Klaus Schneider

Klaus Schneider is the Newly Promoted Second Lieutenant of an unidentified group in Metroid Prime: Episode of Aether. He is one of two Federation Marines in said group.

One of four survivors from the Splinter attack (in the game from which the manga is based, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, there are no survivors), Samus Aran found Klaus being attacked by an Alpha Splinter, and just when it was about to move in for the kill, Samus shot it off of him. This killed the Alpha Splinter, but Klaus, recognizing Samus, urged her to finish it off before the "black fog" came and took it. However, she was too late, and Klaus fled while she killed it.

Klaus then emerged with the other three survivors. Introducing himself to Samus, he claims he commanded properly, and is evidently against Samus' opinion that he was crying and frightened. After these events, it would seem that he has his own case of posttraumatic stress disorder, much like Samus herself. Klaus, Samus and the survivors enter the Generator Room in an attempt to restore power to it, and does not like Samus' decision to kill the Dark Troopers that emerge from the non-scarred Marine corpses in the room, convinced that they could have been saved from their infection with the black fog. Lily Thran disproves his belief.