- Pirate Ship is also a name used in Nintendo Power volume 164 to refer to the crashed Frigate Orpheon in Metroid Prime.
Pirate Ships defending planet Phaaze.
Space Pirate destroyers (called a Pirate Ship by Elben Schafers on his website) are spacecraft used by the Space Pirates in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.
Appearance[]
The Space Pirate destroyer is easily distinguished by the three massive prongs extending forward from its spiked main body. These encircle a large, front-mounted laser cannon, which can fire a beam powerful enough to destroy a Griffin-class frigate with a single shot, though it seems to take more firepower to destroy an Olympus-class battleship. The destroyer is also capable of dropping explosive energy bursts, as demonstrated when one attempted to kill Samus Aran via bombing run when she first arrived at the Temple of Bryyo.
At least five were deployed during the Pirate invasion on Norion, and can be seen from the windows of the Flag Bridge aboard the G.F.S. Olympus. One appears flying over the Temple of Bryyo when Samus first enters, and drops off several Pirates before departing. Several Space Pirate destroyers defend Phaaze, and appear to have Phazon growths on the back of their central structure. These growths explode shortly before the blast from the planet's destruction hits them.
The ship that appears in the Temple of Bryyo is named Pirate Cruiser in the level data.
Official data[]
Scan (Docking Bay 5 (G.F.S. Valhalla))[]
- Griffin-class frigate wreckage
- "Federation frigate wreckage. Hull appears to have taken a direct hit from a Space Pirate destroyer."
In other games[]
A Space Pirate Destroyer, as seen in Beyond
Space Pirate Destroyers are featured in the introduction sequence of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, lacking the large Phazon growth on the sides, but otherwise look the same as in Corruption. Destruction of their top cannons apparently do critical damage to the ship, as evidence by it being engulfed in explosions after Samus managed to take them out with charged weapons on her Gunship during the beginning cutscene.
Gallery[]
| Space Pirate Vehicles | |
|---|---|
| Large Spacecraft | Flagship • Mother Ship • Orpheon • Siriacus • Vol Paragom • Starship • Leviathan Battleship • Destroyer • Colossus • Doomseye Leviathan-class capital ship • Marauder-class battleship • Plunderer-class cruiser • Dragüd's Ship |
| Space fighters | Zebesian Pirate Ship • Space Pirate vessel • Boarding Pod • Missile Transport (Elite) • Pirate Warship Fang-class fighter • Pirate Fighter |
| Terrestrial vehicles |
"Shrike" Class Assault Skiff • ATC • Assault Skiff • Dropship |
| Others | Escape Pod • Escape Ship • 565-PH Hellfire • Dive Spike |