The Ventilation Shaft is a room on the G.F.S. Valhalla. It appears in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. This room consists of a long Morph Ball tunnel, which Samus must follow to acquire a Ship Missile Expansion after restoring power to the Xenoresearch Lab. Although this room is limited to only explorable within a Morph Ball-sized tunnel, this room is much larger outside of the tunnel. A walkway (likely used for maintenance purposes) connects between two doors leading to other portions of the flagship. This walkway appears in a littered and mangled mess, having open space between it and the deep floors below. The doors in this room remain in a locked status and Samus is never able to reach or explore past them. Two deceased Federation Marines are seen dangling on wires, indicating they fell off or were launched from the walkway toward their demise.
This room's Olympus counterpart is the similarly named Ventilation Shaft. Both are built similar and behave near identical, with Samus following down a similar path.
Conecting rooms[]
- Xenoresearch Lab (via Morph Ball tunnel)
- MedLab Alpha (via Morph Ball tunnel)
Development notes[]
The room's internal name is 0g_abandoned_tunneldrop, named after its G.F.S. Olympus counterpart h10_gfship_tunneldrop (Repair Bay Shaft) which is also a Morph Ball tunnel that leads out of the Xenoresearch Lab. However, the two rooms connect to different destinations on their respective ships, with the G.F.S. Olympus version leading to the Disposal Chamber, and the G.F.S. Valhalla version leading to MedLab Alpha.
The keyword abandoned indicates the G.F.S. Valhalla, and the alphabetic prefix 0g indicates that this is the seventh of 11 junction rooms on the G.F.S. Valhalla.
Trivia[]
- One of the room's two hanging corpses is identified as Michael Kelbaugh in the Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Preview.
Gallery[]
| G.F.S. Valhalla Rooms in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption | |
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| G.F.S. Valhalla | Docking Bay 5 • Hangar A Access • Repair Bay • Stairwell • Weapons Cache • Security Station Security Access • MedLab Alpha • Auxiliary Lift • Port Observation Deck • Xenoresearch Lab Ventilation Shaft • Junction A • Munitions Locker • Aurora Access • Aurora Chamber Control Room Access • Control Room |