Metroid: Extinction

Genesis

"To whatever soul comes across this in the future. I leave this message as a retelling of everything that has transpired on this planet. My name is De'La and I was part of the first wave of chozo exploration here on SR388 . We came here just over 150 years ago and we were horrified when we first discovered what was on this planet . A parasitic organism known as X ran rampant throughout a huge number of the native liforms. Our studies showed us that these parasites gained the memories and intelligence of whatever being they possess . Once a host organism is infected the x will kill it and slowly mutate into a core x. Physical mutations to the creature itself can also take place and frequently does. 

A few of us were infected and we soon understood the full horror of the enemy as it gained our memories and attempted to take a ship and escape this planet. We made the radical decision to destroy all our ships as a result and we quickly began research on how to defeat the x.  We soon realised that the x were made up of an unusual energy we called Aeoin . Since our weapons did nothing we began work on a method of draining energy from the x. In a laboratory far below ground we began the creation of several weapons to combat the x.

The main focus of our efforts were bioweapons that we came to call metroids. These beings would be designed to detect x in whatever life form they resided in and then they would attack by draining the life force of the creature. As the creature died the x would be forced out if it's body . The metroid would then absorb the x as they were created to be immune to aeoin. The absorbing of aeoin instantly killed the x. Needless to say the metroids were extremely affective . They were completely under our control and only attacked infected beings.  However we had a problem. The metroids had a design flaw that made them vulnerable to cold. On one hand we were lucky since they were immune to everything else however it became a huge problem as metroids pursued the x all across the planet driving them to the polar regions where they would flourish . 

With the rest of the surface of the planet safe our civilisation thrived and we built cities. But we also had the risk of aquatic life being a thriving source for the x and so we developed another bioweapon while our attention was also on thinking of a way to attack the polar regions. The new bioweapon we created was dubbed Serris and it was unleashed into the water. It was given enhanced speed and tore through any x it encountered. With the x exterminated on the surface and in the water, the polar regions were now the only places they could hide.

We eventually developed a combination of all our beam weaponry which we dubbed the annihilator beam , it's purpose was to target the x directly and we hoped that by combining all beam variants this would overload the aeoin energy of the x.  As teams prepared to deploy to the polar regions a high percentage of us recommended that we collect any x remains leftover from the metroid cleansing. When the metroids absorbed the x a green energy was shed off shortly afterwards and in every recorded instance this energy fell to the ground and formed into green slabs. We began collecting as many as we could for testing and just incase the x could somehow revive themselves inside the slabs.  As our teams reached their destination and began testing their weapons disaster struck!. 

Somehow the metroids began evolving naturally. It came out of nowhere and without warning.  First one , than hundreds more. Worse still as time went on they apparently gained more free will . Their evolution seems to be to grow further immune to cold. This turned out to be true. The evolved metroids could now dominate the polar regions and with that we officially declared the x to be eradicated, but now we had a new problem. The metroids were feral and began attacking us even the standard staged metroids went out of control , without the x they now turned on every living creature in sight. Our entire civilisation was at peril! metroids dominated the planet and they overran our cities faster than we could kill them. We later discovered why.

We had believed metroids could only evolve to the stage of an omega metroid however we were wrong! Certain metroids had the specific genomes needed to evolve into a final stage. Across the planet several Queens had emerged and were reproducing more and more. Our war against our creations dragged on until eventually we retook the planet and forced them all back to one single region. A temple ontop a canyon near the equator! We pursued them deep below ground and made sure to kill all of them. Upon reaching the laboratory we encountered the last surviving queen. She killed many of us but we repelled her and eventually she was dead. The metroids were gone but they had taken a heavy toll on us. We sent a call into space for help and to notify them of everything that had happened.

But death came instead! A group led by an elder named Grey voice came to this planet and instead of giving us aid they silenced us! One by one they executed us for an unknown reason. The chozo are entirely benevolent we had thought and genuinely believed. But this group did not care about the rest of our species rules and they imposed their will swiftly.  I am here trapped deep below ground with a number of survivors but we can't survive for much longer. The war thirsty chozo who answered our call built a dreadful device above our last stronghold . With this device they flooded our last city with a toxic substance that also filled up the majority of the lower caves. We presume they left so as not to evoke suspicion from anyone else who received our call and so that our demise may look like a result of our own actions . We down here do not have much food and most of the plants are harmful to us. We are going to starve to death and the end is inevitable. If anyone is listening to this message than somehow you've gotten through the toxic substance and reached the laboratory. Maybe you've even uncovered the truth by yourself or perhaps this is the first time anything has made sense to you.

I can only imagine what the world above must be like now. Has another civilisation arrived? Have our ruins been uncovered? Our crimes forgiven? I unfortunately will never know these answers but whatever they are I hope nothing but peace to anyone who comes here. Grey voice and his group may be malevolent but most of our species are not and even in death,  we down here remain true to our customs.

I am De'LA  and I hope you find joy in your journeys"