Battleground

The Battleground is a room in the Dark Agon Wastes. It appears in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.
==Description==
A large and spacious room comprised of two different elevations. The bottom floor contains much sand with flat surfaces and Ing biology. The top floor contains a few ledges spread apart from each other. There doesn't appear to be a way to reach the top elevation from the bottom floor. This room houses much Ing presence, such as a large amount of Bladepods, a few Ingclaws on one side of the room, and multiple Warrior Ing. This room also uniquely houses two types of wall growths situated high above the walls in both purple and turquoise colorations; it is unclear what these are exactly. Large Ingworm-like structures can be seen residing in room's ceiling areas, creating red-hole crevasses on the walls. Some structures contain or are near Red Eye cores.
On first visit, a Dark Temple Key can be seen within the middle of a Safe Zone in the center of the room. When Samus first enters this Safe Zone, a Warrior Ing steals the Key. Samus combats it and 5 other Warrior Ing to acquire this Key. Unless Sequence Breaking was involved to skip this room's first visit, Samus returns to this room after obtaining the Dark Visor to discover the location of a hidden Sky Temple Key. It is housed on a small cliff above the Ingclaw area, requiring the use of Invisible platforms to reach the Flying Ing Cache containing it.
The room's Light Aether equivalent is the Central Mining Station.
==Connecting rooms==
*Double Path (via two white hatches)
*Warrior's Walk (via Green Hatch)
==Inhabitants==
;6 Warrior Ing (max 2 at any time)
:"Morphology: Warrior IngThe soldiers of the Ing Horde.Shapeshifting wallcrawler. Dangerous combatant in melee and at range. Dislikes bright light."
;Flying Ing Cache
:"Morphology: Flying Ing Cache
:Flying bearer unit of the Ing Horde.
:Creature ingests objects of value to the Hive. Only its death will release the object within."
==Items==
;Dark Agon Temple Key 3
: Samus must defeat all the Warrior Ing.
;Key of J-Stl
: The Dark Visor will reveal some invisible platforms. Samus must use them to reach the other side, and then defeat the Flying Ing Cache.
==Scans==
;Bladepod
:"Morphology: BladepodLiving storage units of the Ing Horde.These Ing morph their bodies around useful items to protect them. They rely on larger Ing for protection."
;Ingclaw
:"Morphology: IngclawToxin-spewing immobile darkling.Target surrounded by impenetrable shell. Produces deadly vapor."
;Ing Webtrap
:"Morpholgy: Ing WebtrapSemi-sentient living snares.Creature is virtually indestructible, and can only be undone by killing the Ing that commands it."
;Dark Agon Temple Key
:"Dark Agon Temple KeyOne of three needed to open the Dark Agon Temple."
==Development data==
Two Ing growths appear within the data of the Prime World Editor. A turquoise growth is internally known as an Ing Generator while a purple one is named Ing Spawner. It is unknown what these two objects' roles are, as they appear to do nothing in-game and give off the impression of being merely a room cosmetic. Curiously, one purple growth is listed as a "Generator", while two turquoise growths above the White hatch doors are listed as "Spawners". The reason for this is unclear. Other keywords followed by these names are "grasp" and "alt", suggesting possible roles.
The room's internal name is 06_sand_alamofront_dark. This name, along with its light world counterpart and other internally named rooms containing Alamo that link to these two rooms appropriately, appears to be a developmental reference to the real life Battle of the Alamo, suggesting part of the Agon Wastes was inspired by the in-universe location of the same name. The name "Alamo" may have also likely been chosen due to the amount of large-scale battles taking place within the area. The "front" in the title likely represents the main entrance to the "Alamo" portion of the Agon Wastes/Dark Agon Wastes.
==Trivia==
*This is the only room in the game with two temple keys, the Sky and the Dark Temple Keys.
**This may be the origin for the name "Battleground", as whenever Samus enters the room, Warrior Ing appear, probably to defend both of the keys.
*The room is also the location of the only encounter with Ing Webtraps.
==Gallery==
Battleground DAW-MP2.PNG|The room from the top floor, post stolen Planetary Energy.
Echoes Temple Keys (Gamecube).png|A Dark Agon Temple Key on the left, with a Sky Temple Key on the right.
Battleground Map.png|Room seen on the Map.
Category:Rooms
Category:Dark Agon Wastes
Category:Dark Temple Keys