Wikitroid:Featured article queue/Month 07, 2011

"Bioweapon" is a term used to describe a living thing that was captured or created for the purpose of use in battle or warfare against its will (if sentient). Bioweapons are often augmented, either through cybernetic enhancement or as a result of genetic alteration. According to Samus Aran and Adam Malkovich, the use of bioweapons is "strictly prohibited" and "illegal", at least within the Galactic Federation.

In its later days, the Galactic Federation had a history of using bioweapons, initially gathering species from various planets to create a special-forces unit modeled after the Space Pirate Zebesians on the Bottle Ship. This eventually led to the creation of Metroids, which were cloned to be used as weapons from fragments of DNA found on Samus Aran's Power Suit after her mission on planet Zebes. However, these experiments were done in secret, and as such was not supported by the majority of the Federation, but rather a "small group" that used a report written by Adam Malkovich as the basis for their operations.