Biosphere Test Area

The Biosphere Test Area is a room in Sector 1 / Biosphere. It appears in Metroid: Other M. 
==Description==
The room appears as a simple plain. The entire environment, like other regions of the BOTTLE SHIP, is likely simulated with an unseen holographic projector. Hills and cliffs can be seen in the distance, while the playable part of the room is lined with bushes, small trees, patches of grass and boulders. The right corner of the room features large green flowers and a broken, blue transport vehicle.Metroid: Other M Premiere Edition, page 75: "Turn around and examine the green pile of goo leading back toward one of the transport vehicles.When you reach the vehicle, you find the small white fuzzy creature, now dead, laying by the side of the car. It too has been torn apart ... from the inside. When Adam hears about what just occurred, he tracks the spike-tail to Sector 3 - your new destination." The vehicle has six tires, some of which have been flattened or twisted off. In the back seat is a spare tire and what might be a gas tank. It is likely that this particular vehicle, and others like it were used to transport materials to and from the Exam Center.
The open nature of this room, its proximity to a research facility and its name indicate that it was used by the ringleaders to test the potential of creatures onboard as bioweapons for a special-forces unit. When viewing the Test Area from the main observation deck in the Exam Center, Anthony Higgs remarks to Samus that it resembles the old Galactic Federation training grounds.
==Role==
After arriving in the Biosphere, Samus is tasked with rendezvousing with the 07th Platoon in this room. Lyle Smithsonian came to this area to secure it. Upon arriving, Samus automatically runs across the room's plain and enters the Exam Center, and cannot leave as the door locks.
Later, after the soldiers leave the Exam Center, Samus returns to the main observation deck and observes them fending off Reos, Griptians and a Mystery Creature, and rushes to their aid. The creature attacks Samus and pins her down, while the other enemies distract the platoon and leave them unable to help her. Anthony later breaks away from the group and shoots the Mystery Creature off of Samus. It escapes by leaping through a previously invisible door concealed by the hologram in the room. Anthony asks Samus if she is all right.
Afterward, K.G. Misawa calls them over, the other soldiers having discovered Lyle Smithsonian's body.
While the soldiers mourn their comrade, Samus automatically enters Search View. Turning around, she notices a patch of green blood on the grass, which leads behind a transport vehicle. There, she discovers the husk of the small white creature that had been stalking her through the Biosphere. Adam contacts her with new orders.
The room is briefly playable at this point, but there is nothing to do except proceed into the long elevator shaft, through which Samus follows the Mystery Creature. After leaving this room, it becomes inaccessible for the rest of the game.
==Connecting rooms==
*"Specimen catwalk" (via automatic door)
*Exam Center (via automatic door)
*Long elevator shaft (via automatic door)
==Inhabitants==
Note: All of these are encountered after Samus exits the Exam Center.
*Mystery Creature (boss)
*5 Reos (cutscene only)
*2 Griptians (cutscene only)
*Anthony Higgs (non-hostile)
*Maurice Favreau (non-hostile)
*James Pierce (non-hostile)
*K.G. Misawa (non-hostile)
==Trivia==
*This is the only room in the game where the "An Unfortunate Discovery" music is heard.
*Lyle's body is found near the large flowers, causing the scene to resemble a makeshift "funeral" of sorts.
==Gallery==
Biosphere_Test_Area.jpg|The Exam Center.
File:Biosphere Test Area - Samus running in.png|Samus running across the plain.
File:Biosphere Test Area - soldiers in Search View.png|Samus's perspective as she exits the Exam Center.
File:Biosphere Test Area - Mystery Creature jumping down.png|The Mystery Creature about to land on Samus.
File:Biosphere Test Area - cliffs and vegetation.png|Cliffs and vegetation behind the soldiers.
Ridley shot.jpg|The Mystery Creature is blasted off of Samus.
Lyle dead flowers.png|The soldiers gathered around Lyle's body.
Transport vehicle.png|The transport vehicle in Search View.
Ridley's blood.jpg|The patch of Little Birdie's blood.
Little Birdie exuviae.jpg|Little Birdie's husk.
File:Biosphere Test Area - Samus with Little Birdie's body and transport vehicle.png|Samus after finding the husk.
File:Biosphere Test Area Model.png|A BRRES model of the Biosphere Test Area.
==References==
Category:Rooms
Category:Biosphere
Category:Boss Rooms