Skybridge Hera

Skybridge Hera is a room on SkyTown. It appears in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
==Description==
Similar to Skybridge Athene, although larger, Skybridge Hera consists of a bridge suspended over the vast abyss of Elysia below. This bridge is unstable, and would collapse if enough weight was placed onto it.
When Samus enters this room, there will be two dilapidated gates in front of her, which she can remove. This is the end of the floor, and Samus will drop onto a more unstable portion of the bridge. Scanning it will recommend that Samus does not traverse it, but she has no choice. As she continues, she will come across parts of Steambots that the Steamlord will reanimate. She has a choice to either destroy them or to avoid them and keep moving. Once Samus removes the second dilapidated gate at the end of the bridge, it will collapse and fall, taking the Steambots with it if they were not destroyed while Samus casually walks on the edge of the nearby remaining walkway. If the Steambots were ignored, a Friend Voucher for "Stylish Kill" will be awarded.
When Samus returns with the Boost Ball, she can operate two Spinners to energize a Kinetic Orb Cannon, which enables another way of crossing the chasm now that the bridge is gone. In the event of future return trips, Samus may also utilize her Screw Attack to cross the large gap between the remaining walkways.
==Connecting rooms==
*Junction (via Blue Door)
*Maintenance Shaft GP (via Blue Door)
==Inhabitants==
*Steamlord (disappears upon Samus's entry)
*6 "Dragoon" Battle Drones
*4 Steambots
==Items==
;Missile Expansion
:Located behind the gate, inside a middle pillar.
==Scans==
;Dilapidated gate
:"Dilapidated gate secures the bridge to the pod. Hinges look like they could easily be ripped from their mounting."
;Bridge
:"Structural integrity at critical. Support structures compromised. Traversal not recommended."
;Kinetic Orb Cannon (offline)
:"Cannon is without power. A kinetic charge should be sufficient to energize systems."
==Etymology==
*Hera (pronounced /ˈhɪərə/; Greek Ήρα, Hēra, equivalently Ήρη, Hērē, in Ionic and Homer) was the wife and one of three sisters of Zeus in the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology. Her chief function was as the goddess of women and marriage.
==Development notes==
The room's internal name is 0z03_skytown_cannon, referencing the Kinetic Orb Cannon that must be used after the bridge falls. The keyword skytown indicates Skytown, Elysia, and the prefix 0z03 indicates that this is the third of 8 sets of exterior pod junction throughout the planet.
==Trivia==
*If the X-Ray Visor is used via hacking (or sequence breaks are used to bypass this room's events before obtaining the X-Ray Visor), Samus will be able to see the Steamlord hovering above the pile of Steambots at the soon to be collapsing bridge.
**This allows Samus to fire at and ultimately defeat the said Steamlord, it will not retaliate against her directly (besides powerful contact damage when the X-Ray Visor is active) and if destroyed quickly enough, the Steambot flag in this room will not be triggered. If the Steamlord is completely removed from this room, it will not appear in the collapsing bridge cutscene. Should the Steamlord be left alone after being hit by Samus's weapons, it will commence with the Steambots' activation. 
**Oddly enough, the Stylish Kill voucher can still be obtained after the Steamlord's destruction despite the Steambots disintegrating from the Steamlord's destruction (though the Steambot piles will still appear during the bridge's collapse cutscene). It is possible the room only checks to see if Samus destroyed any of the Steambots prior to destroying the walkway.
==Gallery==
File:Ben_Sprout_wireframe_render_elysia_Skybridge_Hera.gif|Ben Sprout wireframe render
Skybridge Hera Map.png|Map of Skybridge Hera.
Stylish Kill Voucher.png|Samus obtains the Stylish Kill Voucher.
Skybridge Hera Drones.png|Samus encountering "Dragoon" Battle Drones.
Skybridge Hera Steamlord Steambot revive.png|The Steamlord and Steambots in the room.
Skybridge Hera Steamlord X-Ray 2.png|The Steamlord in this room seen via X-Ray Visor (via hacking).
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