Body Adaptation Machine

Body Adaptation Machines were a technology created by the Chozo. Though featured on Zebes, it is entirely possible they were also used on SR388, Elysia and Tallon IV. These machines serve the function of infusing Chozo blood and adapting the user to be able to survive in the planet's environment. The user is completely nude. Samus Aran used this Machine to gain her Chozo reflexes and agility in preparation for receiving the Power Suit. In the Metroid Manga, they are featured in Volume 2, chapter 9: "Counterattack". In this instance, they are shown as large orbs (possibly of energy) attached to a structure somewhat resembling a nuclear explosion. During Samus' mission to save Chozo survivors on Zebes, she discovered that the Space Pirates were attempting to use the Machines to adapt to the planet. An explosion caused by Commander Mauk and Kreatz to rescue Samus ended up destroying the Machines. Though Ridley assumes Samus had friends, Grey Voice (pretending to work with the Pirates) convinces him that the explosion was probably engineered ahead of time by Samus to help her escape. Ridley then instructs the Chozo prisoners to repair the Machines. The procedure is described as "extremely delicate". Metroid: Other M, in its beginning cutscene, features a clip of Samus being infused with her energy. In this scenario, Samus is surrounded by a red and white aura. Her face is shown, opening her eyes, before it flashes forward in time to a perspective of her face through her visor, in the re-enactment of Mother Brain's battle in Super Metroid.