Sky Temple

The Sky Temple on Dark Aether is the evil, twisted version of the Great Temple. It is where the Emperor Ing awaits Samus at the end of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. After Samus defeats the Emperor, she takes the last of the energy sustaining Dark Aether and must battle Dark Samus in the Sky Temple Gateway (located in the Grounds below the temple) and escape before the dimension collapses.
The exterior of the Sky Temple bears little aesthetic resemblance to its counterpart on Aether, incorporating the Ing architectural mainstays of black stone and Ingworms. The Temple is also isolated from the ground in that it seems to float high up in the air, accessible only by a Light Shaft (maps show that it floats higher than the Ing Hive Summit); unlike its Aether counterpart, the Sky Temple has no elevators leading up to it. The Sky Temple also lacks any Light Crystal or Light Beacons, likely due to no Luminoth warrior ever setting foot inside the lair. Finally, the layout of the Sky Temple itself is upside-down compared to the Great Temple.
The Sky Temple's exterior can be seen within four rooms in the Sky Temple Grounds: Plain of Dark Worship, Profane Path, War Ritual Grounds, and the Sky Temple Gateway. Any Planetary Energy not yet obtained will also be present, channeling its energy from the dark Energy Controllers toward the center of the Sky Temple, where the Sky Temple Energy Controller is stationed.
==See also==
*List of rooms in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes/Sky Temple‏‎
==Trivia==
*The Sky Temple is the smallest area in the game, containing three rooms. It is also the smallest final area in the Metroid Prime series, even smaller than the Impact Crater and Phaaze, the final areas of Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
:*Samus also has to defeat three main guardians (the Amorbis, Chykka, and Quadraxis) to get into the Sky Temple.
*The Light of Aether in this area is red but after defeating the Emperor Ing it becomes light yellow. This may suggest that the light was corrupted with dark energy when the Emperor Ing was alive.
:*Although the energy here was supposed to be in the Energy Controller room, the Emperor Ing took it to its lair upon Samus' arrival. The Sanctum where the Emperor is battled is the dark world equivalent to the Temple Sanctuary where the first boss is battled in the game.
*Sky Temple is also the name of an arena in the Mortal Kombat series.
*Interestingly, there is a window on the ground near the teleporter to the Sky Temple Grounds, and if Samus looks through it, the ground cannot be seen. Instead, a black hole-like object can be seen.
*It is implied through room names, the presence of massive quantities of Phazon, and the Emperor Ing guarding it that the Sky Temple is in fact the Aether Leviathan, similar to the Impact Crater, and that the Ing enshrined it and worshiped their creator as a god.
*Because the Sky Temple is flipped vertically, it is the only area in the Metroid Prime trilogy in which the Doors are raised above the ground, requiring Samus to jump in order to go through them.
*The Sky Temple shares its theme, Dark World Temple, with the Sky Temple Grounds.
*Only the Sky Temple's energy is required to be stolen in order to destabilize Dark Aether (seen via Sequence Breaking). Since the Light Suit would normally be needed to enter the Sky Temple, this means only Two Planetary Energy cores are required to destroy Dark Aether.
**It is possible to enter the Sky Temple without the Light Suit via hacking. Due to the lack of Light Crystals and Beacons, Samus will naturally continue to take damage at all times within the Sky Temple.
*Very curiously, the outside model of the Sky Temple seen from the Sky Temple Grounds has collision data for Samus's projectiles. This can only be seen using Out of bounds techniques as normally none of Samus's weapons is able to reach far enough to hit the Sky Temple's exterior.
**In certain areas of the Sky Temple Grounds, the Sky Temple exterior's model has no backside, only retaining one visible side. This is likely since it would be normally impossible to see the exterior model from its opposite side in whichever room it is loaded in.
*It is unclear as to why a Save Station is present if the Luminoth never reached the Sky Temple. It is believed this is the dark world's variant of the Save Station from Transport A Access and the dark counterpart was relocated to the Sky Temple Energy Controller as no dark equivalents of Transport Access A, B, and C exist by the time Samus reaches the Sky Temple. 
==Gallery==
Sky_Temple_Controller.png|The Sky Temple Energy Controller.
Sky_Temple_Light_of_Aether.png|The final Light of Aether
Cling_Ing.png|The energy gets taken by Emperor Ing
Sky_Temple_Controller_Screenshot.png|The center of the room
Sky_Temple_Save_Station_Online.png|The Save Station before the Countdown
Sky_Temple_Save_Station_Offline.png|The Save Station during the Countdown
Sky_Temple_EoA.png|Metroid Prime: Episode of Aether
Sky Temple Outside Close-Up.png|Close-up of the outer structure.
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