BOTTLE SHIP

The Bottle Ship is referred to as "a decommissioned space facility" in Metroid: Other M. This "derelict space station" is the abandoned ship seen in the original trailer's asteroid field. It is one of the main areas of the game.

Samus enters the station after her gunship recieves a distress signal from it. She explores the ship and encounters her former comrades from the Galactic Federation, including Adam Malkovich, Anthony Higgs and Lyle. The group defeats a purple beast composed of smaller insects and then splits up to explore the rest of the space station. Due to an unknown event possibly involving ULF 46, the Bottle Ship later explodes, possibly after a Countdown.

The Bottle Ship appears to be surrounded by space gas, with some debris surrounding it, making the station look as if it is destroyed.

Etymology
The Bottle Ship likely refers to a Ship-in-a-bottle which consists of a model vessel assembled in a transparent glass bottle. This could be a reference to the feeling of entrapment or possibly to the mechanical puzzle aspect, in which the initial reaction to the object is a sense of confusion in regard to how the ship could have been placed into the bottle. These are commonly assembled, piece-by-piece, within the pre-made glass container. Or it might also refer to the ship's actual appearance, which is that of a sports or baby's bottle, where the "ringed" section represents the nozzle, and the larger section the container.

Areas

 * Main Sector
 * Sector 1 / Biosphere
 * Pyrosphere
 * Cryosphere

Trivia

 * The Bottle Ship bears a resemblance to the derelict G.F.S. Valhalla.
 * Metroid.jp refers to the Bottle Ship as a "colony".
 * The fact that the Bottle Ship appears to be comprised of sectors mimicking various environments and seems to have been built to hold several species of creature make it seem very similar to the Biologic Space Laboratories research station in Other M ' s sequel, Metroid Fusion. However, unlike the BSL, the Bottle Ship's sectors are illusionary and not real environments at all.
 * The shape of the Bottle Ship slightly resembles the design of Samus' Arm Cannon in the original Metroid.