The Vault is a large, open room in the Sanctuary Fortress on Aether. It appears in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.
Description[]
The room has no ceiling or floor, with a long drop if Samus happens to fall. A massive cylindrical Luminoth vault chamber can be entered, but it covers up an important item for further exploration: the Screw Attack. As no known weapon can penetrate the chamber, Samus must instead complete a puzzle. At the bottom of her chamber, there is an Interface Module that, once scanned, lowers a bridge for Samus to use to gain access to a Dark Portal. This will lead her to the Vault Attack Portal, and she must cross the chasm using the Grapple Points to reach the other side, which contains a Light Portal. This will take Samus to the other side of the Vault, where she must jump to several platforms containing Luminoth laser turrets, arrays that will channel solar energy at the Luminoth vault chamber. Samus has to operate several Spinners on the platforms to rotate them properly, and then make her way back to the interior of the Luminoth vault chamber, where she can set a Morph Ball Bomb in a Bomb Slot and thus cause the Luminoth vault chamber to retract, providing her access to the Screw Attack.
Connecting rooms[]
- Grand Abyss (via Blue Door)
- Vault Attack Portal (2 Dark Portals)
Inhabitants[]
- 5 Rezbits (1 per spinner + 1 on entry)
- "Mechanism: Rezbit
- Rogue patrol drone.
- Variable beam cannon and digital virus delivery system makes target very dangerous. Barrier shield and phasing power help protect it from damage."
Items[]
The room from a corner.
- Screw Attack
- See above.
Scans[]
- Portal generation system
- "System analysis complete. Console used to energize and open a portal to Dark Aether, currently online. Portal generation system initiated."
- Luminoth vault chamber
- "Structural analysis complete. This is a Luminoth vault chamber. Vault is composed of numerous super-alloys, all of Luminoth origin. No known weapon system can destroy this structure."
- Bomb Slot
- "Device: Bomb Slot
Powered system control unit.
Insert the Morph Ball into the slot then detonate a Bomb.
This will transfer energy from the slot to the device connected to it."
- Interface Module
- "System initiated.
Bridge motivators engaged.
Bridge will remain locked in position once movement cycle is complete."
- Dark Portal (active)
- "This portal is active.
Walk into the portal to transport to Dark Aether. Extreme caution recommended once transit is complete."
- Spinner
- "Device: Spinner
- Boost-powered control system.
- Use the Boost Ball ability of the Morph Ball when inside a spinner to activate the device it powers."
- Spinner (offline)
- "Spinner unit offline.
- Unable to restore function to this unit."
- Luminoth laser turret (online)
- "Structural analysis complete. Luminoth laser turret is aimed with a Spinner system. You have been given access to the Spinner control system."
- Luminoth laser turret (offline)
- "Structural analysis complete. Luminoth laser turret is locked in place. Spinner system offline."
- Screw Attack
- "Screw Attack"
Trivia[]
- This room's internal name is 05_cliff_engineroom.
- If Samus starts to grapple in the Vault Attack Portal, but quickly moves backwards into the Light Portal, she will reappear in the Vault, but will have her arm raised in the air as if she is grappling something, although she is not. This glitch persists if she travels between dimensions again, but using the Grapple Beam a second time properly will fix it.
- This is the only known room in the game with an error present while scanning the Light Portal and Dark Portal on Light Aether and Dark Aether, respectively. When scanning the Dark Portal on Light Aether, the game will refer to it as a Light Portal, and when scanning the Light Portal on Dark Aether, the game will refer to it as a Dark Portal.
- Some digital images that represent the Vault's locking system are present near the door to it from the Grand Abyss.