Colossus

The storage room of the Colossus where Dark Samus is revived.

The Colossus is a large Space Pirate spacecraft appearing in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.

Description

The Colossus is a Space Pirate vessel of unknown shape that houses a massive Phazon pod storage room. While the exterior of the ship is never seen, a glimpse of the interior of the ship is seen at the start of a new game, during a cutscenes that ends with Samus herself awakening from cryostasis.

During an attempted Phazon raid on the Planet Aether, the Pirates unintentionally collect and revive Dark Samus after she has survived the destruction of Dark Aether, unbeknownst to Samus Aran. As a cluster of floating Phazon particles, the Dark Hunter stows away onto the Colossus and uses the multiple Phazon pods inside to restore her energy. According to Space Pirate Data, the newly revived Dark Samus proceeds to wipe out a third of the crew before "bewitching" the rest of the Pirate survivors aboard the Colossus into becoming her personal army. They upgrade the ship with Phazon weaponry as she orders, but this eventually proves insufficient for Dark Samus, who ultimately has them outfit a Leviathan that she brings to them with many cybernetic refinements, which the crew dubs "the Leviathan" (a possible origin for the name of the species), pleasing their great leader.

When Dark Samus requires a "control unit" for her "living planet", the crew of the Colossus bribe their way to the location of the G.F.S. Valhalla, overtaking the rookie Federation Marines with the newly outfitted vessel, leaving behind multiple Phazon Metroids, corpses, and spent Phazon throughout the ship. The Pirates successfully extract Aurora Unit 313, which also pleases Dark Samus.

After Dark Samus and her disciples send another Leviathan from Phaaze to impact the Pirate Homeworld using the AU, the rest of the Pirates become her followers, and she now has a new army to command. The fate of the Colossus is unknown. It may be in the fight above Phaaze, in which case is then likely destroyed.

Etymology

• The original meaning of the word in Ancient Greek refers to a giant statue.
  The ship being named the Colossus likely refers to its enormous size, as it was shown to contain what looks like an infinitely massive hall of stored Phazon.

Development data

The cutscene that features this room is attached to the G.F.S. Olympus World Map.

Gallery

Pirates load Phazon cargo onto the Colossus, unknowing of Dark Samus within, from the Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Preview.

What looks like the entrance to the massive storage chamber.

The seemingly endless hallway of Phazon pods.