Escape Pod Bay is a small room on SkyTown on Elysia. It appears in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
Description[]
Samus, having narrowly escaped the Spire Pod's destruction, disembarks from her Escape Pod here in a landing cradle, where it remains for the game's duration. This constitutes the room as a "Landing Site", albeit a non-traditional one (i.e. she cannot land her Gunship here). As she leaves, Aurora Unit 217 will send her a transmission requesting that she infiltrate the Elysia Seed. She can revisit this room afterwards - and before she even travels to the Spire - but there is little reason for her to do so.
Whether any other landing cradles exist on SkyTown or other Chozo-inhabited planets is unknown.
Connecting rooms[]
Inhabitants[]
The pod in its landing cradle.
- Steamspiders (crawling out from the ceiling in a cutscene)
Items[]
- Gold Credit
- This Bonus Credit is obtained from destroying the Leviathan Shield.
Scans[]
- Landing cradle
- "Structure appears to be a landing cradle designed for small evacuation pods."
- Energy generator
- "Energy generator feeds power into the landing cradle for the recharging of evacuation pods."
Development notes[]
The room's internal name is 00_skytown_escapelanding. The keyword skytown indicates Skytown, Elysia, and the prefix 00 indicates that this is a utility room.
Trivia[]
- Interestingly, the loading zone for the detached Spire exists far out-of-bounds from this room. Accessing this loading zone will allow Samus to immediately warp to the "defend the Spire" mission. It is possible to reach this loading zone using a few out-of-bounds tricks in Landing Site A. Speedrunners commonly go out-of-bounds in this room to avoid collecting the Theronian Bomb components.[1]
References[]
- ^ Claris. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Speedrun (1:46:52.600). YouTube. March 1, 2017. Retrieved August 12, 2022.