FS-176

FS-176Nintendo Official Guide Book for Super Metroid pg. 16Metroid: Volume 1 pg. 37 is a star in the Spiral Sector of the cosmos. Its star system is named the Tallon systemDescription for Tallon IV on the Metroid Prime website and includes the planets Zebes, Twin Tabula, Oormine II, Bilium, and Tallon IV, in addition to an asteroid belt. A scan of the star system and detection of a "massive energy spike" is what led the Space Pirates to Tallon IV, where they discovered Phazon.
This star and the objects surrounding it are displayed on an astronomical holographic projector in the Glacier One Observatory, a Space Pirate facility in Metroid Prime. The star itself is not scannable there.
In the North Atrium of the Chozo Ruins, there are Chozo ornaments paying tribute to FS-176. Their scan reads: "Chozo sculpture crafted in honor of Tallon's star."
==Official data==
===Metroid Prime website===
"...A Wanderer-Class planet, Tallon IV is one of two worlds within the Tallon system capable of sustaining life. Tallon IV follows an unusual retrograde orbit of 4.3 standard millicycles. Orbiting 778,000,000 km from the only star within the system, Tallon IV was at one time a main outpost of the Chozo..."
==Development notes==
Datamining of Metroid Prime Remastered has uncovered scans for additional planets on the astronomical holographic projector. One scan in this group refers to FS-176 as Star Helialis and places it in the Gold Colossus class. The additional planets are named Oormine II (identical to an existing planet), Miteralis (a name seemingly repurposed for the disease present on Bilium), Ariolia and Viprace. The filenames for these entries indicate that FS-176 was originally intended to have 9 orbiting planets in total, similar to Earth's Sun before Pluto was delisted as a planet.
Yet another unused scan names the Leviathan that struck Tallon IV as Meteor Ovus.
==Trivia==
*In the piece of Chozo Lore entitled Statuary in the original North American version of Metroid Prime, it is stated that the Chozo have left their mystical and mysterious statues "on planets across the solar system". However, the only planet in the FS-176 solar system besides Tallon IV that they are known to have inhabited is Zebes. According to the scans in the Observatory, planets Twin Tabula and Bilium are considered uninhabitable due to deadly virus outbreaks and Oormine II is also considered uninhabitable due to fierce nuclear dust storms. Unless the Chozo possessed the technology and/or natural defenses to tolerate living under these hostile conditions, or the bird-like race had at one point inhabited one or more of these planets prior to the appearance of the viruses and storms, the statement declared in Statuary is likely to be false. Since there is a modified set of Chozo Lore in the PAL and Wii versions of the game, the Lore is now considered non-canon.
*In Super Smash Bros. Melee's Adventure Mode, the character in use visits Pop Star from the Kirby series almost immediately after escaping Brinstar, even showing a transition cutscene where Zebes explodes and the camera pans to Pop Star. Thus, Pop Star is (non-canonically) a planet in the FS-176 system.
*In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, when Mario and Luigi watch a news report about a water main break in Brooklyn, the news ticker includes a headline about a signal detected in Star System FS-176.Every Super Mario Bros. Movie Easter Egg
==Gallery==
FS-176 Observatory Model.png|Astronomical holographic projector model.
North Atrium.jpg|North Atrium tributary ornament
FS-176 Main Plaza.png|FS-176 as seen from the Main Plaza
Alcove entrance dolphin hd.jpg|Alcove
Bilium - Remastered.png|Bilium
Oormine II - Remastered.png|Oormine II
File:Planet Zebes.png|Zebes
Tallon IV Seen From Space.jpg|Tallon IV
TwinTabula - Remastered.png|Twin Tabula
Fs-176.PNG|Artwork released in the Metroid Prime Trilogy art booklet.
UnusedPlanetsScan.png|Unused scan images seen in concept art, likely intended to represent planets orbiting FS-176.
Mfend2njp.png|FS-176, as seen from Zebes in a Child Mode flashback ending to Metroid Fusion.
Observatory FS-176 Hologram (cutscene) Remastered.png|The Observatory projection of FS-176 from Metroid Prime Remastered .
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