Space Pirate Science Team

Science Team is the Space Pirate organization run by Space Pirate Command and existing to oversee all research operations. For specific operations, such as the phazon mutation experiments performed on Tallon IV, smaller Science Teams can be set up for immediate dictation on such projects.

"Hunter Weapons"
According to several log entries found in Metroid Prime, Science Team made several attempts at duplicating Samus Aran's weapons, such as her Arm Cannon and Morph Ball following the fall of Zebes. All attempts were in vain, as the entries went on to describe "horribly mangled" test subjects during the morph ball tests. It also mentioned that after these initial failures, "Science Team wisely decided to move on."

Metroids
After the fall of Zebes, Tallon IV's Science Team began research in hopes of turning Metroids into powerful bioweapons. Metroids that were salvaged from the fall of Zebes were brought to Tallon IV aboard Space Pirate frigates Orpheon, Siriacus and Vol Paragom. Research teams found many peculiarities in metroids, such as their ability to "suck" energy from their enemies without the prey losing blood or any other vital fluids. Although metroids showed great promise in their strength and energy capabilities, many Science Team members believed that the metroids were too unpredictable and research turned toward the actual capabilities of the metroids instead of harvesting them as weapons. After the research facilities at Phenandra Drifts and Phazon Mines on Tallon IV were destroyed by Samus Aran, research continued elsewhere, such as Aether.

Phazon Infusion
With the discovery of the highly radioactive phazon on Tallon IV, research involving the effects of phazon infusion into metroids and local Tallon IV species' genetic structures began. Although most subjects died in the third and fourth infusion periods, this research paved the way for Project Helix. After Tallon IV research facilities were destroyed,

Project Helix
After the the moderate sucess met on Tallon IV with the mutation of Metroids through phazon infusion, the local research team decided to expand their horizons. Space Pirate embyros were subjected to phazon infusion. Although the first subjects, the Phazon Elites were horribly mutated, a strain of phazon known as "Vertigo Phazon" was discovered by research team Sclera that proved highly sucessful when tested by parasites. From then on, Vertigo Phazon was sucessfully infused into the embryos and Elite Pirates came into being. Elite Pirates were rushed into mass prduction by Command in hopes of creating an army to wipe out their enemies. Elite Pirates were codenamed by greek alphabet letters. One test subject, Elite Pirate Upsilon, had such a hunger for phazon that it grew regenerating abilities, increased greatly in mass yet retained its sanity. Renamed Omega Pirate, its only drawback that scientists could predict was a pssible overdependance to Phazon, which it used in its healing process. Project Helix was abandoned shortly after the loss of the research stations at Phenandra Drifts and Phazon Mines on Tallon IV.