Galactic Federation vaccine



The Galactic Federation vaccine was a technology used in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. After Dark Samus and the Space Pirates successfully stole Aurora Unit 313 from the Valhalla, the Aurora Unit contracted a Corruption Virus and spread it through the AU network. The Galactic Federation learned of the virus and shut down the network to stop the damage from becoming irreversible. Soon, they developed a vaccine. The first Aurora Unit to receive the cure was 242 on the Olympus. Samus Aran, Ghor, Rundas and Gandrayda were ordered by 242 and Fleet Admiral Castor Dane to purge the remaining units of the virus and restore the network. Shortly, however, the Pirates attacked Norion, and Dane ordered the Bounty Hunters to rush to Norion's aid. The objective of purging the virus was sidetracked.

Later, Samus traveled to Elysia to destroy the Leviathan Seed there. Her first step to this goal was to restore Aurora Unit 217, the SkyTown facility's Aurora Unit. Before she could upload the vaccine however, she was attacked by numerous Tinbots and the now corrupted Ghor. After dealing with her obstacles, she came across a terminal (whose scan named this vaccine as "Galactic Federation vaccine") and uploaded the vaccine through her Arm Cannon. This cured 217, but did not restore the network, brought offline by Ghor.

The vaccine is uploaded through a terminal, and cannot be physically used like a normal vaccine, such as Vaccine "Metroid" in Metroid Fusion. This could point to the Corruption Virus being digital and not micro-organism.