Alimbic

The Alimbic are a race of beings in the game Metroid Prime Hunters. They fulfill much the same role in this game that the Luminoth do in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and the Chozo in most other games in the series. Most of the information on the Alimbic is gleaned from lore scans in Metroid Prime Hunters.

History
The Alimbic had lived in the Alimbic Cluster of the bioweaponry, and created weapons such as the Slenches and Cretaphids. In addition, their own durable exoskeletons and enlarged forebrains allowed them to survive and think through conditions that would otherwise have destroyed them.

Enjoying a newly-earned peace, the Alimbic nevertheless remained ready for future invasions; however, they also began improving their already powerful minds, developing telepathy, telekinesis, and extradimensional exploraion. Unfortunately, despite their ever more lethal weapons, their pride left them unprepared for what happened next.

Gorea
Gorea came to the Alimbic in a comet from an unknown location, and emerged in the form of a gas. However, it soon took on a physical form, one mimicking that of the Alimbics themselves. The Alimbics' weapons were useless against it, and eventually, Gorea took the weapons into its form and used them against their creators. It drained the life energy from its victims, leaving them as empty husks, while growing more powerful itself. The Alimbic knew that unless they stopped Gorea there, it would continue on to devour all sentient life in the galaxy.

To stop what they called "the cancer," eight Alimbic elders came together in the Alimbic Order, and created the Seal Sphere. The Alimbic people used the process of essence transference to put their telepathic essences in the Seal Sphere. this enabled them to trap Gorea in the Seal Sphere, which was then placed aboard the Oubliette, and sent to a formless dimension of antimatter called the Infinity Void by way of the Alimbic Cannon. The elders of the Alimbic Order then transferred their essences into the eight Octoliths, which were sent to the Stronghold Void and guarded over by the Slenches and Cretaphids.