up the rather large plot hole of why didn't they just keep on drilling if the crater barrier isn't as impassible as previously thought, which is probably why it was changed in the European and Trilogy versions.but then that opens the plot hole of why does Prime have obviously artificial weapons (missile launchers etc.) on its first form if none of the technologically-advanced races made contact with it? They supposedly found it wandering around in a tunnel while they were drilling.So how do they even know about the Metroid Prime? However, the Metroid Prime lives in the Impact Crater, and the Space Pirates never make their way to the Impact Crater itself, thanks to the Chozo Artifacts. In the NA version of Prime 1, some Space Pirate logs talk about the Metroid Prime, discussing the armor they made for it, its morphology, etc.