Rundas

Rundas is an ice-wielding Bounty Hunter who debuted in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. He is voiced by Christopher Sabat.

Biography
Rundas was born on Phyrigis, a moon of planet Bes III known mainly for ice mining. Phyrigisians are commonly able to manipulate and generate ice. However, Rundas is one of very few to use this ability as a Hunter.

He enjoys hunting, to the point that he keeps trophies of all targets he has successfully captured or killed in his career. He is also considered extremely proud, cocky, and arrogant, believing himself to be unmatched in his field. However he seems to have a strong sense of justice. His arrogant demeanor leads him to mainly seek solo missions and rarely works with others. Despite this, he seems to feel an uncharacteristic sense of camaraderie toward Samus Aran.

Rundas was terminated approximately one month after his corruption during the Space Pirate attack on Norion. He was immediately killed upon being impaled with a spire of ice.

Aiding the Galactic Federation
Rundas, along with Ghor, Gandrayda, and Samus Aran, is asked by Fleet Admiral Dane of the Galactic Federation to help stop the Phazon corruption of Aurora Units. Once the Space Pirates attack the G.F.S. Olympus, the GF ship they are currently aboard, Rundas helps defend the ship by confronting the infiltrating Space Pirates. He then goes to planet Norion to help the Federation ground troopers on the planet and protect the base and eventually helps fix Norion's Generator B.

Rundas helps Samus by destroying four Space Pirate ATC's that had surrounded her while on Norion. Rundas later saves Samus from death as she was falling down Generator C's shaft over 16,000 meters deep. Just as Samus and Meta Ridley were about to reach the bottom of the tunnel, Rundas saves Samus, leaving Meta Ridley to fall to his apparent death. He then heads to the Control Tower and tells Samus to meet him there.

Once the four Bounty Hunters reach the Control Tower to activate the cannon to destroy the approaching Leviathan, Dark Samus appears and releases a burst of Phazon at them, causing all of the hunters to fall unconscious.

Two weeks later, Rundas awakes. Due to Dark Samus firing Phazon at him, his body is now self-producing Phazon, though apparently with no negative effects. The Federation gives him a Phazon Enhancement Device to use this Phazon and sends him to the planet Bryyo to destroy the planet's Leviathan. However, he is unable to successfully control the Phazon inside his body and becomes corrupted by it one week after he arrives on Bryyo.

Two weeks after this, Samus Aran awakes and visits Bryyo to find out what happened to Rundas. On the planet, she finds various creatures frozen solid and paths of ice around the planet, and Rundas' ship, docked in the same room Samus' ship can dock in Bryyo Fire. Scans of the ship also show that the engines are still warm, indicating that Rundas recently arrived in the area. After restoring power to the G.F.S. Theseus and using the machine inside to download Bryyo map data, Rundas can be seen on the cliff top opposite the ship, observing Samus. However, after a few seconds he leaves by flying through the air using his ice abilities. Later, Samus sees him on a high level of a pump room but he walks away after Samus looks at him. Samus eventually meets Space Pirates on the planet, though before she can defeat them, Rundas freezes them and then begins to fight Samus.

The Battle
Rundas spends most of his time in the air and gliding between the pillars of ice he created for the battle, but when he lands on the ground he will normally send waves of ice at Samus which will trap her in ice. Rundas will then jump on a pillar and summon large chunks of ice and throw them. He also coats himself with icy armor, but with enough blows he will become stunned, allowing Samus to rip off the armor using the Grapple Lasso. When his health is low he will use Hypermode, allowing him to use a new attack where he produces a giant icicle, spins it around and throws it. This attack is powerful and highly difficult to dodge. Missiles are a good way to stun Rundas, but he can emit a shield which deflects the missiles.

Eventually Rundas collapses on the ground and making squelching noises while Phazon erupts from him. Rundas suddenly looks around as if he does not know what has happened, and then lifts his hand up. Rundas is then impaled by a large pillar of ice which erupts from the ground and lifts him into the air. Dark Samus then arrives and absorbs him.

Logbook Entry

 * GF Lore, Hunter Rundas: Subject is a native of Phyrigis, a moon of Bes III known primarily for ice mining. The Phyrigisian ability to manipulate and generate ice has come in handy in subject’s career as a Bounty Hunter. Intel suggests that he enjoys hunting, to the point where he keeps trophies from all of the targets he’s successfully captured or killed in his career. Subject is proud, cocky, and arrogant, and considers himself without rivals in his field.


 * Hunter Rundas: Rundas is capable of generating and manipulating ice. This trait is common among inhabitants of the moon Phyrigis, but Rundas is one of the few who have used this ability for bounty hunting. Subject is known for getting results, but considers himself without peer. His arrogant demeanor has led him to mainly seek solo missions, and he rarely works well with others.


 * Hunter Rundas: Believed to have gone missing during a Federation mission.


 * Rundas: Phazon exposure has greatly enhanced Rundas and his ability to generate ice, making him deadly at any range. His durable ice armor has one weak point--the neck. Serious physical stress can weaken and remove it, exposing Rundas to attack. This weak point cannot be seized as long as Rundas is active. He can create frozen objects at will, and can freeze Missiles in midflight. Smaller ice-based projectiles can be shot down, but it is recommended to evaded larger attacks. Be advised: Rundas can trigger a Hypermode state, elevating his threat level to match your own.

Trivia

 * This is the music heard when battling Rundas:


 * Rundas also has his own theme music, which is heard in all of his appearances up until the point where he attacks Samus, upon which his battle music is played instead.


 * Rundas' PED Suit is the only one among the three other hunters to feature a helmet.


 * Rundas is referred to as 'Commander Rundas' in Pirate logs, which makes it seem as if he became a commander for them after being coruupted (along with Ghor and Gandrayda, who are also mentioned in logs), but, unlike the other two, it is unknown how the Pirates could have come in contact with him while on Bryyo as he could not make any intelligible vocalistions after being corrupted, so it would have been hard, if not impossible for them to communicate with him.


 * During the Pirate attack on the GFS Olympus, Rundas can be seen fighting a Space Pirate in a corridor above Samus while she is in a morphball shaft. There is a ventilation fan blocking part of the shaft, which the fight between Rundas and the Pirate will destroy unless Samus uses a Bomb on it first. After a short while, Rundas will freeze the Pirate and go through the door at the other end of the corridor.


 * Unlike the other Hunters, Rundas is never seen speaking after being corrupted. His vocalizations during the fight seem reduced to grunts and growls. A faint 'No!' can be heard also when the Grapple Lasso is used on him.


 * The noise that is heard when Rundas shoots ice at enemies is similar to that heard when firing the Ice Beam in Metroid Prime.


 * It is possible to make Rundas become "stuck" in the wall by ripping off his ice armor when he is very close to the wall.


 * During the E3 2006 footage of the game, Rundas was known as Rundus, and a had a different, more gravelly voice actor. It's possible that it was Ghor's voice actor.


 * Rundas is the only other hunter besides Samus and Dark Samus to have a battle theme and a separate entrance theme.


 * After restoring the satellite uplink, Rundas can be seen on a ledge on the other side of the cliff, watching Samus. It is possible to scan him before he flies away, though the scan visor won't reveal any new information.


 * Christopher Sabat, the voice actor of Rundas, also voices the characters Vegeta and Piccolo from Dragon Ball Z, both of whom have similiar arrogant personalities as Rundus.


 * The scene where the transparent image of Dark Samus appears over Rundus may be a reference to The Matrix Reloaded where Bane is possessed by Agent Smith.


 * The ice masses which are all that remain of any Reptilicus that attacked Rundas that can be found throughout the Bryyo Cliffside and Bryyo Fire areas can be scanned as Samus progresses through the areas, the ice starts to contain particles of Phazon, suggesting the point where Rundas became corrupted.


 * Rundas is the only Bounty Hunter who can be scanned directly before his/her boss fight and give different information. If Rundas is scanned when he appears in Temple of Bryyo, in the 5-10 seconds of gameplay before he attacks Samus, a scan that has the same logbook entry but a different preview appears. It reads "Believed to have gone missing during a Federation mission".