This article is about the Space Pirate Commando class that Samus and the Galactic Federation encountered during the time of the Great Invasion. For the class she encountered six months prior on planet Aether, see Pirate Commando.

Commando Pirate
Three Pirate Commandos appear on the Skyway, Pirate Homeworld.
Featured in	Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Known locales	Pirate Command, Pirate Research, Pirate Mines
Known worlds	Space Pirate Homeworld
Behavior	Sentient agressor
Distinctions	Cloaking technology, Phazite armour, personal teleporter, Dash Jet system
Attacks	Phazon-powered weaponry; Beam, Hypermode, Scythe
Weakness(es)	X-Ray Visor/Nova Beam combo, Hypermode attacks

Commando Pirates are a caste of well-trained, armed and armoured Pirate sworn to protect the Space Pirate Homeworld in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. They served as the elite guard of the Homeworld, and were overseen in battle by a single Pirate Commander who would lead a Commando Squad.

These Commandos were distinctively different than the Pirate Commandos that Samus Aran encountered on planet Aether. Similar in appearance to their Pirate Trooper brethren, the Commandos had all of their weapons, but wore special armor crafted out of Phazite which could only be pierced by high-frequency beams. These tenacious warriors stood out against the lower-ranked Pirates in their ability to become invisible, as well as their elevated endurance and battle prowess. However, X-Ray Visor systems could be used to target the Pirate's skull through their helmet, allowing a quick penetrating blast to destroy them. Aside from this one weakness, they are extremely resilient to all forms of attacks, save for Phazon-based weapons.

The cloaking technology of these Pirates may have been derived from that used by the Shadow Pirates, and is possibly located in their helmet, as they will not cloak themselves once the helmet has been shot off.

Whenever the Pirate Alarm System is activated, the following Pirates will soon be backed up by one or two Commandos, as they uncloak and sometimes roar in the area.

Pirate Commandos will sometimes enter Hypermode, which creates interference with X-Ray Visors. This makes it almost impossible to lock on to Pirate Commandos using the Visor and as a result makes it difficult to land Head Shots with the Nova Beam. However, Samus can lock on to a Commando using the Combat Visor, and switch to the X-Ray Visor (which keeps the lock-on while switching to the headshot view) and fire blindly at the head area in an attempt to do a Head Shot.

It is said that Pirate Commandos become Pirate Commanders if they withheld the rank for a minimum of ten years.

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Concept art of the Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Pirate Commander.

Samus targets a Commando's skull through its helmet using her X-Ray Visor.

Samus engages a Commando after removing its armor - only the helmet remains.

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