Agar

Homeworld of the Metroids.

### Atmosphere

Habitable to native fauna, but toxic to many hominid species unless protected by processes or specialized environment suits.

### Distinct features

Rocky terrain, caverns, aetherite veins, and Chozo Ruins. Homeworld of the Metroid species, the Erris Parasite, and mining colony for the The'nau tribe of Chozo.

The Nakara System, designated as **SR388** in Federation charts and G1.9+0.3 in old Terran astronomy catalogs, lays deep in the Core regions of the Sol-Daiban Galaxy, located 371 parsecs from the Al'byss cluster at the Galactic Core. It is an x-ray binary system consisting of a yellow-white star and a stellar mass singularity. **SR388-c,** as designated by the Federation and ***Ili Agár Nalíma*** by the Chozo, is a planet that was discovered by the Federation in 2976 following an unregistered probe beacon detected by the GFSV *Marina*. The system's coordinates are ***371° / 012° / 02°***, to be read as parsec distance from galactic core, degrees spinward, and degrees ascendant from galactic plane.

## Geography

The barren surface of Agár is notable for its rough, rocky and dry terrain, a result of frequent earthquakes in many regions, with a green-tinged atmosphere that is highly toxic to most unprotected non-native lifeforms. Severe storms were observed in the planet's sky, which made conditions even harsher for life. A vast majority of Agár's local fauna thus made their homes in the vast maze of tunnels and caverns beneath the planet's surface, with native lifeforms occasionally coming to the surface in search of food.

The interior of the planet is also home to a vast complex of buildings - all that remains of the Chozo who once inhabited the planet, but mysteriously abandoned with little to no evidence of the former inhabitants. Most of the Thé'nau tribe research colony's buildings have quickly begun to deteriorate into ruins in an alarmingly rapid period of time, and range from crumbling laboratories to vast mining complexes. Many robots and drones left by the Chozo scientists are still functioning and even continue at their futile work to delve deeper.

A unique quality to the planet is the presence of aetherite crystals, and a strange planetary energy referred to as Aeion. While it is evident that the enigmatic Aeion is found within all native lifeforms of Agár and can be somehow collected from their deceased bodies, it was initially surmised by the Thé'nau that the energy is initially produced by the planet itself as a form of natural radiation, until the Aetherite veins were discovered as they in dug deeper into the planet. Though it was not fully substantiated that there was a connection, enough evidence exists that the planet is on a leyline of the cosmic aetherstream and thus is not in any way "mundane".

## Trivia

* In Metroid canon, it was established to be after Zebes fell to the Space Pirates that the Metroids went feral due to mutation of their physiology, and the Chozo civilization on SR388 was destroyed in the aftermath. This was stated by Yoshio Sakamoto in the 2004 Developer's room Q&A.

**Indo**: "In "Metroid"(the manga version), there was a depiction that "the Bird people(literal translation) developed the metroids in order to exterminate the X that inhabits SR388", but I think there used to be a setting that "the SR388 civilization was most likely destroyed by metroids". Does this mean that SR388 was in fact destroyed by X?"

**Yoshio Sakamoto:** "I believe that the civilization of SR388 was destroyed by feral metroids after the Bird People were driven from Zebes. Unaware of the purpose of the metroids' development, the Galactic Federation asked Samus to clean up the metroids ("Metroid 2"). As a result of the eradication of the metroids by Samus, the X were allowed to rapidly repopulate, and the ecosystem of the planet SR388 was destroyed.("Metroid Fusion")"

1. ↑ *Development Room*