"What few remained gathered in the Great Temple. There, all but U-Mos, the last Sentinel of Aether, entered into life-preserving stasis. There they would remain, to be released once the Ing were destroyed... or to sleep forever. His people safe, U-Mos prepared for the last, terrible assault. In the silence of the Great Temple, he prayed for salvation, for deliverance from the terror of the Ing."
~Luminoth Lore Entry Name: Twilight
Metroid V: Exile
Chapter 1: The Great Temple
LOGBOOK ENTRY #001
COSMIC YEAR 2083
LOCATION: DASHA REGION SECTOR Z5 QUADRANT IV POSITION X5007Y2453Z9457
NEARBY CELESTIAL BODY: PLANET COMMON NAME “AETHER”
PREPARING LANDING SEQUENCE…
Samus was extremely… well “nervous” is not exactly the right word, but “afraid” isn’t right either. After destroying the X-Parasite threat, she did not know how the Luminoth she intended on seeing, U-Mos, would react to her blowing up the entire BSL Space Station. Plus, Aether was under Galactic Federation control; all it would take is one trooper seeing her and calling for reinforcements. But, luckily, the temple grounds where U-Mos, the Fifth Sentinel, almost always was were completely uninhabited by Federation Marines. Upon the Gunship landing, she has Adam perform a quick diagnostic on the systems of the ship and her Power Suit in Varia form:
“Hello lady, I shall guide you through the diagnostic:”
ENGINES: OPERATIONAL, ENERGY CELLS AT 97%.
MEDICAL BAY: FUNCTIONING.
AMMO PRODUCTION MODULE: ONLINE.
FISSION REACTOR: OPERATIONAL, AFLORATITE AT 95% LEVEL.
HYDROLYSIS REACTOR AND OXYGEN TANKS: ONLINE.
AUXILIARY AND MISC. SYSTEMS: FUNCTIONING.
“And now for your Power Suit:”
MISSILE LAUNCHER: OPERATIONAL
MISSILE SUPPLY: MAX
BEAM WEAPONS:
STANDARD POWER: ACTIVE
ICE: FUNCTIONAL
PLASMA: FUNCTIONAL
WAVE: FUNCTIONAL
DARK: FUNCTIONAL
LIGHT: FUNCTIONAL
ANNIHILATOR: FUNCTIONAL
BATTLEHAMMER: ONLINE
MAGMAUL: ONLINE
IMPERIALIST: ONLINE
ALL BEAM COMBOS ONLINE
MORPH BALL: OPERATIONAL
SPIDER BALL: OPERATIONAL
BOMBS: FUNCTIONAL
POWER BOMB SUPPLY: MAX
HIGH JUMP BOOTS: ACTIVE
SCREW_ATTACK+SPACE_JUMP: ACTIVE
GRAPPLE BEAM: ACTIVE
ENERGY TANKS: FULL AND MAX CAPACITY
“You are at max battle capacity, Samus: go and take care of your business with this ‘U-Mos’ before the Federation figures out you are here. Consult with him and, if you trust him enough, bring him back with you so we can have an ally. Any objections lady?” Adam adds.
“None, and time for a reunion I suppose.” Samus replies, opening the hatch. She jumps out in a somersault, and lands with one knee on the ground.
“That will never get old,” she says looking at her surroundings with her purple Gunship behind her. She enter the great temple and sees several Luminoth; large moth-like creatures similar to men, but at twice the height with wings, four-fingered hands, and red eyes. One of them stops dead in his tracks. He flies up to her and looks at her in disbelief.
“The Hunter!?” he says in a bit of a shocked voice. “I am surprised to see you here after hearing of the Federation’s arrest warrant for you. Luckily the last of their troupe left back for better federation lands, as they lost their interest in us after the Phazon clean up. So what brings you to Aether?”
“U-Mos, I came here because of the lack of allies I have in federation space. I need some help and was wondering if you could join me in a small adventure to get away from them. I don’t believe that I could-errr “defend” myself from the entire force of Marines.” She knew full well that she had problems before, and was also in fear of other Hunters from before coming after her.
“Very well, I was going to relinquish the title of Sentinel to my love, W-Mos. She is now the Sixth; I was planning on seeing the other worlds, and I am glad to follow you. However, there are these three men who seem a bit old-fashioned in technology, and hail from the Galactic Federation’s Earth; however, they terminated their Federation jobs and decided to join us Luminoth because of our technology, especially the one who wears the hard hat.”
“Woo-wee, would you look at that!” can be heard from a man wearing the hard hat U-Mos had mentioned. He walks up to the Hunter and Sentinel with a German man wearing a Lab coat and small spectacles, along with a third wearing a large western hat that has been tilted upward on one side, along with a pair of shades.
“I do believe zat you are Miss Aran, yes?” says the man in a lab coat. “U-Mos told us of your exploits here on Aether and I am thoroughly amazed. You may call me Medic, ze man in ze hard hat Engineer, and ze Australian next to me Sniper. Ve vere preparing for a trip with U-Mos, but I can see U-Mos is going with you. Perhaps ve may join your mission?”
“Sure, as long as the three of you are not hindrances.” Samus replies with hesitance in her voice.
“Heck yeah!” Engineer replies, but Sniper can be heard in the background grumbling “Bloody hell.”
“Also, uh, Miss Aran-” starts Engineer.
“Please, call me Samus, Engineer.” she interrupts.
“Actually you can call me Engie or Dell,” he says. “Ah personally wanted to tell you that I believe we can help your mission a bit. Fer instance, I can install a Respawner in your Ship if you’d like.”
“A what?” Samus says a bit confused.
“It’s a device that me, Medic, and Sniper had to use at a regular basis at our base on Earth.” Engie explains. “It’s something I have made only a few times, it’s often easier just to transfer the device to a place than to build one from scratch. It allows us to come back from the dead so to speak within a certain distance of being killed. It works on a small drop of blood and, using a special device Medic puts in yer arm to make sure you really are dead, makes an exact replica of you at your time of death minus wounds. You even retain yer old memories.”
“That sounds… amazing. Does the Federation have access to this technology?” Samus asks concernedly.
“Nope, Ah’m the only man with access to the blueprint, a gift from mah grandfather.” he replies. “They’ll never figure it out hopefully. I destroyed the last one I built when I quit mah job.”
“Well I could definitely use one of those. I would like to have one implemented in to my ship, better yet can you make two? One for inside the ship, one for outside during combat.” Engineers eyes spark at this, and he begins to smile and jump wildly.
“Alrighty then, I’ll have ‘em ready in 4 hours with this new Luminoth tech,” he says. “Can’t wait for the mission!”
LOCATION: UNKNOWN REGION UNKNOWN SECTOR UNKNOWN QUADRANT POSITION X500098627Y312357Z102837643267
NEARBY CELESTIAL BODIES: PLANET UNKNOWN; MOON IN ORBIT AROUND PLANET UNKNOWN.
Twilight was busy observing the night sky through a telescope, as all the books she had access to she had read five times over in the past week. The past period of time was incredibly dull after the weird event with Starlight Glimmer; it seemed to resemble something she read in a short story. Ever since, Ponyville was still a sleepy town, not even Discord could make anything off about it at this point. It had become just… peaceful. She took a break from watching the sky to see groups of ponies all gathering, simply to watch the sky. There was supposed to be a meteor shower, but this one was going to be huge. Larger than any other to be witnessed before, it was going to be a major event; Pinkie Pie, of course, was preparing a party for the event. But Twilight still felt something… off about this. She personally wished to meet a being possibly from another world, one that would put some change in the world. Ponyville was peaceful, but too peaceful. She watches as what seems to be the first meteor shoot through the sky.
“I wish that I could meet just one creature from beyond our own world,” she thinks, as she watches the meteor fall across the sky.