Topic: So in Metroid canon...

[Super Waffle]

Mother Brain can control Metroids.  Is there a particular reason she has that ability?  Is she some sort of highly-evolved "super" Metroid (hurr durr) herself?  How does she relate to the Queen Metroid you run into in Metroid II?

Or was it just something Nintendo came up with to make Other M's plot work?

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Mother Brain is basically an organic computer.
Metroids could've easily been implanted with chips for mind-control.  Or have been 'conditioned' since their spawning to perform certain tasks.

All of this technology is canon as per the Metroid Prime (see Metroid Prime Pirate Data logs) games and Metroid: Other M (spoilers for this game are abound if you search for info on this) .  Space Pirates have no qualms about experimenting on themselves with reverse-engineered or outright-stolen technology, for the sake of improving their mission effectiveness.

[Super Waffle]

Oh, ok.  This information should serve well in my fanfic in which gross things happen to Samus.

[X]

Last I read it was Mother Brain's immense telepathic ability that enabled her to control not only Metroids but also the space pirate Zebisians and Key Hunters. Otherwise they'd go do their own thing. According to the Manga (though I've not read all of it and please correct me if I'm wrong here) The Chozo race built the Mother Brain bio-computer. They also as well created the Metroid species to be used against the X-Parasites.

[Inccubus]

That is pretty much my understanding. The Chozo then adopted Samus and trained her to basically clean up their mess.

[Gunlord]

Poor samus...;-; ;-; ;-;

[Shiroi Koumori]

This upcoming Waffle fanfic looks interesting.

[Super Waffle]

It's not "upcoming."  I already posted it.

http://chichichichipndale.deviantart.com/art/Metroid-Pirate-Booty-503099488

And stop doing that, Gunlord.

[Shiroi Koumori]

Nice. I've read it.

[Super Waffle]

And?  Did you think it was suitably canon?

[X]

This could definitely work for an alternate end and beginning of Samus. Impressive read Super Waffle. The only element I felt was out of place was the mentioning of royal jelly which most know comes from the Aliens Vs Predator novels. Otherwise a sort, but good read. Kinda makes me wonder what's going to happen next...

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Indeed, the Chozo built the organic super-computer "Mother Brain", back when Planet Zebes was a habitable locale.
Then the Space Pirates stole/corrupted it, later on.

The Chozo created the life-form "Metroid" (its name means "Ultimate Warrior" in Chozo language) in order to fight a parasite species (X Parasites) which began to take over the planet SR-388.

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The resemblance is uncanny.

The Metroid did their task.
However, after Samus went to SR-388 to exterminate the entire species, and their Metroid predators gone, the X begin to repopulate.

It's possible that similar technology used for the creation of Mother Brain was used to create the Metroid life forms, since they both come from Chozo technology.

[Super Waffle]

This could definitely work for an alternate end and beginning of Samus. Impressive read Super Waffle. The only element I felt was out of place was the mentioning of royal jelly which most know comes from the Aliens Vs Predator novels. Otherwise a sort, but good read. Kinda makes me wonder what's going to happen next...

During the part where the Space Pirates are analyzing Samus' biology, did you manage to figure out it was just the Pirates going "hurrrrrr how does Zero Suit work?" (they haven't been around many Earth girls) and it wasn't meant to imply Samus already had her freaky Metroid symbiote armor from Fusion?

One other guy from Hongfire misread that part and I wanted to see if it's a common problem.  I can always change it.

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The resemblance is uncanny.

Well they were both from the 80s, so..

[X]

@Jorge:

Haha! nice 

@Super Waffle:

I don't know enough Metroid lore to give you an accurate reply on what is and what isn't canon about your story. I'm not sure if Space Pirates can even talk without the Mother Brain controlling them, however in the Prime trilogy they leave behind lots of date logs which would indicate they can communicate with each other in some form of vocal manner. But we don't hear any of that, especially in Other M. Just lots of screeches and roars. Personally I wouldn't worry too much about canon. What I've read seems to fit with no real problems. It's an alternate ending to the Metroid story. Not a happy one for Samus but entertaining none-the-less.

[Shiroi Koumori]

@Waffle: I don't know much about the lore of Metroid. I just liked what you wrote.