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** Unless one of them smuggled inside Samus' ship(which didn't happen do to the ship being able to detect them), they were blown to smithereens. It's hard to survive a space station crash. Followed by it self-destructing. And taking the planet it crashed into with it.
*** Simple. They weren't there. Adam was lying about how many there were in order to scare you and get you off the station. (After hearing this, you pretty much have free reign to explore the rest of the station, but you'll never see any more SA-X until the endgame. If there were really so many of them, it would be possible to run into them.)
*** [[No One Could Survive That|How long have you]] [[
**** [[Sequel Hook]]?
*** No, they're definitely gone. One got nom'd by metroids. One of them was absorbed by Samus, and the other eight were blown up with BSL, SR388, and the rest of the X.
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*** Bombs in the Prime games look like they're actual electrical charges, maybe something like ball lightning. She might just have the Chozo version of a Tesla coil in there, again powered from suit energy stores; the three-bomb limit represents the maximum output before the system's capacitors have to recharge. As for Power Bombs, I've got no idea. I'm apt to think those would have to be actual explosives though, since they're clearly stored and refilled the same way as missiles.
* I've been wondering for a while, how ''exactly'' did the X infect Samus? The suit is airtight and protected by an energy shield. So far, Samus's suit seems to have a crippling weakness to plot.
** Where does that fit in [[Elemental Rock
*** Assume it beats [[Plot Armor]] and is weak to [[Plot Hole|Plot Holes.]]
** I don't think the suit ''is'' entirely airtight. It likely has some sort of pressure system, where it seals up automatically in increased pressure of being underwater or the decreased pressure of vacuum, but if you'll recall, poison gas hurts Samus in the Prime series, so in regular environments with breathable atmosphere, there is apparently some openings, probably filtered, for breathing air. The X probably got in through there.
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*** In which case, why could Samus use them?
*** Side affect of mutual phazon corruption and adaptive powersuit.
* Ok, I don't know why you would remove the one weakness of something so dangerous you'd be willing to contract a bounty hunter to genocide them, and so uncontrollable that no one has successfully harnessed their power (except the Chozo, who created them) but in principle I can understand that. What bugs me is the fact that, if they have metroids that are resistant to cold, why did they use metroid DNA that wasn't resistant at the start of Fusion? Other M's Adam tells Samus that they have them, so she would know about it. In principle I suppose I could see how they would want an exploitable weakness on their [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]] in case she ever goes rogue, but then it doesn't make sense that Fusion's Adam would make recovery of the Varia suit such a priority. Besides, since Samus knows about it, why wouldn't she say anything to them about it?
** Presumably, they simply lost all of the modified DNA when Adam destroyed the sector. All they had left was the control group, which they likely didn't have time or resources to modify before Samus died of X infestation. In addition, it was stated that what the Federation was doing there was illegal, and that it was only a small group within the Federation as a whole, as the rest of them heeded Adam's report on the dangers of Metroids. It's quite possible that the scientists that weren't part of that group had no knowledge of or access to the modification techniques.
** Actually, this isn't the problem with the Metroids that the Feds have. The problem is that in Fusion, the Omega Metroid shouldn't even be vulnerable to cold! Those who played Metroid II: Return of Samus should know that once Metroids grow past their larval stage, they must be destroyed with Missiles. The Federation shouldn't have even needed to remove the cold vulnerability to Metroids because they naturally outgrow it! We need to blame Fusion for screwing this up, because it seems to have retconned Metroid II by making all Metroids vulnerable to cold, regardless of their growth stage.
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