A containment system is an elaborate security system employed by the Luminoth in the Hall of Honored Dead during Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. Samus is required to disable it in order to obtain the Seeker Launcher.
Description[]
The Seeker Launcher is held within a central containment chamber that is invulnerable to all of Samus's weapons. Samus must raise a tall circular structure through using a number of Spinners in the room. These Spinners are color-coded red, blue, yellow, and purple. They rotate a number of rings on the floor around the containment chamber into place; the rings glow gold when they are all locked together. The exact order of the Spinners is difficult to pin down, so it is best for Samus to keep experimenting with each Spinner until they are all aligned, similar to a Rubik's cube. Once the rings are aligned, a tall circular structure will rise around the rings. Lasers will be emitted through the mouths of the Luminoth Sentinel statues on the walls and be reflected onto the glass chamber, heating it up until it shatters. The Seeker Launcher can then be collected.
In the Hall of Honored Dead's Dark Aether counterpart, the Sky Temple Gateway, the same structure is present, although it serves a different purpose. It is always active, and its ten pillars (more than the Hall of Honored Dead's four) each have a slot for a Sky Temple Key. When Samus has recovered all nine of the keys, they enter the slots, and the structure sinks into the ground, enabling a Light Shaft that will transport Samus into the Sky Temple.
Official data[]
Scans (Hall of Honored Dead)[]
- Central containment chamber
- "Structural analysis complete.
Object is part of a containment system.
It is secured by a series of rotating locks around it, which are in turn controlled by a group of Spinners." - Beam emitter structure
- "Structural analysis complete.
Structure is part of a security system.
Powerful beam emitters are tuned to the frequency needed to shatter the central containment chamber."