Post by Luhood on Oct 13, 2008 10:27:12 GMT -5
Name of Location:
Biologic Space Laboratories (BSL) Research Station
Game of Origin:
Neighboring Locations:
Space Colony ARK, Navi Space Colony, Ragnarok Debris Field, The Great Fox (Whenever its in the area that is), Frigate Orpheon (Considering it does appear in SSBB), This World (As in the Planet)
Bestiary:
Several types of monsters appear in the different sectors of BSL. However, all of them are merely replicas, transformed X that now inhabit the station.
Appearence:
The BSL Research Station consists of seven different areas, called "Sectors". These are all unique, and sports different transformations of X.
Main Deck
First of all there's the Main Deck, where the Habitation Deck is, as well as the Operations Deck, the Reactor Silo and the Docking Bay. These look like your regular Station Corridors, with a slightly yellowish colour to the walls. However, even here the X roam, in form of Zombie Researchers, purple puddles of goo which may be what is left from the humans that the X infected in order to gain knowledge of the Station.
Sector 1 (SRX)
Sector 1, also known as SRX, is a exact replica of SR388's environment, or more correctly the living habitats of Metroids. It's rocky with a few plants, and the creatures found here are mutated versions of those found on SR388.
Sector 2 (TRO)
Sector 2, TRO, is the station's Tropical Sector. The climate in there is very humid, and Jungle could be seen in most of the place. However, the tangley, thorny roots of Nettori could be seen in the lower parts of the Sector. The creatures here are mostly insectoid X, but also other kinds of Tropical X-mutants can be found here.
Sector 3 (PYR)
Sector 3 is known as PYR, and it's the Heat Sector of the station. Many parts of this sector is Desert, other parts are Lava filled or very, very hot, destructively hot. Here you can find Claw Flyers and Novas, as well as other heat-living creatures. In PYR you can also find the Main Boiler Room if you need to.
Sector 4 (AQA)
AQA is the name for BSL's Sector 4, the water area. This sector houses many security cameras due to its size, as well as the inreachability for the humans that created it. Most parts of this sector is submerged, housing plant life similar to that of a sea. Also the X here is in shapes of fish, crab, or Mermen Pirates.
Sector 5 (ARC)
The fifth sector, Sector 5, is the Ice and Tundra sector of the station, and thus known as ARC for ARCtic. This place is always below zero, and is thus deadly for Metroids and other cold-loathing species. Much of it is similar to a Gigantic Fridge, but sometimes you can find Icy Tundra and Frozen Wasteland as well. The X of ARC are mostly Ice-living creatures, and this is also one of the two places where you'll find most of the Blue X.
Sector 6 (NOC)
Sector 6 is NOC, the NOCturnal sector, created to simulate caverns and caves, as well as night time for the various nocturnal creatures in the area. It's mostly dark, cold and humid here, and in the lower parts of the station it's even worse. Except for one part, in the very edge of the Sector, where you'll find a sealed door that once led to the secret Metroid Breeding Program that were hidden down here. This area was ejected however, due to SA-X wanting to destroy all of the Metroids alive. The X-creatures here are Nocturnal or Cavern Living, and this is also the second place where you'll find many of the Blue X.
History
(Copied from Wikitroid 'cause it's easier that way...)
The story starts out with Samus Aran helping Biologic Space Laboratories researchers on planet SR388. Eventually, a Hornoad confronts them, which Samus kills. However, a strange object comes out of the Hornoad and enters Samus's body.
Thinking nothing of it, she went on with the researchers and completed their assignment. Back on her gunship, Samus was returning to the Biological Space Laboratories station when disaster struck. The thing that entered her body on SR388 was later found out to be an X Parasite, or simply X. Once the X had infested Samus's central nervous system, she lost consciousness while she was in her gunship and drifted into an asteroid belt. Her ship's emergency systems automatically ejected the escape pod before impact, though the gunship itself was lost. Biologic's vessel recovered the escape pod and transported Samus to Galactic Federation HQ. However, as she was being transported, the X multiplied within her, corrupting large areas of her Power Suit.
The organic components of Samus's Power Suit had become so integrated with her system that it could not be removed while she was unconscious. Large portions of her suit had to be surgically removed, dramatically altering her suit's appearance. However, the X in Samus's central nervous system were too embedded to be removed safely, causing her to be given less than a 1% survival chance.
However, a cure was found. The X were the prey of Metroids. Unfortunately, due to Samus destroying all the Metroids on SR388 in a previous mission, the X were able to multiply without anything stopping them. Thus, to destroy the X in Samus, doctors proposed using a Metroid cell from the last Metroid to make an anti-X vaccine. Apparently, the Federation had managed to preserve a cell culture from the same infant Metroid that saved Samus while she was on Zebes a second time. The serum was prepared and injected without delay, causing the X parasites to be completely eradicated - with two side effects. Due to the vaccine, Samus could no longer be hurt by normal X - in fact, she could absorb them. She also became vulnerable to cold, as most Metroids are.
Afterwards, Samus was given a mission. Samus was to travel to the Biologic Space Laboratories research station. During her surgery, the research team sent the last batch of creatures captured on SR388, as well as the infected pieces of her Power Suit. A large explosion rocked the station, which Samus was sent to investigate. Her mission on the BSL station would also be overseen by her ship's computer.
Once she lands in the docking bay of the ship, Samus goes to the Quarantine Bay to investigate the explosion. At the Quarantine Bay, she finds a Hornoad and kills it. However, Samus finds that the Hornoad contained an X parasite. Samus speaks with her computer and learns that the specimens brought back by the field team were infected by X parasites. The X can mimic its prey, meaning anything organic could have hosted it.
During that time, Samus' computer analyzed the information about the X. The parasites invade and rapidly reproduce, killing the host creature. They also absorb DNA and use it to mimic the host. Samus was almost killed by the X, though thanks to the Metroid vaccine, she lived, due to the Metroids being the main predators of the X.
As she continues to explore the station, Samus finds a startling discovery. X have turned into an incomplete form of Samus, known as the SA-X. The SA-X came from the capsule containing her infected suit parts and used a Power Bomb to escape the Quarantine Bay. That explosion also opened the capsules containing all the X specimens, causing them all to be released.
As Samus progresses through the station, she finds another startling discovery. She finds a section of the station known as the Restricted Lab. Here, she finds dozens of infant Metroids behind glass, and most of the other natural forms of Metroids in stasis. The Federation never mentioned anything about cloning Metroids to Samus before. Suddenly, the Metroids break free, apparently by the SA-X. In an attempt to destroy its predator, the SA-X decimates the Restricted Lab, releasing many infant Metroids as well as setting the area on fire. A fire alert then begins, causing the lab to be locked down. Samus barely escapes, and the lab falls off from the research station and explodes, killing all the Metroids (and the SA-X within).
Samus speaks with her computer, who is angry with Samus for discovering the Metroids. The computer explains that the Federation has been secretly working on a Metroid breeding program - for "peaceful application". The computer goes on to say that SRX, a replica of the SR388 ecosystem, was made ideal for raising Alpha, Gamma, Zeta, and Omega Metroids. This research even uncovered techniques for rapid growth - allowing an infant to become a Gamma in mere days instead of months, years, or centuries. However, the X had found out about this research - apparently through a crew member infected by X - and was the one who destroyed it. The computer then indicates that because the X reproduce by asexual division, there are no fewer than 10 SA-X aboard the station.
Later, the computer tells Samus that they're done on the station and to leave the rest to the Federation and to evacuate the station. Apparently, the Federation has taken an interest in the X and SA-X and believe this life-form has endless potential applications. However, Samus is strongly against this as she knows how dangerous they are.
Samus knows that as soon as the Federation ships land, the X will overwhelm them and absorb the knowledge and power of their occupants. The X are just waiting, and then they'll spread across the universe. Galactic civilization will end.
Samus then proposes to activate the station's self-destruct mechanism to destroy the X on the station and on SR388, willing to risk her own life to get rid of the X.
However, Samus's computer has locked her in the Navigation Room. She demands to be released, though the computer says it has been ordered to confine her until the ships arrive. Samus then says, "Don't let them do this. Can't you see what will happen, Adam?" Adam Malkovich was Samus's previous commanding officer, who died saving her life. Samus tells the computer this, though he mocks her. The computer goes on to say that detonating the station in high orbit would not guarantee the complete extinction of the X parasites, even though the station would be utterly destroyed. Samus would only succeed in removing the one obstacle to the galaxy's ruin: herself, stating, "When Adam decided who would live, he chose incorrectly."
However, a very strange thing suddenly happens. The computer suddenly changes to a different personality. The computer tells Samus that if Samus were to alter the station's orbit, then she might be able to include the planet in the vaporization field of the self-destruct detonation. It ends with a very familiar tone to Samus: "Any objections, Lady?"
Samus goes to the Operations Room, though is confronted by an SA-X. The SA-X is defeated, but manages to escape into a nearby ventilation shaft before Samus can absorb it. She starts the self-destruct sequence and returns to her ship. However, she finds the docking bay in ruins with her ship gone. An Omega Metroid suddenly appears, immune to Samus's weaponry, even her Ice Missiles. The Metroid attacks Samus, leaving her incapacitated and badly wounded. As the Omega Metroid prepares to finish her off, the SA-X arrives and interferes, pushing the Metroid back with the Ice Beam. The Metroid counterattacks and defeats it, causing it to revert back to it's parasitic form. Samus absorbs the X and is able to regain her Ice Beam (going into the Omega Fusion Suit) and with it finally defeats the Metroid. Her ship reenters the bay, piloted by the computerized Adam and the same Etecoons and Dachoras she saved on Zebes (and earlier in the game in a habitation area).
As Samus leaves the station, it crashes into SR388, destroying both the station and the planet, ridding the universe of the X. Or at least that's what they think.
(End of Copy)
Due to the massive storms in Subspace, the BSL Research Station, SA-X and the rest of the X collective was pulled out of their own universe and put in orbit around Master Hand's world, This World. Here they now share space with The Ark, Navi Space Colony, The Ragnarok Debris Field, and the Space Pirate Frigate Orpheon, slowly awaiting the time to strike and expand their power to This World.
Events:
Anything Else:
This is the domain of SA-X and the X Collective. Watch out if you're nearby.
Biologic Space Laboratories (BSL) Research Station
Game of Origin:
Neighboring Locations:
Space Colony ARK, Navi Space Colony, Ragnarok Debris Field, The Great Fox (Whenever its in the area that is), Frigate Orpheon (Considering it does appear in SSBB), This World (As in the Planet)
Bestiary:
Several types of monsters appear in the different sectors of BSL. However, all of them are merely replicas, transformed X that now inhabit the station.
Appearence:
The BSL Research Station consists of seven different areas, called "Sectors". These are all unique, and sports different transformations of X.
Main Deck
First of all there's the Main Deck, where the Habitation Deck is, as well as the Operations Deck, the Reactor Silo and the Docking Bay. These look like your regular Station Corridors, with a slightly yellowish colour to the walls. However, even here the X roam, in form of Zombie Researchers, purple puddles of goo which may be what is left from the humans that the X infected in order to gain knowledge of the Station.
Sector 1 (SRX)
Sector 1, also known as SRX, is a exact replica of SR388's environment, or more correctly the living habitats of Metroids. It's rocky with a few plants, and the creatures found here are mutated versions of those found on SR388.
Sector 2 (TRO)
Sector 2, TRO, is the station's Tropical Sector. The climate in there is very humid, and Jungle could be seen in most of the place. However, the tangley, thorny roots of Nettori could be seen in the lower parts of the Sector. The creatures here are mostly insectoid X, but also other kinds of Tropical X-mutants can be found here.
Sector 3 (PYR)
Sector 3 is known as PYR, and it's the Heat Sector of the station. Many parts of this sector is Desert, other parts are Lava filled or very, very hot, destructively hot. Here you can find Claw Flyers and Novas, as well as other heat-living creatures. In PYR you can also find the Main Boiler Room if you need to.
Sector 4 (AQA)
AQA is the name for BSL's Sector 4, the water area. This sector houses many security cameras due to its size, as well as the inreachability for the humans that created it. Most parts of this sector is submerged, housing plant life similar to that of a sea. Also the X here is in shapes of fish, crab, or Mermen Pirates.
Sector 5 (ARC)
The fifth sector, Sector 5, is the Ice and Tundra sector of the station, and thus known as ARC for ARCtic. This place is always below zero, and is thus deadly for Metroids and other cold-loathing species. Much of it is similar to a Gigantic Fridge, but sometimes you can find Icy Tundra and Frozen Wasteland as well. The X of ARC are mostly Ice-living creatures, and this is also one of the two places where you'll find most of the Blue X.
Sector 6 (NOC)
Sector 6 is NOC, the NOCturnal sector, created to simulate caverns and caves, as well as night time for the various nocturnal creatures in the area. It's mostly dark, cold and humid here, and in the lower parts of the station it's even worse. Except for one part, in the very edge of the Sector, where you'll find a sealed door that once led to the secret Metroid Breeding Program that were hidden down here. This area was ejected however, due to SA-X wanting to destroy all of the Metroids alive. The X-creatures here are Nocturnal or Cavern Living, and this is also the second place where you'll find many of the Blue X.
History
(Copied from Wikitroid 'cause it's easier that way...)
The story starts out with Samus Aran helping Biologic Space Laboratories researchers on planet SR388. Eventually, a Hornoad confronts them, which Samus kills. However, a strange object comes out of the Hornoad and enters Samus's body.
Thinking nothing of it, she went on with the researchers and completed their assignment. Back on her gunship, Samus was returning to the Biological Space Laboratories station when disaster struck. The thing that entered her body on SR388 was later found out to be an X Parasite, or simply X. Once the X had infested Samus's central nervous system, she lost consciousness while she was in her gunship and drifted into an asteroid belt. Her ship's emergency systems automatically ejected the escape pod before impact, though the gunship itself was lost. Biologic's vessel recovered the escape pod and transported Samus to Galactic Federation HQ. However, as she was being transported, the X multiplied within her, corrupting large areas of her Power Suit.
The organic components of Samus's Power Suit had become so integrated with her system that it could not be removed while she was unconscious. Large portions of her suit had to be surgically removed, dramatically altering her suit's appearance. However, the X in Samus's central nervous system were too embedded to be removed safely, causing her to be given less than a 1% survival chance.
However, a cure was found. The X were the prey of Metroids. Unfortunately, due to Samus destroying all the Metroids on SR388 in a previous mission, the X were able to multiply without anything stopping them. Thus, to destroy the X in Samus, doctors proposed using a Metroid cell from the last Metroid to make an anti-X vaccine. Apparently, the Federation had managed to preserve a cell culture from the same infant Metroid that saved Samus while she was on Zebes a second time. The serum was prepared and injected without delay, causing the X parasites to be completely eradicated - with two side effects. Due to the vaccine, Samus could no longer be hurt by normal X - in fact, she could absorb them. She also became vulnerable to cold, as most Metroids are.
Afterwards, Samus was given a mission. Samus was to travel to the Biologic Space Laboratories research station. During her surgery, the research team sent the last batch of creatures captured on SR388, as well as the infected pieces of her Power Suit. A large explosion rocked the station, which Samus was sent to investigate. Her mission on the BSL station would also be overseen by her ship's computer.
Once she lands in the docking bay of the ship, Samus goes to the Quarantine Bay to investigate the explosion. At the Quarantine Bay, she finds a Hornoad and kills it. However, Samus finds that the Hornoad contained an X parasite. Samus speaks with her computer and learns that the specimens brought back by the field team were infected by X parasites. The X can mimic its prey, meaning anything organic could have hosted it.
During that time, Samus' computer analyzed the information about the X. The parasites invade and rapidly reproduce, killing the host creature. They also absorb DNA and use it to mimic the host. Samus was almost killed by the X, though thanks to the Metroid vaccine, she lived, due to the Metroids being the main predators of the X.
As she continues to explore the station, Samus finds a startling discovery. X have turned into an incomplete form of Samus, known as the SA-X. The SA-X came from the capsule containing her infected suit parts and used a Power Bomb to escape the Quarantine Bay. That explosion also opened the capsules containing all the X specimens, causing them all to be released.
As Samus progresses through the station, she finds another startling discovery. She finds a section of the station known as the Restricted Lab. Here, she finds dozens of infant Metroids behind glass, and most of the other natural forms of Metroids in stasis. The Federation never mentioned anything about cloning Metroids to Samus before. Suddenly, the Metroids break free, apparently by the SA-X. In an attempt to destroy its predator, the SA-X decimates the Restricted Lab, releasing many infant Metroids as well as setting the area on fire. A fire alert then begins, causing the lab to be locked down. Samus barely escapes, and the lab falls off from the research station and explodes, killing all the Metroids (and the SA-X within).
Samus speaks with her computer, who is angry with Samus for discovering the Metroids. The computer explains that the Federation has been secretly working on a Metroid breeding program - for "peaceful application". The computer goes on to say that SRX, a replica of the SR388 ecosystem, was made ideal for raising Alpha, Gamma, Zeta, and Omega Metroids. This research even uncovered techniques for rapid growth - allowing an infant to become a Gamma in mere days instead of months, years, or centuries. However, the X had found out about this research - apparently through a crew member infected by X - and was the one who destroyed it. The computer then indicates that because the X reproduce by asexual division, there are no fewer than 10 SA-X aboard the station.
Later, the computer tells Samus that they're done on the station and to leave the rest to the Federation and to evacuate the station. Apparently, the Federation has taken an interest in the X and SA-X and believe this life-form has endless potential applications. However, Samus is strongly against this as she knows how dangerous they are.
Samus knows that as soon as the Federation ships land, the X will overwhelm them and absorb the knowledge and power of their occupants. The X are just waiting, and then they'll spread across the universe. Galactic civilization will end.
Samus then proposes to activate the station's self-destruct mechanism to destroy the X on the station and on SR388, willing to risk her own life to get rid of the X.
However, Samus's computer has locked her in the Navigation Room. She demands to be released, though the computer says it has been ordered to confine her until the ships arrive. Samus then says, "Don't let them do this. Can't you see what will happen, Adam?" Adam Malkovich was Samus's previous commanding officer, who died saving her life. Samus tells the computer this, though he mocks her. The computer goes on to say that detonating the station in high orbit would not guarantee the complete extinction of the X parasites, even though the station would be utterly destroyed. Samus would only succeed in removing the one obstacle to the galaxy's ruin: herself, stating, "When Adam decided who would live, he chose incorrectly."
However, a very strange thing suddenly happens. The computer suddenly changes to a different personality. The computer tells Samus that if Samus were to alter the station's orbit, then she might be able to include the planet in the vaporization field of the self-destruct detonation. It ends with a very familiar tone to Samus: "Any objections, Lady?"
Samus goes to the Operations Room, though is confronted by an SA-X. The SA-X is defeated, but manages to escape into a nearby ventilation shaft before Samus can absorb it. She starts the self-destruct sequence and returns to her ship. However, she finds the docking bay in ruins with her ship gone. An Omega Metroid suddenly appears, immune to Samus's weaponry, even her Ice Missiles. The Metroid attacks Samus, leaving her incapacitated and badly wounded. As the Omega Metroid prepares to finish her off, the SA-X arrives and interferes, pushing the Metroid back with the Ice Beam. The Metroid counterattacks and defeats it, causing it to revert back to it's parasitic form. Samus absorbs the X and is able to regain her Ice Beam (going into the Omega Fusion Suit) and with it finally defeats the Metroid. Her ship reenters the bay, piloted by the computerized Adam and the same Etecoons and Dachoras she saved on Zebes (and earlier in the game in a habitation area).
As Samus leaves the station, it crashes into SR388, destroying both the station and the planet, ridding the universe of the X. Or at least that's what they think.
(End of Copy)
Due to the massive storms in Subspace, the BSL Research Station, SA-X and the rest of the X collective was pulled out of their own universe and put in orbit around Master Hand's world, This World. Here they now share space with The Ark, Navi Space Colony, The Ragnarok Debris Field, and the Space Pirate Frigate Orpheon, slowly awaiting the time to strike and expand their power to This World.
Events:
- Boiler Meltdown - If a threat is to great, the X will attempt to blow the station up. They do this by overheating the Boiler in Sector 3 (PYR), and thus cause an explosion with enough heat to trigger the self-destruct explosives, which would blow the entire station apart. Sure, this may kill all the X on the BSL Station, but the X back down on This World would still get a chance of survival if their enemy were to be destroyed.
- Another way of attempting to blow the station up is to cause a meltdown in the Reactor Core. This would absolutely destroy the entire station, as well as probably render large parts of This World uninhabitable due to radiation.
- If you wander to far, you may stumble upon one of the many bosses of the X Hive, the Core-X. There's Arachnus-X and Yakuza-X on the Main Deck, Ridley-X and Statue-X (a fake Chozo Statue) in Sector 1 (SRX), Zazabi and the plantlike Nettori in Sector 2 (TRO), Serris in Sector 4 (AQA), Nightmare in Sector 5 (ARC), and the Mega Core-X in Sector 6 (NOC). However, the B.O.X. Battle Robot roams the entire station under the control of the X, and the many lesser SA-X under the Queen-X' command also patrol the station in search for intruders.
- Once in a while, the Galactic Federation attempts to retake their station. Sure, they're forced back every time, but they can do some damage to the station, as well as attracting the SA-X and the B.O.X.
- Also, the Space Pirates will attempt to take control of the station in order to get valuable information about the Galactic Federation. These will also attract the guns of SA-X and B.O.X., even though they're more ruthless than the Federation soldiers.
Anything Else:
This is the domain of SA-X and the X Collective. Watch out if you're nearby.
