User blog:ChozoBoy/Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

The Ing and Dark Aether were the originals. When the Leviathan hit, it created Aether and the Luminoth who had previously "met" with great minds like the Chozo and "were not born of Aether, but of the stars" then "claimed a homeworld and formed a deep bond with it."

The answers are so obvious. Samus got suckered.