Control Tower (Norion)

Control Tower
Samus and the other Hunters in the Control Tower
Game	Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Planet/Ship	Norion
Notablefeatures	Targeting equipment for aiming the planet's Defense Cannon, large window
Significance	Where the defense system is controlled, where Samus and the other hunters are corrupted by Phazon
Inhabitants	Dark Samus

Gandrayda fights Dark Samus.

The Control Tower on Norion is a building equipped with targeting equipment for aiming the planet's Defense Cannon. The tower's entrance is protected by a powered door crafted out of Jovian steel. The door must have power from Generators A, B and C to open. Samus Aran, Ghor, Rundas and Gandrayda run to the Control Tower after Samus and Rundas have activated the generators, and prepare to fire the Defense Cannon when Dark Samus appears, crashing through the window and shooting down all the hunters but Samus. They quickly recover before Dark Samus blasts all of them with Phazon, corrupting their bodies before leaving, seemingly having defeated them. However, Samus excessively forces herself to activate the Defense Cannon, saving the planet from the approaching Leviathan. She then falls into a coma for one month, while the other hunters are only comatose for a few weeks.

For the remainder of the game, the Control Tower is not accessible, due to repairs.

The room itself is relatively unremarkable, there is a large window (destroyed by Dark Samus) overlooking the base, as well as several computer terminals on top of the one connected to the Defense Cannon.

Connecting rooms

• Tower Elevator (via Blue Door)

Trivia

• The Control Tower, Subchamber 5 and the Portal Site are the only rooms in the Metroid Prime Trilogy with no actual gameplay, as all the events that take place in these rooms happen in scripted scenes.