Temple Grounds

Temple Grounds
The Temple Grounds
Planet	Aether
Environment	Mountainous
Sub-Areas	3 Sub-areas: Splinter Hive GFMC area Ruins area
Bosses	Dark Missile Trooper
Upgrades	Missile Launcher, Seeker Launcher, Sunburst
Connected areas	By elevators: Torvus Bog, Agon Wastes, Sanctuary Fortress and Great Temple By portals: Sky Temple Grounds
Distinctfeatures	Crash site of the GFMC, Landing Site of Samus Aran
Map	[1]

The Temple Grounds (known as the Gates of Judgement Luminotheus in the Japanese release) is a large area on the Temple Mountain on Aether. It is called such due to the fact that the Great Temple is in the center. Many vermin like Splinters are commonly found here, along with odd plantlife resembling trees. It acts as a sort of hub area in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, with elevators to Torvus, Agon, and Sanctuary Fortress that Samus Aran uses to travel to these regions initially during her mission. The Dark Aether version of this region is the Sky Temple Grounds.

The color code of the Temple Grounds is Violet. In A-Kul's Clues for the Sky Temple Keys, she refers to it as a "holy land".

Areas and main rooms

This sector can be divided into three main areas:

Splinter Hive (subterranean area)

This area is mostly underground and is the first area to be explored in the game by Samus. It has traces of a previous attempt to colonize the area by the GFMC Task Force Herakles. The hive is full of dead troopers reanimated by the Ing, along with lifeless marine corpses and Splinters.

Main rooms

• Landing Site

GFMC area (east area)

The satellite installed by Federation forces.

This area was colonized by the GFMC and is partially industrialised. It also has many Luminoth ruins, and includes the elevators to the Agon Wastes and the Sanctuary Fortress. Some dead Galactic Federation troopers can be found here, killed by Splinters or other local predators.

Main rooms

• Industrial Site
• Temple Assembly Site
• Communication Area
• GFMC Compound

Several Luminoth displays.

Ruins area (west area)

The rest of the area is mostly abandoned, sometimes with Space Pirates appearing in some rooms. It is mostly full of Luminoth ruins. This area also includes the transport to the Torvus Bog.

Main rooms

• Meeting Grounds
• Hall of Honored Dead
• Grand Windchamber

Music

• The eerie theme that plays in the Splinter Hive area was later remixed as Shadows in Metroid Prime Hunters.
• Leading up to the Industrial Site, the Moth Temple Intro theme will play.
• Upon entering the Industrial Site, Moth Temple Reveal Intro plays and becomes the main theme of the Temple Grounds from that point.

Gallery

The downed G.F.S. Tyr.

The scenery surrounding the Temple Grounds.

An earlier version of the area's skybox, as seen in the Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Bonus Disc, with a prominent moon.

See also

• List of rooms in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Bonus Disc/Temple Grounds