Samus Aran

(genetically enhanced with Chozo DNA from Maru of the Cho'za tribe and a metroid larva.)

### Homeworld

Born on Terra, orphaned on colony K-2L at age three, raised on Zebes.

### Aliases

*Varia*(Chozo name)
Ladyhawk(nickname given by Ian Malkovich)
Hatchling
Little Bird(nickname given by Maru)

### Parents

John Aran
Virginia Stark-Aran
Maru(Adopted father and genetic donor)

### Affiliation

Galactic Federation, Terran Confederation, Chozo

### Player

Chozo Huntress

The daughter of war veterans John Aran and Virginia Stark-Aran, Samus lost her parents during a Kromus raid on her home of K-2L. In the aftermath, she was adopted by the Chozo tiercel Maru and taken to Zebes, where she was infused with Maru's DNA and raised to become a warrior.

## Biography

Born in Coven City, Iowa in the last year of the Kromus war, Samus knew the price of war before she even said her first words. As the daughter of a pair of ÆSIR veterans, Samus already had some influences toward the life of a soldier from the moment she was born. Not more than two months old when her mother placed her into the care of her grandmother for the remaining duration of the Kromus War, the young Aran would not see her parents again until she was over a year old, after John and Virginia Aran had taken part in the horrific Siege of Krom. This lack of early presence by both her parents was a concern, though the reasons were definable as necessary. Once reunited with her parents, Samus was given what most could have considered a happy childhood.

The family moved to mining outpost colony K-2L when her father accepted a position as chief of security and de facto head of operations for the afloraltite mines, and Samus was able to interact on a daily basis with other children who had grown up on the colony. She also had exposure to a number of non-Terran individuals who came to trade with the mining colony, including a number of Chozo whom her father was familiar with. It is up to this point that one could consider Samus to have been experiencing a solid healthy lifestyle, with few things that could damage her mental state.

This all changed just prior to her fourth birthday, when Samus was exposed to the events that would shape her mind and soul for years to come; the invasion of K-2L. A Kromus raiding party, led by the draconic alien Ridley, destroyed her home, and her mother was murdered in front of her by Ridley. Her father died in an attempt to take Ridley out, using a stripped down pulse rifle and overloading an afloraltite storage cell in a kamikaze attack. In the aftermath, Samus was found and rescued by Maru, who took her to the Chozo’s home on Zebes and began to treat her with DNA infusion of his own genetic code to help her become stronger and more adaptable to the harsh biosphere of Zebes. Despite belief by the Chozo’s super computer, the Mother Brain, that Samus would not be able to survive and would die within weeks, Aran not only adapted her new environment, but began to exceed even the best expectations.

As the child became an adolescent, so did the Chozo realize that Samus was pushing herself further and further in pursuit of never letting her tragedy repeat itself. To that end, perhaps realizing the meaning of a prophecy from the ancient peak of their own ancestors, Maru designed an augmentative powered armor suit for Samus, constructed by the Mother Brain and the Tourian foundries, and began to train her as best he could in the ancient ways of the Chozo’s warrior ancestors. This led to the day, shortly after her fourteenth birthday, that Samus left the Chozo and Zebes to return to her birthplace of Terra, and rejoined human civilization, despite finding she was very much an outsider. She quickly found her parent's legacy helped her find friends in the Malkoviches and Admiral Castor Dane, who had not only served as a commanding officer to her father, but also sympathized with her as someone who also lost their family to the Kromus hordes. She was enrolled in the Confederation Army Academy with Admiral Dane's aid, where she met the Malkovich Brothers and several of Adam's unit, including Anthony Higgs, as part of her field training and practical command learning.

Even early on as those early days, Samus found Ian Malkovich to be a special friend beyond the few others she made, and when he was killed in a Repair and Rescue mission that went wrong and claimed four others, she took the loss harder than many expected, discharged from the officer academy on psychological grounds, and returned to Zebes at seventeen to resume her learning with her adopted father and escape the pain of losing such a close friend. For several months, Samus made every effort to reintegrate into Chozo society, but that all came crashing to a horrifying end when the Kromus Pirates invaded, led by the thought dead Ridley, and a majority of the Zebes Nest was killed while Maru sent Samus to safety along with her Powered Suit in a special gunship. Following an attempt by the Confederation to storm Zebes ending in disaster, Samus was able to convince Admiral Dane and Federation Chairman Arba'dos Kea'ton to let her infiltrate the planet and free the remaining Chozo. Following her ship being shot down over Crateria and her infiltration of the Zebesian subterranean caverns, Samus eventually made her way into the server complex of Tourian, destroyed the Metroid cloning facility, and eliminated the Mother Brain.

## Physical Appearance

Samus is a young woman with a mostly muscular build, broad shoulders and a thick waist. Her face contrasts her physical build with softer features, wide blue-green eyes, and round cheeks that still have some baby fat. There is also a set of scars that run over her left eye and cheek that she's had since the massacre of K-2L. Her blonde hair is typically tied back in a ponytail with a red ribbon while her face is framed with several thick strands of hair. Typically, she has patches of soft blonde-white feathers that grow interspersed with the wisp hairs on the back of her neck.

Most comfortable in as casual clothing as she can wear, Samus avoids formal or uniform attire if possible. She often wears a shorts and tank-top combo with an active vest and combat boots. The reason for this is function and comfort, less about fashion. The famous “Zero Suit" is actually a lightly plated combat under suit called Zero Armor, and is necessary to summon and interface with her Chozo Powered Suit. She also has a number of track suit style shorts and sports top outfits that she occasionally wears as an alternative to her normal casual attire.

## Physical Abilities

Samus was enhanced at a very young age via genetic infusion of DNA and genome material donated by Maru. While the intention was to allow Samus increased survival and physical adaptability, the young age from which her genetic treatments began and set in increased not only her survival factors, but fundamentally altered her genetic structure to the point that Samus is essentially a hybrid of half-Chozo genotype. Her skeletal structure has slowly changed from solid type to hyper-dense hollow latticed bones, similar to the Chozo, while her muscle density increased as well by opening up stronger fiber ratios and increasing her physical strength well above the norm for her size and physical stature. Her lift capacity has risen to a factor of five and a half times that of a human female of her body mass in Olympian training state, able to bench press upward of half a metric ton, while her reaction and reflex speeds are five times that of a normal human, and she has a paced running speed of 56 kilometers an hour, with a minute sustained sprint of 88 to 96 kilometers an hour. Her jumping capability has reached two and a quarter meters for a straight powered vertical jump, and a four and a half meter horizontal leap within the gravitational conditions of Zebes, and even higher in conditions similar to Terra. Samus' body also heals at a higher rate than normal humans, while the increase in her metabolic rate makes Samus resistant to many toxins and poisons, as well as the effects of alcohol, making it very difficult for her to get inebriated. In addition to her augmented physical abilities, Samus has inherited a minor form of the rare Chozo precognitive “Distant Sight" gift, one that gives her a momentary “sense" of danger just before something might strike her. It’s not a perfect internal warning, as even if she senses something, Samus still can’t perfectly react to every attack that comes at her, but it has saved her life far more times than she likely realizes.

Due to her recent infusion of Metroid DNA to combat the Erris infestation that occured during her mission to SR388c, Samus is now immune to further parasite infestation, though she has exhibited a reduced resistance to extreme colds, and further side effects from this DNA splicing are still unknown.

## Equipment

### Powered Suit

Based on the war armors of the Ancient Chozo warriors, Samus' powered suit was designed with an emphasis on defense of the user and mobility. While constructed within the Tourian foundries by the Mother Brain, this armor was designed by Samus' adopted father, Maru, as a defensive weapons platform to aid in Samus' desire to prevent the tragedy that befell her from happening to others. In concept design, the powered suit is able to assimilate new suit features and weapons via specially designed modules, as well as incorporating foreign technologies. Unfortunately, due to the events on SR388 in her attempts to recover the The’náu research, her suit became infested by the Erris parasite and had to be jettisoned toward a singularity to prevent a breakout.

### Samus's Gunship

**Name:** *Thrush Eterna*
**Class:** Gunship
**Dimensions**: Length: 20.1168 meters
Width: 13.4112 meters
Height: 5.334 meters
**Weight:** 300 metric tons
**Occupancy:** 1 – can carry up to 4 passengers
**Atmospheric Speeds:** 1610 kph cruise, 2415 kph max
**Sublight Speeds:** 450 k/s cruise, 900 k/s max
**Overdrive speeds:** 3700 kph(Atmospheric)
**FTL Drive and Speeds:** Chozo Flux Drive, Mark 3 capability. 682 lightyears per hour maximum velocity equivalent.

The *Thrush Eterna* is a one-of-a-kind customized built and designed gunship, having been constructed on Zebes by the automated foundries within the Nest city under the supervision of Maru, Samus' adopted father. Its primary systems and defenses are of standard Tho'ha Chozo technology, with the exception of the highly modified Aetherite flux drive that powers the vessel's faster than light travel.

The flux drive contained in Samus's gunship is of an improvised design, and despite stability, barely is within sustainable limits. It was an attempt to compact the power and speeds of a much larger Mark 3 drive into a vessel a fraction of the intended size, and while successful, this ‘custom’ engine is prone to overheating if run at full acceleration capabilities for more than ten standard hour cycles without any kind of cool down period. As a result, a cooling period of four to five hours is needed for every ten to twelve hours at full velocity power. In addition, should the aetherite crystals used in the drive array to power the drive and allow access to the Cosmic Slipstream be removed, the drive will be incapable of any use beyond minimal supralight speeds.

Aside from the Tho'ha Chozo technologies used in constructing this gunship, it also carries a sensor shroud stealth system to cloak the vessel from sensor detection, though this does not prevent visual detection if looked directly on at close range. The *Thrush* also carries a stasis projection system for long term travel, fundamentally “locking" the subject in a field that nearly halts their body in a virtual freeze of “time”. The function is the same as a Sangheili stasis field, able to slow aging effects to a crawl.

## Image Gallery

Samus in her base armor suit.Samus' Powered Suit